Monday, March 25, 2013
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
Monday, February 18, 2013
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
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Chasing after the Wind
Here's a link to my stories on Christian Devotions: http://christiandevotions.us/tag/judyhoward/
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.
Chasing After the Wind
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 4:6I 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
Saturday, July 21, 2012
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.
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.
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