Happy Fall!

Wow! I can't believe it has been 2 weeks since I last posted?!! I guess September is getting away from me too quickly! I have obviously not been getting any type of quilting done, but the past few days have seen an increase on that. Today I dropped the little ones at pre- school and came home with the idea of using the time to complete a project. In light of the fact I only had a couple of hours, I decided to go for some instant gratification and made a candle mat from wool. The pattern is from Bareroots- a pattern (among others) I purchased while in San Deigo on our shop hop. They are a cute line of these little penny rug wool mats- perfect for my kitchen island's candle! I used 'Nina' [ a.k.a. my sewing machine!] to blanket stitch the appliques down and did the french knots and window treatment by hand. All in all I completed the project on time and now can have a cute spot for my candles to sit! I also have the Hearts & Flowers Mat and Santa & Reindeer Mat patterns to complete so they will have to be another day!






In other news, I received a wonderful envelope from my dear Quilt Buddy this week- in it was 2 Thimble Blossoms patterns from the giveaway Camille had earlier in the month. Thank you to Stefanie for sharing her winnings with me and I would also like to extend a huge thankyou to Camille for autographing them for me! I absolutely love your patterns and your new fabric! I am going to add them to the top of my 'To Do' pile and find some yummy fabrics to make them out of! If you have not seen her Thimble Blossoms patterns please check them out as they are fabulous (as is her blog)!

Well, I am off to play some more with 'Nina' and see if I can get my Stars around the Garden top pieced and then on to some Dear Jane blocks I think! Hopefully that will mean a post or two later on...

May you always have somewhere cute to set your candles!
oh and Happy Fall!

Cara

I also wanted to say Thank you to Tracey at Flower Pebble for tagging me! I do appreciate it so to pass it on...hmm...I will say that if you have not checked out The Quilt Buddy's blog yet please pop over- she is quite creative and uses the best fabs in her projects! Otherwise, I say if you are on my blog list and would like to pass on the Kreativ Blogger award, consider yourself awarded! All of you on my list keep me inspired and I love belonging to such an amazing community!

GOODIES!

WOW! That's the word of the week! Yesterday the post lady came and on my front porch were not one but two parcels just for me! When I got inside I could not decide which one to open first. SO I decided to open Stefanie's (Quilt Buddy) first. Well to my delight it was my birthday goodies she said she was sending! Yeah! This is a pic of the wonderful prezzies all pretty....
And then.....

Oh my! The Jim Shore bear is soooo soft and cute! I had to quickly whisk him up to my Nook so my daughter would not get a hold of him. The martini glass is full of buttons and champagne bubbles, the coiled mug rug smells cinnamony good (is that a word?) and of course chocolate cookies and Homespun magazine go perfect with a cup of tea! Thank you Stefanie! And on that note I would just like to say that the blogging bug has bitten my Quilt Buddy and I would love it if you could head on over to her blog and say hello! I know that am am thankful to all of you who have been visiting me and welcoming me ( Fiona, Paula, Peg, Mar, Karen, Debbie and anyone else I missed) Thanks! : )
SO... then I get to the next parcel and I suspect it is from a giveaway that I entered over at Pincushion Diaries. Sure enough it was and what came next was the biggest surprise! See for yourself!

Not only did I get the cutest little pincushion and spool pin stuck in it, but other Mary Englebreit goodies!!! Thanks so much Mar!! This is the first giveaway that I have entered in blogland! Thank you for your kind generosity!

So now I am off to visit some other blogs and later I will be trying to get some quilting done! Thanks for visisting!
T.T.F.N.

My Lucky Day...

Hello blogland! Just sitting here enjoying the very warm weather and wanted to share my guild meeting with you. We had a great guest speaker who in the 16 months since he started quilting had completed 64 quilts! Now he has someone quilt them for him but wow! He also designs patterns... not sure where to get them but they were very cool! Also I actually won both the door prize (the little mug mat) and the raffle prize! This has been a good week for me as after my guild meeting I went to the neighborhood bunko night and won there too! I guess I should have bought a lottery ticket! LOL! Until later....
T.T.F.N