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Story Blocks
Is reading and quilting two of your favorite things to do? Do you
have children or grandchildren who love to listen to a story?
Then you are going to love our Story Block books. My
daughter, Laura Day, is a published author. Laura and I are teaming
our creativity to give you a book that has one of her stories and
quilt projects I have designed to go with the story.
We are working on now a book for young girls from ages 5-12.
We also have in the works a story/quilt book for adults which we
hope to be ready by the end of 2008. Laura has written six stories
in her series about Isabelle and Tara, her niece, who solve mystery
stories that includes quilts. Isabelle has a fat orange cat named
George who shares the fun too. Here’s a portion of the first chapter
of Laura’s story Strangled by Wild Geese:
No one ever thought Aunt Isabelle would win the lottery. She
played it for years and never won a dime and suddenly here she was a
millionaire. She decided to throw a luau in her back yard and she
invited half the neighborhood. She served expensive Champaign and
caviar along with exotic Hawaiian cuisine. Aunt Isabelle looked
young and alive that night despite her age of eighty-five. Her
silver hair was done up with a hibiscus flower behind her ear and
her bright blue eyes danced with merriment. Everyone stayed up all
night, celebrating into the early morning hours.
Tara got home around one am from the luau and she fell asleep
immediately. When the phone rang shrilly at four am, Tara crawled
out of bed and floundered her way across her dark bedroom until she
found the phone.
“Hello?” She asked sleepily while glancing at her alarm clock to see
what time it was.
“Tara, this is Isabelle’s neighbor Mrs. Stevens from next door.”
“Is something the matter with Aunt Isabelle?” Tara asked snapping
awake immediately.
“Well I don’t know for sure. You see I just got up for a drink of
water and I saw that your Aunt’s lights were still on from my
kitchen window. I was about to go back to bed when I heard a sudden
shriek and then the lights went off. I tried to call your aunt, but
no one answered the phone. I was worried and your aunt had given me
your number in case of an emergency.”
“I’ll be right over. Thank you for calling Mrs. Stevens.” Tara hung
up with the older woman who was known to be quite a gossip and a
penny pincher. She’d been at Aunt Isabelle’s luau putting away as
much caviar as she could hold.
To be continued….this is the first story in the Isabelle-Tara quilt
mystery series. Laura’s series was voted the most popular feature by
readers in a survey done by Cotton Spice magazine where her stories
are published. We will announce when the books are ready in the blog
and newsletter.
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and see what we have to offer.
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