Ole Man Winter Has Arrived In The Bay!

I apologize for not posting the past two day, I have been busy what with my  cutting and gluing paper angels to bristol board and waiting for the glue to dry, then once again cutting out the silhouette.  Now only another 40 or 50 remain to be finished cause I ran out of the heavy bristol board.   At least the main amount of angels are ready and the tree is being put up and decorated this week.  Since our local Lions Club is sponsoring this Angel Tree project we somehow managed very nicely to pick up two of our neighboring towns, this is nice because the residents of those town are participating as well.  We are a good and close Region and many of the smaller towns and villages find ways to work together which is sorely needed in this tough financial world today.  
AGAIN my fingers are stiff to say the least but they simply cannot sit idle, there is far too much to be accomplished to meet my goals for this Christmas.  See what blew in to the Bay last night!  Yuck!!!

Snow, with a thin sheet of ice below that.  You know I dislike winter, I hate shoveling snow and scraping off the windscreen of the car whenever I must leave the house, which I must do this afternoon..
This week I meant to send you over to the Missouri Star Quilt Co., there you will see a wonderful tutorial on making two wonderful Christmas tablerunners.  Then there is also a video tutorial on You Tube for a beautiful ornament to make from left over strips.
Keeping the Christmas ornament theme today I also found this wonderful "Polish Star" ornament video tutorial for those of us who also enjoy paper crafts.  This video is just so easy for us to follow and the results are stunning.  
If you make any item from these wonderful and easy tutorials, please share them with us, send me a picture and a brief description of yourself to mitzjidebos@yahoo.ca  and I will be so very pleased to include it in any of my blog posts.   This invitation applies to any time of the year and for any holiday occasion, so, won't you share?
I'm off, need to get in a doctors appointment for my mum, a trip to the drug store, a trip to the post office as well as the grocery store and then its off to the Chairmans' house to deliver Angels and pick up more bristol board.
Thank you for sharing your time with me this afternoon, and seeing as ole man winter has come calling today stay safe if your out and about like me today.
"Go confidently in the Direction of your Dreams.  Live the Life You've Imagined!"

The Final Fall Cleanup and A Christmas Fabric Giveaway

Last week was a very busy week around here for me, much busier than some of those beavers out there. The snow, cannot be too far behind Jack Frost because there was frost on the pumpkin this morning.  BUT what woke me was the sound of my neighbour scraping at the frost on his windshield, brrrrrrr just thinking of snow flying around outside makes me begin to think about Christmas and all of the sewing most quilters are planning these next many days before Christmas. 
Before I tell you about the CHRISTMAS FABRICS I am giving away this month, I just have to show and tell you the mess we created on our property this week!  
For the past many years this property was surrounded by trees, which we loved when we first moved here three plus years ago, but, now that the fall is almost over, and on close inspection of the rag tag looking branches and limbs, it was noticed that something was definitely eating away at their insides.  Consequently, all of the diseased trees and nuisance trees have been evicted from their nested places, cut down, unfortunately in their prime, or so we thought until we spied the hollowed limbs.  What a mess!  I hated to have them chopped down but when something is not well and won't get better then it is time to have them removed. 

Limbs and branches from the front left garden

More piled up from the back of the house

All of the climbing rose bushes were trimmed back

Now the back garden is taking shape

Hey, we can see the street corner now

There is a fence back there!

More leaves to add to the yard waste

Another pile begun

These leaves seem to be endless

The following pictures are of the piles of tree limbs, tree branches and more leaves we have waiting to be carted off the beginning of next week. 
Hopefully when Tuesday rolls around next week all of this debris will be tidied up before the bad weather decides to set in.  Can you believe it, today is November 5th and our weather here in the Bay remains absolutely beautiful, with temperatures ranging in the mid 60's by the time noon rolls around making it very nice to work outside.  I feel a but saddened by the loss of the trees and I am certain all of the birds who nested in them will find it a loss as well.  We are planning to plant  new healthy trees come spring and hopefully a nice landscaping plan will fall into place.  
 All this outside work on the grounds left little time for sewing.
BUT this morning I stole some time from the outside.  I listened to what my best friend said about that Tribble Trouble block I shared with you this week.  She was so right, it was out of color kilter, and this morning I frog stitched and reworked the blocks and this is the end result.  What do you think of it now?  Not as dark and dreary as first sewn?  I believe it looks like it was meant to now, 100% better, don't you think so too?   Thanks Els!!!

Christmas is coming, only 50 days from today which is really just around the corner!  In the spirit of the Christmas and to get you into the spirit,  I have selected FOUR count them, 4 of 9" X 44" pieces of Christmas Fabrics for you to win.  These are simply wonderful!

~Here's how to enter~

Leave me a comment and tell me what you think you might make with these wonderful  

CHRISTMAS THEMED FABRICS 

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Blog about my giveaway...make sure you leave me a comment 

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The giveaway ends on Saturday, November 12th at 11:59 (CST).

The winner will be randomly selected and announced on 

Monday, November 14th. 

Good luck everyone! 

Thanks for stopping by and visiting for awhile this afternoon.  I wish you a very pleasant day.