Happy New Year Everyone!

First of all Happy New Year Everyone!  Hope you celebrated the holiday in a safe, fun way!!!!!!!!!  Also I wish everyone a great healthy, happy, properous new year!
Here are the pictures I promised from our Seattle trip!
My favorite part of Christmas is the lights!!  Downtown Bellevue, Washington does a great job with just that!!! They put up the most beautiful lights as shown here
It was such a beautiful site to see giant snowflake lights everywhere!  If you look just below the lights there are Toy Soldiers too!  We planned on meeting our good Friends, Stan and Liz Fukui for dinner at the Palomino!  I really miss them!  Liz was my walking, shopping, lunching buddy!  I think everyday!! (and I don't mean just the walking ha ha!)  We always had just the best times ever! We met our friends at the "Palomino" restaurant in downtown Bellevue, Wa for dinner.  Great suggestion Liz!!  It was a wonderful dinner and way too short of a visit!  Liz and I just need to get together for a weekend of shopping and lunching again!  ha ha

Liz & Stan

Here is my hubby and I having a great time in Seattle!!!!!!!!!!!  (Wish you were here Dustin!!  :)

Tomorrow the final pictures of our trip to Seattle!  Hope you have enjoyed our tour of the great city of Seattle!!!!!!!!!!!   

Keepsake Cottage Quilt Shop

Hello again!  Now for the best part of Day 1 in Seattle!  My very favorite Quilt Shop, "Keepsake Cottage Fabrics"!! 

When I lived in Bothell this is the shop that started the quilting addiction for me. Moving from Sunny Colorado to a rainy and cloudy Seattle in winter was a real adjustment for me.  I had no friends and did not work so I could be home to care for my children.  But when they were in school and my husband was at work I was going nuts !! ha ha So, I decided I needed to get a hobby and so I took my very first quilting class at Keepsake Cottage!   All the ladies that worked there were always SO friendly!  I loved it!  I had no idea quilting was so easy!  Today this cute little shop has expanded and is loaded with all the latest fabrics and patterns thanks to owner Julie Stewart. She was so kind to let me photograph the inside of her shop to share with you.. so ... Here are a few great pictures of the inside!!

Look at these great fabrics to choose from!!and all the fun 30's !

look at all the great antique looking aprons!

If your visiting or live in the Seattle area,,, be sure to visit Keepsake Cottage Fabrics soon!!!!!!!!!!  It is a great shop and you will be sure to find exactly what you want and more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  If you can't get to Seattle anytime soon visit Julie's cute shop on the web at http://www.keepsakecottagefabrics.com/ !  Thanks again Julie for letting me share your great shop!  Hope to see you again soon!!

and for you my friends Day 1 night time in Bellevue Washington is coming up tomorrow!  Until then....stay warm and  be happy!

Seattle!

Finally a little peace and quiet after Christmas!  I sure love the holidays, but the stress of getting everything done just about kills me!! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed lots of family and fun!

We spent a few days in Seattle and the moment I got off the plane I felt like I was home even though our real home is Colorado. This was our view of Mt.Rainer coming into Seattle!!  Isn't this beautiful? We only lived in Seattle 5 years but I loved it.... after a 2 year adjustment....ha ha. We arrived just in time for lunch at our favorite restaurant!

Azteca!!  And of course we had our favorite soup!! Tortilla Soup!!!!! I miss it already!!!

Then it was off for our first day of activities planned!  Of course we had to drive by our old neighborhood and stop to shop at our favorite stores located in Bothell, Wa at the local "Country Village" shops.  If you plan on going there... look for the big white and black chicken!! Sorry. the photos are dark...I had forgotten it gets dark early in Seattle in the winter!

Here is a small photo of the village (its much bigger than this)....just to mention a few...... there are small restaurants, shops of scrapbooking, fabrics, decorating, glass works, pottery, and ducks for kids to feed!  The first shop we visited was my old favorite...which has changed so much! It is much larger and full of great things!! Pottery, quilts, glassware and tons of snowmen!!...not to mention great snacks to eat too! It is called "The Weed Patch" and Janene was kind enough to let me take photos to share with you!!  Check out their website by clicking on this link:http://www.theweedpatchstore.com/ !!    Here are a few photos of this cozy little shop!

Hope you have enjoyed this short tour of Day 1!!  More of Day 1 coming tomorrow... it's a great quilt shop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I have two favorites in Washington and this one tops the list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chat with you tomorrow!

I'm back in town!

It seems like a lifetime since I left!!  I promise I will have lots of pictures of our trip to share with you.... here are a few just to let you know whats coming!

Running, Running, Running!

It seems like I am always running... I wish it was literally.... then I would lose weight very easily!  HA HA  Time has really gotten away from me lately... Thanksgiving came and went... now Christmas is just around the corner.. I am working on so many things at once.  Every Christmas I think I want to make all my family and friends a special Christmas gift... but then time slips away... and I have not made anything.  Well for the last two months I have been making baby gifts! Does that count for something?? We have a new baby girl in our family!!!!!!!  "Gracen Marie" was born on December 3 which is her grandpa's (my brother)birthday! What a great birthday gift!  Isn't she just the cutest baby??!!  She is the daughter of my Niece Whitney and her husband  Rich.  She also has a cute big brother, Noah!!  The following goodies are all for baby Gracie!

I made a "diapers to go" bag, burp cloths, car seat cover (I still need to add the loops for the handle), 

and two sets of booties... (I want to make more...they are so cute and fun to make)!!  Anyway,, this is why I have not created any new patterns... soon.... I am waiting until after the holidays to get serious again!   

Tomorrow my family and I are flying to our favorite city.... Seattle!!!!!!!!!!!  I can hardly wait to see all our old friends and shop at all our favorite shops... and eat at all our favorite Seattle Restaurants like Azteca!!!  I will be sure to take lots of pictures of quilt shops...(My old favorites!!)  and all the beautiful scenery there to share with you!  so until my return... have a great weekend and stay warm... (We have been freezing here.... 18 degrees.... lets just say Starbucks is getting alot of business from me!!!)  Until next time... be safe and sew lots!

Its here!!!

The new Winter issue of  Quilts and More! magazine is out!!

So run out and purchase this issue!! There are such cute new things to make including the most adorable dog bed!!  But, really the real reason to buy this magazine is to make my cute snowman mitten! I can't believe we are already talking Christmas and Winter... yesterday it was 75 degrees here in Utah... who can think winter with that kind of weather????  I guess you could feel like you are getting a head start on Christmas gifts.... ha ha!

Birthday Time!

Today, is my mother-in-law, Sharon's Birthday!!!She is a wonderful, sweet lady whom we love very much!! So, Happy Birthday "Mom"!!!  We are sad that we live so far away and are unable to spend time with you, but you are always in our thoughts!  I see that You got all the snow wishes we sent you!! ha ha  For those of you who don't see the news... Denver received loads of snow today!!!!!!!!!!! My son, Austyn, called early this morning to fill me in!!  It is always crazy when you get that first BIG snow of the year..I am glad we have not gotten a huge snow yet... I am not quite ready... need to buy new boots!  ha ha!!  like these
  I know they are not the typical snow boot... but I love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Stay warm everyone!!!!!!!!!!!