We Need A Little Christmas!

Right this very minute! I love that peppy song when I am decorating.
This cookie jar above is one of my most favorite Christmas decorations, no cookies in it though.

I have not sewn a stitch this week. Last weekend I got the house decorated and my shopping done. I had 2 Christmas concerts with the grandchildren, that will definitely get you in the Christmas spirit! Their happy, shining faces singing out so enthusiastically is so much fun to watch.

I feel like I can now relax and enjoy the season and all the festivities. My friend Judie said she decided to get all her shopping done by the 10th, so I followed her lead and it was a great idea!

A big change for us this year, we went with a small, live table top tree that we will plant outside in the spring. I love it!

One of the things I love to put out is all the pictures of the kids/grandkids with Santa Claus. If you look in the center back, my then 21 year old son finally sat on Santa's lap. He screamed bloody murder as a child so we gave up. I told him I was so sad I didn't have one of him, wish granted!

Jan and Cynthia at the Quilt Block gave me this as a gift, isn't it pretty?

Tomorrow I will be having a giveaway that has nothing to do with Christmas.  So come back and see what I am up to.....

Kelly

A Little Sparkle

I am not a huge Christmas person much to the chagrin of my friend Judie. This year I decided to put a Christmas tree in my sewing room after my friend Barb sent me a picture of the one in her sewing room. Another friend, Lynne ( no blog but she really should start a cooking one! hint hint) has a pink Barbie mini tree. I had the room and thought why not.

Last night was Maddy's school Christmas concert. All she needs for Christmas is her 2 or 3 front teeth! It is so adorable to see little children sing and just be themselves. It puts you in the Christmas spirit.

Kelly

Seeing Red

I think one of the things I enjoy most about the Christmas season are the colors, especially red! It is so cheerful and just adds a bit of spark to the dreary landscape.

Last night we attended a Christmas concert. My granddaughter, Fallon plays the clarinet. It was so adorable.

It is snowing again today, we got about 4 inches or so. It is so pretty and quiet outside.

I was up early to use every single second of the day. I baked some cookies......

 sugar cookies spruced up for the season.

This tray of cookies is going to a super nice lady who is 86ish. My husband and I call her "the nicest lady in the whole world". No, she is not one of our mothers......but we have never heard her say a bad thing about anyone and would do anything for anyone. Her name is Mary....kind of goes with Christmas?

The smells of Christmas are also wonderful. I found these at Wegman's, the hand soap is called Mistletoe and the dish soap is called Frosted Fir, they smell so fresh and Christmas like.

They sit right next to my poinsettias that I bought from the Boy Scouts. I am going to try and keep this going after Christmas.

As I was finishing up my baking the snowing was almost over. My husband who plows snow came upstairs and said he was leaving and did I want to see a little sewing he did? The normal jacket he wears is in the wash, so he improvised with one that is a little too small in the sleeves.....more like cutting than sewing.

Now for some more red and white.....what can I create?

Kelly

Time

Where is time going? Why does it seem it goes so fast now that I am older? As a child this was the longest time of the year, would December ever be over?
I started this 2 years ago?  I think....not sure though. We were at my friend Sujata's house.When moving things  a few weeks ago, I realized this is almost done. I really love the pattern (Sujata's) but do not like how I set it. It is way too wonky, even for me and it does not lie flat.
All my pictures look very bad today it is raining and feels like night.

I also finished this one up, using a facing instead of a binding. Getting those UFOs done! Two down, how many more to go???

My friend, Cynthia sent this to me for my birthday which is next week. Yes I opened it before the day! I don't think I could have looked at the package for an entire week.

It is so cute and it is tiny, perfect as a party purse. Thank you Cynthia!

I have been decorating and cleaning out my holiday stuff at the same time. I found some of my kids' art and it gave me a chuckle. Colin not only has his name on the front of every piece he made but on a lot of them he wrote "good job". I think we were supposed to think the teacher wrote it? It was clearly in his hand writing!

I have seriously scaled back my decorating from years past.

This year I am taking pictures of what I did as a reference for next year to make it even easier.

Now that the house is decorated, the shopping is done all that is left is the tree. I should be back to a little bit more blogging in the next few weeks. They are even calling for a wintery mix this weekend! Let it snow!

Kelly

Snowman Quilt

I made this quilt about 10 years ago. It is still a favorite even if the colors are a little duller than the ones I am using now. I don't remember who the pattern is by.

This is a runner I made last year and I love the colors! It was very fast and was a quilt as you go, flip and sew type of project.  My table is very long and it is either impossible to find one that fits or is very expensive.



Close ups of the runner.



All the strips were cut of random widths to take advantage of the fabric, like this one! A candy cane binding finishes it off.

Kelly