Hope you are having a wonderful December and are all ready for Christmas!
My bloggy friend Kathy who blogs HERE and has my favorite Sunday linky each week is hosting today as well with a giveaway open for all that link up !!!
She is preparing for Christmas and so am I… making MY stocking finally!!!! All my snow girl was done with hand stitching…
The buttons that make up the face and the tatted pink lace wreath came from my friend Connie. The thick watercolor paper with my name on it I harvested from my friend Debbie’s Christmas card backing! lol I think that is my bag with 2 straps made of green DMC floss 🙂
I stuffed each section as I “built” this snow girl… even giving her silvery grey hair like me!!! She has 2 jingle bells on her neck scarf too! The hair bow, gloves and neck scarf ends are all 3D in make. I hope to show this better once it is finished and hanging 🙂 I am hoping to fashion this stocking front into a full stocking later today… so it can go with the other two I have hanging already…
Kinda like Santa over there who is quilting away to finish a project…
Do you have any projects you are still working on this Christmas?!!
Otherwise all our Christmas making and shopping is DONE! We are loving enjoying this holiday season too!!! Here is the cool waterpaper cardstock card my friend Debbie made me (that I harvested the backside paper from for my bag on my stocking)!
It came with a big box of fabric scraps (and big chunks too) that Debbie no longer wanted to keep around. So I am her recipient of choice 😀 I love being that for her as well as GREAT friends!!!!
I have made some progress on Stars Among Usthis week… Here is an overhead view… showing my phone holder on the right side of my frame too…
Here is a view from the side that I liked better…. where my green thumb thimble is … is my spot to start back at when I focus on this later today for Sunday’s stitching time!
And here is my view from a bit further away… when I stitch early in the mornings I put on those head phones to keep things quiet for my honey and our pup. I get up very early most of the time and don’t want to wake others up during my quiet morning stitching time 😀
Of course I am thinking of THEM and not my own selfish need for quiet quilting time! lol
We got freshly redesigned (since we moved almost a year ago… haha) business cards finally!
Using this cool shot!
I gathered 2 machines from our collection and some accessories we use for decor items these days… plus our latest item we are selling and most possibly the coolest machine we have ever had the honor of owning temporarily. Here is our sale at for eBay…
The link to our ad is HERE…. if you would like to see all the photos we took and read more about this 1900 Victorian era chain stitching sewing machine that WORKS!!!
I made 4 bibs for our post office dude’s baby girl who is 8 months old… They loved them he says 🙂
I made one more dog socking for my best friend Debbie to celebrate the season with her poodle dog Ma-lady. I checked how I did the spelling with her and she sent the fabric in the BIG box 🙂 I sent her back the stocking already but likely mail is running slow and she will get it after Christmas.
Our favorite thrift store ran a sale on their purses and bags… I harvested these 3 for under $7 all together!
I am excited about the possibilities of each one too!
I also got some fabric as part of a attachments bartered for fabric trade a customer offered me. This is many yards of quilt shop quality quilt fabric from her expansive stash I picked out and she mailed to me for a cool vintage set of attachments in a cool tin we mailed to her! We are BOTH happy with this 🙂
Here is a table my honey is making from pieces and parts harvested at Lowe’s and put together to look like a big spool (wire holder)….
Here is it with red mahogany stain on it waiting to dry then be varnished several times…. it will match my desk and shelves and coordinate with his recliner which is where it will be… we love the rubber wheels it is on too !!!
And then Rick also got some tools he had been wanting that were on sale while we were there… then when we got home I ordered him this hat from our eBay PayPal funds remaining 😀
He is mega excited to get this Australian Akubra hat by new years or so eBay says… He tried one on when we were shopping and we both fell in love with it on him and it is waterproof make of European rabbit fur in a 6 week process (yes he found a YouTube vid on the process of making this hat type!). It is sooo soft and not furry… this picture is from eBay so next week I hope to have a pic of him wearing it! 😉 We shall see as he is definitely camera shy!
Many of you know he has been dealing with severe severe right hip pain. He finally got a steroid shot as a step before surgical intervention and he is feeling relief in his overall pain … now he is back to whistling and singing again 🙂
Well, I got a stocking to finish and a few things around the house to do so I am signing off for now… Hope you leave me a comment about your holiday plans and what you have left to do before Christmas.
Don’t forget the real meaning of Christmas… Sing Happy Birthday to Jesus on your 25th!!! God sent us such a massive gift for this Season 🙂 And remember to …
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