nasty cold

I just want everyone to see how cold it is.....

and will be today!

.....but that record is nothing.....

while taking the big guy down to work, they had 30 below on the car's thermometer!!

One last Christmas celebration today with tractor joe's family. I started putting away Christmas stuff this morning.

12-27-09 (last Sunday)

Carolina Christmas....

To border this is not........ We are off to Des Moines! Gwen is there!

Christmas Day fun....

we didn't need to go anywhere for Christmas Day. We stayed home due to winter weather.

This worked out well.

I loved it!

I ended up scrapbooking for a 3x3 mini-book.

I spread out all over the living room floor....

going through scraps of papers....

cutting letters for words....

punching squares and shapes The blue arrow is on the actual book....so small and sweet. I love that HO HO HO.

I added the blue lines to seperate all the different elements for pages....

from here I carried it to the kitchen table and started glueing it all down.

I can only work on the floor so long.

This is a gift....the person, who shall remain nameless for now, will only need to add pictures to all the blank pages I left.
....and WA-LA a small memento from this Christmas!

This book would never have happened if it weren't for the unexpected day at home. Things really worked out well.
Makes me want to scrapbook some more!!!

Christmas Eve finish.....

Two big quilts are ready to be wrapped.

We must have been in the eye of the storm this morning.

There was hardly any wind...this made hanging them

outside for pictures so much easier.

The top one is actually a birthday present for my sister who turned

50 this December.

The bottom one is for my mom, she helped lay it out one day while

she was here, a long time ago.

And then it sat in the closet waiting for it's finish.

I have never given her a big quilt... just little ones.

This seemed like the perfect year to

get it done and give it to her.

It is from the Certifiably Crazy Book by the Buggy Barn and is called...

Crazy Goose Chase

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

another snowday....

These Santas get to be in the blog today just because I think they are cute. I made the one with the white hair (the tallest one) He was in a magazine years and years ago....his hair seems to be thinning out....I still have plenty of it to add to him....someday....today I am working on binding for one last Christmas gift. ....and since I don't relish the binding process...I am stalling....doing important things....like blogging.

See the little penguin guy below??
....here's the link so you know what I am talking about.....
http://mrsmoenhowtos.blogspot.com/

I was cruising in the bloglands again.....

accused of spending to much time on the computer by tractor joe...

....but I find so many ideas that way...

anyway I thought this penguin would be so sweet done up the way she did her picture in the blog. No I haven't tried it yet. Sometimes just thinking about it is enough.

I better get busy.

the snowmen

Crispy joined some secret Santa thing at school.

He wanted to make little snowmen out of socks like we did many years ago....and give them away.....okay, he can do that.....

Except.....

He left me to finish after he stuffed them and wrapped the wire for the arms.....

....all that was left....attaching the face and the buttons and the hat and the mittens with the hot glue gun.

How long can that take???

I am not sure....but I was at it for quite some time.

I thought they turned out pretty cute!!!