Merry Christmas

I could not let another day go by without wishing all of my friends a very Merry Christmas.
I have neglected my little blog so much this past month. Now the big day has arrived and I am so sorry to see it rush by so quickly. We have spent the day with family, our children and grandchildren. Now we are all settled down watching Christmas movies. Just relaxing and letting all the food we ate digest. LOL Hoping to still have room for another piece of that big beautiful cheesecake that is covered with strawberries. My daughter Katie's mil Lori sent it to us for a gift.
I have lots of holiday photos to upload and will do that soon. Meanwhile wanted to share these with you.
Here is an ornament that I stitched for my dear friend Siobhan. We both love the PS Santas and stitch them for each other my tree is loaded with santas she has made me over the years.

Here is a little ornament I stitched for a friend, I hope she has received it by now.

This is an ornament that I received from a dear friend Sue. She also sent me loads of candy canes to go along with it. Thank you so much, Sue.

Hope everyone has had the most wonderful Christmas. Here is a picture of my little Granddaughter Victoria singing her heart out at her Christmas Concert. It was the one of the best parts of the Christmas season...

Santa Claus has come to town...

One thing I especially love about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the arrival of good old Santa at the end of it.
I just love that I get to share these times with my daughters and their children. It's so much fun to see their excitement and anticipation. Especially with our Victoria who is now 6 years old. A perfect age. She is sooo excited that Santa arrived in New York. Today in the mall with her parents she saw a Santa and told him how she saw him in the parade on Thursday. LOL We were planning on making a family trip to NYC and to visit the Santa at Macy's the second week of December. But since she saw this one in the mall, we can't do that. So we will just avoid Macy's all together. I love that she came home so excited that she saw Santa and talked to him.
Baby Anthony is now one year old and he had a wonderful birthday.
Here he is:

Thank you all so much for your birthday wishes. xoxoxo

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I couldn't let this day go by without wishing everyone a Happy Halloween. A beautiful day for it too.
I have been missing in action due to illness. My family has all come down with the H1N1 influenza and it has not been pretty around here. We are finally on the mend but still under quarantine and not feeling our best yet. Sometimes it feels like we will never feel well again but I know we will, with time.

I made up little Halloween bags for my grandkids that are still sick and added these little ornies as well. Not much but I hope it makes up a little for not being able to go Trick or Treating.

These ornies are from Prairie Schoolers Boo to you. They are just so cute, and stitched up pretty fast. They have just a stitch count of 42 by 32. I hope to stitch every single one. Not this year though.

I found this little pillow cover almost completed and decided to finish it. This design is from 2001 and I believe that is how long I have it in my UFO mountain err pile. LOL The words are all stitched with Glow in the dark thread. I have some buttons that I am going to add to it for added decoration and it will be put away for next years decorating. After today there will be more Halloween stitching for a few months anyway. I am so anxious to get started on Christmas Stitching.

Today is our grandson Anthony's very first Halloween and we won't get to see him in person but we are thinking of him. Katie sent me a picture of him all dressed up in his little Batman costume. He doesn't like that mask over his face though, thats okay who wants to cover up that sweet face anyway.



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Hope you all have a spooky Halloween time today. I am going to be resting and probably watching scary movies on the TV.
Love to all xoxo

Me again!

Since I am off this week from work, I have been managing to get some stitching done and enjoying every moment of it.

This is Ellen Birdseye by Good Huswife. I have wanted to stitch this for a very long time and I got to thinking about it on Tuesday night. I decided to start it. It will be my what is left of vacation project. LOL I worked on it for most of the day yesterday and I just love it. I did stitch with the threads it called for but not the fabric. I had this very mottled piece from Silkweavers for a long time and decided to use it. The fabric is gorgeous and I wish I had more of it to stitch other reproductions on it. I don't know the name of it so will have to so some searching. It is beautiful though.
Today the sun is out and dare I say it might be in the 60's. Ahhh Spring.
Here are a couple of happy faces that brighten my day no matter the weather.


Have a great day!