A Christmas Giveaway

After I posted the pictures from my stop at Folkart Gatherings Too in Centralia, WA, I got an email from the owner, Louann. She was pleased with the photos, asked if she could post them on her blog, and then offered a gift certificate if I wanted to do a giveaway. What a wonderful gesture on her part. It got me thinking that my 100th post completely got by me, so I thought I would add a few things to the pot.

How does this all sound? A $30.00 gift certificate to Folkart Gatherings which can be used at either of their 2 locations (Centralia or Sumner, WA) or redeemed online and… my contribution will be what you see in this picture.

There’s a 2010 Calendar, a set of winter blocks, and a bundle of 10 fat quarters from Jo Morton’s line, Stafford County.

(here’s a clearer picture of the blocks)

Now, I’m not going to make you jump through hoops by linking my blog to yours or Amazon’s or anyone else’s. In fact, I’d rather keep this between me and my faithful bloggy friends.

So, all I ask is that you tell me your favorite movie of all time (holiday or otherwise). Easy peasy, right?

I'll only take the first 18,000 who comment. Oops...that's Pioneer Woman. I guess I was dreaming. LOL (I keep trying to win a mixer from her).

I’ll do the drawing Wednesday evening!

Good Luck.

Hugs, Anne

A Tisket a Tasket – the finale

It seems appropriate that we began with a snowman and we’re ending with one.  

Are you sad to have this wonderful series come to an end?   I sure am.   In fact, I’ve decided that it won’t end now for me. 

Do you notice something missing?   Like the sashing and borders?   Well, a funny thing happened.  My order hasn’t arrived from my friendly online quilt shop.   I may have to cancel that order and try another friendlier online quilt shop.  

And, if I had put it together in the order I photographed it, it would be wrong.   I think I have May and June switched around.   So, I guess it’s a good thing my fabric didn’t arrive!  LOL

I promise to show you the finished project and, hopefully, it won’t be next Christmas.  

Thanks, Anne, for a wonderful 12 months of darling blocks.  

Folkart Gatherings Too

On our way to Seattle last week, I got to stop at my favorite country store in Centralia, Washington, Folkart Gatherings Too.   I made some purchases and got to take lots of pictures. Penny was working and she was oh so sweet about letting me take them.  

Well, guess what…the day after Thanksgiving, Mr. CnW was taking pictures and all of a sudden…no pictures on the memory card.   Somehow, all the pictures of the store and of our Thanksgiving were wiped out, gone, kaput!    We have no idea what happened, but he felt so badly about it that he asked me if I wanted to stop on the way home and re-take pictures.    Sweet, huh? 

So, I sheepishly walked back into the store and explained what happened, asking if I could start all over.    After some laughter, I got the OK.   So, here we go! 

(too bad the gas station is in the background.  If I knew more about my camera, I probably could have blurred it out.  It’s on my list of things to learn in 2010.) So, if you see anything you like, give them a call.  (not a paid advertisement…lol)

That’s not a snowman or a Santa, that’s Mr. CnW sitting in the car, patiently waiting for me. 

And luckily, this is the most snow we saw on the way home.  Whew!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.  Only 23 days till Christmas.  Yikes!

Hugs, Anne

It’s a start anyway…

Saturday I decided I better start decorating for Christmas since I’m going to be gone some in the next few weeks. It’s such a huge job so I just figured I’d tackle as much as possible this weekend. Here are some “before” pictures.

A mess you say? No kidding!

Why do we put ourselves through all this?

And finally, the shelves are empty and dusted. (the only time the house gets a complete cleaning…LOL)

You’ll have to wait for the “after” pictures since we haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving yet, but, oh heck, here are a couple of teasers.

I wanted to get the fireplace area finished first because I really wanted to see what the stockings would look like. They are the kits I got from Primitive Gatherings. I’m really happy with them.

Uh oh, this was taken before I put stuff under the candles to stagger the heights!

And a close-up. Hmm, I’m going to have to work on that 4th one getting it to hang straight. Also, too much of the light color on the left. Going to have to switch them . LOL It’s amazing what you see in pictures.

Yesterday morning we woke up to this…

What a better way to spend a Sunday than with some snow on the ground and decorating for Christmas. It actually made the chore task a lot more fun.

Oh, okay, a couple more sneak peaks.

I’ve got lots of tweaking and “phoofing” to do before you can see the rest but at least it’s a start.

And what would decorating be without my little guy, Jack, helping out.

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone. Cherish your loved ones because…you just never know...

Hugs, Anne

Liberty Star

The designer behind this pattern company is none other than the talented, sweet, generous, warm, down to earth ( that’s alot of well deserved superlatives) Renee Plains.  I bet there isn’t anyone who has met her that doesn’t feel the same way.

Her newest designs are wonderful.

 

And…she’s going to have a new book coming out in the spring through Kansas City Star publications.

Congratulations Renee.  Well deserved.