Seattle...

Greg and I flew into Seattle to see my friend Amber and her family. After leaving 85 degree weather and waking up to this...beautiful. The rest of the day was sunny and we spent it checking out the city.The MarketThe fruit photo Greg made fun of me for taking!

The Ferry

After a day in the city we had to say our good-byes and head on the train....

Food, Family, Friends

Thanksgiving Weekend! I hosted Thanksgiving at my house this year and it went great. Small crowd with much of the family out of town. Good food, much to be thankful for. As we filled out our thankful for... leaves Isa put on our plates my husbands was "It's Over"! He loves it when I am the hostess. I really do have a great deal to be thankful for but will spare you my list as we each have our own.
Friday was get together with Amber and the kids day as both of our husbands were working. Have I mentioned that Amber is leaving me and going back to Washington? I am will miss her tons. So we have the girls making felt cupcake ornaments, and Amber picked the new thing for us to make.
Amber picks these really fun wallets made from laminated magazine photos. The tutorial is from Sew Liberated which is a great blog. So, basically you take these..
Cut them out..
Then ya sew 'em together.
Then you have a lovely wallet like the ones on the Sew Liberated blog. Well, if you ignore the wonky stitches, needle holes etc., it is pretty close.

What's New?

Not much...

* Kids were home for fall break all last week. I don't ever remember taking a fall break ...do you?
We stayed in town and kept busy with little things. We checked out The Riparian Preserve and went to the movies, busted out the new Batman Lego's and we had a good week.
* Ladies night hosted by my talented friend and neighbor. It was all about paper this time so we each picked what we wanted to work on. Here's the results..(Mom did the BOO hanging! Love it!)
We had a great time, lots of chatting and laughs and of course food. I brought one of my favorite dessert breads. Here is the link to the recipe, it makes two loaves...one for home and one to give away..yum! Poppy Seed Bread with Glaze!
* Seriously..but I did actually finish something! Happy Birthday (a little late) to my niece. There may be hope!

* Sewing..I seem to be doing quite a bit lately so here's a few things that have been keeping me busy: I needed to make something from something I had for a church display..so I made my daughter a skirt from a pillowcase. I thought it was cute,she of course, will not wear it. Baby Gifts:

Happy Birthday to three more nieces:These skirts are so easy. No pattern needed..just a little measuring and gathering (and sewing of course).
Now on to the next projects, the garden, yummy pumpkin bread and finishing my swap projects!

Basement Band

I'm not big into gaming but we recently picked up RockBand.. . and it's not often you get to be a hot rocker and go on tour with your husband and friends. We had some friends over the other night rockin' out in our basement. Good Times! (As long as I am not on guitar).

Oh, I also sold my first pairs of shoes. Someone's baby is about to have some hip toes.