Busy as an Elf

It is that time of year; busy busy busy.

I popped my Whoovile quilt onto the back door and I love seeing it as I take out the trash or leave the house.

My indoor Christmas plants are doing very well.

This morning I started Paper Whites.

After last years Decorating Blow Out for our party, this year I'm scaling back.  I am, however, putting out my ceramic trees in the Living Room.  I need to find the star topper for this one.

Hanna and I have planned a special winter display for the kitchen sill.    I decorate it several times a year.  The theme is Silver and Gold.  The Dollar store was a treasure trove.

We also visited the local antique mall and I found these wonderful vintage ornaments.

Thank you TJMaxx for having stemless Spode wine glasses.  Perfect to use while decorating and wrapping gifts :)   I also picked up the pretty foiled glass candle sleeve for.......wait for it........$3.99.  As Hanna said "how??"

We are planning a making a new crafty little gift this year.  If you are the first to guess what it is, we'll send you some.

I was supposed to have a special house guest this week from NJ so I planned a nice Pot Roast dinner.  She had to cancel so we had to eat it all ourselves.  Sorry Susan McD!

I posted this on IG and received many comments.  If you want to make it I used this recipe from Pioneer Woman.  The only things I changed were, adding turnips and baking it in the oven for 4 hours on 275 degrees.

Have a wonderful weekend!  I'm sure you are busy busy busy too
xo

Fun For Friday - Quilt Festival Fall 2012!

Happy Friday!

It time for another wonderful on line quilt festival brought to us by:  Amy's Creative Side.

Here is my "Poisoned Apple" quilt that I just finished.

Here is a close up of the quilting.  I extended the apple core pattern into the border quilting.  I used purple, red, green and orange thread.

Quilt Stats:
The quilt measures 52" x 56"
I hand pieced the apple core center.
Quilted by me, barb vedder
category:  Hand Pieced, Machine Quilted (home machine)

The back is pieced of various Halloween prints.  I won the largest piece from my friend, Kelly of Pinkadot Quilts.  Thanks Kelly!  It was the perfect starting point for the backing.

In this photo, it looks like it landed on a witch!  My quilt is about 55" square.  Coco is clearly interested in who's behind this quilt.

Its me in my Raggety Ann costume that I made in 1999.  It was fun to surprise the ladies at quilting yesterday. 

And finally, Dorothy decided to drop in at my haunted house and the poor thing was chased by the wicked witch of the west.  From the yard -

Through the graveyard -

To the party - oh no!  (Thanks, Sheila for the photos!)

Happy Halloween Everyone and good luck fellow East Coast friends with Sandy!!