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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
I managed to get these three little beauties finished, as two were for gifts.
I've got the fabric lined up for the other ones, but I thought I would go ahead and post my Schnibbles picture for December before the New Year rang in.
And don't you just love it when the doorbell rings and there stands the postman with this -
woo-hoo! Kelly over at Cotton Charm Quilts had a direct link to the North Pole and gave away some awesome Christmas gifts.
Can you imagine my surprise to find that my delivery was a fat quarter bundle of Blessings fabric. I LOVE this line, and can't wait to start on something in the New Year.
Enjoy your day, and happy quilting :-)
26 comments:
- Sandie @ crazy'boutquilts said...
Cute Tuffets! Kelly made such a sweet Santa! I'm looking fwd to seeing your projects with your new FQ's. :-)
- December 30, 2009 at 8:50 AM
- Barb said...
Love your tuffets and....win....whohooooo!!
- December 30, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Mary on Lake Pulaski said...
Isn't Kelly just too generous with her give away! Congratulations Jocelyn on the great Blessings fat quarter pack.
- December 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM
What a great give away. I will check back to see what you created with them.
- December 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Coralie Cederna Johnson said...
Love your beautiful pillows! Amazing placement of colors and patterns! Happy New Year!
- December 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Dena said...
I had not heard the term tuffet since reading nursery rhymes to my children when they were young. Nice job!
Lucky you... Congratulations on your fat quarter pack. Do you have a project in mind for the yet? - December 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Cindy said...
Your tuffets are so cute. Now if you have a hard time finding what to do with the FQs I'll be qlad to help.
- December 30, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- Unknown said...
What a great prize! Your tuffets are so cute!
- December 30, 2009 at 2:23 PM
- Pat said...
Oh, MY....a whole fat quarter bundle??? That is terrific. I never had a fat quarter bundle...but have often admired them. Be sure to show us what you make with it. LOVE your tuffets, too.
- December 30, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- Sherri said...
Great Tuffets...and congrats on the win from Kelly!
- December 30, 2009 at 8:25 PM
- Shirley said...
Very nice tuffets. I love the scrappy look. Great bundle of fat quarters you got from the quilter Santa too :0)
- December 30, 2009 at 10:49 PM
- Kim D. said...
Love the tuffets and congratulations on winning the fat qtr bundle. What a nice surprise. Have a Happy New Year!!
- December 31, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- Crispy said...
WOW That is one BIG stack of fabrics!!!! What do you have planned for them???
Crispy - December 31, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Oh, these are adorable! I am immediately reminded of the Miss Muffett song I have been singing all week to my baby! ;)
- December 31, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- LV said...
You really made some beautiful pillows. Seems you were blessed with a great package of things you enjoy. Great job and so pleased you stopped by my place.
- December 31, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Karmen said...
What a great fat quarter bundle! Something fun to play with. Karmen
- December 31, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Carol said...
That Blessings Fat Quarter Bundle is so cool! Do you have any idea what you're going to make with it yet? Love your little Tuffets.
- December 31, 2009 at 2:04 PM
- sewtakeahike said...
wohooo! that's an awesome prize you got there! Happy new year to you and your family!
- December 31, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- Alice Grace said...
Wow, I love Moda! Your tuffets are so cute! Great job!
Happy New Year! - December 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- Roslyn said...
Love tuffets I have given all mine away so I must make some more, I use selvedges for mine.
- December 31, 2009 at 7:40 PM
- Unknown said...
Such sweet little tuffets!
- December 31, 2009 at 10:09 PM
- Valerie the Pumpkin Patch Quilter said...
Love the little tuffets - and I'm drooling over your fat quarter bundle!
- January 1, 2010 at 6:14 AM
- andsewon said...
Adore your tuffets!!
Awesome fat qt bundle too.
I have to admit I have done a wee bit of shopping over the holiday sales online... have some NEW FABBY to begin the New Year off with too...;-)
Happy Sewing New Year!!!!
Lola - January 1, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- Marianne said...
Oh, nice prize and cute Tuffets!!! Happy New Year!
- January 1, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- Kelly@ Charming Chatter said...
It's such yummy fabric, and I'm so glad Santa sent it to you! I can't wait to see what you make with it, Jocelyn! Enjoy!
- January 1, 2010 at 7:13 PM
- Kelly@ Charming Chatter said...
I love your Tuffets, too! So very cute! December is crazy busy, but I'm so glad you got to sneak these in -- and can't wait to see the others you have fabric for!
- January 1, 2010 at 7:15 PM


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I spent most of today providing online crisis communications training for the head of corporate communications for an overseas government regulatory authority. Coincidentally, one of the topics we covered was its Wikipedia page which is incomplete and out of date. It isn't a commercial company and is notable enough to warrant an entry.
The reason it is so important to improve the page is that on a variety of search terms it is the highest ranking page after the official websites of the organisation.
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Wal-Mart Stores Sell Out Of Guns
Wal-Mart Stores Sell Out Of Guns
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/19/2012 16:38 -0500
Yesterday, when we described the unprecedented surge in gun sales in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, we said that "what is most ironic, is that it is precisely the fear of forced, unilateral rejection, by either or all three branches of government, of the original constitution and its various amendments that has Americans scrambling into gun stores. And thus the closed loop nature of the problem: by threatening to take away America's guns, the government is only exacerbating a problem that is steeped in 200+ years of history and is engrained deep in American psychology." It took about 24 hours to demonstrate just how counterproductive government intervention always is: as of this moment, Bloomberg reports, Wal-Mart, the biggest retailer in the US and the world, has stores in at least five states where guns are now completely out of stock.
With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay (EBAY) and semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) locations.
Wal-Mart, the worlds largest retailer, said yesterday that it would continue to sell guns, including rifles like the one used at Newtown, where 26 people, most of them children, were killed on Dec. 14. By contrast, Dicks Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS) suspended sales of similar guns at its more than 500 stores.
Searches of five kinds of semi-automatic rifles on Wal- Marts website showed them to be out of stock at stores in five states, including Pennsylvania, Kansas and Alabama. Wal-Mart doesnt sell guns online, instead asking customers to input a zip code to see if their local store carries a specific weapon.
We remain dedicated to the safe and responsible sale of firearms in areas of the country where they are sold, David Tovar, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, said yesterday. He didnt immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.
Wal-Mart has about 10 modern sporting rifles, the gun industrys term for firearms that look like an M-16 military rifle, listed on its website. The retailer removed a description and picture of the Bushmaster AR-15, which was the model used in Newtown, after the shootings.
Who benefits from the government's pseudo intervention? None other than the uber-wealthy Walton family.
The move may have helped as U.S. Wal-Mart stores posted their first gain in same-store sales in more than two years in October 2011. Wal-Mart doesnt disclose how many guns it sells, though at an analysts meeting in October it said gun revenue gained 76 percent in the first half of this fiscal year. The chain advertised a Sig Sauer M400 as one of its Black Friday doorbusters last month, offering the rifle for $50 off at $867.
It gets worse: now that guns are transforming from a commoditized to a niche, collectible product, whose future is unclear due to what the government may or may not do, the supply, demand dynamics have shifted massively in favor of the side that pushes the equilibrium price higher (just so even central-planning economists understand this).
On EBay Inc.'s auction website, shoppers have recently bid up gun magazines. The current bid for four Glock handgun magazines, ammunition for one of the guns used at Newtown, is $118.37 compared with $45 on the day before the shooting. The bid for seven Glock magazines hit $201 on Dec. 17 from $71.01 before the massacre.
Gun buyers have flooded other firearms retailers too. The Hyatt Gun Shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, racked up more than $1 million in sales yesterday for the best single-day performance since the store opened in 1959, according to Justin Anderson, director of online sales. At the top of shoppers lists was the Bushmaster AR-15, the model of rifle used at Newtown that sells for as much as $4,000 and had almost sold out, he said.
Revenue at one of the largest U.S. gun stores surpassed even the spike just after Obama was elected president in 2008, Anderson said in a telephone interview. Sales werent as robust when Obama was re-elected last month because the president hadnt backed major new gun laws, he said.
While we have no interest in pursuing any of the ethical sides of this argument, we do know that the more the government intervenes, even if it is with the noblest intentions, the greater the adverse and negative fallout will be. And, in typical government fashion, the more it pushes to get its way (or the highway) the greater the tragic consequences result in a country which - by dint of simply what it is - has over 300 million weapons. Good luck and godspeed with any hopes of "controlling" them.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, hoping to stop fraudulent repayment claims before they occur, is temporarily blocking several home health agencies and ground ambulance suppliers located around the country - including in Detroit - from enrolling in and receiving reimbursement from the Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance programs.
The affected entities are located in Detroit, as well as Chicago; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Miami; Dallas; Houston; and the Greater Philadelphia area. The freezes are allowed under a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that aims to move the CMS beyond a "pay and chase" fraud model to one that's focused on prevention, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said in a statement last week.
"Today's announcement shows we are continuing our intense fight against fraud, waste and abuse in these vital healthcare programs," Tavenner said. The agency performed a similar enrollment moratorium in July 2013.
The CMS chose to focus on these areas following consultation with HHS' Office of Inspector General and the Justice Department, which found a disproportionate number of providers and suppliers relative to beneficiaries along with extremely high utilization in these areas.
Barry Scott Cargill, executive director of the Michigan Association for Home Care, said he believes the problem of Medicare fraud in Wayne County has been compounded by increasing enforcement around the country, which has caused some home health agencies perpetuating the fraud in other cities with the moratorium to move into it.
"One reason Wayne County seems to attract those individuals is because Michigan doesn't require licensure of home health agencies like other states do," said Cargill.
He said imposing the moratorium throughout southeastern Michigan will help prevent those fraudulent agencies from moving out of Wayne County into the surrounding counties.
Since the moratorium will not affect those already enrolled in Medicare, Cargill said patients will continue to be well-served as the state has "no shortage of home health agencies."
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Richard Dawkins Converting to Christianity? Artist Envisions 'Most Epic I Am Second Video Ever'
A Christian comic artist thinks believers would go wild with excitement if evolutionary biologist and avowed atheist Richard Dawkins came to faith in Jesus Christ and shared his testimony in an "I Am Second" video.
IAmSecond.com hosts a collection of video testimonies from celebrities, musicians, athletes and others from all walks of life sharing how they came to faith in Christ.
"I love the 'I Am Second' website. Love it," cartoonist Wes Molebash told The Christian Post Tuesday, a day after publishing a comic strip of Dawkins sitting in the "I Am Second" chair and making the introductory confession.
"It's always interesting to hear how God shows up in a person's life and makes Himself evident. I also think it's interesting that a lot of the testimonies that are championed by the Church (not just 'I Am Second') are stories that involve a once-faithless person who, through one circumstance or another, comes to faith," he added in his email to CP.
In a post published Monday and titled "The Most Epic 'I Am Second' Video Ever!" Molebash shares a comic strip of Dawkins wearing the traditional "I Am Second" black t-shirt and sitting on a white sofa chair while staring into a camera.
"My name is Richard Dawkins," he says. "And I am second."
"Now imagine if Richard Dawkins used 'I Am Second' to announce that he became a Christian. Holy crap, Christians would go nuts, wouldn't we?!" writes the cartoonist on his InsertImg.com website. "We'd be running through the streets screaming, 'We got Dawkins! We got Dawkins!'
"Then we'd have a huge celebration at Willow Creek Church, and Richard Dawkins would come out wearing his new Jesus uniform."
While admitting that seeing Dawkins embrace Christ "is highly unlikely," the cartoonist insists that if that day ever comes "it'd be epic nonetheless."
Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion and founder of the Foundation for Reason and Science, is known for his antagonism toward Christianity, and faith in general.
"Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain," the renowned atheist has said.
While Dawkins has never shown any indication of reconsidering his views on faith, one Christian minister has credited the evolutionary biologist with helping to draw others to Christ.
"Richard Dawkins has done us a big favor," said Scottish minister the Rev. David Robertson in November. He added, "I actually know of people who have been converted through reading The God Delusion and interacting with the discussion."
Molebash lives in Chillicothe, Ohio with his wife and has been drawing cartoons since he was a kid. He says he finds many of his ideas through serving as the small groups pastor at Centerpoint Church and living out his faith.
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Molebash's credits include "You'll Have That" and "Max vs. Max," and he has contributed comics to Josh Howard's "Dead@17," "Rough Cut Vol.2," "Sasquatch," and various other anthologies. The artists says his work is about entertainment and not evangelism – "I'm not comfortable boiling down the Gospel into 3 or 4 panels every week. Jesus is bigger than that."
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by Anthony Sizemore, Student Sports Reporter
The Alice Lloyd Lady Eagles were back in action at home on Saturday, December 14th, versus Ohio Christian University. The Lady Eagles were able to take this one pretty easily by a final score of 83-62.
Alice Lloyd was not only looking to build off of last Sunday's victory over Carlow University, but also to avenge an earlier loss this season to the Lady Trailblazers.
ALC jumped out front from the start and never lost the lead. With about ten minutes to go in the first half, the Lady Eagles began to increase their lead. Leading 24-17, Alice Lloyd went on a 16-8 run to stretch their advantage to fifteen with about four minutes to go. ALC would ultimately take an eleven-point margin into halftime, 46-35.
Second half action would see the Lady Eagles stretch their cushion even more. The home team continued to pour it on as they outscored Ohio Christian, 37-27.
Alice Lloyd's Ariel Nickell produced a double-double, scoring 21 points and gathering 11 rebounds. Taylor Arthur delivered another marvelous performance as the freshman also had a double-double, contributing 16 points to go with 11 rebounds.
Asia Woodson had 23 points for Ohio Christian.
Both teams were even for the first half in terms of shooting; however, Alice Lloyd clamped down on defense in the second stanza, holding OCU to 23% shooting from the field. The Lady Eagles also controlled the glass, outrebounding the visitors by the count of 50-37.
After going on the road to Pikeville on December 15th, ALC will receive a much-deserved mid-season break until January 4th when they will begin a four-game series at home. Their first match-up will be against Cincinnati Christian University at 2 PM.