Today is the Day

After work this afternoon our son, Paul, and his family are heading our way.  We are so excited.  Normally we travel to their home in South Carolina for Thanksgiving, but this year they are heading our way! 

We will be celebrating our granddaughter’s birthdays tomorrow.  Lydia turned 16 earlier this month and Lauren will be 10 on Saturday.  I have posted about all the sewing I have been doing for them.  Tomorrow should be lots of fun.

A Christmas Twirl Skirt

I was going through my fabric and came across this really cute Christmas fabric.  It is Christmas green and covered with gingerbread men and candy canes.

I decided to use it to make a

A Sewing Giveaway

A friend of mine is a pattern creator and along with her daughter has created The Sewing Business Blog.  This blog is full of projects, information, product reviews, and business spotlights for small to medium size sewing businesses. 

The Sewing Business Blog is having a holiday giveaway this year.  They are giving away a pair of collectable “sarah” series gingher scissors.  You can check it out here.  The giveaway goes through November 28 and they will announce the winner on Monday November 30.

This blog is a great place for all sewing business owners to check out!  Good Luck in the giveaway.

Fruits of Our Labor

This past weekend we finally had enough lima beans to harvest.  Just a few months ago our plants were looking good and growing strong but it does take a long time for lima beans to develop in the pods.

Saturday we harvested the beans

More Sewing for the Girls

I continued sewing pajamas for our little ones this week.  The oldest of our grandchildren, Lydia, just turned sweet 16.  She likes to sleep in sleep pants and shirts so when it came time to create pjs for her I just had to make the bottoms.

Lydia loves purple so I think this will be her favorite pair.

This fabric is so cute, purple and

Sewing for the Girls

In between the Halloween rush and the upcoming Christmas rush I had a week to catch up on some sewing for our grandchildren.  The first few days I spent creating pajamas for our grandsons and I shared those photos last week.   Once the boys’ pjs were finished I began work on the girls’.

We have 2 granddaughters; Lauren almost 10 years old and Lydia 16.   I spent the rest of the week working on nighties for my young ladies.

Lauren is still young enough to enjoy the Little House on the Prairie outfits and nightclothes so I created her a couple of nightgowns with matching mop caps.

This one is pink with polar bears,

Sunday Phunnies

A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor’s office.

After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, “Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease, combined with horrible stress. If you don’t do the following, your husband will surely die.”

“Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant, and make sure he is in a good mood. For lunch make him a nutritious meal he can take to work. And for dinner, prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don’t burden him with chores, as this could further his stress. Don’t discuss your problems with him; it will only make his stress worse. Try to relax your husband in the evening by wearing lingerie and giving him plenty of back rubs. Encourage him to watch some type of team sporting event on television. And, most importantly make love with your husband several times a week and satisfy his every whim. If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely.”

On the way home, the husband asked his wife, “What did the doctor say?”

“You’re going to die,” she replied.

Sewing for the Boys

Earlier this year I came across some flannel on sale at a really good price.  It was the middle of summer and no one was thinking about flannel so I got a very good buy.  I bought enough flannel for all of my grandchildren.

This week I have been working on pajamas for my grandsons.  These will be part of their Christmas gifts from us.  Every year I make them new pjs and I am always amazed at how much they have grown!

Caleb is 11 years old and he will like these nightclothes.  This shirt and pants are covered with helicopters-a real hit with any 11 year old boy.

These next 2 are pants only because he is growing

The Rich Family

I’ll never forget Easter 1946. I was fourteen, my little sister, Ocy, was twelve and my older sister, Darlene, was sixteen. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without. My dad had died five years before, leaving Mom with no money and seven school-aged kids to raise.

By 1946, my older sisters were married and my brothers had left home. A month before Easter, the pastor of our church announced that a special holiday offering would be taken to help a poor family. He asked everyone to save and give sacrificially.

When we got home, we talked about what we could do.

Why Go To Church?

This was sent to me and it is so true I just had to share.

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained
that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.
“I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard
something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a
single one of them. So, I think I’m wasting my time and the pastors are
wasting theirs by giving sermons at all.”

This started a real controversy in the “Letters to the Editor” column,
much to the delight of the editor.

It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
“I’ve been married for 30 years now.. In that time my wife has cooked
some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire
menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this. They all
nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife
had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.

Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be
spiritually dead today!”

All I can say is AMEN!