Merry Christmas, One and All!

It is indeed and beautiful Christmas Morning at the cabin!

This is a very short post, as our goal today as a family is to spend time together in the same room, not apart in our own corners of the cabin each attached to our own mobile devices and computers. 

There are favorite old movies to watch.  There is a pumpkin pie baking in the oven for tonight’s dessert – filling the cabin with spicy hints of cinnamon and nutmeg, and Christmas music is playing through the sound bar via my favorite holiday channel – James Taylor Holiday.

A family funny – did you catch that the presents are wrapped using electrical tape to hold the paper on?  When you live this remotely, it isn’t possible to always just go buy scotch tape.  This was The Hubster’s doing.  Whatever could be found on his work bench was what had to be good enough.

The sunrise was the best gift of the day.  Click to play:

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Yesterday was SO great – all 3 of us in festive moods working at the inn. 

Paint, like a fresh layer of snow – makes all things clean and new!

Kitchen cabinets received coat number 2. Both upstairs bathroom cabinets received coat number 1.

I'm going to need more paint!  But not today.  Today is for relaxing and reflection and just BEING, not doing.

While I worked on painting, The Hubster and son worked on setting the foundation for the wood stove hearth, And cut a required hole in the den ceiling to access some joists and stabilize where the ceiling fan will be going. It's a family affair!

More photos to come from that experience, another time, another day.

On the fun side - I got to use all of my new pots and pans and kitchen stuff and make tacos for lunch for everyone! We ate it in front of the Quilting Quarters fireplace with the fire burning. It was awesome!

Even more fun was using the dishwasher to wash up the dishes and pans.  It doesn’t take much to make this girl happy.

Some evening sewing!

I’ve been working on these behind the scenes.  The center nine-patches are from recycled shirts.  I love the timeless appeal of recycled plaid and stripes with some fun prints mixed in. 

The red triangles?  Bonus, baby!  These are all of the bonus triangles left from the making of my Hunter’s String Star quilt.  It’s a two-for-one thing.  If there is the opportunity to make bonus triangles along with the making of any project – I do it. I know I will find a place for them somewhere.

Bonus of another kind!

While these triangles were a different size – gifted to me by someone who was ready to pass them on – I made instant bonus of them by trimming them to the bonus 2’’ size I needed by placing the 1 1/2’’ finished line on the Simple Folded Corners ruler just above the seam line to allow for pressing, the height of the seam and the turn of the cloth and simply trimmed 2 sides before pressing and removing dog ears.  These will be used in this project, too.  I cleared out a cupboard, re-purposed some triangles that were not the right size, used up a bunch of bonus triangles easily in this project while digging into my strip bins of recycled fabrics – SO MUCH FUN!

Sadie memories – 7 years ago!

However you spend your Christmas day, may it be softened and warmed by thoughts of those you love, of things you are grateful for.

It takes just as much effort to think of something positive as it does something negative.  Which one has better benefits?

Quiltville Quote of the Day.

Merry Christmas, my friends!