Thanksgiving with Family and Mail from Friends

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with 11 at our house for fried Turkey, baked ham with all the fixin's. The long weekend was a perfect mix of productivity(sewing) and relaxing. I'm thankful that most of my family lives close enough that we can spend Turkey day together.

My nephew bathed/washed the measuring cup very well in the sink after dinner, then we all watched the Broncos lose to our rivals KC.

I also received some pretty amazing and surprising mail over the weekend. I got 2 incredibly thoughtful Birthday packages from Jessica and Carole. I apologize for the poor lighting in the pictures but it was dark out when I checked the mail and I just could not wait to open these packages.

Jessica sent me a beautiful vintage hankie with apple and pears and birds on it - so great it will get framed not cut-ever!!

Then she sent me the sweetest handmade birthday scrapbook, a beautiful needlepointed bookmark (Queen Mary will be glad it's saving her place in my current read), and a gorgeous pair of earrings made by a local artist near her.

Carole sent me a few sweet goodies from Emily at the Black Apple, a gorgeous lavender sachet ornament with a sweet little bird printed on the front, a wonderful necklace made by the talented Carole herself, a bookplate

2 of the cutest tape measures for myself and my mom and some of the most appropriate cards! ;)

Both of you wow me with your kind and unexpected generosity, you know me well and I couldn't have picked out treasures for myself that are so well suited to my personality as you both did - Thank You!

A Proper english breakfast

Oh yea we did it. we put up our tree already!

Public transportation comes to Suburbia

A weekend of Sleeping Dogs, Ponies, and Beer

Man Griswold looks how I feel today! I just had my final visit (every other week for 8 weeks) at the dentist. I pride myself on having nice teeth and taking good care of them. Now that all my "old school" fillings are new white nano technology it is pretty exciting.

There is a new Pumpkin Harvest Clutch in the shop and a new set of Ponies!
Thanks for the good feedback on the Ponies by the way. I'll be adding a new bobbies theme soon too.

Tomorrow I'll be going to vote, like I hope everyone is - I've always been so good about voting early but not this year, I'll be going on Election Day.

By the way, The picture in the previous post was taken at Sonic at about 11pm on Saturday night. My hubby and I went to a nice Irish bar a couple of blocks away for our neighborhood's Adult party. It was a great time, we met some like minded neighbors we had never previously met. I really like our neighborhood! Anyway, we drank a little too much Irish beer and a Sonic Breakfast Burrito was oh so necessary after the bar. horrible huh? LoL

Meet Penny...

Here's the newest product addition to the shop, of course you can find this set there already, 3 more sets will be going up the rest of the evening. I hope all my lovely Blog readers love Penny as much as I am! I'm loving the 'Ponytail Gal' (coined by the great Carole) at the top of the cards!

Oh check my new hair color in the picture at the shop in this listing, it's way darker than what i normally have! Red and Brown with a little blonde left!

More later darlings...Thanks for reading btw!!