Happy 16th Birthday Melissa

Melissa -- one month 

    

It's hard to believe Melissa is 16 today. After I had her I was able to quit working full time. She has kept me on my toes. :-) Happy 16th Birthday Melissa!

Pinned it, Made it! Monday

My fingerless gloves from a wool sweater, I was inspired from this pin for repurposed fingerless gloves . Back in January  I bought a bunch of wool sweaters at a thrift store and used the front and back for my wool blanket and have sleeves packed away for future projects. These were easy to make, I haven't decided if I want to add a decorative stitch around the edge.   
I'm linking up with Tammy at Country Girl at Home, check out what everybody else is making.

Swaps-- How do you plan?

So when you sign up for a swap do you start planning in  your mind what you will make? I do and sometimes I make a list, I also spend time looking for ideas on the computer. Very rarely do I ever make what's on my list, I either changed my mind or started with a project and zigged when I should have zagged but still like the final product. Below our a few projects I made for a Thank's Giving swap. The rag table mat was what I planned to make, the center where I stitched Prim Blessings was stained darker with  my coffee mixture but I forgot that I needed to wash it to help with the ragging and it's no longer dark. :-) 

I'm pretty sure this is a Tennessee Ridge pattern, I've made it before and sewed lines for the ridges and only coffee stained it. This time time I used watered down orange and coffee stain.

This turkey is based on Simply Prim's turkey , Check out her turkey, I love the one she made, I was going for simpler. I spent a lot of time googling  prim turkeys and finally made a tail piece and sewed lines up and down the tail piece. Getting the tail piece to stand and stay the way I wanted was a little crazy. I used a piece of red felted sweater for the gobbler.

The stocking -- I started out planning on making just a snowman ornament from an old quilt but it turned into the stocking.

So what about you---How do you plan out your swap making?

Christmas early!

A couple weeks ago, a friend from church gave me a box of material she had cleared out from her stash. When I opened  it at home, I was so excited!! Look at all this prim goodness.  It was like Christmas morning for me, she also threw in some prim patterns.  Debbie of  Barefoot Primitives is a blogger and has a prim store with some wonderful stichery's and more.  Thanks Debbie!

Pinned It, Made it Monday

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Source: Plain Chicken --Baked Spasanga

We had this wonderful dish the other night, four out of the five who ate it liked it, I will definitely make it again. I did make a few changes and as you can see my picture below looks quite different from the above. I only used a 16oz pkg of spaghetti, less cheese, no cream cheese or half and half, half the amount of meat.

I had cottage cheese so I used that in place of the ricotta.  This is a picture of it half devoured. 

I'm linking up with Tammy at Country Girl at Home, don't forget to check out the other Pinned It, Made it Monday.

Robin Hood

We enjoyed another wonderful play at Trilogy today, it was Robin Hood and Amy wanted a picture with Maid Marian.

I bought this old quilt at a garage sale years ago, I love the colors. We had a beautiful day in Kansas City. The weather was warm and you wouldn't imagine it was November, looks like cold weather is headed our way soon.

Happy Halloween!

We had a busy and fun night, we started at our church's T&T,  and ended the night standing in line at Chipotle's for our $2 Boorito.