Christmas at our House

This is a picture of 2 of my daughters. They look so cute. This is my oldest daughter.
This is my youngest daughter and my Dad. If you look on the back of the chair that is a quilt I just made. It was backed with fleece and my dad loves it because it is not that heavy for him. He had a stroke and his right side is not strong.
This is 3 generations of my family. I love my dad very much. I am truly blessed that he is still with us.

Many different views of X-mas at our house. Lyssa with her new ornament, me with me new hat and scarf made by my baby. Ashy and her Hannah Montana shirt, Lyssa and her new mermaid phone, and of course my baby and her husband.

Christmas at our house was very nice, but we did not spend near as much as we usually do. This year was special as next year my husband will be in Kuwait and we will have to wait till he makes it home to celebrate with the girls. So much will happen in this next year and we will be out of country for all of it. I turn the big 50 and 3 days later we will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary (and everyone said it would not last) and then my hubby will turn the big 60. So this will be a great year for all of us.

More UFO's

This quilt was a mystery quilt that I did many years ago and just found it. So I put some flannel on e back and will quilt it. This way it will not be that heavy.

These are some of the many UFO's I have been working on for awhile. The top one is a stack and slash that I did as a baby quilt. It turned out rather nice and I am very happy with it. Do not have a baby for it at the moment but 3 of my daughters friends are expecting so I am sure it will get a good home.This quilt above was made in my stars faze. I think that now in the white areas I will add some quotes that I have been collecting for awhile. I will use all different colored sharpie pens to add a little zip to it. This is a bull's eye quilt. They were making them on my yahoo group learningfa. I took all of my scraps and made it. It came out quite well and am very proud of it. Now I just have to finish it.

This is my cute little frog quilt.

This is my Amish barn raising.

I do hope you all like my quilts. I am so far behind in one of my postcard groups. Still have my K's and L's to make for artsnthemail. I am so sorry but with this big move and the holidays it could not be avoided. I am hoping to catch everything up with my K,L,& M's next month.

Kuwait is still a go. Michael is on meds for his diabetes and is doing good. I had an Echo stress test the other day and will get results after the holiday. I am also scheduled for a sucrose test which I hate with a passion. That stuff is gross.

Yesterday my middle daughter the chef cut her pinkie finger to the bone and had to get 4 stitches. She is in alot of pain but she missed all the tendons and nerves so that was really good. She did it cutting brocolli and it bleed so much she past out twice. She is so much like her mother. I would have passed out if I saw it.

Have made all my kids new stockings. I will put a pic when I finish up the tops. It is just a little stitching and it will be done. I made 6 of them and they are all different. Nothing exciting as I bought 2 panels last year after the holidays.

Finishing up some PC's and UFO's

This is a quilt I did with Pat Sloan on her web site. I just finished it and am very happy with it. This is the PC's I made for the Confetti swap in one of my groups. They came out better than I thought they would.

The three PC's below were made for the Laurel Burch swap. I sure hope that everyone liked the PC's.

I am sorry I have not kept up but I have been busy with my UFO's. I have backed a few of my quilts with fleece and the people I gave them to love them. They look good in the front and feel good in the back.

Progress on our journey to Kuwait

So far I have done my psych. evaluation. You have to do this to make sure you are alright to leave your life and kids. My grandkids are going to be the hardest thing for me to leave but, it is 2 years and then I will have the rest of their lives to love and watch them grow. I have ordered my passport and have an appointment to get our shots tomorrow. I still need my physical and have a call into my PCP but have not heard back from her. I am excited at the fact of going to a new country but am a little sad about leaving my granddaughters. We will have a camera hooked up to the computer so we will be able to see and talk to each other. That is a plus and thank God for all of the new gadgets.

November 22 to 24

A view of Mt. Pilot in North Carolina. Sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains

Hello to All,

I am a little behind as I went to my MIL's for the holiday. 6 hour drive on thursday and then the same on Saturday. We had some snow flurries in the morning on Friday. It was gone in a minute but while it was happening it was beautiful. Was quite beautiful in the mountains of Virginia. The ride on Hwy. 58 is breathtaking in the mountains. We have been making this drive for almost 30 years and so much has changed. My MIL lives right off the Blue Ridge Parkway and the views from her house are breattaking. I have pics above. I did a lot of hand sewing in the car and on my down time.

Today I am showing my work from this week-end. In the post before this was my Elvis PC for a swap at Art4Mail. It was a really fun swap and the ones I have recieived back are great.

The top pic on here is of PSI's I made for a F.A.T. swap. It was the letter B. So I did butterflies, buttons, beads, and bulbs. All were done in blue except my bulbs as I could not find any blue. I sure hope the people I swap with are happy with them.

My bottom pic is Circles and it was also done for Art4Mail. I did a series of different size circles and buttonholed them down. It was fun and out in the mail they went along with Elvis.

We got the results of my hubbies blood work and it was not good. He had Diabetes and his LDL and HDL are not good either so a major change in the way we eat is coming our way. I do not know if this will cause him not to get the Kuwaiti job. We have jumped thru so many hoops and I am tired. He told one of the people doing all this that he felt like he was working 2 jobs with all that we have to do to go out of country.

We are going to the Blue Ridge Mountains for Thanksgiving. It will just be my husband and I as all the kids and grandkids will stay here. We will have our family dinner on Sunday when we get back. We will go visit my MIL and get together with all my hubbies siblings except one. So it should be interesting.