Free Quilt Show Benefits Regional Food Bank

Route 66 Gallery, 6728 NW 39th, proudly exhibits 200 antique and small art quilts during the Bethany 66 Festival in downtown Bethany, May 25, Saturday, 10-4.

Judy Howard, owner of Buckboard Quilts and author of OK Pioneer 1905 Cookbook—Food for Body and Soul will sign books and curate the free quilt show. Activities also include classic car and motorcycle show, arts, crafts and food vendors and live music by local favorites, sidewalk sales, children's activities and parade. www.Bethany66.com.

All proceeds from the antique and new art quilt sales and 1905 Cookbooks benefit Regional Food Bank. Checks may be written to Regional Food Bank for quilts purchased before and after May 25th also. See sneak preview: www.heavenlypatchwork.com/photos_of_food_for_body_and_soul_quilts.html and www.BuckboardQuilts.com.
Judy Howard’s new cookbook for cooks, foodies and historians is based on recipes from pioneer days in central Oklahoma. 1905 Cookbook will inspire today's cooks regardless of age or sophistication. Recipes like Molasses Drop Cake and Oklahoma’s Delight or Delicious Chicken Pie and Roast Beef with Oyster Dressing entice the taste buds and make you want to keep this book within easy reach to satisfy your body and soul. In addition to this amazing and often amusing collection of 300 epicurean delights, Howard's book is flavored with 200 turn-of-the-century photographs, 1905 merchant ads and stories of our 89er/pioneers who compiled the original cookbook found at a flea market. This cookbook will complement any cook's recipe collection and is the perfect gift for a $15 donation to the Regional Food Bank.

Bring your family and friends for Bethany’s fun Rt. 66 Festival May 25th and help needy children.

 

Children--Hope for Tomorrow Quilts Feed Needy Children

     Everyone loves our little 9"x12" Children themed quilts and loves to make them too. We had sewing at my house last week and made 15. They're selling well also with 100% of donated quilts going to local food pantries. COQG vendor meeting raised $453 for Battered Women's Shelter and Book Signing at Christian Church almost $200 for their Breakfast on Boulevard. Here are our latest. See all 150 http://www.heavenlypatchwork.com/photos_of_children's_quilts.html

Sewing with Nancy TV Interview & Sharon Holland's Blog Post

View Sewing with Nancy TV interview: http://video.wpt2.org/video/2292363459
See Sewing with Nancy

Check out Sharon Holland's blog post about the Chidren--Hope for Tomorrow Touring and antique quilts that feed needy children: http://www.sharonhollanddesigns.com/

Abilene KS Civil War Trunk Show Program

You're invited to my Civil War Quilt Trunk Show Program April 23 at 7:00 pm at lst Presbyterian Church, 1400 N. Ceder, at the End of Trail Quilt Guild. You'll have a chance to see our newest 9x12" Children--Hope for Tomorrow Quilts. 100% of sales that night go to the KS Food Bank. Or you may order online and write your check to the food charity of your choice. See 150 adorable children's quilts that make great grandmother's gifts to kids, baby shower, birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day gifts. http://www.heavenlypatchwork.com/photos_of_children's_quilts.html

You may also purchas 150 antique quilts and choose your local food charity to benefit with 100% of sales. See http://www.buckboardantiquequilts.com/

Dallas Quilt Show Exhibit Feeds Needy Children

Had a great time at the Dallas Quilt Guild's March Show at Market Hall. Beautiful Show! Wonderful people and vendors! By the grace and help of God, I raised $4000 for the North Texas Food Bank selling 1905 Cookbooks and antique quilts and a few of the new Children--Hope for Tomorrow Touring Quilts. See photos and enter your 9x12" children's quilt today:http://www.heavenlypatchwork.com/photos_of_children's_quilts.html

The God Bless America Touring Quilts are in Geraldine, AL at the Homemaker's quilt show this week-end. Call 405-751-3885 if you'd like to reserve any of the 4 exhibits we have available for your next show. See http://www.heavenlypatchwork.com/quilt_exhibits_and_programs.htm

Sewing with Nancy TV Interview Feeds Needy Children

Check out this TV interview with Nancy Zieman: http://video.wpt2.org/video/2292363459

We now have 450 touring art quilts, mostly donated and available to feed needy children. Pick out your favorite and name the charity you'd like to benefit. See: http://www.heavenlypatchwork.com/photos_of_children's_quilts.html

Just returned from Houston Intl Quilt Show where we sold over $4000 of 1905 Cookbooks and Food for Body & Soul quilts to feed needy children through Houston Food Bank. In case you didn't get to attend, here's a slideshow of some of my favorities: http://smilebox.com/blogInstructions/twitter.html?sendevent=4d7a4d354d446b354f54453d0d0a&sb=1&title=Houston+Intl+Quilt+Show&designType=Slideshow&partner=neverblue

Chasing after the Wind

Here's a link to my stories on Christian Devotions: http://christiandevotions.us/tag/judyhoward/

                           Chasing After the Wind

Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 4:6
I dragged myself out of bed at 5:00 a.m. on three consecutive Saturdays to exhibit 100 quilts, give a program, and sell books for eight hours. It was exhilarating, but totally exhausting. Every muscle ached from hauling quilts, racks, and books in and out.

Last summer I drove 400 miles round trip to a Watermelon Festival to present a program and quilt show and never got paid. And who could forget the wind storm at last spring's Kolache Festival that kept blowing my quilt racks down. Only because the ingenious Czech glass artist helped me tie the racks to the pavilion uprights with bungee cords did I not give up and drive two hours home in defeat, chasing after the wind.

That was the name of the sermon today. Confessed workaholics, my husband and I desperately needed to take that message to heart since we were past retirement age and still working twelve-hour days.

How much was enough? It wasn't the money or material possessions we were chasing. What drove us to live our lives out of balance? I thought I was serving God by spreading His Word printed on each page of my books and giving Him the glory. I wondered how much of this obsessive/compulsive habitual activity was intertwined with proving my self-worth. Perhaps I was so insecure and afraid of losing my identity that I could never be content being a Mary, instead of involved in a whirlwind of perpetual motion like Martha.

As King Solomon discovered, life lived under the sun is meaningless, utterly useless, temporal—chasing after the wind. Only when we discover God's purpose or will, can we eliminate the distractions and live above the sun, building up eternal treasures in heaven.

I was about to repeat this insanity and create more toil and stress when I still hadn't recovered from yesterday's beating. Instead of hitting the send button on an email blast to stir up more bookings, I waited when a voice within nudged me first to seek God's purpose and will for me.

When you want to rush. Wait on God.

Since 1976, Judy Howard has owned and operated Buckboard Antiques and Quilts in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her love of quilts developed while taking a class from nationally renowned fiber artist Terrie Mangat. Judy became a charter member of the Oklahoma Quilt Guild, and antique quilts became her specialty. Her stories of quilting through the depression have been Awarded First Place by the regional Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc. Visit her at http://www.heavenlypatchwork.com/.
Read Judy's devotions.

Rocky Mtn Quilt Festival Feeds Needy Children

     Great time at Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival in Loveland, CO. Raised about $1500 for Larimer Cty Food Bank selling "1905 Cookbooks," vintage kitchen aprons & Food for Body and Soul Touring Quilts. See all 250 quilts available to feed needy children at charity of your choice. http://www.heavenlypatchwork.com/photos_of_food_for_body_and_soul_quilts.html

Collinsville, OK Library OK Pioneer Program & Quilt Show

From Norman, I travelled the next morning to Collinsville in Northeast OK to set up 100 food for body and soul quilts for their Smithsonian America by Food Exhibit. Gave my latest Oklahoma Pioneer Cooking Program. The local quilters brought their quilts also for a grand show with great attendance.

Sales from books and vintage kitchen textiles of $270 went to Dividing Bread, their local food pantry. Wonderful group of gals. Thanks to each of them for their great help setting up.

Cookbook Swap & Shop & Cooking Demo

Fun Cookbook Swap & Shop at the Norman, OK Library. Matt & Amy gave a cooking demo from my 1905 Cookbook of Oklahoma Delight Cake and Scalloped Potatoes along with shish kabob fruit and chocolate pomagranites.

Donated $700 to Food for Thought Learning Institute from sales of  vintage kitchen textiles, books and one antique quilt to expand their teaching underprivileged healthy and economical cooking skills.

Grilling for a Cause--Boys Ranch Town Orphanage

Spent 5 hours in 100 temps outside with the smokers and barbeque grills signing books as fast as I could. My helpers were three 12 year old super salesmen from the orphanage. We donated 100% (over $1000) from my book and quilt sales toward a new van for Boys Ranch Town.

The Meat House in Edmond sponsored the event and donated the meat. So sad to be a vegetarian when you smell the aroma of steaks, ribs, corn and pork smoking. It was a spa experience with a free steam bath.

Civil War Quilt Trunk Show Program

Great time in Guthrie presenting my Civil War Quilt Trunk Show Program and autographing books at the Quilt Guild. Fun group and even sold about $200 in books to benefit their local food pantry.

Set up 100 food for body & soul touring quilts, vintage kitchen textiles and books at the Made in OK Festival at the beautiful Reed Center. They were barbequing outside with local wine and beer tasting and cooking demos and musical entertainment inside all day. Donated about $600 from sales to Midwest City Food Pantry.

Mission Norman Dessert Fund-Raiser in Norman, OK

I ate 4 pieces of chocolate fudge cake as my reward after sweating through a 10 minute speech before 250 people and selling $4400 of antique and touring art quilts and books. 100% went to feed needy people physically and spiritually and to expand their food pantry, medical facilities and temporary housing. It was a festive event with each women's church group decorating a table with beautiful china, tea pots, tableclothes and flowers.

Peppers Ranch Fund-Raiser for Orphans

Fund-raiser for Peppers Ranch orphanage at the Guthrie County Fairgrounds was a blast. Exhibited 100 Food for Body & Soul Quilts and autographed books with 100% feeding the orphans. Here's photo of the bright adorable members of the clan legally adopted by the house parents. They're doing a great job turning abused kids into bright students and productive citizens. Two are going to college.

Feasting on Pioneer Food

April 4th I feasted with the Nichols Hill Garden Club on fried tomatoes, corn fritters, gingerbread tea cakes, potato soup and lettuce sandwiches from my "1905 Cookbook." Yummy!! All fresh from the garden and cooked green like the pioneers.

The hostesses wore vintage aprons and tables were set with grandma's sterling, hobnail glasses and delicate china plates.

I shared stories from the 1905 Cookbook and exhibited 30 Food for Body & Soul Touring Quilts in the living room of this beautiful old home furnished in antiques, majolica and quilts.

Eye Candy Feeds Your Soul

New Entries Food for Body & Soul. 100% feeds needy children

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Fun Browsing on Pinterest.com

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Here are 1800s quilts available to feed needy children: http://pinterest.com/buckboardquilts/antigue-quilt-sales-feed-needy-children/

and here's m y22" touring food quilt contest and exhibit I'd love for you to enter:

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