Our Christmas was busy, fun, and crazy as usual!  Lots of family and food.  We added a new decoration outside.  Electric Sex from A Christmas Story!!!

I finished another green paper-pieced block today!

Now to go work on a hand-pieced block!!!

Got two more blocks done and a few more cut and ready to sew.  First the paper-pieced block.  It's really different and the picture doesn't do it justice!

Now the hand pieced diamond.  The smallest pieces are

 3/4" x 5/16" finished.  The diamond is 4" x 7 3/4" finished.  I thought it would be hard but it's not. 

So much fun!!!

Unfortunately the holidays will interfer with my sewing but not too much.  I have a lot of greens but I can already see I need a lot more!  Now I have to clean and  get ready for Thanksgiving!



I finished reading Fantasy in Death and finished listening to Apple Turnover Murder.  Great books!  Now I'm listening to James Patterson's Worst Case and reading Stella Cameron's Out of Body and M. J. Rose's The Memorist.
I got one more quilt block done.

Here are some more pictures of the flowers in the yard.  The petunias have been blooming all winter long and are starting to fizzle out now.

I love geraniums!!!  The pink one is a peppermint geranium.

These are one of the miniature rose bushes.

These are from the big rose bush in the front of the house.  They smell great!

This bush is full of blooms!