Freshcut Boquet for the Bed

This was so much fun to make! A few months ago my mom asked me if I would like to make a quilt for she and Dad! Of course I was delighted with the proposal. Mom chose these Freshcut fabrics, and I added a few others to the mix. What do you think?

(click on the quilt to the left for some gorgeous quilting detail) My personal quilters Pat and Dea at the California Quilting Center are top notch! Go check out their new website!!



I was in a hurry to get the quilt to my mother for her birthday, which was just a few days before Christmas, so I machine sewed the binding on....




Happy Birthday Momma! Dreaming of Springtime, birds and flowers to come.......



A special thanks to Heather Bailey for her gorgeous Freshcut line, Jennifer Paganelli for her gorgeous Sis Boom fabrics, and Amy Butler for the flowery fabrics and stripy binding on the quilt! Love these fabrics! Thanks to Dea for the gorgeous quilting job she did.

To Grandmother's house we go

Have yourselves a merry little Christmas~

Go outside for a walk....bundle up, and get some fresh air.



Happy baking,
wrapping,
unwrapping,
smiling,
laughing,
hugging,
eating,
and
being!

Wishing you the best, wherever you are. Thanks for a wonderful year, my blogging friends. Looking forward to more fun in 2008~

Have a heart

Here's what the kiddos have been up to. Making these little heart ornaments. What a great use for your fabric scraps, buttons, ribbon odds and ends, etc. These are tiny, cute, and they can wrap them on their own with tissue paper.
Just cut out a simple heart shaped pattern, let them trace it and cut it out. Let them stitch the hearts together by hand, or you can sew them together. Glue on buttons, trims and embellishments. Fun, fast and easy. They are cute to leave out year round, hanging on a knob or hook.

Peppermint Bliss

Don't these look yummy! They smell so pepperminty~ Thanks to my friend Sandi for the heads up on this delicious recipe..........and they are so fun to make with your kids and family.



A little side note on the recipe if you get a chance to make them.......we did not chill the dough for three or four hours..... a good half hour in the freezer works fine. Chilling the dough for four hours in the freezer might require a chainsaw or your electric carving knife.

Peppermint Palmiers, go ahead and give them a whirl. Or I mean a swirl.

It's a toss

Here's a fun and easy gift you can make for someone special. Get busy digging through your scraps, lay out some fun and funky fabrics, snip and stitch. Anna Maria has some on her blog as well.



Back to the drawing board~

A forest of trees

Aren't these pretty!!!

Here are a few more little trees to add to my growing collection....I just loved these adorable little trees from Charlotte Lyons, so I made up a few of my own. Then the tree in the middle is something I made from an idea I found in this magazine. You can buy a kit over here. I got my Styrofoam cone from a craft store, and glued the beads and jewels on. I have two more to do yet, but am holding off because the first one took over an hour. Talk about tedious and time consuming. It's worth it though.....so pretty~

And last but not least, these little softies are from last year. They made them selves right at home with my teacups. You can find the pattern for these little trees over here. Oh, and did I mention that Jenny has some cute trees and allsorts of other pretty things over on her blog?!

It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas

Good morning friends......sorry for the lack of posts lately.........we've been hit with a medley of flu bugs for over a week now. Mommy's aren't supposed to get sick, but this one got hit. I was so weak that I could do nothing but lay in bed and sleep for the past few days. I get so frustrated with myself when I get really sick, because I HATE LAYING IN BED. I feel like I am missing out.

I think mother's have an instinctive sense about them that knows they are about to get sick. All day Saturday I cleaned like crazy and ran multiple errands with lightening speed. I think I did the whole grocery store, post office stop and shoe shopping in 45 minutes........and that includes going there and back. Wheweeeee......oh, and did I mention that we got rid of sixteen plastic garbage bags full of clothes and old toys for Goodwill.......by Saturday night it hit me! Oh, and the day before that I was sewing like crazy.....made this cute Christmas-y table runner, and got a good start on a quilt for someone in my family.

Haven't even been to a mall for weeks. AND IT FEELS SO GOOD TO AVOID THAT PLACE. Don't get me wrong, I love to shop, but don't put me in an indoor mall this time of the year. NO WAY. I am all about what brown can do for me. Yup, those guys know my place like the back of their hand........I think they have pulled up here every day this week so far. Is it me, or are there are other mothers out there who hate dragging their precious kiddos through the mall this time of year? Sounds like a nightmare to me!

When I get a chance, I have this huge urge to go thrifting for some silver! Yeah, you know, some pretty candle holders, urns, and platters, to fill with candles and pretties.
Talk soon~