Happy New Year!

I hope all my friends will have a wonderful 2010! I am glad 2009 is over and have great hopes for the coming year.

We just had a scientifical experiment....we made King Crab legs for dinner tonight...talk about ritzy! We are going to have white chicken chili tomorrow...not the black eyed peas as in tradition but close enough.

We have several movies to watch tonight and I am planning to finish binding my tree skirt. Didn't make it on time for this year but I am ready for next!

Happy Holidays!

I hope all my friends had a lovely Christmas and that 2010 is the best year ever. 2009 has been interesting, frustrating and rewarding in strange ways...I am grateful that I remained employed and that my family is healthy and relatively happy.

Santa's work

I am going to start making some personalized pillow cases for the daughters of a woman I work with. THEN I need to finish my Tree Skirt for the new baby Christmas Tree! I will post pictures later.

Holidayish...

Well...we picked up a new table top Christmas Tree yesterday. I wanted to downsize and found someone that would use my old (25 years) 7 foot tree...so we have a new little one. I like it. Katherine and I put it up this morning. Now if we can just keep Evil Puss from eating the feathers we have adorning the little tree. We also have two peacocks. I will take a picture when the decorating is done. I have to start wrapping presents. Get those out of the way.

I hope everyone is happy and healthy! Take care!

Christmas Log Cabin finished!

Oh darn, it looks crooked but that is just my poor camera work. It is very happy looking in person. Made from Crimson and Clover (Jo Morton / Andover) and an EQ6 block pattern. It will be the offering for our December Heritage Club. I am so glad to be done....and even early!

I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving and is well on the way to being ready for the rest of the Holiday Season!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope all my friends are having a great time with their friends and families! We are headed to my sister's house and I am bringing "that corn thing". My yearly foray into cooking. Good thing we are hardy people, no one has died yet. Phew!

I am working on the December quilt for our Heritage Club. We are having such a great time doing our own thing that we don't even miss Jo Morton's Club. I think Club Nine is out now but we won't be doing that until next year and then we will just fit it in as time allows. Jo really did us a favor when she got behind in her club offerings. Our show is in January and I will post the site so you can see our stuff. I am proud of what we are doing.

Katie laid out my Night at the Opera quilt for me last night so my next big one is one step closer to being done. That is going to be one gorgeous quilt!

Candy Day!

Stephanie, Joann and I made candy today....it is our yearly thing. Joann makes Caramels and Cherry Mash bars. Stephanie made tons of stuff and coated pretzels is one of her standards. My Mom made fudge and Nut Goodie Bars. I made Peanut Brittle and English Almond Toffee. We all had a great time but it gets harder to do this every year. It is worth it...good times with great friends.