Here's the pic I snapped of Marcie's wrist yesterday morning
when I picked up the water:

The x-rays did show a bad break.  I didn't understand all the technical jargon from the report, but ('of course') the bones are no longer aligned, plus there are other issues.  When I stopped in yesterday afternoon to pick up Latina it turned out that they were already home (even having gone to sign those pesky papers after finishing up at Urgent Care) and dealing with the frustrating health care system, trying to get an appointment for her to have the wrist set.  Long story short, the earliest appointment they could get isn't until Monday - though as Marcie wrote later

"that is probably ok.  in laymen's terms before a relocation of bone alignment is done swelling must be minimized.  then after the relocation, more swelling will occur and a period of splinting will be needed before an actual stationary cast can be applied.  long haul on this one."

Jessica's "Upcycling Scraps" program yesterday was delightful - as I knew it would be! Here are most of the ladies who were there to enjoy it with me.

  

I really liked her lead-in, a dozen differently-colored butterfly posters
which cycled through the creative process and created an excellent visual.

She talked about "breaking rules" and thinking outside the box.

Of course I loved her quilts, and now have some wonderful new ideas for the next row(s!) on the quilt top I started during her class a couple of years ago.  Will post pix of some of her quilts at the end of this post.

The potluck was delicious, and I 'm pretty sure that I was not the only one 

who ate way more than she should have...  

But in my defense, most of what I piled onto my plate really was healthy food; I exercised great restraint and only had two cookies from the dessert table.

Another woman (sitting at my table) had also brought deviled eggs, so I actually had some leftover to bring home to Tom.  There was one I didn't recognize, so I'm thinking it was the lone egg left on her platter when she was packing up afterward.  At dinner last night Tom did a taste-test comparison, and <gasp> actually declared mine better!

When I got home Tom wanted to go buy a TV.  Although we took measurements of the allotted space before hitting the first store, naturally there were things we hadn't considered.  Opting for a larger TV (the old one was a 42", and we were shopping for a 50" one) it turns out that "for safety reasons" ones that large no longer swivel (though Alex's does!)  The cabinet top in our corner is a strange shape, and some of the legs on the models we looked at likely wouldn't work.  So we swung home to take additional measurements before heading to another store.  On the way there I texted Alex, and (luckily!) he texted right back NOT to buy anything.  Turns out that Rockstar has a number of virtually new (and large) TVs that they will no longer be using, and he's scored one.  Which means we could now have the one from his bedroom, just the size we were looking for.  Tom got it hooked up yesterday, and Life is Good.  The picture is MUCH sharper (and larger) than on our old TV, and of course we saved hundreds of dollars.  

Just heard from Mom (I was waiting until it got late enough to call) and seems all is well at her end, which of course is a relief!

Everything’s OK here, just crazy.

The definition of a phobia is an irrational fear, which explains why I had to ask Tom to turn over the newest issue of Science News that arrived yesterday.  The cover picture, which likely goes with the article on Erasing Fear  ("Virtual reality therapy has real-life benefits for some disorders"), was a close-up of a tarantula.

And here are those pictures I promised!

Jessica uses scraps to make her own fabric.

Side A - with black

Side B - with white

The "rule" on this one was that none of the colors could touch.

She turned her scrap-made fabric into half-square triangles to create this star.

We all loved to hear that Jessica actually does have some UFOs!

She made fabric like this using selvages...

and it became this quilt.

She made fabric utilizing a bag of old thread someone gifted her...

and it became this quilt.

Don't have an "even" number of blocks?  Get creative with your settings.

Use orphan blocks to create new fabric...

and it turns into a quilt like this.

Cut circles out of other orphan blocks...

and they can be turned into this! 

(Bonus points if you can spot that circle from picture above.)

These scraps were raw-edge appliqued -

and so were these jeans pieces.

This bag contains test pieces from hand-dyed fabrics someone gifted her...

and they became this stunning quilt!

For her final quilt, Jessica showed this one.  

At first glance it doesn't look that "off the wall"...

But she had thought about what "serious" rule she could break...  

and so put the seams on the front of her quilt!