First Ornament Swap!

Ok, I signed up to do my first swap about a month ago, it was a Christmas swap.

I forgot to take pictures of the ornament I made for Katie (oops...I do that a lot actually).  But she is awesome and put pictures of it up on my her blog you can see it here. I haven't been posting a lot lately because its finals week at App State which means I've lost my mind and haven't been able to find it.


But today I got my swap present!  I got an cute ornament, post card, and a bar of Godiva chocolate.  It was the perfect thing to arrive today. It really cheered me up after my Calculus with business applications Final.

Owl and Chocolate!

The cutest owl ever,
She did an awesome job making something that I love!

I haven't finished all my Christmas presents yet but I will have by Friday before I go home for break.   And maybe by Christmas I'll be able to find my mind again! And after Christmas I'll put up pictures of the gifts I made this year! 

 Remember only 11 more Crafting days until Christmas, Don't waste them!

Back in Boone...with a Christmas Tree!

My Tree! white with blue lights just like my grandmothers used to be.
I made the topper last night i'm going to do something prettier for it later on.

So I took a break from posting while I was home for thanksgiving. It was a really great week I got to spend some good time with my family. Thanksgiving was great. I did do the crazy black Friday shopping with my sisters and cousins. We started at midnight and went until 7 am Friday morning. I did get some good deals but for the most part we did it more for the experience than anything else. Sunday was my oldest sister's birthday she turned 30. For her birthday part of her present I gave her a fabric covered canvas that I embroidered her new motto onto, and a couple of other things.

the design for it I made it on paint

However, my shopping on Saturday was all about saving. My mother and I went shopping at Joann's (it may be called Joann, but I'm spelling the way I say it).  I got soooo much fabric it was fantastic. Then we went to our local quilt shop in Fayetteville, its called Quilt N'Tiques, for small business Saturday. The ladies who work there are so nice. They don't carry the type of fabric I'm usually into (they mostly carry civil war reprints) but they did have some very pretty fat quarters. And they had a sale on old quilt magazines, patterns, and books. I went through and picked out some that were interesting, my mom bought them for my stocking! Oh and I did a little cyber Monday shopping at Missouri Star Quilt Co. I am stocked up for Christmas, it's great! 

I finally got the fabric to start on the quilt I'm making for my father for christmas. it is The chasing chevrons quilt a long from that girl...that quilt. And so I have gotten all half square triangles made and four blocks out of sixty done.

          

I chose a red and grey theme so that hopefully it'll be pretty and guy-ish.

Oh, and I also got an iron from my mom! So now I don't have to use my flat iron on anything for my hair! Super exciting times. and it looks like I'm in a snow-globe when I look outside my window!

Just for Fun

Whoo this is getting hard

Ok, so I moved to Boone for college this fall. When I did this I no longer had a job and haven't gotten a new one yet (not for lack of trying). So I no longer have money to spend on new fabric like I used to. I'm starting to go through withdrawals, I go window shopping on online fabric shops planning what I would buy if I could. Its kinda pitiful but as a quilter I feel its the natural impulse to increase my stash. Anyways...the reason this was brought to my mind today was that it had been such a long time since I've bought fabric from the Fat quarter shop that they sent me a coupon to encourage me to come back. I read this email in the middle of class and honestly laughed out loud. The professor was talking about how to determine how much life insurance we should buy when we get older, so me laughing wasn't the best move ever. Oh well, he didn't say anything, so I got away this time.....

And a pic of my fun time from today

Its so pretty, its turning out so well. I guess its my Try New Thing Thursday!