Cooking up some quilting

Last week i asked for a few links of patterns and tutorials....there are enough to spread throughout the week---as we are waiting for Christmas to hit us!
To start of this week of links......
Did you see this link on the side here? to the right

It is for the Quilting Bloggers Cookbook!!!

Need something fun and new and a little different for someone for christmas?

Go get one! I did, and it is full of goodies!  You can search and print it whenever you would like + I am a sponsor!!! yay- well, actually Patchwork Posse is.

Go take a look and maybe get one for yourself.  AND:

I've got some great tutorials of my own and links to others of quick little gift ideas coming up this week!  Don't miss out on them..... so come back will ya?

oh, did ya notice the big poll to the right also? Well, that is for something i am starting this next year....fun, big changes are coming!! are you ready? So, go do it and tell me what you want to focus on for the month....i'll let all you girls know what is going on shortly- how about the week after christmas....

Starting the 26th of December I will have a

10 Day/10 Winners

for Patchwork Posse.

A lot will be going on and changing around here----

You don't want to miss out on the fun,

updates and all the new stuff!!!

Gobble Gobble...

So the day before Thanksgiving and what would i be doing?  Cooking---of course.  Isn't everyone else around here?  I happen to be making some turkeys with the kids-----yum

Apple Pies for the family parties....

Good thing Thanksgiving isn't at our home--

That would be a compressor on the dining table. Only there a couple of days---had a friend who's dad took apart their beetle bug van engine and it sat on their table for 6 months! lucky for us - the honey actually needs this for work and picked the part up for it today. phew. Still doesn't mean Thanksgiving will be here.

And lookie what i found-

Betz White designed Kleenex boxes....oh so cute! Not the price, but the box. Might have to up-cycle it into a little wrap jobbie....tissue coming out of the top. Hey, that might be actually kind of cute don't ya think?

Must hurry and use them all so i can have it in time!

sniff, sniff.

Distraction---again

I get too distracted. I say one thing and do another.....like i am going to quilt this weekend. Then....something in my mind gets attracted to something else, and just like that...no quilting.

This is what i did instead:

A bit of Stitchery....

Found here at Wee Wonderfuls.

Resting yesterday for just a minute, i heard Eliza yell out...not sure why...mermaid! Do you know what popped into my head? Oh, how about a smappy mermaid-----but of course.....


What do you think? She is missing her 'shells' and tie strap on the back. Will be making a few of these until i get it right.

Can't decide what i love the best...the tail, or the little curl in her hair.....

Jerika cooked these for us today.

Fried bananas.

Quick recipe:

heat butter in a pan. Slice bananas and fry on both sides until golden. Sprinkle with Cinnamon and Sugar. Eat. Not a bad little 'treat' for a change.

The idea of quilting has passed me by this weekend and i feel like this week too. I have a few more things i would like to 'try'. Too bad for the quilts, they will have to wait.

We had a birthday at the house too. Ammon turned 7!! We will be going to a movie tonight together and out to dinner. Fun stuff.

Handmade Christmas + extra stuff

I finished yesterday the tops to these play mats. I still need to sew them to the backs and then ---done...yay!! They are for the 2 boys. Sometimes i go a little over board--at first i thought hey, i'll make 4 but after thinking about it, sometimes less is more!! so i did 2.

The first is a water scene. There is a lot of water and a few islands with trees and of course the island in the center with the X marks the spot and a treasure chest.

The second is outer space. I found this great piece of material at Joannes and added a large sparkly white moon, a yellow planet, a big blue one off the side and a melinium falcon. It would be just the landing pad area....can you see it? Get it? ok. neither did the honey, but oh well. i am a sewer, not a space aircraft designer!! Cheese.....what do you all expect? :)

I am trying to get ahead of tomarrow- dinner and all- so i am making pies. I get all the pie crusts ready-2 and mix the ingredients for the apple insides and go to get the apples...what? where did the apples go? there is only 2 apples left? what? who?

So here it is:

I know...how could they? didn't they know? so i looked and looked and dug to the very back of the pantry and alas---i found it!! the can of pumpkin!!! So I had to roll out another vERY THIN crust for a third pie. Because nothing can be that simple- it was a monster big can of pumpkin. Mixed it all up and there. 3 pies. Now that i guess is planning for extra without even knowing it. hmmm

Last item on the get ahead for tomarrow list. HAIRCUT!!! Leave it to me to leave it to the very last minute possible- and then change haircutters, and beg the new one...please today, please.

It was soooooo worth the begging and waiting. I feel like a new gal!! My hair is FINALLY to the length that it needs to be to be a 'style'. Take a peak:

As you can see i am not a professional self portrait taker. I need to follow Boiled Peanuts cue and give it a go. Just a reminder---I am a sewer people!!!

Well- after wrapping a few things today and looking at the little piles of gifts I think i have it under control. I think I am really ready. By this time tomarrow i will be second guessing what i have of course....what else is new?

but today---- today i know it's good.