More Weekend Talk

Thank you all for your kind Blogoversary wishes!  It is so amazing to me that I've been at this for three whole years.  I love looking back on my older posts to see how I have grown since I started blogging.  What a trip down memory lane!

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Now, onto the good stuff.........

My four day holiday was crammed full as you all know.  One of the evenings I spent with my Mom.  My Mom is the greatest.  She is my rock and my best friend!  Recently she and my step-dad took my (step) Grandfather (who is 94) to Disney World in Florida for vacation.  While they were gone, we dog sat for them.  In return she brought us all this wonderful stuff:

There was a bowl, plates, salad tongs, corn cob holders, chip clips, chopsticks, reusable straws, a tervis tumbler for Hubby and a Tigger charm for my Pandora bracelet!  See, I told you my Mom was the greatest!

And the design inside the bowl????

Mickey heads are always cool!  But, get a load of the big picture.......

The heads became Mickey himself.  Neat, huh?  (It took my Mom the whole trip to figure that out!  It's okay Mom.....I still love you!)

Okay, okay, I know.  You want to see the good stuff, not a plastic bowl! 

Over the holiday I was hard at work (when I wasn't quilting) on this baby:

Delivering Fleurs by Homespun Elegance
Part of the 2011 Crazy January Challenge

This piece has been so much fun! It has been a quick stitch, once I got my needle smoking again.  (I can't believe that I didn't pick it up sooner.)  I worked on it again last night and all I have left are the colonial knot centers on the flowers.  Then I can add a few button wheels and Voila, I'll be one step closer to finishing this challenge.  I think that I may even make this one into a stand up instead of framing it.  What do you think?  Maybe I'll put a poll up on my sidebar and see......

I finished another piece over the holiday weekend, but I won't be able to show it since it is for an exchange that is due on the 15th.  Uh oh!  The 15th is coming up fast.  Looks like I need to get myself into a finishing mode! 

In addition to the finishig I need to do, my Birds of a Feather Mystery Sampler arrived today and now I'm itching to start that as well.  I just don't know how I'm going to get this all in!  I need to win the lottery!!!!

Happy Stitches!