is there a pot of gold?

If you've got yourself a small handful of extra time...please, please do read this poem. Although simple and perhaps childish to some...I think that we all have felt the very same feeling that this little child, mid-way through the poem, is feeling. And then we see the light.

Do you remember me giving you just a teaser of a peak...back in this post, this past April? Turns out...I can show you the finished product!

Ta-da....



Well...finished...by my definition: Top pieced, finished. Not quilting and binding attached and labeled, finished. (Play along and nod your head in agreement with me, would you please?)

The reason that I had to -- or thought I should, at least -- keep it secret from you for awhile? Well...I was submitting this little paper pieced project as a teaching proposal at a local quilt show in this great state of North Dakota. (Just how many prepositions can you use in one sentence?!) I just received an e-mail notification that I was not accepted.

And I am totally at peace with that. I'm not discouraged at all. That's just the way these things go. There will be other rain storms (which I happen to love)...and sunshine...and rain clouds.

And there will be more rainbows!