Time flys

The ornament I stitched for the Sit and Stitch grab bag.

It just flys. I have no idea where the last week has gone. And I still have way too much to do. Sigh.

It has been a busy week. Last Thursday evening was the holiday gathering of the sit and stitchers at my LNS. We stitched, ate all kinds of goodies. Everyone brought a desert.

And we even had an ornament grab bag. Fun, fun, fun. It was the most stitching I have managed to do in over a week!

Then I spent a bit of time over the week and weekend putting up some Christmas decorations. Everything is up now except a tree and I am planning on doing that tomorrow. Here are a few photos of some of my Christmas collections.

This is part of my Santa collection. Not the greatest picture but you get the idea.

My Mom always had a village under the tree. Some of my best memories of Christmas are watching her put up the village and being able to play with the train set that was always there. I usually set the village up on the shelves of the entertainment unit. This way Rosie can't play with it and now with Rory I wanted to be extra cautious. It should be interesting to see how he reacts to the tree.
In a corner of the dining room on top of top of the server I brought in a small live tree and decorated this one with all stitched ornaments. It is too small for lights but looks cute and festive.

Last week I also received a fabulous package in the mail. My exchange from the LHN exchange blog. My partner was Joanie of Joanie's World blog. Oh my but she outdid herself and spoiled me rotten. She not only stitched an adorable ornament but she included some wonderful extras in the package. Best of all my very first pair of Gingher scissors! And a perfect ornament for my other tree. A dog ornament that I can put a photo of Rory in! I love everything! Thank you again Joanie.

Here is her gorgeous ornament already on the tree.

This is the one I stitched for my partner, Shay. I stitched the one in this years JCS Ornament issue.

Poor Rory was so tired following me from room to room trying to "help" that he gave up and curled up in the chair to watch.

Well, I'm off to finish making my lists and working on those three more gifts I still need to stitch up. Do the finishing on a bunch of others and wrap.

Until next time........................

Love and stitches

Kathy

and licks from Rory too