For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Christmas Inspiration

It's amazing what can be done with a book...


and a little fabric...



some ribbon and wool beads...



put it all together...


and you have a beautiful finished product...




Inspiration can come from anywhere. I hope this inspires you...

About those Sock Creatures

from my last post...


Let me start by introducing you to my daughter Chelsea. She has inherited the craft/baking/sewing gene from her mom (I'm happy to say).


Can you see the gene???

I think Kelly and Chelsea (cousins) look more like the same gene pool... (Kelly has the craft/baking /sewing gene too. I'm digressing...)

I brought this book home called Stupid Sock Creatures by John Murphy. When Chelsea came home for the weekend she saw the book, loved it and wanted to make one. She doesn't mess around; soon we were both happily bumping into each other in my sewing room (I'll show you my projects in the next post)!


First Chelsea made the Creature with pink hearts , went to a movie, then stayed up until 3:00 making a second one! Where does she get the energy! She happily packed them off to college with her...

They are so cute!!! I can't wait to see what she comes up with next!

Kindness & Sock Creatures

I was listening to an audio book the other day. There were alot of good lessons in the book but the one that really stood out was this. Kindness. The idea was to start noticing acts of kindness that happen in your day. I tried it and realized that my focus became more positive. I appreciated the small kind things others do on a daily basis. An attitude of gratefulness has begun to creep in...

What do sock creatures have to do with kindness? Nothing really! Except this pair just look like they really like each other. They look like buddies, best buds, good friends. I think they would practice kindness on a daily basis. What do you think? (more on these sock creatures in my next post)!

What acts of kindness did you witness or participate in today?

Quilt Day!

Yesterday was quilt day... A group of us gets together once a month for "quilt day". I don't know how much quilting ever gets done, but we have a great time talking, eating, and catching up. It's always fun to see what everyone is working on...

Jolyn is making a cross as a Christmas gift. She is very talented. I'll have to share more of her amazing needlework with you later.

Jolyn also made this adorable pin cushion. It's made using an old zinc canning lid as the base and wool for the cushion with cute little wool flowers as the decoration. We all freaked out over it and said we had to have one! So next month we are all making them!

Debbie found a beautiful quilt at a yard sale. But at some point a huge hopscotch game was zig zag appliqued all over the back. Now she is patiently undoing the hopscotch and restoring the quilt to it's original glory. Do you think they really played hopscotch on it?

Susan is always doing something amazing....

We were (okay, I was) trying to steal this bag that Susan knitted and felted. Don't you just love it! I told you she's amazing...


I think this bag really needs to go home with me...

We celebrated Sherryl and Laurie's birthdays...


Laurie is giving Sherryl a lesson on using a needle threader. If you don't have one you should run out and get one now!!! They're fantastic...


Another great Quilt Day...

Treasure Hunting

Saturday, my sister-in-law Debbie and I did a little shopping. We found a couple of flea markets in Canby and Aurora and came home with some great treasures!

Check out these milk cans below...

Now, look at this close up. Two of the milk cans have these cool labels with the name of the farm on them. Debbie and I each took one home...

After all that shopping we got really hungry. In Aurora, they made this fabulous homemade soup and cornbread. The aroma of good old fashioned home cooking just about sent us over the edge...

There is a great salvage store in Aurora. They're a little pricey but always worth a stop. The place is packed full of gorgeous windows, doors, pillars, lighting, hardware, it goes on and on. They even decorated for halloween with old hardware...

Debbie's favorite find of the day...

Laurie's favorite find of the day....

Some of my treasures have already found a home...

Hope your weekend uncovered some great treasures too!!!