Christmas~2011

This year was the same as last year....we went to my brother, Tom's for Christmas, I would love to have Christmas, but we don't have that much room to park by us, so every year some one takes a turn at Christmas! Tom had it 2 years in a roll.

Andrea and Glenn

My brother Tom and Josie

Josie had fun, she went to everyone, Isabella also loves Christmas ! We have a house full and it keeps on growing! She couldn't wait to open the presents, trying to figure out which ones where hers!

David, Amanda Josie and my Dad

Josie with my Dad, eyeing that present!

Favorite spot in the house...around the kitchen table!

Isabella playing Barbie with Aunt Sue!

My brother Marty with David

The Tree!


On the Stitching Front!
I am making a Beautician Tree for Amanda, she will be finished with school the 6th of January!

Happy New Year 2012


Mary

2 of the 5 Christmas Gifts are finished

Megan's Christmas gift!

This is a gift for my Godchild. The feet are small plastic ornaments, she loves the color purple!  I just wish I could have finished the rest of the Christmas gifts that I had planned to do this year, but I was in a slump for a few months and didn't want to stitch! Shame on me. Hoping the New Year will be better! I want to try very hard to get my Personal Sampler at least half way finished! I am finding it a bit easier now to work on it, since it was to be a gift for my husband on our 40th Wedding Anniversary. I also have 2 wedding samplers to finish, that are wedding gifts for next year!

This is page 2 almost finished.

I had to wait because the person who designed this for me added Andrea and Glenn's wedding date. Now to just get my butt in gear and stitch!

Bridge t~ Name*Flake

I got the Name*Flake  finished for a new member in our family...the wedding is set for September 22, 2012! Just need to turn it into an ornament later today! I didn't have purple beads on hand, but I did have light pink ones, so when it came time to attach them I used, dark purple floss, made them look Purple! I only had a matte color purple for the small snow flakes, which worked out well..I hope she likes it!

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and or Happy Hannukah!

                                                              Mary

Trying to get Christmas Gifts done!

Our Family picture from Andrea's wedding!

Our Family 2011
Glenn, Andrea, David, Isabella, Josie, Amanda, Miranda and me

I am working on 3 different name*flakes at the moment, 2 are for Miranda, one for her mom and one to sent to her Dad's, Yes, I am being nice as to making one for his tree, even though he is taking Andrea to court for unfit mother! The other is for my nephew's new wife, well almost new wife wedding is set for September, 2012. I wanted her to have one that matched his! Picture will come soon!

This one is done with Blues Greens

This has plaid fabric and Purples
I don't know which one I like the best! I guess I will have to wait till I get them finished and pick the best one for Andrea!

The tree is up! I didn't even want to put one up this year, I have been in a very nasty mood, and I hoping that my mood will change soon I plan on doing Christmas shopping on Monday so we will see!

Within the past week, the roof was replaced, had 4 layers of roofing paper on there, we were very lucky that the roof didn't cave in with the snow from last year! The heat went out, if the guy was to come out that evening at 8:00PM the cost was going to be $150.00 just to come out, and if it needed a part that would have been extra, so we waited till the morning and the cost was half, with the part that we needed, came to the cost of the visit after hours, just wore extra clothes to bed! Luck it wasn't that cold during the night! The last was yesterday when a pipe broke under the kitchen sink! Well, everything is now fixed! I am so waiting for this year to end, with the trouble that David had with his cars and still and the work that we needed on the house, I'm ready for the new year!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Happy New Year!

Mary