Christmas

Stitching

Very happy with the progress I made on "Special Delivery".

Christmas Eve

Another first for 2010...We celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve.
Kayden with the stocking I made for him.
Family Picture
Back row...Brandon, Bob, Dylan & Miha
Kayden, Dara and Me

Dara with her stocking goodies.

My first Christmas Dinner.

Non traditional. Fettuccine, broccoli and lemon chicken.

Kayden Christmas at my MIL.

A couple of videos of Kayden opening his gifts.

A quick update before Christmas

Beading

I made the wreath last year with the beaded ornaments, but this year I added the stars.
All the patterns and some are kits at Etsy and The Bead Coop.

Stitching

I stitched these for a friend of my Mom's they are for sippy cups. I am not happy with the pig, the colors make him look like he is sun burnt, and I have no idea why the designer would put french knots on a sippy cup. Stitching on plastic! I did the french knots when I had a thread I could snag, but there were french knots out in the open on "I LOOK", I didn't do stitch them.

WOOHOO! I finally have a finish! "Witches Stitch Too" by Homespun Elegance.

So I started on my Winter/Christmas SAL "Special Delivery" by Donna Gallagher, Creative Needlearts, Inc. He is my progress picture, below is what it will look like, when finished.

It has been a busy week, Bob left Tuesday morning for VA, but is on his way home now. Should arrive home around 2-3 am Christmas Eve. I am very happy about that. He didn't think he would be back until Christmas night.

Thought I would leave you with a picture of my last dessert I made for Christmas. Eclairs, yumm!

So Excited!

New Patterns...

All made with size 11 and 15 seed beads and right angle weave method.

This weeks new patterns can be found at my Etsy shop or The Bead Coop.

Buttons & Bows Chocker

Circle & Ruffle Earrings

Buttons & Bows Bracelet

Ruffle Necklace

Circle & Ruffle Rings

Embracing Circles Bracelet

Somehow, I forgot to add my Diamond Link Bracelet Pattern to my Etsy shop, but it is there now.

Dreams...

I have had two "FAT" dreams in less then a month, when I put this on facebook

This is what I found out...Fat To dream of being fat often means you are feeling guilty about having done something you shouldn't. If you dream of someone else getting fat, you may have done so......mean thing towards them that you regret. Or, it could mean that you are jealous of the person in some way.

So, it made me think, what have I done, what was I feeling guilty about...The only thing that I could think of was... I was feeling guilty about not exercising. I had told myself that I was going to start working out at the first snow fall and I haven't.

Kayden

Kadyen spent the night last Thursday night. He normally sleeps on a blow up mattress we have, but when he woke up in the middle of the night crying, Bob put him in our bed and Bob went and slept on the couch. Kayden is quite the bed hog!

Gallery

I am so excited!!! I join the Heartland Gallery! And today I will be taking some of my bead work into the gallery!

Well, that was my week, hope your week was a good one.

Good Sunday Morning!

Special Order...

I had a request through my Etsy shop to make a purple crocheted metal necklace.

This week's new designs...

Diamond Link Necklace. I made two of them and it took all week!

The patterns can be found at Etsy and The Bead Coop.

Bob...

Tuesday, Bob left of VA and Thursday he returned home. I was out picking up a few Christmas gifts, thinking we wouldn't be home until after 8 and I forgot my phone at home. Before I could get out of the van, Dylan was at the door, telling me to call Bob. He was almost home, so I took my purchases inside and was off to pick him up.

When we got home I noticed that there were reddish spots on the carpet, so I asked him if he had anything on the bottom of his boots. He said it was VA dirt. LOL!

My 15 seconds for fame!

WNDU came to the craft show that I did last Friday and took several pictures of my table. I was happy to see that they showed one of them at the end of the clip (the gold beaded ornament). Also if you look real close, you can see me standing, to the left of the screen right after they show the t-shirts, I am standing behind a board and a sign, but yes that is me. LOL!

I bought this at the craft show, because it cracked me up! It is toilet paper that has machine embroidery on it. I am going to give it to my Mom as one of her Christmas gifts.

Monday's are the day that Kayden and I make cookies, but he came over again Saturday and wanted to make "Blue Cookies" which are sugar cookies. I was getting all the stuff out while he was playing in the living room, all of a sudden he ran in the kitchen and said "You not making cookies without me!" He is so darn cute. Here are a few pictures.

Well that was my week, I hope you had a great week too.

So, I'm Cheap!

Beading

All patterns can be found at The Bead Coop or my Etsy shop.

This weeks patterns Falling Star Earrings.

Wave Earrings - Pattern show how to make them three different ways.

Square and Diamond Earrings - Again pattern shows how to make them both ways.

Diamond Bracelet - Pattern show how to make them in three different sizes.

This one, I made for myself.

Craft Shows

This week they had a craft show where I work at and they told me to bring some of my stuff in, so I did, but nothing sold. They said there wasn't that many people show up. But it did start snowing that morning and the roads where slick.

I was at another craft show in Wawasee, the same day. This was the biggest craft show that I had done, I think there were over 100 vendors there. They did bring in alot of people, but it didn't look like they were buying that much, just a lot of looking around. I hardly ever saw anyone carrying bags with them, when they came by my table.

When I walked around the show, I found someone else selling the yarn scarves that I had showed a few weeks ago in my blog. They were selling them for $13.50!!! I sell mine for $3.00-$5.00. A lady behind me had some too. I saw her the first time at the Warsaw craft show I did, that is were I first started selling the yard scarves. This time she had made some up and was selling hers for $10.00. There was another lady selling jewelry and she had some of the metal crochet necklaces for sale, she had $30.00 and $40.00 on her necklaces, I was selling the same thing for $8.00!!!

So, after reading all the price wars there you would think that I did great at the show. Well, I didn't. I made just $6.00 over my booth price. Live and learn.

Work

Well, I had my first elevation at work and she told me that she had never given anyone such a high score. The highest you can get is 23 and I scored a 22.

Kids

Dylan's birthday is today! My baby boy is 17 years old!!! He started working at McDonald's a few weeks ago and seems to like it, but came home one night and said "life sinks, when you have to work". Ahhh, my baby boy is growing up.

Etsy

My show at Etsy picked up for the month of November had 15 sales! My normal average is 2.

Well, that was my week! I hope you had a great one.