sneak peak

I'm finally biting the bullet and starting an etsy sellers account

Here's a few cards I'm making just in time for the holidays.

They're blank inside and perfect a Christmas card or for an invitation for your holiday party.

I'm having alot of fun making them and I'll have them up in the next few days

Thankful

Last year and many people this year are doing this thing on facebook. everyday leading up to Thanksgiving they say one thing they are thankful for.

I participated last year and thought about doing so this year. There are far too many things I am truly truly thankful for and it didn't seem that I would be really doing them justice by doing it on facebook.

So I blog.

This time last year I was in my own little apartment with my husband preparing for Thanksgiving, the last in my Daly City apartment. I was 3 weeks from moving into my church.

You see, both my husband and I had lost our jobs and we couldn't afford to stay where you are. Our wonderful Pastor offered to let us stay there until we got back on our feet. So we did.

For 6 month's we lived there, were there for Christmas and Easter and it was quite the experience. A trial in faith that we mad it through.

So this year I am thankful for my home, my beautiful home with my own dining room and my own things. I am thankful for my kitchen. I am oh so very thankful for mine and my husbands wonderful full time jobs.

I know not to take anything for granted.

I am oh so very thankful for my God who brought my little family of two through all of this and provided when I didn't know how.

Thankful. such a small world that means oh so very much to me

Holiday season

The holidays are upon us. My busyness got worse with the start of Choir practice, but I love this time of year. Busyness and all.

I did get a little R and R before the full swings of things starts with Thanksgiving next week (next week!). I had chance to go on a Women's retreat with my church. It was at this mansion turned hotel in San Jose and it was amazing(here's a link to the website). Relaxing and the speakers were great.

We had a free afternoon Friday and what did I do with it? nap? sit by the pool or swim? read a book? Nah! Like the good fabric addict I am I went to a quilt shop that only happened to be 15 minutes away. Prairie Queens quilt shop

I had first heard about it at PIQF, they were a vendor there. Oh my goodness though it was amazing. Such a huge variety of fabrics and designers. I went there on a mission and with a new quilter. She's part of the quilt class at church and wanted to get fabric for it. She found some beautiful batiks.

I also hit the jackpot for my mission. I needed to find border fabric and backing fabric for my moms coffee quilt I started two years ago at a quilt retreat. I found just what I needed. I'm wanting to finish it for Christmas and now I'm that much closer. Best part was they were having a sale and everything was 25% off. Oh how I wish that shop wasn't an hour away.

part of the quilt top I have done

The fabric. the red is flannel for the back, the wheat kinda fabric is for the inner border and the coffee fabric is for the outer boarder

All in all it was a great weekend and I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. I just need to get my act together on that front and get my apartment ready for a house guest that will be staying with us for a week and you know actual Thanksgiving.

Ramblings

pretty flower I snagged from my neighbors bush and a pretty little green Egyptian recycled glass vase I found in Boston

Last week was busy,crazy busy. An activity almost every night after working 8-10 hours everyday busy.

It's getting to be that time of year. My favorite time of year to be precise. Combining normal holiday busyness with a new job is forcing me to get super organized. I'm learning that I currently cant trust my brain to remember to get everything done, so I write lists. I'm also completing my nifty home management binder that I first heard about here. I think it will be a very good tool indeed.

Starting this week though I don't feel like I'm at the deficit I've been running on going into the past couple of weeks.

I mostly know what I'm making people for Christmas, I just need to stay organized so I actually have time to get them done.