The Holiday's Are In Full Swing

Well it's officially the Holidays now with Christmas parties and visits to see family I don't get to see too often. Yesterday was a whirl of activities and I had a lot of fun. First I was off to the Music City Modern Quilter's Guild Christmas Party. We had so much food and I of course ate too much. We had a secret santa swap and also did a dirty santa with fabric. After stealing someone's fabric (sorry Trudy) I ended up with some beautiful grunge fabrics from Moda. One of my favorites!

We had a show & tell and one of our members brought all 

these darling aprons she is making for presents. 

Leah of Burgundy Buttons models one - aren't they cute!

After the meeting Stefanie, Trudy and I went by the 

new Archiver's in Cool Springs. I'd never been into one of

there shops before and oh my what trouble I can get into in there. 

They had way too much Tim Holtz stuff and I did fall pray to 

getting a few things. What can I say. I use a lot of his

metal embellishments in my jewelry and I love his 

paper's and inks for my scrap booking

 My secret Santa was a beautiful table runner

which in now on my coffee table. 

Note my comfy chair in the background

with my pillows/quilts and knitting. 

Then I zipped home and picked up hubby and off

we went to meet up with Angel and Ian to 

head out to my Aunt's home for her annual 

Christmas dinner with her family and all my cousins. 

This was the first time they had met Ian and boy

did they have surprises for him. 

My poor Aunt Rachel's living room was soon a 

mass of paper and giggles with all the presents

they had for Ian. 

 Today I've been working on a bib necklace which I'm calling Winter Ice. 

Here are some of the components. It's going to have a lot of bling.