Rita Mae

Is she gorgeous or what? Completed, beginning to end, in 2 days!  Who AM I?  I never used to be this focused!
I've decided to re-do each room in the house, one at a time.  Inspired by Janet, I hope to scale down some of the 'junk' that I have collected, getting rid of things I wouldn't buy today, if I saw them in the store.  Today I've been working on my sewing room.  Got Gord to go to the lumber store to buy 2 more shelves for the closet for more efficient storage and instead of thinking it thru, I got him to buy shelves that were 12" deep just like the top one, but once he'd installed them I realized what a stupid idea not to get shelves as deep as possible.  So back to the lumber store to buy 20" deep shelves which makes much more sense.  He patiently spent a good part of his Sunday afternoon today taking the 12" ones down and then installing the deeper ones.  What an amazing husband I am blessed to have!

Santa Number ??

Can you ever have too many Santas?  I doubt it.
This guy just joined the other 35 or so distributed throughout our home.
When Gord has his grade 3 class over at the end of the school year to watch Princess Bride and make ice cream sundaes, he gets them to count all the Santas they can find.  It keeps them busy for quite a while  ;)
This is a pattern by Off The Beam, Twig Tree Santa.

Oh Holy Night...

This wool project was very quick and easy to do.  I love those kind!  When I saw the adorable sheep on the pattern, I had to make it mine.  This is another wonderful pattern by Lakeview Primitives, 2 fun sisters we first met in Houston at Quilt Market.  Love those Boston accents!

Behind the smile

 Do you ever look back at pictures of yourself as a very small child and try to remember what you were like, if you were actually as happy as your smile would suggest, or were you just covering up inside pain or insecurities?