Someone...

Someone made me cry!  LOL!  So here is the story....

Yesterday I was doing dishes and Leo started barking and I heard a knock at the door.  It was Kay, a good friend of mine.  She was telling me that her son was staying with them now.  He works away but when he isn't working he is there.  She needed to clean out a closet and stuff for him.  She brought me 2 bags of fabric.  She is a crafter not a quilter.  She said she had been saving fabric thinking that someday she would make a quilt but she said that would probably never happen.  It just made my day!!!  Look at the goodies!  There was even a purse in there that she had made but didn't like.  It just needs the handles finished.  I felt like it was Christmas.  

 She had no sooner left and there was another knock on the door so I figured it was her again.  It was the UPS guy with a package.  I was a little surprised because I wasn't expecting anything.  The return address just said, "Lowe's Home Improvement Store"  So I opened it and began to cry....

This is what was in the box....

The Jim Shore that I had mention in my post back on the 20th.  I never meant anything by it other than I loved it but it wasn't in the budget right now since we are watching every penny.  There wasn't anything in the box other than the Nativity.  I don't know who you are but I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.  I love it and it will always be cherished with memories of you.  I hope and pray that my kids always remember the kindness.  

I love Jim Shore stuff.  I only have 6 of them...now.  LOL!  I love collecting them and really enjoy looking at them.  So many different quilt designs on them.  
Kristie

Working on some hexagons...

 Have you been sewing?  I've done very little sewing the past few days.  I had an appointment yesterday so I wanted to take something with me to work on.  I didn't have any of my applique baskets prepped and wasn't in the mood for my yo-yo's so I took my hexagons.  This is my very slow project.  LOL!  It is something that I really have to be in the mood to work on.  So I got a few of them done while I was waiting.  

If you remember the other day I was talking about decorating the house for Christmas and my dreams.  My dream was to be living in this house and we are.  It is hard to decorate when the inside is unfinished, but I'm trying to do it anyway.  Hunter has been helping.    

Here is Hunter's little village.  I let him decorate and set however that he wanted and this is what he came up with.  This is in my kitchen...btw.  Do you see that he made a little thing for the sleigh to slide down?  He is creative.  I was a little excited about it too since this was the first time that I have ever had the room to set it up.  LOL!  Yep!  I bought these several years ago and never had the space to display them, but I knew someday that I would have.  

We have a couple of special buildings.  This one is "Drew's Bicycle Shop"  I bought this one for Andrew.  

This one is "Hunter's Lodge" and of course it was bought for Hunter.  

 I've not bought any new decorations this year, just using what I have.  Here is the dining table...

 One of the things that bothered me about decorating was that I had big dreams of decorating my banisters and balcony area.  Well, since I don't have my banisters up yet, I just had to get a little creative.  Thanks to a friend that gave me the idea, I got a few of my Longaberger baskets out and cut apart an old Christmas tree, added some bulbs and gold picks.  

 Oh, I can't wait to get my banisters and trim finished....someday.

Here is the top of the entertainment center.  Can you tell that those are 2, 3ft Christmas trees on their sides?  :)  

Leo wanted to help too.  Actually, he doesn't even try to bother any of the Christmas decorations.  

He is still on medication for diarrhea, but it is a little bit better.  Still not where it should be but better than what it was.  He has put on 4lbs since we got him.  You can still see his backbone and ribs but nothing like you could when we got him. I'll do a before and after later.  

 I haven't put my tree up yet.  I plan on putting it in the corner to the left of the entertainment center.  I haven't found my ribbon yet so that is why it isn't up yet.  I have a small round coffee table that I plan on sitting it on top of, that should make it a little taller.  

My sewing room looks like a bomb went off.  I have 8 big totes of Christmas decor pulled out in my sewing room.  I'm trying to sort though and pull out what I want to use for this year.  

Mom will be flying home on Friday night, so I'm super excited about that.  She wasn't home for Thanksgiving but she will be for Christmas!!!  That makes me very happy!  
Kristie

After Thanksgiving Sewing

 I've been resting up the past couple of days since Thanksgiving.  We had 22 people here for dinner and I am soooooo tired.  As soon as everyone left I fell asleep on the couch.  Since then I haven't been doing anything other than what I have to.  :)  I have been sewing a little bit too.

I'm sure like a million other people I have started on Bonnie's mystery quilt!  I was so excited about this one since I didn't get to make the one last year.  

Here are my strips sewn together for my 4 patches.  

Here is my basket of twosies. 

My pile of 4 patches that need to be pressed...

I started pressing them but didn't get them all finished.  I figure I will just keep that basket by the ironing board and press a few at a time this week and have them all finished before step 2 comes out. Click here to see how everyone else's part one of Easy Street has turned out.   

Hunter and I spent some time in the sewing room together.  I am sitting at the treadle piecing some strings and he is in front of my at the Kenmore making a toy holster.  :)  It was a nice day.

I finally caught Andrew home and still enough for a photo.  Poor guy he works all of the time.  Last week he put in 80 hours, working 2 jobs.  His classes start back in January so he will have to drop one of the jobs.  I am proud of him but I worry that he is going to fall over from exhaustion.  He is a good boy, well young man.  I'm proud of both of my boys.  They are my world and I feel so Blessed that God put them in my life.  

 I am sooooo behind on blog reading and emails.  Giggle....I have just been too tired to do it.  I'll get caught up in a few days hopefully.  

BTW...Richard put up the door to the master bedroom and Hunter's room this morning!  That was exciting for me.  Very little thing that we get done on the house makes me very happy.  He still has to do the trim around them but I think he is just going to wait and do all of the door trims at once.  We also switched beds out of Hunter's room.  He had bunkbeds and when we moved in the house we only put up one of the beds in his room.  Then the other day Richard's 92 yr old grandmother had to get a hospital bed brought in to her house and asked if we had room for her bed in our house.  So long story short, Hunter now has a full-size bed.  At first he wasn't pleased because he said it was going to take up too much of his room but after we got it set up he liked it.  The reason that his grandmother had to get a hospital bed is because he can't turn herself over in the bed and with the hospital bed she can hold on the the rails and turn herself.  She was here for Thanksgiving and I was very happy that she was able to come.  She is very special to us.  

Okay it is 9:46pm and I'm heading to bed.  I'm tired and we have Church in the morning.  Hopefully after Church I will get to sew a little bit.  

Oh before I go read my SIL's facebook status.  I thought it was so sweet.  John is my brother and Gabe is his 4yr old son.  I thought it was precious.  John smashed his finger really bad the other day and it was all bloody and the nail will fall off then he cut another finger yesterday.  

Gabe came to John and was hugging and patting him on the back and said Daddy I'm gonna pray for you in the morning. John asked him why and Gabe said because you are getting boo boos everyday dad...lol John cut another finger today. So blessed our babies know who to ask for help. I love my little Christian family!!!