DeepCreekQuilter: 2017

Christmas 2016

I'm not always "up" for the holidays...this was one of those years...but I did manage to make things a bit festive...and I have my rituals that I enjoy...one being watching White Christmas and quilting away in my studio:

I managed to get the tree up and the stockings hung. Apparently I'm not a Hallmark Grandmother because I only have stockings for my kids and their partners...none for the Grands!!! I'll try to remedy that by next year....maybe...

And everything got wrapped - we're headed down to Charlotte NC on the 27th to celebrate Christmas with the Grands and then Steve & Katie are coming for the New Year weekend. I'll be so happy to have all my little chickens in one place...

I got this great tee shirt:

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And the set of Hunger Games DVDs - I love watching movies while I quilt!

Birthday Flowers!

My son sent me flowers for my birthday! (I don't want to know what he did...)

Life Happens

I could whine. I kind of want to whine actually...I think it would make me happy if someone felt sorry for me a little....but at the end of the day, we do what we have to do and I'm a big girl, so let's just start blogging and pretend it's December 21st:

I'm going to retire on December 31! I've been around since the Paleolithic Era and felt a bit like the Last.Man.Standing. - everyone else I started out with had already retired. I would have been happy to just sneak off into the night but the "kids" I work with wanted to do lunch and say bye. I picked a nice restaurant near my home so I could just finish the day in sweats rather than go back to the office. I didn't want a "retirement party/present" so I decided to give THEM presents instead! I made a holiday (or in one case: winter) tablerunner for each of them. They knew I quilted but I hadn't ever even made a baby quilt for anyone ('my bad...).

Since I was mass producing, they all got the same pattern but different fabrics. On the design wall: