A Special Thanks to Jan...

from Jan's Musing.......read this post to see the GREEN bag, to sent to me. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. I read this post and never once thought the handbag was for me. She is a gem! I love Jan! NO, not just because she sent me an awesome bag. She has introduced me to Skype and we chat often. Now, I'm trying to get her on Facebook. She's so thoughtful. She even made a friend in E. With the bag was a bear for E, it seems like chocolate. You know how E gives his bears simple names, ie: Blue Bear, well now he has Chocolate Bear. lol Isn't that funny.

I've been wanting to join my local quilting guild for some time now. Well, me and Mrs. Jan was "chatting" about that and the search started. She, being..........half a world away found my local quilting guild online and read all about it. She was very interested in my county's guild and even wanted to join it herself. Thanks so much Jan!

A beautiful Tree and a great sewing day.

This is the beautiful tree outside my entrance to class. This makes it all worth showing up every other day just to see how many leaves it's lost. I love fall in NC mountains. There's nothing like it.

This is my cousin Cookie, yes, that's her name. Stop laughing!! That's not nice. Her real name is Olivia. However, she somehow obtained the nick name Cookie as a baby and it has stuck with her all these years. If someone in the family were to call her Olivia, we'll all be like "who"? She is also very crafty and has just recently taken up sewing. She got herself a machine and came to guess who for lessons? Yep, you guessed it ME. She came up last week and I showed her several things, and then today she came back with sewing machine in hand. She knows how to travel huh? We live about an hour apart. Her mom is my dear favorite aunt I speak of often. I love those gals. We started sewing at 10am and sewed till 2pm. We sent TJ out for our lunch. Not a very good picture, but she made that pillow, she actually made two. I look forward to many sewing days with Cookie.

While helping her get started on her pillows, I made this Pooh baby blanket for a girl in my class. I'm almost certain she don't read my blog. I'll gift it to her tomorrow. I hope she likes it.

Great Report Card for Evan.

He got all A's & B's......................GO EVAN!

Christmas Garland

I'm always interested in more Christmas decorations. So, I had this idea to make garland. Here's what I came up with. I do wish I would have had some red bias tape. That's what I used. This would be great for any occasion. Just have the fabric to match the theme. I like this.......off to make more.

Nothing to show.......

I've been working on several things. Still working on the string quilt, and still working on the D9P. So, I'm am sewing daily. Just not getting anything finished. Feeling very unproductive. I am doing better about staying caught up on reading the blogs. I read them on every break I get during class. (haha) Oh yeah......no test tomorrow. WOOHOOO........I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it. Tomorrow me and mom are going to see my aunt again. She only lives an hour from us and we see her at least every other week. Well, this is for her birthday and she wants us to go with her to play BINGO. OMG........I'm so looking forward to this. I'll let you all know how it goes.

I would also like to thank a few select blogging friends. You know who you are........you are such a inspiration and help to me, more than you know. There's one that chats with me (actually takes time to chat with me) and I love it, there's one that over the past few months has been helping me in the process of finding a new sewing machine, and there's those that email me often. Thanks so much!! I never knew blogging could be so rewarding. When I speak of you to my family..I'll say my friend so and so. You are all considered my friends. I love you all! Thanks again......

We have a WINNER.........

Here we go....all names in the basket....

My handsome, way to excited to help me, helper drawing a name.....

Can you read that name? GENE BLACK, Tj read it as Gene Beck. LOL I knew who it was when he said that. Yah for Gene. Email me your snail mail and I'll get these out to you Gene. I also found 3 more to add to the stack. They are from the movie Cars and too cute.

Saturday Laziness....

Yep, that's how I'm spending this wonderful, no school, no homework, no studying, kid-free Saturday. I got up at 12:30pm...................YES, you read that right. I haven't slept that late in years, I mean years. It felt so good. My cell kept ringing and beeping (for texts and calls) and I just kept on ignoring it.

I have been working on these fun, cute Capri Sun pouch bags. I have, what seems like a ton of people interested in these bags. I even had someone say I should sell these on Etsy. Well, I'm really thinking about it. I made the yellow bag the other day, and just made the red and purple on in less than an hour. I think I've finally got a simple "pattern" down pat. I've checked Etsy and there are none like this little bag. I do want to get some velcro and use as a simple closure on the bag. I also think I can sell mine for much, much less than what I've seen on there. Just not sure I want to take on anything extra right now. Maybe after Nov 25th. That's my "look forward" to date right now.

One more thing, I have one of these bags on my side bar asking for you to send me pouches like this or Kool-aid or whatever they come in. I've had a great response to that. However; everyone that has asked if I'm still taking these comes from a no-reply comment. uggghhhh So, I've not been able to reply back to those people. So....YES....I'm still taking these. If you want to send me some, email me. tonyahmay@aol.com