finished!!

got mom's quilt sewn together tonight. had enough cut fabric to make one for step mommy in law as well. i'm going to quilt mom's on my sewing machine. its not that big; i've quilted bigger, it's just been awhile lol

more great mail

2 more cards made their way to my mailbox today from the CST holiday card exchange. thanx to Fran and Sherry for their lovely creations

it's a boy!!!

congrats to my cousin Tracy and her dh Alex. they got the call today that their little boy Nicholas(love the name!) was born. now they are off to Florida to bring him home in time for Christmas. fantastically awesome news! now i know why i have all my Christmas quilting done-i need to make a baby quilt! lol!!

what to do? what to do?!?!

i started mom's Christmas presents today(i love it-can't i keep it for myself? lol) and i realized tonight, that i will have time to finish Jim's polar fleece camo outfit. i don't want tooooooooooooo! i bought the fabric probably close to 5yrs ago now-i did make him a vest but it was gianormus huge on him, the rest of the fabric has moved with us over the years and every birthday and Christmas, yup, i've promised to make it for him.

well this year, i was going to stick with it. i was just telling him yesterday that it probably wouldn't get done until January. won't he be stunned Christmas morning to find it wrapped up for him? now where did i put my serger????????

amazing what you can do with a few quiet hours

have A's Christmas present almost finished-just have to quilt it; hopefully i will have time this weekend. i nixed the original gift i was going to make mom. after reading the directions 4 times and still unable to figure out what they are doing(mom and i will have to each make one in the new year-its a gorgeous pattern) i found another one that she wanted to do a few years ago and a snatched the magazine and forgot all about it lol!

i love good mail

and been getting allot of it lately. today brought me 4 lovely Christmas cards, the iris folded Christmas tree from Phyllis, the paint chip card from Terry, the stunning ornament from Shelia and the snowman card from my friend Nancy. thanx to all of you!

i love surprises

i have this beautiful paisley paper i've been dying to use. but i couldn't find an ink color to go with the paper. i ended up *settling* with an indigo red-it didn't work. than i tried gold-ugh. so i figured that was my cue to quit and when i was putting away my embossing powders, i found a small jar in the back of the drawer-peridot embossing powder. even looking through the container, i knew it was perfect! and i was right!!!!

the end of Christmas cards

and i am sooooo glad! i'm Christmas carded out!! i'm thinking that the white card needs something in the bottom right corner under the torn paper-maybe some stamped gold stars? and i absolutely love the holly paper. if you enlarge that picture, you can see how the holly and berries are stitched in the paper. that is probably one of my favorite cards i've made this year.

enjoy!!