How I spent my weekend....

Since this is what it looked like out my front window most of the day yesterday..

I decided it was a good day to hole myself up and sew all day.
I made this for my niece Claire for Christmas. One is coming soon for her sister Mady, only in different fabrics.

It's reversible...

With machine applique...

I honestly don't know which side I like better :) I love this black fabric with the bright colors on it.

I also finished this little project this afternoon.
I have no children, so my cats Sasha and Aeris are my "children". Yes, they get Christmas ornaments for the tree. Sad, maybe, pathetic, perhaps, but...hey...whatcha gonna do?
So last year I bought these little plaster ornaments, but with Jason being sick and all I never got them painted, so I finally painted them this afternoon. The other two, the ones for this year, all I had to do to them was take a Sharpie to them and put names and years on them. I bought them like they are. I have yet to put my tree up. I had kind of thought I would do it yesterday, but Claire's jumper took me a little longer than I thought it would to finish. Hopefully I'll get to it one night this week.

Saw the cutest thing today!

Today was a great day at work! I got to go shopping for Christmas decorations for the bank with an $800.00 budget!!! I about fell over when the girl I was going shopping with told me that! We came in wayyyy under that and will have a really nice tree and decorations in the bank this year. We bought an awesome 9 foot tall tree and decorations in shades of purple, gold and silver. I can't wait to see it all finished. We didn't buy a tree skirt because we couldn't find one that we liked to go with it, so we went to Mill End Textiles to find some fabric to wrap around the bottom of the tree. The girl working there was wearing the cutest jacket. It had all sorts of fabric scraps sewn to it in sort of a hap-hazard patchwork style. It was really cute! It looked like she made the fabric by sewing all sorts of rectangles and squares of different sizes to a solid color base fabric. The edges were left raw so that they could fray with washing. I SOOO want to try this! I think it would be adorable for a kid's garment of some sort.

All the shopping today really got me in the mood for Christmas decorating, so I put up the tree toninght. I will clean the house and do the rest tomorrow! I love my tree and my Christmas decorations. I have lots of red and gold and velvet ribbon and poinsettias. It is a shame no one usually ever sees them but J and I. I will have to post some pictures when I get everything done.

Finished Christmas Dress....

Got the Christmas dress finished!






I listed it at ARF (Angelic Reborns Forums). If I don't sell it by Monday, I'll list it on ebay.