Cutting and Sewing...

 I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  We certainly did.  Lot's of fun enjoyed by all.  

A few days before Christmas I was at Walmart and found this yarn marked down to $2 because the label was gone.  I bought it and made this scarf.  Not too bad for a first time, I don't guess. 

 Here is a close up of the yarn, you can see it has a tiny silver thread through it.  The yarn is actually called, Ribbons.  I love it. 

 One of the gifts that the boys got me for Christmas was a new mat and rotary cutter!!!  I was soooo excited as my mat was in horrible condition. 

 So what's a girl to do with a new mat and rotary cutter???  Pop in Gone With the Wind and....

 Cut out 3 quilts!!!  LOL!  Yep, that's what I did.  The first two piles, I still need to cut out the background fabric for those but the third one is all colored fabrics. 

 As I started cutting, I kept telling myself that I was just cutting kits for later use as I have a million other things to finish first but I started sewing the 3rd one together.  LOL!  I know, I really should not have done that but I did.  It is called, 4 Patch Flip. 

 

 I have also been working on my Bonnie Hunter mystery too!  That's all for tonight as I will probably head to bed soon.  Richard is working tonight and the boys are in there watching a movie.  

Kristie

Hunter's Nativities...

 The house is ready for Christmas.  We've had it decorated for a few weeks but I just didn't get around to posting photos on my blog.  The boys helped with the tree.  It was a nice fun time. 

 My little Hunter loves to decorate for Christmas so I pretty much just let him take over.  Here is his little village that he set up.  As you can see he made a big hill/slide down the center so he could push the sleds down.  :)  From time-to-time I have walked by and saw a few Hot Wheels cars that have crashed there too.  :)  Silly boy! 

 He set up my Jim Shore Nativity too.  I love this one, it has such detail. 

 This Nativity belongs to Hunter.  I bought it at a yard sale still sealed in the box.  He loves it. 

 Hunter has this thing for Nativities!  He loves them and wants our big tree to be decorated with nothing but Nativities and Crosses.  We have a few but the Nativity ornaments are hard to find around here.  So our plan is to collect them over the years and maybe someday he will have his tree full of them. 

 Actually found this one on the after Christmas clearance last year. 

 Mom bought him this one last year. 

 Another clearance find...

 Our large Jim Shore Nativity that he wanted to put on top of the grandfather clock.  :)  This is another one of my favorites. 

 Our big Jim Shore Santa...

 I have several more smaller Jim Shore figurines but I didn't put them all out this year as I was just too lazy.  :)  Next year the boys and I have big plans to decorate!!!  Of course, Hunter will be on the prowl for more Nativities.  :)

Hunter was also in the Church Christmas Play and the Christmas program at school.  I have them on my video camera but can't figure out how to get them on my laptop as I can't find my software disk to load on the laptop and my desktop will not work but it had the software loaded on it.  So I guess I will have to call JVC to see if there is something that I can download online to make everything work on the laptop. 

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone has a wonderful and Blessed Christmas!!!

Sorry that I have been MIA since Thanksgiving.  I've just been really busy with the kids and stuff like that.  Not a whole lot of time to quilt, but hopefully all of that will change after the New Year.  Thanks for all of the emails sent, wondering if I was okay.  Nice to know that I was missed.  

I feel really bad that I haven't even took the time to read blogs.  I am so far behind on that.  I have on the other hand started working on Bonnie's Mystery.  I don't have all of the steps finished but I am slowly plugging away at them.  

Merry Christmas
Kristie