Sunday Praise

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From Me to You

Happy Thanksgiving Dear Friends!

Wishing you and yours a blessed Thanksgiving Day!  

And for you Black Friday Shoppers have a great time, I may even join you later in the day!

Brenda

A Wonderful Gift

If you visit Prairie Flower Farm and meet Linda, she has just gifted her blogging friends a sweet quilt pattern!  I have just met Linda in the last week and have been reading her posts whenever I have had some free time.  She is a wonderful giving lady and I think you will all love her if you go over for a visit.  I hope you do you will be blessed.  Prairie Flower Farm


Have a great evening! Blessings!

Sunday Praise and a Thankful Heart

I try and have a thankful heart daily but this time of year always reminds me that  I am not as thankful as I should be.  As well as being thankful for all my family and friends around me I am also thankful for all the dear friends I have met since blogging.  Blessings to all!

Update from Friday Night Sew-In

Spent the evening sewing in the work room yesterday.  It was the first time I joined the Friday Night Sew-In.
Made it downstairs by 6:30.

Ladybug came down to keep me company for a while.

Had a cup of coffee and hubs laptop with a movie in it.

I finished the project I was working on except I forgot to buy ribbon for it.  I cannot tell you what it is because I am making some of these for my friends and a couple visit my blog.  This is the outside.

I may have to keep this one for myself.  It was the first and I am not really sure I am happy with the fabric choices I made for the inside.  They looked good together when I had them all laid out on my work surface.

But after sewing everything together I think I should have used the batik purple fabric somewhere on the inside to pull the main fabric in better.

It was good to find I can complete this project in an evening and now I just need to get out and pick up some more fat quarters and hopefully I will bring the color combo together next time around.  If you ask me in a comment what this is I'll send you the answer and the link for the instructions.  Have a great weekend!  Blessings!

Friday Night Sew-In

Yeah it is Friday!  I was so ready for the weekend.  I will be getting ready for the Thanksgiving dinner we will be hosting here at our house in the woods.  There will be grocery shopping and house cleaning going on this weekend.  But this evening I am having just a little fun time.  I just went around the corner to my neighbors shop and found a few Christmas treasures.  I usually find a couple of Santa's each year to add to my collection.  I guess you could say I'm a sucker for Santa.  You can visit the blog for the Saltbox Farm here.  Sharon is a very sweet neighbor and I love to visit her shop.  These are the goodies I came home with this evening.

Now I am just going to have a bite to eat and off to the work room to do some sewing.  I am going to be working with this fabric I bought a couple of weeks ago.

I have it all pressed and cut to size so I am ready to sew.  This is going to be a Christmas present for a good friend.  I am going to participate for the first time in the Friday Night Sew-In at Handmade by Heidi.  I hope to have something to show you all tomorrow!  Blessings!

Icing on the Cake

The expression "The Icing on the Cake" is used to refer to something good that happens on top of an already good thing.  I have visited my two youngest daughters homes over the last couple of days and they had put up their Christmas villages.  I was not going to start any of the Christmas decorating until the weekend after Thanksgiving, but after seeing theirs all lit up and looking so pretty I decided to carry all mine up and find a place to put them.  Hubs put flat tops on our cupboards this past summer and replaced the badly installed plastic trim with some he made himself so I cleaned everything off one set and got my village arranged.

  And you ask, what would the icing on top be?  The icing on top would have been to find the box with the snow and the rest of the cords with the lights that tuck into each house.  After going up and down the basement steps about twelve times I still only have two lights.  Maybe tomorrow I'll dig a little deeper but for now it will be a very dark little village.  Linking up with the letter I for Alphabe-Thursday.

Thanks for stopping by!  Blessings!

Sunday Praise

I am loving this song!  Many blessings and enjoy!

I'm off for the day!

Just wanted to let you know that I am off with some friends.  Checking out some craft sales, at least one quilt shop and then out to my best friends house to work on some Christmas gift making.
I do not believe I understand how to set up a post to publish itself on a specific day.  I typed this up last night and thought I had sit it up correctly to publish itself this morning but I have just gotten home a short time ago and just found that did not happen.  I must need to more schooling to get it right.  Have a good night!  Blessings!

Vintage Inspiration Friday

It is Vintage Inspiration Friday over at Common Ground today so I thought I would show you what I use my vintage planters for.  I love using them for organizing my craft things.

The pink flower pot is a McCoy.  I actually use to keep a plant in this one but I have moved it into my craft area and keep all my decorative scissors in it now.  The green one is labeled Marietta and USA and has always been a catch all since I bought it. 

This little Scottie was actually a gift from Debra at Common Ground a few months ago.  I added the ribbon, the bow might be a little large but I think it is so cute.  I usually keep all my smaller scissors in it. 
I also use one to put my remote controls in on one of my end tables.  I bought it just because I loved the color.  It ended up being useful after all.  The bottom of this one is just marked USA 77.

Have a wonderful weekend!  Blessings!