Hmm, well here I am.

I finished two Christmassy projects...after Christmas :) Neither of these projects were much planned.  I made a moose...I did not intend to make a moose in my spare time.  In some of the fabrics I've received was a panel with this moose's parts and dress.  I picked it up the other day while we were all lounging in the basement together.  Once I started I realized how like a doll this was and did not want to continue...but I'd already started.  Mom thinks she's cute and wants to keep her :)  The table runner also came from some gifted fabric.  There were these sets of four sewn together already.  I didn't want to just keep them or to throw them away, so a table runner it is!  All our Christmas decorations were already up and now available table spot was found, so I hung it on our cupboard.  It could have gone here too, I guess!  I added the appliqued trees to give some focal points.  My little sister had this star button that looks fabulous ato

Hmm, well the Christmas season has ended and the New Year of 2015 is upon us.  This Christmas I was very busy.  My brother and his family came for a week but due to my bosses vacation I had to work much of the time they were here.  I just never felt much opportunity to sit and enjoy the season.  However, something did strike me.   Each year we spend a great deal of time preparing for Christmas. We buy gifts, we decorate, we sing songs, we make TONS of food.  There are parties, gatherings and much more prepping us for Christmas.  Christmas is a time of preparing our hearts for the birth of Jesus Christ, who took on flesh to save us.  And now Christmas "time" is over.  What next?   I don't want to stop this fabulous build up we create!  We prep and prep and then it is just over?  Why don't we continue with the current this year?  Don't stop at the nativity, at the birth of a Savior.  I want to focus this year on following on and getting to know this Jesus, this Go