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We are nearly ready for the New Year. But there is still a little Christmas to catch up on first. In fact, we haven’t celebrated Christmas with our family yet. Our granddaughter was unwell on Christmas eve, so we had to put off our visit. We will instead catch up in a couple of days. The grandchildren are fine with that because they say it sounds like having two Christmases. That is a good attitude to have.

I made lots of cards at the start of December.

And I made lots of these tags for gifts.

I also admired ...

 Hello Quilty Friends!  Bonnie hit us with an extra clue this week.  The clue was sets of matching half square triangles (HST's).  After completing the HST's on Christmas morning, it was time to have a little fun and stage all the clues in my Christmas train.

Christmas has rolled around, and sending Christmas Greetings to you all.  It certainly was a different Christmas this year, without my beloved Robin by my side. I drove up to Kiwitea to spend Christmas Day with my daughter and her family, about a 75 min drive away.  I left home early at 6.30am and nearing the Whirokino Bridge, spanning the Manawatu River, just south of Foxton, the road was enveloped in river mist, quite a spooky feeling so dropped my speed right down.  After all, I could hardly see a thing.  Once over the bridge and away from the ...

I have a soft spot for wooden spools, and a few came into my possession when I was going through my mom’s sewing room after she died. A lot of them went into the three shadow boxes I had made several years ago, but this year, I finally got around to converting five more into Christmas ornaments.

The idea for these cuties popped up during an internet search, and I was instantly enamored. Few supplies are needed to make them, but the sticking point was finding red beads that 1) weren’t plastic and 2) weren’t bright red ...

I split my red ...

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a fabulous 2025 full of fabulous projects and fabrics.

Pale quilts would be suitable at bedtime on Christmas Eve … creating a restful place leading up to a special day.

Wishing you all a peaceful evening before a fun filled and a happy day with family and friends.

The binding is finished on 3 of the 4 Christmas table runners, two shown here.  The largest one is left to do.

There wasn't much to take photos of yesterday.  I did a load of laundry and went grocery shopping.  I ran totally out of sugar making one last batch of Norwegian Kringlas yesterday.  So far I have used 4 1/2 pounds of butter (Land o' Lakes) and 4 pounds of sugar in all of my baking.   I think I'm done baking....but I'm never sure.  I have a good assortment of snack size bags of ...

This past week, we went with friends to see the Lake Julian Festival of Lights. I love this small, drive-through light show in a small park in Arden, NC. We go most years, but I have to say I had more fun this time than ever. We listened to Christmas music, circled the route twice, and laughed out heads off at the guys popping off with comments on walking in your winter underwear, and women’s underwear.

This Christmas elf was conducting the band of three musicians from atop a mushroom. This one was animated with the conductor waving his ...

Two little great-grandsons came to visit with their grandparents yesterday afternoon.  They hadn't seen the toys I have at my house so they had fun.  They are ...

I made one more button wreath ornament for my collection, this one in blue.

The building and layering of the buttons for this one had me stumped and working in fits and starts, and it took a while to figure out why:

For the button wreaths in other colors, I had enough plain, ordinary, nothing-special buttons in a variety of sizes to use as a foundation layer on the wooden circle base. This allowed for the more interesting looking, novelty, one-of-a-kind buttons to be featured on the top layer.

Not so for my collection of blue buttons.

1. Most of the ...

Well, here we are, the last weekend before the big day. I still have a lot I want to do! Even starting early, time always seems to run out before I have done all the things on my list. Are you like that, too? Today, I’ll give you some ideas for those last minute needs with easy solutions to make Christmas more relaxed. Most of these are fun things that I enjoy like baking cookies, making cards and visiting with friends. This past week, I made the Cranberry Eggnog Biscotti to go with the Fantasy Cookies, and gave the ...

I should have changed those sprays of leaves to holly leaves to make the deigns in this file look more Christmassy, and added a bit of white, but I the designs it as they are so they could be used all year round, and because I think they look like something which may have been made early last century just for the Christmas season.

The second design is my favourite of the two.

I am attempting to write a post from my Galaxy 9 tablet.  I can't figure out a lot of things so this will be short,  This snow globe is an early Christmas gift I received today.  It is snowing in the globe so that is why it's a little blurry. 

Added after the first comment, yes this is a Charley Harper snow globe.

Looks interesting and a bit weird!

A neat and tidy design, but one which looks as though I could have some fun playing with it!

I like the one above …

… and the one below.

The two designs above are both very interesting and would look great on a bed.

The last one for today would look stunning in a lot of different colour combinations.

I love the group photo … being able to see the five designs at a glance is always interesting, but these are a great combination in my never really humble opinion.

I’ve been collecting pieces for this Christmas dish set for a few years now. Each year I seem to find another piece, one more mug, a serving piece, or something. It is stoneware, and we use it almost every day through December. However, I have been making an effort to donate or sell a lot of stuff. My set of Noritake china, white on white floral with platinum rims (92 pieces!) is currently on Craigslist, although I doubt it will sell. But I want you to know, I resisted the urge to buy a pitcher listed on eBay that ...

When I saw this design I knew I needed it in my life!!! And then I decided I needed to make it for all three of our children as Christmas quilt. I have made each of them many quilts over … Continue reading →

Love the design above … a very jolly combination of Christmas colours.

Love the second design too … I think, maybe , my favourite is the first, but I may be wrong!