A New Quilt

These are some of the fabrics for a Christmas gift quilt for my sister.  I hope she doesn't mind waiting a while to receive a late present - so many projects, so little time!

New Swap

Nathalie, at wastelandwallowing.blogspot.com, has organized a "January's Stocking Swap" on her blog.
For the next year, there will be a monthly creative activity and in December we will swap the goodies with a partner.  If you are interested, please look at her January 7th posting for the instructions.  This should be fun!

Surfs Up

This was on the front page of our newspaper this morning.  Yesterday, San Diego's beaches were pounded by huge waves.

Though not the 17' waves from Friday, we saw some high surf on Saturday morning at Boomer Beach in La Jolla.

As my husband and I walked along Coast Boulevard, we enjoyed the beautiful show put on by Mother Nature.

Italian Wedding Soup

Chicken meatballs, orzo pasta, fresh spinach, veggies, grated Parmesean Cheese and a slice of rustic black olive bread.  A great recipe from Ina Garten's "Back to Basics" cookbook.

Revisiting

I shared this little quilt over a year ago and it's still one of my all time favorites.  It's 12" x 21" and I used a pattern by Susan Carlson from  "Quilting Arts Magazine".

I used batiks, gold paint, a lot of hand stitching and finished the background with free motion stitches.  What a happy fish to hang near our front door.

2012

Calendar Girl

I'm not obsessed (well, yes I am) but I can't live without a Suzy's Zoo pocket calendar each year.  These are from the last 17 years.  They are getting harder to find in the shops now, so I ordered this years online.

It took me until 2011 to get the idea of coloring the monthly drawings, so now when I open my calendar I see a pop of happiness on each page.

As we start this new year, I wish you joy, peace, health and love.