Twisting Turning Twenty Part 2

Well, I got all of my blocks put together. It is so hard not to just keep on going once you get started. But, for me, that is probably a good thing. Sometimes I tend to get in a hurry, and then not be satisfied with the end result. I am still not sure about my fabric choices. I hope it turns out okay. This picture represents one dark square and one light square. I bet I spent 4 hours trying to pick out fabric. I can certainly appreciate those little bundles at the quilt stores. But I couldn't find one that had 20 fat quarters in it.

Happy Turkey Day!

Since I am not making dinner today, I spent the morning cutting out my blocks for my Twisted Turning Twenty Party! I don't know how this is going to look now that I have them cut out. But I guess it is too late for that one. Here are my choices.

Trash To Treasure Tuesday

My "trash" this week is a quilt that I made from old blue jeans. There are jeans that used to belong to me, my husband, my girls, my dad and even a couple of friends. The star fabric is scraps from some sewing that I did for a showroom in Columbus, Ohio. I squirrelled it away some time ago, saving it for just the perfect project. The ticking is from our "scrap" bin at the shop. Stop on over at A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words and see who else is participating this week.

I got my Swap Package!

When I got home from work today, there was a package waiting for me on the porch. It was from Heidi at Foxgloves, Fabric and Folly. Heidi was my swap partner for her Very Vintage Christmas Swap. What a great partner she was and an early bird to boot. I had so many surprises in my package. A very sweet card and a glittery birdhouse. A very nice addition to my Christmas collection.

Next, a stocking with a Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark bar in it. I love this candy, so smooth with a hint of peppermint.

This very cool tin with peppermint cocoa in it. It had this adorable little scoop for it as well. I have lots of red in my kitchen. This will be nice for those cold Indiana evenings.

Shelf stars. Just scatter them among your Christmas Decor. I think I will put them in with some of my Santas.

A couple of Santa ornaments to add to my collection.

This adorable glittery candy cane. Another favorite. Thank you Heidi. You have been a great swap partner!

Christmas Questions

I just saw this at Simple Needs. I love this idea of getting to know my fellow bloggers. Here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just post the image and answers on your blog.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrap
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial

3. When do you put up the tree? Usually, the weekend after Thanksgiving.

4. When do you take the tree down? Couple of days after Christmas

5. Do you like eggnog? Yes, I love it!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My Barbies, I still have them all!

7. Hardest person to buy for? My mom
8. Easiest person to buy for? My daughter, Megan

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, I have several small ones.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Neither, I gave it up a couple of years ago. I keep telling myself, this year, I will start again.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? ???? I can't say that I ever got a bad gift.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Rudolph

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Whenever I happen to think of it.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes! Go Green!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Everything!

16. Lights on the tree? All Clear
17. Favorite Christmas song? Can't say that I have a particular favorite
18. Travel at Christmas time or stay home? Stay at home. This comes from my childhood. My parents refused to leave the house on Christmas Day.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Yes

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Greed. It seems so many people have the "gimme" attitude.

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Ornament that my kids made.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Cheesy Potatoes.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Wow, that is a tough one. I would love to have my dad for just one more Christmas. But this is impossible. So I guess I will have to take him being with us in spirit.

Christmas Decorating

Well, it has begun. I was really wanting to wait until the weekend after Thanksgiving. But, since I am having our Homemakers Club Christmas Party here on Decemeber 2nd, I thought I better get with it. I didn't realize it was so soon. Here is the first decorating that I did.

I painted this picture several years ago. The year that I entered it in the Open Class at the fair, I won the Grand Grand Champion. I was champion over all of the Open Class Exhibits and the Homemakers Exhibits. Still one of my favorites. I have been working all weekend trying to get stuff out. I got things in their general place, now I have to go back and put in greenery and "tweak" things a bit.

My Armoire

I just finished reading a post at Donna's in the Attic about her antique armoire. It inspired me to tell the story behind my antique armoire, although not nearly as nice as Donna's.

My friend Dianne had this armoire for years. I had admired it for a really long time. They had moved into a much smaller home and she was going to sell some of her pieces. At the time, I really couldn't afford to buy it. But her daughter helped me out on that one. One day I was visiting their home, and their daughter Sarah was going to go pick up something at the store (not sure if that is exactly how it went, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it). Dianne was watching Sarah back out of the driveway and she starts saying "she's going to hit your car, she's going to hit your car". Oh come on now, quit joking. Sure enough. BANG! She scraped the entire side of the car. Well, my daughter had hit it in that general area earlier and we were going to have to fix it anyway, but she offered me the armoire for the scrape on the car. How could I resist? Now this armoire is in my sewing room. I don't have the doors, but I still love it! Isn't it beautiful?