Good Morning All. 

Here it is Feb. 14th already! The time just flies by! Happy Valentines Day to you all. I thought I would share a photo of my Primitive Heart Ornies Pattern. Available in my Etsy shop. My daughter and Grand showed up this morning with a bouquet of yellow & white Daisies. What a sweet surprise. Below is a recipe for my favorite sugar cookies.

                                        Crackled Sugar Cookie

 1-1/4 cups white sugar **1 cup salted butter ** 3 egg yolks ** 1 tsp. vanilla extract  **

1 tsp. almond extract ( I usually use 2 tsps. of the vanilla extract & omit the almond extract)

       2-1/2 cups all purpose flour **1 tsp. baking soda ** 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar ** 

       1/4 tsp. of salt ** coarse sugar crystals

Directions: Pre heat oven to 350 degrees

Cream together butter & sugar until creamy. Mix in 1 egg yolk at a time, add extract, mix. Add in flour, soda, cream of tartar, & salt until completely mixed.

Using a medium sized scoop ( or a heaping teaspoon) form dough balls & roll them into the sugar crystals. Place balls on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper 2 inches apart. Do not flatten the dough. Bake for 12 minutes, until surface of the cookies have a cracked texture. The cookies should still look a little puffy. Remove from oven let sit on cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to cooling racks.

Makes about 30 medium sized cookies.

This is the best sugar cookie I have come across! Everyone who has tried them loves them!

 

 Good Morning. I have a busy day coming up. It is our family Thanksgiving dinner today. I did the pies last night after the Granddaughter went home. We did some fun school projects. She is helping me sew every now and again. Maybe she will take up quilting & sewing as she grows. I love helping her create. I wanted to share my 2 newest patterns that I created.

 

Holiday Mantle Scarf & Winnie's Table Runner. Both are available in my Etsy shop. I hope everyone had a fun Halloween. Enjoy your Thanksgiving.

 Hi Y'all! I hope this finds everyone doing well. We are on our way to summer. Sure is hot here this week. 105 all week! If it would never go over 105 for our summer weather I would be one happy lady! I can wish all I want, but I know that will not happen. Ya see, I Love to keep the windows and doors open to let in the fresh air. I can do that in the mornings till about 11am, then it is too warm and have to close it up and turn on the A/C. I thank my lucky stars for the A/C just hate having everything closed up.

Just finished a new apron yesterday, and took it and the patterns over to the quilt shop, Sew Yeah, where I used to work. I miss working there and seeing all the customers, but I enjoy watching my little Granddaughter more. I will probably go back after she starts school full time. But that is another year or 2. In the meantime I will enjoy her and her wisdom and creating and sewing!

 Hi Y'all! It's a lovely Spring Day here in the desert. My little granddaughter visits me everyday while her Mom is at work so I have a lot of fun playing with a 4 yr old and watching her grow and how her mind works. It so rewarding!!

     I wound up closing my website that my DH had built for me. It was a sad day for me when I shut it down. We had it for about 12 years. I have to admit I was not very diligent in advertising, so I only got a few sales a month.  In Nov 2020 my website Host decided to go in a new direction and stop hosting. I thought it was easier to just close it than to try and find a new host and transfer everything. I have too much going on in life.  I knew I would not find the time to get it done. So, it was a good run,
and I am happy having my blog and selling on Etsy.

    We have had a few mishaps at home. Our water heater broke and one of our sprinkler pipes all on the same weekend. The sprinkler pipe has been fixed by our son and son in law. It was nice having all the kids over for a few hours while the guys fixed things and the rest of us hung out. Our daughter and I were gonna go through her old toys in some containers out in the shed but we could not get to them. We had transferred a bunch of the garage stuff to the shed to be out of the way for the plumber to get to the water heater. The water heater needs to be replaced. That is in the process.

     I have had no time to craft and create at all. Life just keeps getting in the way. All I have managed to do is keep my line of about 30 patterns stocked at the Quilt Shop I used to work at before The pandemic hit. And at a few other shops around the country. I have so many ideas and want to create some more patterns. I hope to do just that once these repairs are done and we get everything put back in place.

Here is a ruffled skirt attached to shorts that I made last year. I did make this into a pattern. Just love the fabrics used in this. Just thought I would share. Until next time. Happy crafting and creating.

Terrific Tuesday

 Good morning!! Well it is actually afternoon now!!

I am in busy mode. Trying to get all my orders made and shipped out for the scented coasters. 

The Holiday Season is upon us!!

I hope this finds everyone healthy and enjoying whatever you may be creating. Be it homemade goodies, or gifts. Down to the wire now, I hope all the shopping is done and things wrapped. I have not had a chance to make any Christmas cookies for the family yet!

What is your favorite part of Christmas? Mine is watching everyone else in the family open their gifts. 

Those out there that celebrate, I want to wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas!!!

 Hi y'all! So glad to find a moment to post on here. Not catching up as often as I had planned. Halloween came and went, then Thanksgiving got here faster than I could get my crafty stuff done for y'all to see. So I guess I will save them for next year! I have a few Christmas things I'd like to make and display. Fingers crossed I get them made before Christmas!! Gotta run now, Anniversary today, but hope to post a crafty item really soon!!

Happy Monday!!

 Good morning! I am trying to catch up. So here are my Halloween Crafts that I made this year that I did not get a chance to post before Halloween!! I apologize for that but I did want to show you what I had made. They were so much fun. I made 3, one for each of my kids families, and I actually made on for myself. I usually don't get around to making crafty stuff for me. I usually give my creations away saying Oh I can make mine anytime. Then I usually do not.

The cauldrons were difficult to find this year!! I finally got 2 of the last 3 from a party shop. The craft stores did not have any. The books were from the Dollar tree. I painted them white. The little wooden hat on the 2nd one has fabric that I put on with Mod Podge. The various larger balls are Christmas Balls. The eyeball which my Granddaughter loved the most (she is 3 yrs old) and all of the rest of the items were from the local Dollar Tree stores. I am so lucky to have 3 of them close to home. But I can not always find the supplies I see other crafty people out there using that they buy at their local Dollar Tree.