Happy New Year - A New Decade

I've been so busy this past week I haven't had a chance to blog.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I hope you have had time with your family and friends. I hope you got to eat good food, got great gifts and made some wonderful memories. 

I am cleaning house and putting away the Christmas stuff. I'm periodically watching TV, knitting videos, trying to finish knitting my scarf,  tatting on the never ending flag and trying to decide if I want to make any resolutions.  I don't think I will.  I am just going to try to do better next year with everything. I want to lose weight, do more quilts, tat more, knit more, spend more time with my family and my friends and be healthier and happier.  Anything else, hmmmm, yes. I want to wish  everyone  reading this a heathy, happy and prosperous New Year too. I hope you laugh more, love more and find time to do what you want next year.

Don't forget to eat your blackeyed peas for luck, cabbage for money and wash it down with some good old sweet tea!  Hugs from Texas!!!

Christmas wishes and musings

 I didn't send out any Christmas cards this year (again!) and I haven't had time to blog either. I love this holiday but it is very stressful too. I know alot of people that get depressed around the holidays for various reasons.  I tend to get frazzled myself. I find myself stressing out over what to buy for ????, did I get enough or did I buy the right thing?  Should I have given her a gift too?  Why didn't I think to go by and see them?  Why didn't I make a gift for ........... You know what I mean. Everyone gets stressed to some point or another.   Anyway, please just try to enjoy yourself, be with your family and friends and enjoy them too. If you get a gift but didn't get them one, just say thank you and give them a hug.  They thought about you and wanted to do that. It's ok....

I have gone to alot of parties and celebrations this season and I have enjoyed every one of them. I am thankful for all my friends and loved ones. I am thankful for my health.

 I would like to have a better year next year with time,family,  health, finances and my crafts and I hope you do too.  I hope you have a job, if you need one...If you don't have to work, I'm proud for you. I hope you are healthy and happy and that you are with the person or persons that you love. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas holiday and you stay safe, happy and healthy. Please take time to enjoy your family and friends and let's get back together after the holiday. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Hugs from Texas where my grandkids wish it was snowing....

Sewing with Heidi and Bobbi and friends, finishing up on Saturday

I went to the church last night and visited with friends while I sewed. I worked on making a snuggle for my granddaughter.  I finished it up last night and then worked on putting my Crazy 8 quilt top together.  I got it about half way done before calling it quits for the night.  I'm going to get that quilt top together soon...

The snuggles are great but they are hard to cut out because fleece is so thick. I sewed two more today. One for the youngest and oldest grandsons.  I had just enough left over from all the yardage to make scarves for the three of them.  Two gifts in one...Here's a picture but it's really hard to tell what they are....I didn't have any models to put them on.

I did a single crochet around one of the scarves and I just cut the ends and fringed the other two....

We are wrapping gifts tonight instead of going out...We'll celebrate our anniversary later.

Sewing with Heidi and Bobbi

Don't forget, tonight is sewing with Heidi and Bobbi....I'm going to go to the church and sew with some friends. I'll post pictures later.  Have fun and get busy sewing!

Our anniversary and birthday

Yesterday was our 32nd wedding anniversary.  My husband snuck into my office after I left yesterday and left me some beautiful flowers, a card and a chocolate message....I saw this when I walked into the office yesterday morning. If you can't tell what it is, he spelled out 32 with some chocolate kisses...Ok, where's the money, no I forget, it's show me the money....Anyway, I thought this was sweet and I love him dearly.  Today is his birthday too.  Happy Birthday, honey, I love you.

 

A Great Giveaway...A Subscription to Fons and Porter's magazine

(Click on her name and it will take you to the post to sign up for her giveaway-couldn't be easier than that, huh?)

Quilt Frenzy is having a wonderful giveaway.  Hurry, go sign up, she's giving away a one year subscription to  Love of Quilting magazine by Fons and Porter!!! How neat is that?!  You have to hurry, the giveaway is this Friday, so rush on over and sign up.  Good luck and happy holidays!

UFO Challenge for next year and another Friday night sewing with Heidi and Bobbi

Nancy, the Patchwork Penguin has geared up and is hosting  the UFO challenge again this year.  I got so many of my UFO's finished (or at least to the flimsy stage) by taking her up on her challenge last year that I have decided to do it again.  Here's how it works: pick out 10 of your UFO's and list them 1-10. The first of each month, Nancy will pick the project to work on and announce it on her blog.  You work on that project for the month and hopefully, get it completed.  No guilt or reprimands if you don't get it finished but this is just a little push to help you get those UFO's to a manageable state.  Why don't you join us?  Do you have ten things you want to finish?  Do you need a little push to help you finish?  This is the thing for you.  Click on the UFO on my sidebar to sign up and then pick out your ten projects and list them on your sidebar or somewhere on your blog.  Then, wait for next year and start working on those pesky UFO's and let's see some great finishes!

This Friday, the 17th is another sewing in your jammies night with Heidi and Bobbi.  Hop on over and sign up and do some last minute Christmas sewing.

Look on the right side of my blog for the above button and click on it. It will take you to Heidi's blog to sign up for the sew in...Check out some of the things people have been working on.  I get alot done on these sewing nights and I  think it's fun to think about all the sewers out in Blogland in their sewing rooms at the same time as me.  When you post on Saturday, you will be put in a drawing for a prize from Heidi and Bobbi.   The prize is just a little incentive to spur you on to sewing and blogging about it. So, come on and join us. 

til next time....