Happy Belated Holidays!

I hope yours was just as peaceful and wonderful as mine was!

I think my holiday kicked off nicely with our shop's party!  We had a great time playing bunco and "Dirty Santa" and I came away with a huge lot of stuff.  We were suppose to bring a white elephant gift wrapped.  In the bag I picked and ended up with I had 3 knick-nacks, a large-weird turtle cookie jar (which I'm going to put in my garden in the spring) and a small beautiful completed quilt that screams me :)  It's funny to see how many folks tossed in UFO's into their elephant bags - I thought better of doing that, but next year I might just get rid of a few that way :)

My husband drove from Maryland and brought with him our two sons and our youngest son's girlfriend of 4 years (and their adorable little weiner dog, Linguine - hey, they are both chefs, perfect name their puppy!).  We spent time with family here in Tennessee and spent Christmas day opening presents, chilling and bubbling with new excitement - - when my son proposed to his girlfriend!  It will be a long engagement at least 18 months, but there's a ring on her finger and everyone's a buzz.

We also took family portraits for the first time!  Kinda sad, but this time we made sure hubby and me were in them as well.  A very talented and nice gentleman, Ben who owns Studio Benjamin came over to my little apartment and we ended outside in brrrrrrr-ing light wind and a beautiful setting sun behind us. Hope to share a few of the images in a week or so!

This past two weeks have been a whirlwind of new friends, family and emotions.  It was most stress-less holiday ever and the most rewarding.

My daughters and I bowled in the New Year last night at our local bowling lanes.

I figure the best way to share my past few weeks is through this random slide show.


Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

I have done a little bit of sewing here and there, so those images will be shared over the next few days.

Happy New Year to you!!

Frosty Flakes....

so who's doing these Frosty Flakes BOM?  ME ME ME!

I purchased a pack of Japanese Christmas prints at Spring Quilt Market in 2009 and I thought this was the perfect project to use these!



How fun and cute and easy/quick to do...sorta :)  I spent last night preparing my mini hexies and what I did was use some of my old used 3/4" paper piece hexies and took a 1/4" off all their sizes and WAHLA - 1/2" hexies papers!



Now I used my newest notion, Sewline  Glue Pen (I LOVE THIS PEN) to hold the fabric to the paper, then I started stitching while watching Eureka (I LOVE that show :)) and finished piecing my hexies!  Let me say this hexies is TINY :)



Now I have to go out today and shop for threads and bead to finish the rest.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'm spending today up in Pennsylvania with friends we haven't seen in 14 years!   Won't be home til Saturday or Sunday (unsure yet).  Thank you all again for the support you have given me this past year.

Hope this New Year brings you peace, love, friendship, excitement and positive change!

Comments and Graphics - New Year Layouts - Photobucket

Quilty Stuff!!

First a very BIG HUGE thank you to my SSCS partner....who ever she may be in the Netherlands....still no clue who it is. This is what she made just for me:





And I have been sewing a little bit and completed 2 more runners - better late than never and I'll have these in the mail next week.




So, would my SSCS, please step forward and let me know who you are? Thank you again for the beautiful gifts - they will be used!!

Seasons Greetings….

from my family to yours...

Micheal, Brianna, Allen and Kendra

Happy Turkey Day

If you celebrate Thanksgiving today, I hope your day was fill with good food, good family & friends, and many blessings.

Our turkey was sooo yummy.....

Holiday Cards?

If you would enjoy a holiday card from me, please feel free to email me your snail address, with the subject line "Holiday Card, please" to sunflwgal at gmail dot com.

Thanks!

Happy Holidays!

Wordless Wednesday

psych! I have too much to share, though most of it will be in pictures!

Here's what I'm working on:



My first yellow brick road, from a kit I got on clearance online this past spring (all the blocks are done, just need to do the rows and finish the top):


And I completed my 4" block for a round robin group I'm part of:


I pulled out my Out of the Darkness BOM, to pick them back up - I'm 5 months behind, but all my next blocks are cut out - that alone normally takes 4 hours to cut each block. Thanks to Lucy for inspiring me to get back to it:


And one last picture to promote our state shop hop:


Back to the sewing machine!