Older, Wiser, (are you laughing?) and still here!

I've been busy, I had a birthday last week! It was wonderful, the whole family went out to dinner. I had such a great time.  I may be older but I don't know about wiser sometimes!  I do feel the older part!  I wouldn't go back and change a thing.  I love my life, amazing husband, wonderful kids, and terrific grandchildren!  Oh, and my parents and in-law's all great people, too.

I finally made these cute little mug rugs.  I used the tutorial from Jodi Neslon and the machine binding tutorial from Pat Sloan for the binding.  Of course, I couldn't follow the mug rug tutorial exactly how it was written (just like I can never leave a recipe alone) I always have to change something.  I added a brown tree trunk to the tree because I can't stand tree's floating in air (how do they get there?) and my mug rugs are bigger, I have bigger mugs (no laughing)!   And I added gold garland with my free motion quilting set on a tight zig-zag stitch and lots of other free motion quilting.  These were lots of fun.  They aren't perfect but neither am I!

 
I thought I would include a couple pictures of my stained glass. I made these a couple years back.  With the grand kids living with us, I have had to put the stained glass tools and supplies away so that the grand kids don't get hurt.   Stained glass has a lot of dangerous chemicals and of course glass is sharp!  We don't have a good workshop space for it that is secure at this time.  I liked doing 3-D type pieces like these but I also did panels, too. 

 I will put up some pictures of our Christmas tree soon. Here is a picture of my granddaughter singing at her pre-school Christmas performance.  Isn't she cute?

 Here's my grandson at the same performance, I love his hat because it says I believe in Jesus!  Both kids did great!

I hope your projects are all getting done.  Have a wonderful day!
Karen