Wishing you all a year full of joy, happiness and good health!
The top of the hutch in the kitchen. The cookie jar that the tree is in was my grandmas it didn't have a cover when I got it so it makes a perfect pot for the mini tree to go in.
Nutcrackers that were painted by my mom. She painted them for Jack.... what a wonderful gift.
The top of the hutch in the dining room.
On Christmas Eve before our guests were about to arrive I needed some kind of decoration for the kitchen island. I cut the cedar from the tree outside and placed it on the bottom of a plate. Then I took the tangerines that were in a fruit basket and sprinkled them with cranberries...the perfect decoration. It took me about 5 minutes to put together and I got so many compliments on it. See I do work best under pressure.
The dining room table before dishes.
The Christmas tree after Santa came.
The dining room table all set and ready for guests. I had the kitchen table set too but didn't take any pictures. Notice the color of the walls and the new drapes. If you look back to some of my earlier posts you can see the room with wallpaper.
That's all I have for now. I'm keeping everything up until January 6th when I have Bunco. I'm not sure we'll play Bunco...maybe we'll have game night. We played Tabu, Catch Phrase and Apples to Apples over the holidays and had so much fun I though it would be fun for the Bunco girls too.
What was under the wallpaper...
and more pink walls...
not a good color for the dining room.
The colder the weather the more I like to stitch!
I just had to share this table runner with you.
This "We Can Build" table runner is all hand stitched by me.
I made these penny rugs on the way home from our long weekend trip up north. 
I was stitching a penny rug with circles when I thought I should make something new.
I have 3 boys and this is how I get my girly fix!
Did I tell you I love shopping for fabric?
The above dolls are made from a pattern by Sweet Meadows Farms...I love her patterns!
This is my raggedy witch! I just love her hair and her little trick or treat bag.
Look at all those smiley faces!
I think it's the perfect craft to do when waiting for Jack to finish up baseball practice or lacrosse practice or piano lesson...yes, our spring is full of activities.
I thought I would try something new...
I'm always getting ready for fall...I can't believe I just said the "f" word when we haven't even seen summer yet.
But I love sunflowers and fall is my favorite season...
I thought I would make a larger penny rug in my favorite penny rug color...
I wanted to put some of my new penny rugs on ebay and when I was taking pictures I thought... Hey! I have all the colors of the Olympic Rings!
I've been watching the Olympics almost every night so I'm getting a lot of stitching done.
Enjoy your day,
I really like sitting at night and stitching but to tell you the truth...
my fingers are a little tender from not wearing a thimble.
I would really love to be sewing on my machine but it's in the shop...for 3 weeks. I have some dolls all ready to be sewn and I bought a few new doll patterns that I can't wait to try out.
So as my machine sits in the shop I will look at all the fabric sitting, waiting, longing the be sewn into some cute little dress for a raggedy doll.
I know I showed this picture before but it's the perfect "Snack Bowl" for the Super Bowl.
We have a small patch of woods in the back of our yard and the deer come to visit once in a while. I think they come all year long but I only notice them when there is snow on the ground. 
What's that? 
We had 6 deer in the yard yesterday but only three came up on top of the hill.
I hope they're eating the weeds...I really need help with the weeds.
Stop by the C&PLG Blog to see how to enter.
It's not easy finding 80-100 percent wool and when I do find it the price is up there. I hit the jackpot! I found some beautiful plaids and nice thick solids. I came home and felted it right away. Felting is the process of bonding the fibers of wool together or you could say I shrunk my fabric. I like the word felting better it just sounds so creative not like it was a mistake. Don't you just love the look and feeling of felted wool? It's so soft and aged looking like it has a history.
I made this little mitten penny rug out of a sweater that I shrunk, yes shrunk. It was my son's and I think it was worn once or twice before it was snuck in the wash and in the dryer with a several pair of jeans. 
It has taken a bit of discussion and prodding but it looks like as of February 1st the ebay group I belong to, Country and Primitive Ladies Group will be using C&PLG as the new initials you type in the search box to find our listings.
Don't you just love it when someone takes over your kitchen and makes a wonderful meal?
Thanks Jack!
