Heavy Heart Today A Flower for Sandi Wheeler

A Lily for Sandi

Sandi Wheeler, a good friend of mine passed away this week after a very short illness.

I am very saddened by this news as Sandi and I have been friends for 28 years. I met her when I had my quilt shop in Plano and we just gravitated to each other as we were both from Iowa. We shared many places of interest there and it was such fun to write and talk about "back home" with each other. We were planning on a get together this month----we were going to trade out some art and talents. Sandi’s talents were 100 fold! Her dolls, her quilting, sculpting, garment design and just anything she saw that interested her was in the back of her mind to try sometime. She was always thinking of something she could do with things she had and put her own stamp on it.

I met her at Joann’s a few weeks ago so she could show me a couple of things she had ready to take to her guild meeting and Lynn was with me so he got to see them, too. She was so excited about them and that says it all about Sandy, she always made you feel excited about your projects. Sandi inspired me and so many of her friends. Her energy was catching and after being with her I always came back home ready to start something new. I guess if someone ask me a word to describe Sandi, it would be "inspire". That is what she did for her friends. Oh, and you would always think of Sandi and the smile on her sweet face.

We had our "white" hair in common too, and we talked off and on about it, laughing about how people perceive folks with white hair. I am just sick that I did not have a chance to say goodbye but I know that is the way she wanted it---no fuss and no long illness.

Hopefully we all will have a chance to see her work someday soon…I know she could fill a gallery with her art…

Goodbye, Sandi, you will be missed!

July is moving like a freight train!

Well, as expected, July is half over and we have been so busy every minute. I want to do better with the blog, but----- as usual, things get in the way.

We had a wonderful surprise the last week of June when our great friends, Jim and Jennifer Hamilton stopped by for dinner and overnight on their way to the DC area. They had never been here since we moved to Mineola and we had such fun gettting caught up on all the news.
We will be attending their oldest son"s wedding over the Labor Day weekend in the Mountains outside of Denver. They just celebrated their 35th Wedding Anniversary! They are such good friends, it's so easy to catch up. It was also nice the Jennifer was coming this way to pick the kids up from camp and she and Sydney got to see the Hamiltons.