Oh So Pretty!

I work in an insurance office and one of our clients was bought out by another company do we won't be their broker anymore. As a token of "wonderfulness", the former owner of the company sent me and my boss each a bouquet of petite roses. They came FedEx today and they are beautiful. I've never gotten flowers via the FedEx man! lol At first, they looked like they might not last too long but they came with a little booklet on how to take for them and they've perked up nicely. It says they're from the plateaus of Central America. Dang, that's a long way to deliver roses!! I guess we don't grow roses in California?? lol Then it says that there are outter "guard" petals left on to protect the flowers during shipping and that you should pull those off. Well, once I made a fresh cut on the stem, put them in a vase of water and pulled off one or two "guard" petals, they are fabulous! Don't you just love flowers? Me too! lol

I've been working on projects for my retreat I'm leaving for in a couple of weeks. We're doing a mini quilt swap. It has to measure 8-12". Some of the girls who are in the swap might see this blog so I'm just posting a little piece of my quilt. I don't want to ruin any surprises. :o) I think I'm done with the top but I'm going to play with the borders a little bit when I get home. I might add a little more. Then I'll need to quilt it. How can something so tiny can be so time consuming? lol