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Wishing you the merriest of holidays
and a fantastic, creative new year.
Gerrie (gettin’ cozy with St. Nick) and Mr C
(Taken at church yesterday with a Polaroid.)
Wishing you the merriest of holidays
and a fantastic, creative new year.
Gerrie (gettin’ cozy with St. Nick) and Mr C
(Taken at church yesterday with a Polaroid.)
Tomorrow is Miss Mia’s birthday. She will be 8. Today, she and eight friends celebrated. Here, she sits, waiting for them to arrive.
The theme was “Woodland.” Steph had all the makings for little terrariums.
Here are some of the completed works ready to go home.
Kristin! Wait until you see this: Fliegenpilz birthday cupcakes!!
My daughter is such a great Mom and party giver. Mia’s favorite part was probably this: opening pressies!
Tomorrow, Mr C and I are picking her up after school. We are going downtown to go shopping and to take in the Christmas decor. Then, we will meet up with the rest of the family for sushi.
My son-in-law, Jack, made my day. He asked me if I had gotten my hair cut – yes – Well, he said he liked it!!
I got all of the Christmas Mod Log Cabin Table runners sent off to the recipients. I took these two photos, using my table. This is the one that I gave to Steph:
This is the green dupioni runner.
I have to make one more dupioni runner for myself. I love them.
Now, I have a request to all of my Blogspot blogging friends. Recently, I was only able to leave a comment with a Google id or as anonymous. Now, I see that there is a new comment pop-up thingy so that I can use my WordPress ID, but I can’t get it to work. Does anyone know the secret. Does the blog have to have the option turned on in their settings? Help me, if you can.
I read in the Oregonian this morning that Portland is second in the number of bloggers in the nation. Number 1 is Austin, Texas. I don’t think I know any bloggers from Austin. If you are reading this and are a blogger in Austin, please leave a comment and let me know.
Is this a result of global warming or a trick of Mother Nature? We have an azalea blooming in our yard.
What would you do? Spend $69 on a slip cover or buy a new sofa? We decided to give the slip cover a try. The Christmas pillows are really old. I made them from Christmas Pot Holders that I appliqued to a colorful pillow cover. The beautiful wool coverlet was a Christmas gift from Lisa a couple of years ago. This is Mr C’s office.
Project Runner continues. I did a nice decorative embroidery edge on this dupioni runner to match the decorative stitching I did in the center block.
I cut, stitched and started hand sewing bindings for the four Christmas fabric runners.
I ran out of green fabric for the runners with the green Christmas borders. So, I bound them in contrasting red fabric that was used in the center blocks. They look great.
I, who never owned and I-pod before a month or so ago, now have two. The Nano I bought did not have enough memory for all of our cd’s so I bought another one with lots more memory. It arrived today and so I uploaded all of our music and added the Christmas music which I had not imported to I-tunes, yet.
And so that is how I have been keeping busy today. Mr C, the great dad that he is, went to Steph’s today and helped her finish painting her dining room in preparation for Mia’s birthday party this week-end.
These words will pretty much describe my week-end.
In the bleak mid-winter — that just about describes today (I know, it isn’t even winter, yet!). It was dark and cold with a few snow flurries. I didn’t have time to sit by my happy light as I had to be at church early to help with the Art’s Commission ministry fair.
Yesterday morning, I had an appointment to get my hair colored and cut. I thought I said that I wanted it a little shorter. She started snipping away and the next thing I knew, yikes!, it is really short. Short would be okay, if it were a decent haircut. If I get brave, I will try to take a photo so you can see. The worst part was that Mr C couldn’t hide his dislike of it. Oh well, it will grow, won’t it? In the meantime, maybe I will just wear a bag over my head.
I feel like such a klutz. I have fallen twice in two days, both times, I was carrying my coffee travel mug. Yesterday, when I came home from my bad haircut, I slipped on the mail that was on the floor because it had been slipped through the mail slot. I hit the floor like a ton of bricks. Today, while rushing in to church with my coffee in my hand and wearing high heels, I caught my shoe in my pants leg and down I went on the concrete steps, but, I did not spill my coffee. So, tonight, I am feeling a little stiff on the left side of my body. It is a god thing that I have strong bones.
Last night, we attended the Baroque Christmas concert at Trinity. It is such a beautiful experience. I love Baroque music. The musicians and singers come from Europe, Canada and the US. The musicians play authentic Baroque instruments — recorders, flutes, harpsichord and strings. My favorite part of the concert was a section of a Christmas Cantata by Bach, sung in German. After the concert, they served Wassail and cookies.
This afternoon, I finished another dupioni table runner, and started blocks for more, using my Christmas fabrics. I still have to do the bindings on both. If I had enough to do a bias stripe, Imight try it. I liked Diane’s idea of using just a bit of the stripe. Instead, I will do a matching binding.
I made a boo boo on this one. The center block has the same fabric on the outside that I used in the border which looked weird when I put it all together. I tried to remedy the situation by doing some fancy stitching on it.
I used the same red metallic thread that I used in the quilting. I am not sure if it works; it looks better in person.
I want to make one more in dupioni, but decided to start on the Christmas fabric, for a change of pace.
I am doing production work, making several blocks at a time with strip piecing.
So there you have it — my week-end.
You have to love a day that includes museum viewing and lunching with friends and some creative time in the studio.
Today, my STASH group met at the Contemporary Craft Museum to check out the current exhibit and to do some shopping. I bought this funky little creche. It is hand carved, painted and embellished with flocking.
We then had lunch at the Park Kitchen, a few blocks from the museum. It has a very unusual menu. I had clams braised in cider with apples, onions and greens. It was so delicious.
Here we are, back row: Reva, Moi, Linda. Front row: Terry, Beth, Gale.
I loved this painting of dogs enjoying some fancy drinks.
We shared two delicious desserts. Pear Frangipane tart and a Chocolate Ginger concoction.
When I got home this afternoon, I laundered my cotton Christmas fabric and worked on the dupioni silk runner. It is all quilted and waiting for binding. These things could become addictive. I have really enjoyed the mindless piecing.
Here is a close-up. I have enough of the stripe to use for binding, but I am not sure if that is what I want. What do you think?
Tomorrow, we are going out to hunt down a Christmas tree. After school, M & M are coming to help me decorate the tree and to spend the night. Warning – cute pictures will be posted in the next couple of days.