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I just got done with a dolly blanket & pillow for my very youngest friend. Another one of those projects I meant to do in January or February. It's some month like that right now, isn't it? Has an "r" in it?

Anyone else frantically working on Christmas presents at this hour? Care to join me in one big group YAWN?!?!!

I'm eating my way into awakeness right now for some work time...

Not exactly for Christmas presents but other projects, yes! Where did the year go????

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Originally posted by Aliquilt:
Where did the year go????

No kidding. I've never seen a year fly by so fast.

I'm going to bed before I get myself in a tizzy about everything that's still undone!

This year seems like it was compressed into 2 months. And tommorrow is Thursday again, already yet even!!!! Good grief. My quilt magazine I got the day after Thanksgiving didn't help me any, either...it had Valentines and Easter stuff in it. Good grief...it wasn't even cold here yet then! We haven't even had winter here yet!!!!!

I can't believe Christmas is only three weeks away. How did that happen?

I know I've been on a forced hiatus from the world lately but gosh, time sure did go fast this year.

I'm sorry, I should have said, extended, not forced hiatus.

3 weeks!!!!! I haven't dared look!!!! aaaauuugghh!!!!!

I am!! I haven't shopped for my son for Christmas yet (he is 17) and I can't use my machine for the next 2 weeks, so I am behind on the stocking for my daughter.

I feel like I'm just putting out fires as I go! I also wonder what happened to our good intentions from last January!

I'm a clerk in a Post Office. People keep coming in and mailing their gifts and they smile and say that they are done. Secretly, I want to smack them! LOL!! JK

I'm frantic! Haven't finished my retreat row robin (must be mailed by 10th), haven't started by SSSS stocking (must be mailed by 17th), have one top to quilt by the 11th and another to bind. Where are the little elves that are supposed to come in and help!

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Originally posted by Will Quilt for Chocolate:
I'm a clerk in a Post Office. People keep coming in and mailing their gifts and they smile and say that they are done. Secretly, I want to smack them! LOL!! JK

I know how you feel! I was in a toy store yesterday & they had a huge countdown to Christmas clock on the wall. If I could have reached the plug, I would have pulled it!

You won't see me in the P.O. smiling like that. I haven't written a single card, I don't have stamps even if I did drag out the cards, and I'm nowhere up to mailing presents.

The calendar rolls over every year to January & it looks like I have all the time in the world to sew presents. This year, I actually made tea towel gifts that month! But then life started happening & every day brought some matter more urgent than sewing. And here it is December again...

Well, no matter how Grinchy we're feeling right now, we can't stop Christmas from coming. Only thing I can do about it is get my nose back on the grindstone & keep burning the midnight oil.

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Originally posted by nancyc20:
Valentines and Easter stuff

Ha -- I was in a store this week & they had heart-shaped red bowls on sale. I got 2 to fill with goodies for Valentine's Day gifts for friends. So I'm all ready! For the wrong holiday.

You watch -- nanoseconds after the New Year, we'll be seeing red hearts at Joann's. It's a wonder they don't have V-Day stuff out already.

I'm through sewing and am working on DGDs 2nd birthday in January.

However, we still have one gift to go for SIL and have absolutely no idea what we are going to give him. I assigned SIL and StepS to DH. ha-ha BIG JOKE. StepS mentioned something I overheard so I handled that. I keep asking DH...what about SIL? Have you thought of anything yet? StepD said that he wants a chimenia for a house that they have a contract on with stipulation that they have to sell theirs first by December 20. So...if theirs does not sell...they don't need the chimenia (and I think StepD really wants it herself). Arggghh.

My problem is not my good intentions, it's the things I find while on track that lure me away for just a bit. You know...I can whip that out and it won't take long. HAH!!!!

Lured off track...I have that problem with shopping. Go out looking for something for someone else & find 8 things for me instead. I'm so easy to buy for!

Ohhhh...its not just Christmas..there are sooo many wonderful patterns for quilts,table runners,totes needle packs and sooo many wonderful fabrics to combine and techniques to try I sometimes feel like a cricket hopping from one thing to another andjust chirping....but all is well I did/have been making gift type items in between serious work so I'm okay with Christmas stuff but I'll never get all those patterns, appliques,pillow cases and doggie blankies done that are whirling around in my head....

McPatches those darn gremlins have replaced the elves this year......

A clerk in a store I was in recently said to me,"This is supposed to be "the most wonderful time of the year", but I wonder is it really?" That gave me a pause to think, no, it really doesn't seem so, at least if you are a woman. We, I think, feel that all happiness of the season hangs on our doing everything to make the holidays perfect for everyone else. It should be bigger and better than last year. It is a "ring on the merry-go-round" that we can't grab. What happened to home-made decorations? Remember construction paper chains with glitter made by little hands on the tree? Strings of popcorn? A precious few "store bought" ornaments. The tree was just as glorious then. It just didn't seem so crazy in the old days. I think that we are going to "go back in time", and have a simplier Christmas. I am sorry for the people of China, but I am buying as little as I can that says "made in China" on it. (The candy canes to hang said Made In China on them! What's in them?) I have some construction paper that is Made in America, and our hands may be older but armed with my Made in China glue stick, we are making a chain for our tree!

Sorry, my little rant is over. Hope I didn't make anyone mad at me. Must be "the midnight oil".LOL

Ohhhhh Blue Skies, you gotta get modern, get with the program. Try something new this year, foget the paper chains. Give up that glue stick made in China.

http://www.cottonpatchfabrics....in&sales=0&lastmenu=

http://www.sullivanrealm.net/2...abric-chain-garland/

http://www.filminthefridge.com...bric-chain-tutorial/

IF I still did a tree, one of these would be on my make list. Have fun.

And if you want to try something else from the past, make your own gift tags. See the 'I know I'm losing it' thread here on the board.

http://boards.hgtv.com/eve/for...4011632/m/2733993567

On those chains I think I'd be tempted to use the spaghetti strap method, only larger strips, of course.

Last January I decided that during the year I would be on the lookout for thrift store mugs and make matching mug rugs. I would need 16 for Christmas gifts. By November I had most of the mugs I need but not a one of the mug rugs! I still need to make 8 of them.

I am going to a small retreat with quiltslots today through Sunday. I am a procrastinator in Capital letters. Yesterday I cut out a robe for my son, and 2 dresses for my GD. I refuse to pay $30 for a dress for a 7 yr. old that looks like she is standing on a street corner. Also have a king size flannel quilt cut out for my daughter & husband. I will see how much I get done. No classes at this retreat. all your own sewing. It is a great time. Did I tell you I am a PROCRASTINATOR! Merry Christmas everyone and Happy sewing!

Remember.. Jes*us is the Reason for the Season!

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Originally posted by pvillelou:
Last January I decided that during the year I would be on the lookout for thrift store mugs and make matching mug rugs. I would need 16 for Christmas gifts. By November I had most of the mugs I need but not a one of the mug rugs! I still need to make 8 of them.

That is too funny made me laugh out loud...sorry Pville I couldn't help it

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Originally posted by StarrySky:
...Go out looking for something for someone else & find 8 things for me instead. I'm so easy to buy for!

Me too! I don't know why anyone else can't find something for me. LOL

I don't let the pre-season hoopla stress me. I want to enjoy the holiday too! If YOU are being stressed out...omit the unnecessary, pour a glass of wine, sit down...and delegate!

I keep telling hubbs "a bolt of muslin, a bolt of muslin" and he says " I don't know what to get you for Christmas". One year I said, "a vacuum cleaner" and he thought I was joking. The toughest to get took 5 years. "a china cabinet". finally, toward the end, before I got it, I would answer EVERY question he asked me with, "china cabinet". "What are we having for dinner?" "China cabinet".

This year, I have to have a new scanner/printer.It died the week I found out my Visa had been compromised, My check was on Jay Leno, and I won the Ugly Fabric Lotto! what a week! I use it more than my car!!!! I told him directly that is what I have to have. Period. I have to copy my quilting stuff!!!!

He'll probably get me a bolt of muslin.

Bolts of muslin are on sale right now @ JA's...what's your DH's number so I can call him & tell him??

I got an electric hedge trimmer for Mother's Day one year, but it was what I wanted & asked for! Sometimes the message DOES get thru.

Oooohhhh, pvillelouo, you got me also. Busted out in a great guffaw!!!!

And Nancy, you obviously aren't being direct enough. lolll Good luck. I've listened to my kids tell me year after year that their spouse doesn't get them what they want so last year I made a point of telling DDIL#1 what DS wanted. He still didn't get it. lollll

Back to my sewing machine, btw.

LOL Nancy! As DH mentions stuff he'd like to get someday, I make notes. As I mention stuff I'd like to get someday...he asks me two weeks before Christmas what I want.

WQFC, might as well smack me. Mailed the boxes to the three girls, 3 granddaughters & GGS yesterday. Cards went out with a December 1 postmark. Done with the family things, the tree at church and the last gift boxes for the home*less project are in the bags ready to take to mass tomorrow. Today it is start the Angel card project and then I am done... Chris

Chris - you made me laugh out loud! Good for you though, for getting everything done. You can really enjoy the holidays! I'm green with envy, but I couldn't smack you!

"done"

What is that word? I don't recognize it in my vocabulary...is is French? I don't understand...

sigh