merry christmas

whirlwind

How was everyone's Christmas? We had a great holiday here. As busy as it can be, I do love it all. The family get togethers, the dinner parties, the food, it's all fun! But now all the out of town guests are gone, the leftovers are mostly eaten and it's time to relax for a few days before the hustle and bustle of work and school take over again.

Christmas 2011

Yesterday I finally got reacquainted with my sewing machine; oh how I have missed it. And the fun we had!

I finally got the borders on this baby quilt. 

please ignore the water spots

It's been finished since July and just sat waiting and waiting for the border. Now it's finally finished and all in good time as we had a new little one enter our family just before Christmas.

Never up, mom's Christmas present that I gave up on getting completed before Christmas. 

The pattern called for the quilt to be in reds and greens. Mom is not a red and green person; regardless if it is Christmas. I thought if I pieced it in her colors(I raided her batik fabrics to make the quilt); I could still pull it off. 

This is the quilt from the magazine 

I tried mom's quilt with the snowflakes and it just doesn't work. And I love the quilt without so it is done. Now how to quilt it. Any ideas?

Next up, Dad's quilt. The idea of this quilt came about 3yrs ago. I had the fabric all shoved into a plastic bag in my quilt kit bin and each birthday and Christmas since, I have said I would finish(start lol) the quilt. This was the year!

Sadly, I used the main focal fabric in a different project and I didn't have the pattern anymore so I sort of winged it. I had the quilt together, was sewing the final border on it last night when I realized, I could make it a wall banner so I ripped it apart, turned some blocks around and now we have this.

Can't wait to get this quilt so Dad can hang it in his music room.

I traced out some Santa wallhangings that I was planning as giving as gifts. I completed 2, the other 3 were just traced. I got those finished up; now just to blanket stitch them.

Aren't they cute? Here's one of the finished ones.

Lastly, a winter wallhanging for work .

He's been cut out since the beginning of December and now all ready to be quilted. And we can finally take the autumn wallhanging down lol!

Whew that was a long blog post! Enjoy the rest of the holidays, see you next year!

Merry Christmas

Christmas 2010

 I won't be around much next week; planning on spending it relaxing with friends and family. 

We wish you joy and happiness this holiday season.

Merry Christmas.

annnnnnnnd it's a wrap!

I got the last two customer quilts done this afternoon and that wraps my year of quilting-woo hoo! I am shocked I got them all done and on time even! To celebrate, a friend and I made these little cuties this afternoon.

tutorial can be found here 

I added this  

subway art printable here 

I love how it ties into my new Christmas colors this year.

don't take a picture on the piano when someone is playing the piano. 

i am Queen

or that is certainly how i was made to feel yesterday! holy spoiled! i've debated about posting what i got but i'm a tad embarrassed about the extravagence lol!

few highlights-3 sets of the corelle hearthstone dishes in chili red, a giant oval punch and a giga circle punch. a funky cat quilt kit(and a g/c to the quilting store woo hoo!) some more stamping ink(poor Jim drove himself crazy seaching everywhere for Ancient Page ink. apperantly its not sold in Canada anymore??) enough chocolate to keep me happy for a month or so, g/c to my favorite clothing store, 5 Jim Shore collectiable ornaments/figurines(that shocked me!) and the biggest surprise of all? a digital camera all for ME!!! talk about spoiled! and my birthday was just last month! woo hoo! lol!

all in all, we had a fantastic day. kids loved everything(the look on A and J's faces when they opened their new DS systems was priceless!) no complaining, no fighting-it was the perfect day!

i haven't tried my new camera on the computer yet but will later today and upload some pictures of Christmas

Merry Christmas my friends

just getting ready to head out to my Aunt's for their Christmas Eve service and than back for the family Christmas Eve party.

goodies are baked, house is clean, presents wrapped. now its time to kick back, relax and celebrate.

hope you all have a wonderful blessed day tomorrow

deck the halls

house is all decorated for Christmas. actually has been for a few weeks now. we have 7 tress up-my tree in the living room, family tree in the family room, a small one inthe office(Jim has that one decorated with fishing lures) and one in each of the boys rooms. Jim just got the exterior lights up yesterday. he has few more strands he is looking for places to hang.

A started a nutcracker collection about 3 yrs ago; its really grown and has to be the favorite decorations in our house. he even has a tree in his room decorated with them as well.

december already!

and i'm finished our Christmas shopping! happy dance time i still have to finish off the gift for my sister in law and A. i'm starting mom's tomorrow. i have still not decided if i'm going to do the tin for mom or not. see how much time i have left.

we took the boys to see the Santa parade tonight-thought we would freeze to death before Santa finally made it to where we were sitting. mental note; next year don't sit at the end of that parade route *sigh* lol

doing a bit of stamping tonight during the Canucks game. you know you are a hockey fan(not a fanatic ;) ) when you have one game on the TV(NHL) and another on the radio(WHL). i finished off the last 2 cards using the OSW(one sheet wonder). i'm really please with how these turned out