Tanner's Notes

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Hello Everyone, if you are still there... Yes I am alive and well. I just stopped blogging one day and I kinda miss it. Anyways my new blog & website (!) is TannerKent.com I am slowly working on it, piece by piece. Look forward to some very exciting things, and lots of great photography!

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I can now officially display my beautiful table runner from Karen! I will take a pic soon! I am kinda on a technology boycott. I have had various issues that of course can only be solved with $$... I hope to have everything functional and out of sight so I am not tempted to "fix" (aka break) it. There is this little voice in my head that says, "things can be so much better, if only you try this." Which of course ends up with me spending four hours trying to undo my latest "fix".



Expect lots and lots of pictures because this Saturday I am going to Tucson's annual Reptile Show!!! I am sooooooo excited!!! I went last year, and it was a tad overwhelming, but this year it is in a MUCH bigger space and is supposed to be amazing!

Today has been emotional roller coaster! Ill spare you the details- well most of them anyways! The absolute highest point in my day was coming home, reading my blogs and discovering that I had one Karen's 50th post giveaway (ill do one at 100 I promise!) She was giving away an Autumn table runner, which I have adored since she first posted it on her blog .



Isnt it great? Thanks Karen!

I didnt have any time this week to do some quilting, but a friend of mine is graduating soon and I really want to make him something special. I have this perfect picture in my head of what I want to make but cant make it materialize. I want to do a big cap in the center and either do a bunch of pictures (printed on fabric) around the cap or do something like this:


(not my picture, someone else took it, someone else made it, sorry I cant remember who)

I think in the center I could do a 5 x 5 of photos and instead of the Heart-string type border I could use this great fabric I know Jo-anns has that is very similar.

Does anyone have/know of a free graduation cap pattern? Thanks!!

I got my DQS4 quilt and I had to share!!!
My neighbors probably think im insane! I opened up the mailbox and reached in without looking and immediately yelled "squishy!" I think that came to mind because it was in a manila envelope and I could feel it inside moving around. I tore it open with haste and was completely blown away! It is AMAZING! The colors, the patterns of fabric and everything is so perfect! I am completely speechless so as a picture is worth 1000 words im good for 5000!











I torn between framing it or not.... The textures are great and I love to sit and just feel it! My happy place has a new addition. Its so amazing to feel the love, time, and effort put into it!

Look at the goodies that Susan was soooo kind to include!


I love the fabric and I can already think of projects to use it...








Susan (aka) chickenfoot did an BREATH-TAKING! job and I am love.

If you look to the right of my blog → under the blogs I read you can find my "bookmarks". When I want to note a post from one of the 201 (!) blogs I read I write a little comment and bookmark it. I usually bookmarks quilts I like- and blocks I like so its great to get an idea of my swap preferences....

Long story short-
I was diagnosed with Scoliosis last year and go annually to see if there is any progression. This year I had a different dr. who- lets just say we didnt see eye to eye. I go to see an orthopedic surgeon (its not at a surgical state, by any means) because *frankly* he was too lazy to refer me to the radiology department to get an x-ray like what happened before. Anyways, I had to get my old x-rays to show the orthopedic surgeon and was expecting a large manilla folder... we got a CD instead. Well I was at home thinking it is after all my medical records so I can open it if I want. This thing was incredibly high tech! It had a special viewer, with all the bells and wistles in the world, and even had all of the radiologists notes. So above is my complete spine. I have *simply put* an S shape between my two shoulders, and an obvious curve in my lumbar region. The maximum degree of curvature is 20 degrees.

----- Here is where I get on my soap box-------

I went years and years and years with out anything... doctors visits, school nurse visits, everything.... with out any one saying bend over let me look at your spine. At school we had hearing tests, eye tests, dental checks, which took much longer than simply bending over. I went in to my primary dr. (before I knew I had scoliosis) and was complaining of back-pain. He was like, let me test you for scoliosis. I was envisioning many different tests each worse then the last. All I had to do was bend over, and he said, "yep! you have scoliosis."

Parents at your child's next drs. visit ask for a scoliosis test. It takes all of 30 seconds, and can do so much good! Being proactive is worth it!

-So much for short... Dont worry my next post will be back on topic!