Month: January 2024

HM 60th BD Celebration (2006)

September 30, 2006, at Les Bourgeois Vineyard, Rocheport, MO With the help of Grace Wang, Ray threw me a big party for my 60th birthday and invited a lot of friends, colleagues to celebrate my big day. Edith Hall made this gorgeous flower basket cake. What a great time we all had.  Google photo album link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4rB9DiLrSjikkKZ97

HM’s Quilts

January 2024 After retirement from the University of Missouri in 2003, I purchased a Bernina sewing machine, joined Boone Trial Quilt Guild, and started my journey in quilting. What I like the most about quilting is I never get bored with this art form. I always find new techniques to learn, new tools to play, and new …

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Singapore – food and garden Paradise (11/30-12/5/2023)

12/01/23-12/05/23 Ray and I were in Singapore 20 years ago and remembered it as a clean, crowded but efficiently run place. The weather was tropical so orchids proliferated everywhere. But the FOODS were the biggest attraction for us. With mixed populations of Chinese, Malay, and Indian, Singapore offers many unique ethnic dishes in food courts scattered all over …

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Japan – from a quilter’s prospect (11/15/23-11/29/23)

This is my third trip to Japan. Each trip I took I focused on a different aspect of Japan’s culture and traditions. My quilting friend Laura and I attended the World Quilt Show in Yokohama this time. We started our trip in Kyoto – the ancient Capital of Japan, famous for its temples and Geisha. We stayed at a …

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