Day 3 Mistletoe Make and Bake Blog Hop

Woot Woot it's day 3 and your story tellers today are....

Celine Perkins – Perkins Dry Goods
Patrick Lose – The Latest News from Patrick Lose
Kelly Ann Richardson - Kelly Ann’s Quilting

Lookie who the third person on the list is...yep it's me....how exciting is this...and now it's my turn to share with you another goodie and my fun Christmas project.

So by now y'all know that I grew up in a military family, when my father retired we settled in a small town in North Carolina.  The neighborhood my parents still live in was a great place to grow up, every year there would be a big Christmas party and you learned early on how to get a conversation going in a room full of strangers.  The family that hosted this party would invite people from all over, people with no family in the area, people from their work, just people in general.  I've never had any issues starting a conversation, and to some of you that's not a surprise, but keeping one going with strangers can be difficult so I've always resorted to humor.  Humor plays a big part in my life, and with that comes the animated hands...here's proof from the early 80's...

  and here's one of the 70's....

the pose is always the same...so if you ever find yourself at a party and needing to start up a conversation, just use humor and hands..they work well together.

Here's my project and my goodies...all in one picture...first lets start with the project...I started off with a simple drawing of holly leaves and berries, just click on the link to download a pdf of the drawing, you can enlarge it or make it smaller to suit your needs.  I made two projects to help spark your creativity on using this simple pattern.

First up is my wool pillow and I absolutely feel in love with wool while working on this project...

I used 100% wool that had been felted and hand dyed...again, total love.  The leaves were outlined using 12wt Aurifil thread and the best part was I used it in my sewing machine and it sewed like a dream.

Wanting to play with my pattern alittle more I decided to try my hand at some cute redwork...

I love redwork and this quick pattern, from tracing to finish stitching took less then 2 hours.  I used Kona Snow for the top, 12wt Aurifil thread #2560 and some fun plaid fabric I had in my stash, kind of cute don't ya think.

Now for the goodies...this is an easy one....these little morsels go by a variety of names, Reindeer droppings, Reindeer Poo...but we just call them yummo..and stinkin' easy.  

 

We love these when I use dark chocolate but with all the different flavors of kisses and M&M's out there the combination's are unlimited.

I'm doing a small give-a-way...leave me a comment and you'll be entered to win a selection of 12wt Aurifil thread.

Don't forget to stop by all the bloggers and leave a daily message to enter to win a grand prize, check out this posting for all the names...

until next time....

Be Kind....

Kelly Ann