Catching Up to the New Year

WOW!!!  It's been almost 3 months since my last entry...

Time has flown by, We have celebrated Thanksgiving,

Christmas, and entered into a New Year.

We've gone from beautiful Fall colors to

pure white glistening Snow, and

of course said "Goodbye" to 2015 and

"Hello" to 2016.

 

So now I will share a collage of pictures

of the time I have missed on here.

 

Thanksgiving Day

with all the Family

 

 

 

Our First Snow!!!

 

 

Family Christmas

This year our Christmas was very special,

My Mother flew up from Florida to join us.

This was a first...and I hope she will be

joining us more often for Christmas :)

 

 

 

My newest addition to the sewing/quilting room.

Now to find time to learn how to use it :)

I will keep you posted on this adventure.

I bought it used about 6 months ago,

but just yesterday found the time

to get it all set up.

 

Hugs & Blessings

and a Belated Happy New Year!!!

 

 



Christmas 2014

 

Just wanted to share some of our Christmas

with all my blog family & friends.

 

This year's Christmas Tree

and

This year's Christmas Stairway

Next are pictures of some of the gifts I made for this Christmas.

I try to make gifts every year.  I want my family to

know how much I care about them and how much they

mean to me.  I feel that making

 the gifts show them just how much I love them. 

 

 

 These pillows were made for my Mother and step father.

He was in the navy so the two end pillows were for him.

The middle pillow was for my Mother, the center part with the sailboat

actually came from a favorite shirt of hers.  She gave me the piece several

years ago thinking I could use it for something...well I found something

to use it for.

 Next is a pillow I made for my grandson, who has taken up the saxophone.

And is pretty good at it!

 Another pillow was made for one of my granddaughters,

who love sparkle and glitter.

 Another pillow for a grandson made with some

of his favorite fabric - red & black plaid flannel

and an eagle, also a favorite of his.

and the last pillow I made was for another grandson,

who is a Tony Hawk fan.

 

 Next are some picture frame remakes.'

Our dear granddaughter in this picture

loves glitter and peacock feathers and pink.

 

 And this granddaughter loves camo and

pink & black and chevron print and glitter.

 And this grandson is a huge Michael Jordan fan.

So he gets some classic MJ trading cards

and Chicago Bulls emblems.

Last picture frame for one of granddaughters is camo with

a deer head as she wants to learn to hunt. 

NO glitter, she does not like glitter...no way!!!

 

 Next are the quilts.

This one is camo and Duck Dynasty

for one of our grandsons.

This grandson loves Ninja Turtles, Spiderman, and Mickey Mouse.

Making for a quite unique quilt.

And this grandson loves Batman and Superman.

Don't think I have ever made a quilt this colorful before!

 

 

Hope you enjoyed seeing some of my family's Christmas.

 

Merry Christmas

&

A Blessed New Year

 

 

Terry

 

 



More From Christmas

Here are some awesome gift wrapping ideas.

I would love to say I did these, but I did not...

my daughter, Jennifer was the creator.

First is Lego Man & Mrs Snowperson.
Each is made up of 4 individual 
presents.  Samson (the cat) is the
guardian of the gifts. 

Next is the reindeer and angel gifts.  Each of these is made from 2 gifts.

And here they are all together.

They were the hit of Christmas morning.

~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~ 

And here are some of the gifts I received this year.

This is the beautiful jewelry box my dear

husband had made for me.  Love it !!!

Also gave me the money to get a canary,

once the weather warms up.

These wonderful goodies were from my

dear sister-in-law, who always spoils me :)

And all the rest of these great gifts were from 

Secret Santas from the different quilting

and card making and snail mail groups I belong to.

 

 

Do you think I was feeling pretty

special and spoiled this Christmas???

You bet !!!!!

The groups I belong to have the most

wonderful, caring, sharing bunch of

women there is :)

Well that's all for today. 

Back tomorrow with more

catching up :)

Hugs,

Terry

Hershel - The Elf On The Shelf



We went out and bought our Christmas tree,

set it up in it's stand and let it stand over night,

you know, to let the branches fall. 

And what did we find in our tree the next morning....

you guessed it, "Hershel" !!!!!

So we became the hosts for this little mischievous character

through the Christmas season...

Now for the most part Hershel was a pretty well behaved guest.

Sometimes we would find him just hanging around...

Or just sitting and watching the goings on of the house...

But, one day, oh my, one day,

I hesitate to think about it,

just brings chills to my bones, ahhhhh

 he committed the ultimate crime...

You guessed it...Hershel touched my sewing machine....

Oh My Gosh, I just about had the Big One !!!!

Ahhhhhh, Grrrrrrrr, Bad, bad, bad move.

So I promptly put Dear Hershel into a lengthy Time Out!!!

'Cause nobody touches MY sewing machine.

Hershel now knows not to touch THE Machine.

So if he can remember that,

he is welcome to come back again to spend 

Christmas with us :)

The grand kids had a ball with our Christmas visitor.

And truth be known...so did Grandma :)

 Love & Hugs & Blessings,

Terry