Greeting cards for my friends.

I made a bunch of cards for gifts for various people. In fact, I still need to mail a package of them out to Laura! God, I'm bad. *sigh* It'll get to her eventually. . . .

Caught up!

And now Mary's scrapbook is all done and ready to be wrapped! Woo hoo! Look at me go. A week left to get any other little things done and out of the way, and then it's off to Illinois! And the cold and snow. Ick. :)

Ready for Illinois!

I will have to get a picture. Seth's quilt is ready for the trip to Illinois! Last night I got the binding all made (although I could have sworn I already had it done out of one of the matching pattern fabrics!) and tonight I got it sewn on! It's looking good. Still too busy, but, live and learn, right? It's pretty cute, despite the busyness. I like it. And I told Seth is was his quilt and now he'll point it out and ask, "Set's kilt?" That's what it sounds like, anyway.

So now I am just desperately behind on Mary's scrapbook. :-)

Cards that I made for my moms.

My mom had mentioned to me that she wanted some more cards that were just plain greeting cards, versus referring to any specific event. So these are the two designs I came up with for her, the oak leaf lover! I also made some of the first card for my step-mom, with different leaves as the focal point.

Weekend baking.

Friday I made these "simple fudge tarts" from a recipe in a Better Homes and Garden magazine. I don't love them - not a repeater. I also made mamool, though, and those are delish! They're the only ones I didn't get a picture of! They are a Middle East shortbread cookie with a date in the middle. Mmmm. I also made sugar cookies!

Saturday I spent icing the sugar cookies. Holy crap, that took forever. And I don't even really like them, so I don't think those are a repeater. I do love my little pink and purple snowman that's in the upper left of the lower sheet! :-) I'll have to try the other recipe for a different kind of sugar cookie, which Jenn prefers.

Sunday I tried, and failed, to make fudge. Major disaster. The second picture shows you what I was able to pull from the hardened glob in the pot. Not so good. I also made homemade chocolate chip cookies. They're not my favorite, but they are my father-in-law's favorite! I also made lemon bars, but they didn't really turn out very good, either.All these treats, and all I really want to eat is the Oreos in the cookie jar!

Holiday baking.

It's going to get in the way of my getting my stuff done! But that's okay. I'd rather bake (and probably gain five pounds!) than go the whole Christmas season with no cookies! Last night I made Mexican Wedding Cake cookies. Yum! And Jason likes them, too, so, bonus! This week I watched What a Girl Wants while working on Seth's quilt. Then, since that one had Colin Firth and considering the season, I started watching Love, Actually. I actually love that movie! I'm not done with it yet, but will finish it this weekend while finishing Seth's quilt! I am so close to being done quilting it. It's very exciting. So here's my to-do list:

1. quilt Seth's quilt
2. machine sew the binding on Seth's quilt
3. finish Mary's Costa Rica scrapbook
4. finish my Christmas cards
5. finish the top for Maya's quilt

It seems like a lot, but I think I can put a huge dent in it this weekend! Assuming I don't get carried away with the baking thing, that is!

Seth's quilt

is coming along. I'm going to try and work on it a bunch tonight. My goal is to have it all quilted in time to work on it in the car on the way to Illinois this winter. I think I can do it! I think if I can work a couple of hours straight on it tonight, I will be well on my way to getting it done! I'm very excited. Although I'm also tired and hungry, so I'm not actually really feeling like doing anything. :-)