You guys are so cool!
I am so tickled by the response to my whoopie pie baking adventure!

Jessi and Karin even baked up a batch themselves!
Ah, cookie goodness all around : )

This is a photo that I took on our back porch on Saturday. We got enough snow that everything was covered…. for a little while. I had to take a photo to share with you – since we don’t see snow very often here. When it does snow, it becomes very quiet outside… until all the children in the neighborhood run outside to play.

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Over the weekend I finished the last of my custom orders. This one (a needle book) was especially fun because I was given the basic idea for the embroidery design and then I got to interpret it my own way. The criteria were: that the person it was for likes the color red, likes penguins and does upholstery (so there needed to be a chair involved somehow). Red, penguin and chair. Hmm…

This is what I made. For the chair I used a piece of patterned cotton fabric that I hand appliqued, then accented with embroidery.
The rest is wool/felt, with a red ribbon bow and two little beads for the eyes.
This little penguin is making herself a new pillow.

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I’ve been tagged by a nice fellow blogger Jenaveve (what a pretty name!)
to do a “7 Facts About Yourself” list.

To be honest I have done this list a couple of times now (you can see my lists here and here) so I think I’ll graciously pass on making another one. But I am so flattered that Jenaveve tagged me – and I hope you’ll check out her fun blog!

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I don’t know if I could concentrate long enough to make a good list today, anyway. Things have been a bit chaotic around here.

I went to bed last night with a to-do list written out for today and a clear plan in my head of how I was going to tackle all the things on my list. But, apparently Mother Nature had plans of her own…. it rained so hard last night that Josh and I woke up this morning to a partially flooded basement! Luckily we caught it in time so that the entertainment center and computer weren’t affected. But I have never seen water come in as quickly as it did today! Josh was mopping it up as quickly as he could, while I was running sopping wet towels to the washing machine/dryer and back. It was a two person bucket brigade in our basement all morning!
As I type this we have a fan and de-humidifier going full blast.

I am grateful that we were able to staunch the stream eventually….
but, needless to say, my to-do list went down the drain (quite literally!).

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If you are new to reading my blog you may have missed a post I did months ago about being “real”. I made a grand proclamation that this blog would be honest; that I do not spend my days whipping up perfect sewing projects and having tea parties in my back yard. I do own a seam ripper. I’ve used it many, many times. Sometimes many times on the same seam.

Here is what happened this past Friday when I tried to make Mexican hot cocoa. You simply warm up your milk, put it into a blender and mix with two wedges of the cocoa. Apparently, somehow I forgot how to use a blender…..
…..and this happened:

See? Nobody is perfect.

If you find yourself feeling stressed out or facing something that didn’t turn out the way you planned, I hope that you’ll clean it up, take a break from it and promise that you’ll try again later.

That’s what I did with the Mexican hot cocoa.

It was much better the second time around.