Happy New Year!

So it is officially the 5th of January. The 5th day of 2010. You'll never guess what I'm doing. You won't. I mean, don't even bother trying because you would NEVER guess.
I'm waiting for a train.
See. I told you! The train to take college girl back to school should have been in town about an hour ago. The latest ETA puts it in town at 2:05. Everyone else went to bed to nap. I am on the train watch. I thought it would be a good time to bring you all up to date.

Pictures in no particular order (because I don't feel like moving them all around!). The pictures are not great quality. I have no idea what is going on with that. I realize now that I didn't even take pictures of so many things. I will try to remedy that.

Some of the things I received for Christmas;



College girl knitted this hat for me on one of her Knifty Knitter looms. This is the top of it (reminds me of the lattice work of a cherry pie). Isn't it cool??

Other things I received - a Kona Cotton Color Chart (mmmmmmmmmm!), some new jammies, bobbins for my machine!, handi-bobs, a clover mini iron with attachments, a supreme slider (I can't wait to try this out!), a calendar, reed diffuser. My family was good to me!
I made this for college girl - a coffee cozy. I made one for a friend too. I used a tutorial I found online. Trying to find the link to post here and I am not having any luck. I will try to add that later.

I made these ultra long jammie pants for my son. He is 6'6.5". As many times as he tried, the pants sold at the store are never long enough.

I made this using one of Moda's Aster Manor woven plaid fabrics and the tutorial found on the Cluck Cluck Sew blog. My son made one for his girlfriend using a different plaid fabric.

This is the apron/pot holder that I made for college girl to go along with the cookbook she requested.

I finally got around to making and applying the labels to the quilts I made earlier. I used the fonts on my machine. The pink print makes the words somewhat difficult to read but I wanted to use a print used in the quilt so my options were limited.


The second of the quilts is in the dryer right now. I will take a photo of the crinkled quilts before I pack them up and mail them off. Procrastination doesn't pay. Postal rates went up on the 4th and now it will cost me a bit more to mail these quilts off to the newlyweds.

We've had a great time as a family these past 3 weeks and are sorry to see college girl head back to school. My son will start his classes back up on Monday. My hubby sprained his ankle on the 19th of December and he is still not back to 100%. He spent about 6 days on the couch with his foot elevated and when he is up he wears a big, plastic, knee high boot to stabilize his foot. My 'at home' job will actually start being at home later on today! WOO HOO!!! The training period is over, the holidays are over, so the boss is ready to move the equipment here. I am really going to like having it here so I can work on my own terms, get other things around the house done, get back to exercising. You would NOT want to see the mess I have created clearing out a space for the equipment to go. Praying that it will fit there and then cleaning up the mess will take place.

I hope to get some sewing projects going this week too. I will take some pictures and post what is on my list for January.

Praise - for the wonderful time we've had together as a family and with friends over the holidays.

Prayers - For safe travel for college girl and that her next quarter of school would go smoothly. For healing for hubby's ankle.