Pompeii with Mt.Vesuvius threateningly in the background.
Positano!
BIRMINGHAM QULT FESTIVAL!
When I was at the Ireland Quilt Festival last year, I met some ladies who said THE show was in Birmingham. They were RIGHT!
There were so many wonderfully creative and original quilts! Totally refreshing! Here's a few of my favorites, I have a link on the right to Flickr for all the photos I took.
Enjoy!!!
LOVE Bodil garner's work!
OH! There was a display of quilts from India.
I bought a fabulous book filled with images from India and their colorful quilts!
A princess and the pea bed!
A quilted boat!
After the wonderfully inspiring Birmingham Quilt Festival,
we drove to Bath and Stonhenge.
The next morning
we had a few hours in London
before our flight home.
Enough time
to squeeze in a little shopping
in between a pub lunch (with mushy peas!)
and biking Kensington Gardens.
We had a one night lay over in Boston
and even though I thought for sure we would be too pooped...
we spent a lovely day at the aquarium,
Faneuil Hall for lunch,
and a bit of the Freedom Trail!
Well, that's it!
I LOVE going on big trips! I love the idea, the intense planning and research, and especially the actual travel.
All the newness forces me into the moment.
My senses are awakened!
As the usual chatter in my head and daily self imposed distractions of "real" life dissipated (a great joy of travel for me), two ideas became clearer.
1. Time is always going. Good or bad, it's going quickly (turns out this too shall pass is true! and
2. There really is no sense in worrying.
It is a choice.
When I choose to trust and live in the peace of each moment
life is sublime! (now to keep this thought going at home!)
Home...happily sewing....will share soon! :)
Thank you so much for all your travel photos--those quilts in England are just so original and creative...we haven't taken a BIG TRIP in quite a number of years now; travel is very inspiring to me, too. Enjoy your memories and let them inspire you to make new and wonderful projects! hugs, Julierose
ReplyDeleteWow, you really know how to take a holiday! Thanks for sharing it with us.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back! Wow, Birmingham quilt photos and your truly inspiring words all in one. Thanks! Are those Siddhi quilts? I'm off to look up the book right now.
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