Ending November

The month of November is almost over and I must say lots of good memories were made!! Lots of family, friends, parties, and good food. Our house was FULL on Thanksgiving Day and I  truly am counting my blessings and remembering to be thankful each day.

Don't forget to be checking out the Home for the Holidays Designer Blog Hop. Friday was Day 8 and featured Lynda Hall from Primitive Pieces by Lynda. She shared a great project and a yummy cookie recipe to try. You can find her at http://www.primitivepiecesbylynda.blogspot.com/

And tomorrow will be Day 9 featuring Jan Patek!! http://www.janpatek.blogspot.com/

What a great way to end the month of November.... remember to  print out the recipes and collect them all!!

Happy Thanksgiving 

Ok ....so here they are!!!! Birthday photos!!!!

 I know you've been waiting!!! LOL!!!! Enjoy!!

Birthday Family Photo!!

Three little monkeys!

Ready for the Birthday Girls!!

Giant Cupcakes!!

Papi makes punch!!

The girls and thier first dolly's!!

Fancy Pants made by Nana!!

Yummy!!!

Happy Hailey

Sweet Emma

Princess Olivia

Sleep over with Cousin Addison!!!

Girls Just Want to Have Fun!!!

Ok so enough of that!!

Just a quick reminder to hop over to Lisa's blog from Primitive Gatherings and enjoy the very cute design she has to share and her yummy cookie recipe!!!

I sure have had fun gathering all the recipes and wonderful projects!!!

What a delight to get to know these designers better and read about their own holiday traditions and fun!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!

(I taught Olivia how to say GOBBLE GOBBLE!!)

FOUR birthdays in one day!!!

Today, November 19th,

is my daughter Amy's 30th birthday.....

and the FIRST birthday of HER three daughters, Hailey, Emma, and Olivia!!!

 It will be a weekend of celebration for sure!! I think by the time the weekend is over we will all have our fill of cake!!! 

Karah (DDL), Addison, Lincoln and I are going to spend the day with Amy and the girls making sure they all have a fun day......followed by a big birthday celebration on Saturday for the triplets!!! It will be fun for sure!!!

Also new today...DAY 6 of the Quilt Designer Holiday Blog Hop!!! 

Check out Tracy's cute project she has for you and her yummy cookie recipe at:

www.plumcutedesigns.typepad.com 

If you missed any of the previous days of the blog hop make sure to go back and catch up...you wont want to miss any!!  Don't forget to print all of the wonderful cookie recipes to help you get started with your holiday baking!!

Home for the Holiday
 Designer Line Up:

Nov 2nd * Brenda Gervais from
http://www.withthyneedleandthread.blogspot.com/

Nov 5th * Debbie Field from
http://www.granolagirldesigns.blogspot.com/

Nov 9th * Cheri Saffiote-Payne from
http://www.quiltsbycheri.blogspot.com/

Nov 12th * Kathy Schmitz from
http://www.kathyschmitzstudio.blogspot.com/

Nov 16th * Renee Plains from
http://www.libertystar.typepad.com/

Nov 19th * Tracy from
http://www.plumcutedesigns.typepad.com/


Still to come!!!

Nov 23rd * Lisa Bongean from
http://www.lisabongean.wordpress.com/

Nov 26th * Lynda Hall from
http://www.primitivepiecesbylynda.blogspot.com/

Nov 30th * Jan Patek from
http://www.janpatek.blogspot.com/

Dec 3rd * Tara Darr from
http://www.sewuniquecreationsblog.com/

Dec 7th * Debbie Busby from
http://www.woodenspooldesigns.blogspot.com/

Dec 10th * Stacy West from
http://www.buttermilkbasin.blogspot.com/

This week we had a great time at Wooly Wednesday at Hollyhill Quilt Shoppe making acorn pincushions!!!

Happy Stitching!!!

Crazy Saturday.......

What better way to spend  a rainy Saturday than to get together and work on our WOOL CRAZY blocks!! Check out these wonderful women who are CRAZY about wool and their wonderful WOOL CRAZY blocks in progress!!!

Also don't forget to check out the free project Kathy Schmitz has for you at:

kathyschmitzstudio.blogspot.com 

and

print out her great cookie recipe!!

YES!! IT really is November!!

In my last post we were having unusually warm weather making us do a double take at the calendar!! It was a special treat to get such a nice couple of days in November....but now we have moved into full fledged November weather...Wind....Rain....Leaves.....Soggy Ground....Mud.... SNOW in the mountains and what better than a RAINBOW!!! All good things because after all it is NOVEMBER!!!

November at our house is a busy one....We have 5 birthdays to celebrate in three days!! Jeff's birthday starts us off on November 17th....followed by four more birthdays on the 19th!!  Our daughter  Amy (she will be turning 30!) and her triplet girls who share her birthday, Hailey, Emma, and Olivia, will be turning ONE!!! All the week before THANKSGIVING!!! We have lots of celebrating coming up and plenty to be THANKFUL for!!!

You know I will be wanting to take pictures of all the events to come..... so I had to go out and replace my camera that I dropped a couple of weeks ago and destroyed!!! I am liking my new camera and will be ready to snap away!!  Why is it when something breaks that something else breaks too???? My printer went out on me the same week I dropped my camera!!! They say things come in three's so I am holding my breath and hoping that the light bulb over the stove going out was my third thing!!!

The nice thing about the weather being rainy and cold is it makes a great time to stay indoors and dye wool!! I brought out the pots, heated up the stove top, mixed the colors, watched, stirred, rinsed, dried, and presto....beautiful dyed wool!!! There is just nothing like fresh dyed wool coming out of the dryer!!!

Just a reminder to stop over and visit Quilts by Cheri for day three of the Home for the Holidays Blog Hop!! She has a special small quilt pattern to share with you along with a yummy cookie recipe!!

Happy Stitching!!

Debbie

Hope your Hopping....

It's that time....time to hop on over and check out day two of the Home for the Holiday's Designer Blog HOP!!!!

If you have not done so already....take a few minutes and HOP HOP HOP on over to Granola Girl Designs  and check out the wonderful project Debbie has for you!! Don't forget to print off the cookie recipe so you have a collection of them at the end of the HOP ready for your holiday baking!!!

HAPPY HOPPING!!!!

Is it really NOVEMBER??

Everyone knows that it is November 3rd today and that it's fall....but today here in Oregon we had a high temperature of 70 degrees in town and 74 degrees an hour south in Salem!! 

 Jeff is on vacation the next two weeks...

we are having a stay-cation here at home. 

We had a nice day being out & about doing errands in the sunshine and seeing the beauty of the fall foliage!!!

No pictures to show....I actually dropped my camera on the concrete garage floor the other day.... so one of our errands was looking for a new one!! A person just cannot go without a camera for very long when you have a blog to keep up with and 5 beautiful grandchildren!!!

I am actually charging the new one right now....can't wait to try it out!!!

Tomorrow is going to be a day of dying wool here at Wooden Spool Designs!!! Another day full of COLOR!!!

The puppies are doing great....growing like crazy and so busy!!

Hope you are all having a good week....stay tuned for pictures later this week!!!

Home for the Holidays Blog Hop

Today is the first of 12 very special days of  Home for the Holidays Blog Hop put together by Stacy West of Buttermilk Basin!! Check out her blog for all the details....you won't want to miss any of the great recipes, projects, or holiday cheer you will find on one of 12 different designers blogs every Tuesday and Friday through December 10th!! Today's special blog is found at With thy Needle & Thread by Brenda Gervais!!!

It's almost time!!!

Get ready....it's almost time....Starting tomorrow.......

Home for the Holiday
 Designer Line Up:

Nov 2nd * Brenda Gervais from
http://www.withthyneedleandthread.blogspot.com/

Nov 5th * Debbie Field from
http://www.granolagirldesigns.blogspot.com/

Nov 9th * Cheri Saffiote-Payne from
http://www.quiltsbycheri.blogspot.com/

Nov 12th * Kathy Schmitz from
http://www.kathyschmitzstudio.blogspot.com/

Nov 16th * Renee Plains from
http://www.libertystar.typepad.com/

Nov 19th * Tracy from
http://www.plumcutedesigns.typepad.com/

Nov 23rd * Lisa Bongean from
http://www.lisabongean.wordpress.com/

Nov 26th * Lynda Hall from
http://www.primitivepiecesbylynda.blogspot.com/

Nov 30th * Jan Patek from
http://www.janpatek.blogspot.com/

Dec 3rd * Tara Darr from
http://www.sewuniquecreationsblog.com/

Dec 7th * Debbie Busby from
http://www.woodenspooldesigns.blogspot.com/

Dec 10th * Stacy West from
http://www.buttermilkbasin.blogspot.com/

Join us for lots of holiday fun!!