One Woman's life in T-Shirts

I have finally finished my t-shirt tribute to my sister, Fran. All of Fran's life seems to be memoralized by the t-shirts she wore and kept (actually, I think she never threw one away.) Before she died, she asked me to make a quilt out of the shirts she thought were most important -- sort of a fabric scrapbook. Family history and journaling were very important to her. Of course, I said yes, and then she died. Her wonderful Relief Society president cut out all of the shirt designs and ironed on interfacing. All I had to do was to put them together. Well of course I was going to do it by David's 18th birthday, then his high school graduation, and then his 19th birthday. Those all came and went. But I did get it done in time for him to sleep under it for a few days before he leaves on his mission.

This quilt shows the many sides of Fran, personally and professionally.

Theater and books -- the very essense of her life, after her family and the gospel.

Her travels.

The shows she worked over and over again.

My Personal Favorite:

Passport

It has been a long long long time since I blogged. There is really nothing interesting going on in my life right now. We went to Sun Valley - the whole family -- but Bob took all the pictures and I never got any of them downloaded. Kathleen and I just got back from Girls Camp -- it wasn't really girl's camp -- it was an overnighter in Huntsville. Our stake did a handcart trek and thought the maybe that could count as camp. So, I got to sleep in a bed and use flush toilets and have my Diet coke. That is my idea of camping.


The really exciting part of my summer was that I discovered that my passport had expired!! It was a good thing that I didn't need to go to any foreign countries in a hurray. I sent in the application form, having heard that it takes 12 weeks to get a new passport!! What if a fabulous trip came up in the meantime. Well, three weeks later, this came in the mail:

It doesn't look great, but it looks a whole lot better than this one!!

I think that if you don't look really awful, they make you take another picture. Thankfully, I only had to take one picture.

Is anyone up for a fabulous trip?