Creating Day Sunday

Yesterday I made 3 more cards so I have just one more left to make. Of course I may make more  before Christmas if the urge stikes.

Cookie Tray I'm taking into work today.

I also started baking goodies to have here at home as well as to take into work. I mixed up some Butter Cookies and the dough for those is in the fridge as it has to be well chilled before you roll them out to cut into shapes. I'll be baking those once I get off work this morning. I also made a double batch of Fluffo Brownies and a batch of Oatmeal Krinkles.

Today I am also planning to make some Chocolate Dipped Pretzels; they were a HUGE hit last year.

Then it will be sew, sew and more sewing so perhaps I will have some "peeks" of things I am working on as well.

Scott just served up an amazing breakfast so I better go eat. I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Handcrafted cards

Yesterday I worked on making the cards that I will be mailing out to friends and family. I have 4 more to make today and then I will switch back to gift making and perhaps a little baking. Here are the cards I made yesterday; sorry if they are a bit blurry.

What Scott Captured yesterday

As you could see in the previous post Scott also had a camera and took a few photos that I thought I might share with you all today...

Me with our dogs.

Thanksgiving 2011

The best part of Thanksgiving Day besides the food was Scott and my walk along the river with the dogs before the meal. It was just so refreshing to mind body and spirit.

The old locks

Train on one of the trestles

Watching the bees work

Carolina Blue Sky

Scott with Bernadette and Amelia

Sun light on a Sycamore

A Gift for me?.....

NO THANKS! Nicholas brought us a present this morning but I wouldn't let him in until he had taken care of it. The muffled MEOW gave him away. Cats are so funny sometimes.

After work today I will be stopping by my Mother-in-laws to pick up some canned cherries to make a couple cherry pies for tomorrow. And yesterday my boss asked when I was going to bring in my "FAMOUS COOKIE" tray(s) so perhaps I will be baking over the weekend as well as this afternoon so I can take a bunch of cookies in like I did last year; here is what I did last year.

Well its pouring rain so I better allow extra travel time as who knows what will happen along the way. I hope everyone has a GREAT day!

Looking for canvas....

First let me explain a little something... I AM A "FABRICHOLIC"! Somewhere in these tubs I have some cotton canvas and I am determined to find it as my dear husband wants to make a pressing board for me as a Christmas gift. So I've pulled all these tubs out of the corner so that I can go through them and find said canvas.
BUT WAIT....  the above picture isn't ALL of the tubs....

There.. now that is all of the fabric "in" tubs... we won't talk about the fabric that's actually IN my sewing room. Keep in mind that this is a 6+ year accumulation from working at Jo-Ann Fabrics. I know that I really MUST get to using this up and have no need or reason to buy anymore in my life time. These tubs are mostly apparel and upholstery fabrics the quilting fabrics live in my sewing room and they are actually getting used.

Perhaps today as I am going through these I will decide to purge the fabric that I come across that makes me say... "WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU THINKING WOMAN?" I'm sure I could find someone to take them off my hands... Thank God for Freecycle! But I may not do that just yet as I do want to sew some time today and that could take days to accomplish.

I better get started!

Ready to Mail~!

Mary Lou's Fall/Thanksgiving block

Carrolyn's Floral Block

I completed the remaining two blocks today and will be taking them to the Post Office in just a little while.

Tomorrow will be a gift sewing day and I will only be able to give little hints on here so as not to ruin any surprises.

I can hardly believe that I have just one more day home to sew... I'll have to make the most of it.

Scott and I cooked a delicious dinner together tonight... pork roast with whole cloves inserted, sprinkled with black pepper and thyme and then 1/2 cup white grape juice poured over the top and then slow roasted. Scott made some delicious seasoned collard greens that were simply wonderful and we had fresh steamed corn on the cob. I love when we cook together as the meal always turns out better than when one of us cooks alone. Must be the added love in it.

Scott has been trying to fix a computer for a co-worker this weekend and it's really given him a workout. I was sneaky and took this picture of him trying to get the front facing off the thing a few minutes ago. He says that one of the main problems it has is that it needs more memory so he has a call into a friend that sell's sticks of memory and with any luck he will get Linux installed. 

A couple days ago I was in Jo-Ann Fabrics getting some stiff interfacing for some of the gifts that I will be making and I found a wonderful book that I just had to have... it helped that I had a 50% off coupon too so it only cost me HALF. I love that!

This book has some WONDERFUL gift ideas... bath cap, unique potholders, totes and bags and all sorts of other fun stuff AND it comes with full-size patterns! If you are looking for a gift resource I can definitely recommend this book.

I guess I better get over to the Post Office; I'm hoping the machine is working tonight or I'll end up having to go back tomorrow and I am trying to avoid THAT line again this week.