The older we get - the more we long for things to slow down.
I think I've finally accepted the part where our generation passes the torch on down to the next generation and we start filling in as a supportive role, but watching with pride and wonder as our nearing-middle-age children make it all happen.
Our holiday celebrations started out on Christmas eve with a couple of friends who came to make merry at our place.
The gents grilled steaks on the porch. We served them with baked potatoes and all the fixin's, green salad, a veggie side. Apple pie and pumpkin custard for dessert.
And the dominoes came out. A gift from our friends who said we needed our own set and now their set didn't need to travel. It was so thoughtful!
Including the handmade tile boards to hold our tiles. It was a wonderful evening shared with loads of laughter (and frustration over tiles I couldn't get rid of!) while the DVD of White Christmas played in the background and we sang along.
Something my mom painted for me back in the 1990s.
It's not a greatly in focus photo, but this wooden bracelet is one I cherish, and it comes out each December to keep my mom close to me.
While I was the one who would sew up any scrap if it stood still for long enough, she was one who would gather up wooden items at yard sales and thrift shops and repurpose them into something fun.
I love my wooden painted patchwork holiday bracelet. Especially now that her arthritis has gotten so bad that she finds it difficult to hold a paintbrush for long.
Side benefit of having company for Christmas Eve? This house got clean! LOL! We use the sliding door to my basement studio as the entry door to the house, which means that anyone coming through my sewing room would see what a mess it had become over the past several months. (My dust bunnies were reproducing..believe me.)
I like to get things cleaned and resituated between Christmas and New Years so I can start off the next year with peace, calm, and the ability to breathe a bit better in my spaces - so consider this one done.
And this awaits me today.
When I can get back to it.
I have about 30 of these units left to make before I move on to the next unit. But first I am heading over to the QPO studio to take care of any mail order that came in over the past couple of days, and settling in to get Part Seven of our Old Town mystery ready to go live tomorrow morning.
How quickly did this Friday come around? Too quickly!
I hope everyone enjoyed - and is still enjoying - a bit of holiday slow down, however, whatever your celebration tradition is.
I'm grateful for the part you've played in my life over the past year and beyond.
Quiltville Quote of the Day -
I don't know about you, but those New Year's resolutions can wait until after New Years!
Much love from my house to yours -
Somehow while clearing off my cutting table, this basket ended up in the deep window sill, and look who claimed it? I think it just might stay here for a while.
We spent yesterday at Jeff & Ashlyn's along with her 2 sisters, one of the sister's new husband (They got married right after Thanksgiving) and Ashlyn's grandpa known as Poppy. Add Casden and Grandpa Dave and myself to the mix and that made 10 of us in a very small cozy cottage of a house for brunch.
This was the first year what we did brunch, and it was wonderful! Once again, Ashlyn went all out with always too much food. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, ham, green beans, sweet potato casserole, biscuits and gravy, sausages...am I missing anything?
There were of course Christmas cookies to nibble on...and my contribution was to make yogurt parfaits, though I think everyone was too full to consume them, and they would wait to be a snack later.
We returned home mid-afternoon, and after a nap....with the house quiet and Christmas basically "over" I headed down to my newly cleaned sewing space.
More of your gifted aqua strips were waiting to be added to my string units!
This is the gift that keeps on giving, and I can't thank you enough!
I was up extra early this morning...not sure why. But I fixed my morning coffee and padded down into my extra clean creative space and began trimming up what I had pieced yesterday afternoon
Scraps too small to save. LOL!
16 comments:
You are such a blessing to so many of us, Happy New Year. Sandizier.
Wishing you a great week of sewing, rest, relaxation & sewing (😉)! TY for all you share with us! Happy New Year to you & Dave! 🇨🇦
Love the wooden bracelet and its sentimental significance.
sounds like it was a wonderful day for your family Bonnie- Thank you for the morning post to go along with my coffee before I head to my sewing space.
it's a good time to tell you how much i appreciate your postings and freebies, and quilt alongs, and everything else you share with us. it is very appreciated. i can no longer travel, but i can with you. thank you. patti in florida ( pleal@cfl.rr.com )
I'm with you on the deep clean of the sewing space to start the new year! I am binding today & then after that I will be cleaning my clutter to make space for my new Accuquilt cutter & all of it's accessories! (I just upgraded from the medium one to the big electric one.) So I will be ready to cut those triangles out for clue #6! HA! It sounds like you had a good holiday. That's a beautiful bracelet from your Mom. Many thanks for all that you do to keep the inspiration flowing. Happy quilting!! :)
A clean Sewing space! That's an achievement. Happy Day after Christmas. No need for Shopping the post Christmas sales. Like Black Friday. I am so grateful for a Quiet Christmas. We could have made the rounds, but stayed closer to home. No White stuff to go through, thankfully. You have me totally not guessing what part goes where in this mystery. I love it!
Thank you Bonnie. You are not writing into a black hole but a big grateful inspired community. I am missing pictures of Casden and Zoe and Mabel. Enjoy the slow down for a bit longer and keep on sewing!
Glad you had time to enjoy Christmas with family and friends. I LOVE the wood bracelet that your Mother painted for you. What a treasure! It looks like you have a different sewing table for your Juki than the last time I saw a photo of your studio. Probably much more ergonomic than your previous one. Can you please tell me what it is and where I can purchase one? TIA
What a treasure your bracelet is! Those too small scra0s make excellent cat beds for the kitties waiting to be adopted.
Glad you were able to spend time with friends and family this Christmas. I love the beautifully painted wooden bracelet that your Mother made for you. It looks like you have a different sewing table for your Juki than the last photo I saw of your home studio. Can you please tell me what it is and where I can purchase one?
It's a Janome table my hubby retrofitted for me. He had to add a taller platform on the bottom, and drill out the hole for my knee lift.
I actually just finished vacuuming my sewing area to keep dog hairs from jumping onto my fabrics. I like a clean sewing area too. I also like a clean house but I'm afraid it doesn't get as much attention as my sewing area lol.
Oh! Love the wooden bracelet your Mom painted for you. It's beautiful.
Nice that you're getting relaxing time at home. Thanks for all you do to help make us happy quilters. It's going to take me a little while to get back to my Old Town Mystery. I spent the week before Christmas in the hospital out of town with my husband. He had gallstones removed at first and then his gallbladder. He's home now and doing good. This week we have daughter and grandkids visiting. I'm saving clues and will get back to working on Old Town Mystery when my house gets back to normal. Enjoy the rest of your week, and Happy New Year, Jenny
Hi I didn't know that someone design fabric with golf balls on it. I will have to tell my friends quilters here in Florida the capitol of golf. Also, I been eating cauliflower almost daily and here is my to you promise I will not make cauliflower cookies LOL
I'm relatively new to your scrap quilting but would love to purchase the Ruby Jubilee quilt pattern. Is it in one of your books or can it be purchased separately? Thanks. I'm loving the mystery quilt although I'm behind but loving it anyway.
I absolutely love this new blue and yellow paper piecing project you are working on. You make me in the mood to do some paper piecing with my scraps. It would be fun if you had one of your categories for all of your patterns as just paper, piecing strings. I need a pattern and just don’t know what to make. Too much to do and so little time! Have a wonderful day.
Kathy F
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