My perfect Tree

Our Christmas tree (that hits the ceiling).

Notice the tree skirt?? My G.I.A.C. gave it to me for my birthday:). i put it on as a poncho just to see what it would look like. Christmas clown is all I coudl think of.

Don't ever mess with a disgruntled reindeer.

I made those antlers for our cat Mau Mau many years ago. He looked so cute in them.

*

I have two funny stories about Emily and Ava to share.

1. The other morning when getting Emily ready for school, the lovely Ava decided to get up too. Usually I try and not make any noise and wake her because she disrupts our routine if she's awake. So she's up and in a wonderful mood (not) and while sitting at the kitchen table Emily farted and said, I farted! Ava says with a very pissy face, no I farted! And so it went back and forth with Ava getting more and more angry and insistent that she is the one that did it even though she didn't. 

*

2. While I was sewing the other day Emily was singing 

1, 2, 3 leap frogs

4, 5, 6 leap frogs

7, 8, 9 leap frogs

10 little leap frogs leap...across the road...

So I said, then they get hit by a car...

She says with all seriousness,

no, they looked both ways. 

Too stinkn cute!

Raccoon

Meet my two latest wool felt ornaments. they are from this pattern here. I didn't take a picture of the backs of these but I did continue the stripes on to the back of the tail.

It's been coooold here! About 14 degrees Fahrenheit when walking Emily to the bus stop and about 20 degrees during the day. It's really cold when it's windy. But the snow has been awesome! Driving in the snow has been OK. It's gotten Jon out of a lot of work because he's been told that they would rather have the soldiers alive for Afghanistan than hurt in a car accident:)

 

The girls had fun yesterday with their snow ball makers and brick makers. The snow ball maker was such a good buy. They make perfect, tightly packed balls.

outside

The other day I took photos of the girls for our Christmas cards. Ava was a turd the whole time.

*

Emily just got home from school and after going to the bathroom, asked where her underwear were. I told her they were probably stuffed in her pants or on the bathroom floor. Well after searching for them it turns out I sent her to school with no undies on. Mother of the year here:)

only the best fudge ever!!

oh my, this has to be the best chocolate & peanut butter fudge ever! And I made it. I've never made fudge before and i really must pat myself on the back because this stuff is the BOMB. Jenny B makes the best chocolate fudge and I will forever be grateful to her and her fudge when I was in the hospital after having Ava. She brought me a big tub full and I think I ate it all. But this is the best peanut butter and chocolate fudge! Here's the recipe and I didn't alter it one bit! Even bought parkay like she suggested.

Yes, this is more projects from the Fa La La La Felt book! I think these two are what sold me on the book. They are perfectly weird and a little creepy and super cute! But I don't like mine as much as the ones in the book. My heads are shaped a little funny. I've already altered the pattern to be a little more round for the next time I try to make these. I did an awful job at sewing the hats on. I should probably redo that...

 This is what Frank does when I sew at my desk. He usually sits behind the sewing machine but I was hand sewing so he had more room. He would sit on a bed of tacks just to be near me.

I went ahead and bought the red coat pattern from the person I originally got the inspiration from. Look at the difference in size! Which do you like better? I'm not sure myself. Jon likes the bigger one. The small one should definitely have smaller buttons.

Momma coat and daughter coat.

Did you know that I'm not a fan of the blanket stitch? I think I was supposed to do that around the coat but I just really don't like that stitch to look at and I don't like to do that stitch. I should rephrase that. I don't like the stitch USUALLY. But sometimes it's ok.

             

1st snow. This is what I woke to. It wasn't much but it snowed!!!!

And below is Ava from this morning. Still in her night-night diaper but promptly out of her shirt! First thing she did was take it off.

I'm still reading the Sword of Truth series (I'm on #9 I think) and listening to Outlander for the 100th million time. Happy Thanksgiving! We went to Ikea and then ate some roast beef with mashed potatoes but no rolls becasue I needed to save room for the pound of fudge I'm about to eat:)

Eat, drink and get loaded

Maybe a year or so ago, I saw some napkins embroidered like these. I copied, pasted and printed out the idea and put it in my inspiration folder. Well I was going through it a couple of weeks ago and decided to just do it! I found these really pretty green 100% cotton napkins at the PX for $2.5 each. The embroidery is done on my Pfaff. And in case you can't read it, they say Eat Drink and Be Merry

They were easy to make but it did take 30 minutes each napkin. My thread broke several times and the bobbin ran out several times right in the middle of a word. Also, the feed dogs didn't move the fabric fast enough a couple of times so some letters got written on top of others. So these aren't something I would sell (not that it was even something I had wanted to do) but still good enough for a Christmas present.

The ones I had seen (on etsy? flickr? I didn't save the persons info) were on linen colored napkins with red thread which I would have preferred but this was the only color my PX had at the time.

After telling the girls to put ion their night-night diapers 15 times, they came out with them on.... just like I said. I should have specified which end.

oh and look! Ava has no pants on!