The Heart of the Valley (Central Valley, CA) shop hop was this weekend. My two friends, Janice and Elaine, and I hit all 10 shops in 1.5 days. We left at about 1:30 on Saturday and headed south to Bakersfield and then up to Porterville. (4 shops in all on Friday). Here we are at Strawberry Patches. Their theme was camp out. With smore fixin's, hot dogs and the the campsite. (Even with chirping birds and noises.) I heard on Saturday they even had camp signing around the campfire (fake). On Saturday we left early to get to the Turlock store Cloth & Quilts at 9:00 am . They had a baby shower theme. From there we went to Bear Paws in Oakhurst, which was a beautiful drive in the mountains. Then we headed to Fresno for Cottage Quilts and then to Clovis (Quilter's Paradise) who still had the rodeo theme going, then to the Mennonite Center in Reedly and then on home to Thimble Towne who had a Kentucky Derby theme--with horse ...
Because there isn't enough time to always make a point.