Wishing You A Happy New Year

Merry Christmas

Remember Our Veterans

Remember, our Freedom was not Free!!  

Wishing You A Happy Easter

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE

All I need to know

I learned from the Easter Bunny!

·         Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

·         Everyone needs a friend who is all ears.

·         There's no such thing as too much candy.

·         All work and no play can make you a basket case.

·         A cute tail attracts a lot of attention.

·         Everyone is entitled to a bad hare day.

·         Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits.

·         Some body parts should be floppy.

·         Keep your paws off of other people's jelly beans.

·         Good things come in small, sugar coated packages.

·         The grass is always greener in someone else's basket.

To show your true colors, you have to come out of the shell.

The best things in life are still sweet and gooey.

May the joy of the season fill your heart.

Happy Easter!

Happy St. Paddy's Day

Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day......................

Pretty Valentine Free Patterns

I think this little wall hanging is really pretty and it's a free pattern from Janome. They also give directions for a flanged pillow. If you get busy, you could have this done for yourself and a friend. Here is the link to the Janome page to find all the particulars.  I found another freebie that looks fairly easy and quick to make. (I need to get off this computer) This one was at Cottage Quilt Designs, a fun blog to look around at her posts and patterns. Sorry, 'it' won't let me drag the tablerunner picture down here, %&%(*#)   Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope you are enjoying your Thanksgiving with your family and friends, that's what I am doing!!!  Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day............

Christmas Napkins

I sure haven't been here very often lately, but I wanted to show you the Christmas napkins that I have been making..One of the groups that I belong too is participating in a craft show so this will be my contribution for the show. The money we raise will go to our projects which in the long term will help women and families. I really like all of these napkin fabrics, I think the red/green is more elegant looking and the red/white just everyday..Sure hope someone buys them!!! And I hope you like them too.

 Sew until next time...........have a Stitches kind of day.......................

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Pat's Day to everyone and especially, Abby McFoutch...I hope you got to kiss the Blarney Stone..

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.............

We Honor Our Veteran's

Another nice postcard from Grandma's album,  postmarked April 7, 1909 but very appropriate for today, I thought.  Sew until next time, have a Stitch's kind of day...............

Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeen!!

 

I need to get geared up for all the little Goblins that I am expecting tonight. Since the weather is pretty nice, I know I will have around 175 come to the door. I just wanted to show you a few of my decorations before the day is over. Below is the little "Fascinator" that 4 of us made a week ago to wear to our quilt guild meeting that night. We were a little crazy but it was a lot of fun and others really liked it. I love my spider web tablecloth that I picked up at Marshall's too.

Griselda

 My village that I got new this year,,,it was a little extravagant for me but sometimes you just gotta do it!! And I did it!!! Not sorry either..

This is a postcard from my Grandmother's post card album, the only one that she had that pertained to Halloween. It was sent to her in 1910 with a 1-cent stamp on it.. Pretty neat, I think...Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day and a fun Halloween.....

Happy Valentine's Day

This cute little cupid card is dated on the back as 1910, amazing!!

Author Unknown I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.

This one has a date of 1909 but still just as beautiful after over 100 years.

Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day...

Happy New Year 2012

If it didn’t Bring you Joy,
Just Leave it Behind.
Let’s Ring in the New Year
With Good Things in Mind.
Let Every Bad Memory Go
That Brought Heartache and Pain.
And let’s Turn a New Leaf
With the Smell of New Rain.
Let’s Forget Past Mistakes
Making Amends for This Year.
Sending You These Greetings
To Bring you Hope and Cheer
Happy New Year!

Author Unknown

I wish you a safe, prosperous and Happy New Year!!!  Sew until next time, have a "Stitches" kind of day.....

Merry Christmas

It's going to be a great day here in Iowa, USA.  The sun is shining very bright and there is no snow on the ground or forecasted so travel will be good too.  I hope all of you have a great Christmas with your family and friends. Sew until next time, have a "Stitches" kind of day..

The Twelve Days of Christmas History Lesson

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?

This week, I found out.

From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember.

-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.

-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.

-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.-

-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.

-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.

-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching,Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.

-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.

-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol...so pass it on if you wish.'

Merry Christmas Everyone

A Christmas Postcard

Christmas Greetings from my house to yours!  This greeting is another old card out of my Grandmother's postcard scrapbook, it is literally falling apart but I don't want to try to put the cards in a new book so I handle it with care and leave it as it is..I hope to share more of these from time to time with you.  I am going to bake bread again today, the stockings are stuffed, the candy and goodies are made, at least all that I am going to do this year. It's time to get the house in order and have time to relax just a bit, and I hope you can do the same thing. Sew until next time, I best get busy and get that bread started.

My Tree is Not the Same Old Tree

My tree is not the same old tree that I have year after year..I decided that it was time to have a "themed" tree for once in my lifetime....so in September (believe it or not) I was at Hobby Lobby and they had a very good selection of ornaments and I decided I would have a silver, crystal (plexiglass), and white lights..I anxiously decorated the week after Thanksgiving and it turned out to be really glitzy and totally different for me...I like it but doubt that I will do it again next year, maybe every other year or so.   I feel so bad for all of my old family decorations, I can almost hear them crying and moaning about being left in the boxes..I missed going down memory lane when I put them on the tree. There are some very specials ones that have such memories for me and I really missed that.  I am thinking that I will have to put up another little tree and get some of the old decorations out of the box, just so I don't feel so guilty, my heart aches for them.  Does anyone else ever have weird thoughts like this??  I'm afraid that I am just going to have to do it!! In the meantime here are a few pictures of my 2011 tree, see what you think.  Maybe in a few days, I will be posting another tree with the other ornaments that are so sad, stay tuned!!!!

I think that next year I will have to have a Christmas quilt behind the tree!!!  I really like the dragonflies, they are so neat!!! And the pine cone, the cross, the swan, the bird, the heart and all the rest too!!  Gee, I think I like it better since I took the pictures!!  Well, I best go make another batch of nut brittle..I call it nut brittle because I make batches with dry roasted peanuts, cashews and smoked almonds..whoa, the smoked almond brittle is soooo good. I have made 4 batches so far and about 6 more to go..I will make a few batches every day until I'm finished.  I have GOT to quit eating it!!!!  Sew until next time, I hope you have a Stitches kind of day, fa la la, la la

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Just wanted to stop by and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you are spending the day with family and friends and thinking thankful thoughts and saying thankful prayers. Blessings to everyone!!  

Thankfull for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is beginning here for me. Two nephews are coming with their families to share Thanksgiving with my family.  One is coming from California and the other from Oklahoma, they are brothers and we haven't seen them for 5 years nor have they seen each other in that long. So we will really have a lot of catching up to do, whew, it's going to be fun. They will leave early Friday morning to drive to Lincoln, NE for the big Iowa/Nebraska game and then leave from there to go home on Sunday..we only get to see them a very short time, but we take what we get and enjoy it!!..Well, I have to close now and get ready to go to the airport, I'm really excited to see the "kids". They will all be here this afternoon.. (The postcard is a very old one out of my grandmother's postcard book)

Sew until next time, I hope you have a "Stitches" kind of day!!!