Five 'til Fifty! - Giveaway Day 5

It's the final day of Five 'til Fifty!

Are you as exhausted as I am? I kind of wish I had a photo that conveyed my exhaustion, but lucky for all of us, I don't. I've been writing these posts late at night, and let me just say that is not when I am the most chipper critter in the forest!

Earlier this week, I tossed out some random things about me. Here are a few more:

11. I have been a blonde. Unfortunately, it was before I could remember if I had more fun.

12. I gave a graduation speech. I was utterly terrified. Sometimes I wish I could remember what I said, but I was so relieved when it was over, I destroyed my speech.

13. I did not play basketball.

14. I am the only one in my family who has not had a knee dislocation. I attribute this to #13.

15. Some hymns make me cry and I can't sing them.

16. I stuck a butter knife into an outlet when I was a toddler, leaving me with a healthy respect for electricity ever since.

17. I have number form synesthesia. Up until a couple weeks ago, I didn't even know there was such a thing. I just thought everyone had the same convoluted mental map, imagery, and spatial locations for months, years, numbers, and centuries. Huh.

18. My dad discouraged me from going into the computer field. He said it would be "so boring."

18-1/2. My brother is in the computer field. He does not seem to be bored. (That's my brother Russ and I above, about 1983).

19. Horses are beautiful. They also kind of scare me.

20. I am fascinated by mummies.

Okay, that's entirely enough random bits to put anyone through at one time. On with today's giveaway!

I made this table runner from strips of Sheri Berry's 12 Joys of Christmas fabric, left over from my whirlygig Christmas quilt. Amy Smart from Diary of a Quilter posted the tutorial here. It was easy and fun!

I'm definitely going to make another one of these for myself!

It measures 18" x 30" and is straight-line quilted.

Here is the back.

To be entered for this Christmas table runner giveaway, just leave a comment on this post. Be sure to include your contact email if it's not visible on your profile, or if you're set to "no reply" or commenting anonymously. One comment per person per giveaway.

You can also enter any of the other Five 'til Fifty! giveaways by leaving a comment on any or all that you're interested in, up until noon Central Time on Sunday, August 8. I'll post the winners on Monday, August 9.

And finally, before this thought disappears from my weary brain, I wanted to share a quote with you from author Madeleine L'Engle which really resonated with me. I first read this a few years ago in her book, A Circle of Quiet:

I am still every age that I have ever been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide... Far too many people misunderstand what "putting away childish things" means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people, I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grownup, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and "be" fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grown up. --Madeleine L'Engle

Thanks for visiting, good luck on the giveaways, and Happy Friday everyone!