Christmas Day.

On the far left you can see a bit of one of our local mountains with fresh snow peeking thru the clouds. My mom has some lovely views from her 13th floor corner suite.



The cloud shapes are so interesting hovering over the mountains.


To the left of the communication array the sun is on the snow.


Looking to the southwest you can see the north and south arms of the Fraser River. The double H bridge is the Alex Fraser Bridge.


Every night as the sun sets the crows fly to roost in threes a few miles away, this goes on for quite a time.


Sun shining on the river looking almost due west.


Looking more south towards the bridge again.


I gave mom my little quilts to enjoy. She bought me the moon and stars stand.


Driving home I spotted the Full Cold Moon and took this picture.


Down on the quay I took this one, you can make out the two towers for the sky train bridge and the lights of one of the trains crossing over the Fraser River.


Hope you had a lovely day, we did.

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Snowman Surprise for Christmas

Last night I went down to check my mail and found a lovely surprise.  The snowmen swap blocks had arrived to my great delight!  I sent away 13 to swap with 12 lovely ladies with the Whimsical Mary Lou Yahoo group I belong to; one of the ladies didn't participate, we hope all is well with her and the lucky 13th one goes to Mary Lou for inspiring us all.  So I've 11 blocks to put into a quilt along with the extras I made if I choose.

 I quickly put them up on my design wall for a picture.  Then I also took some individual pictures.  This first red toque guy was made by Edie Fail, love the butterfly on his bottom.

 This bright eyed guy was made by Katie Fields she did a lovely zigzag stitch around him.

 Mari Linfesty made this polka dot and tree block.

 Deb Green made different sized drunkard path blocks and sewed them together for this guy's head.  Too cute!

 Her friend Claire Maitland made this chubby snowman, she put some batting behind him a la trapunto style.

 This Mississippi snowman "melted" is the work of Regina Muli, along with a snowball top to his toque.

 Sandra Kensey made this cute log cabin guy.

 Carol Cowan did a lovely job machine buttonhole stitching this snowman and his tree.  The snowflakes are all sparkly!

 Star snowman was machine buttonhole stitched by Mary Frances Wesson, love his scarf!

 Snowball snowman was pieced by oops lost the label, either Yvette Boehke.

 I decided to claim this toque snowman/woman.  Little did I realize there would be a full moon on Christmas so I may have to applique one for her to look at!

 I also got a notice of a package that had been sent by FedEx so off to their sorting facility to find the back issues of Simple Vintage were waiting.  I've had trouble finding this locally and decided to gift myself for them for Christmas.  I may have some duplicates but have someone in mind to receive them.  I know I don't have this one.

 Looking forward to some great inspirations.

 Love all the different projects available.

 Prepping for Spring.

 Summer,

 Autumn,

 Winter,

And the most recent Simply Modern!

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you have some delightful surprises under the tree for each and everyone of you and yours!

Baby Bionic Gear Bag!

Sally Thompson aka Ripsticher has designed baby bionic gear bag. I started sewing mine on Monday afternoon and finished it off yesterday.


Here is the view from the left side opened up showing one inside pocket.


And from the right, I had fun fussy cutting the sides.


I only used two fabrics for the lining and pocket. It coordinates with my larger Bionic Gear Bag I made back in April.


Zipped up s back view, I used a cotton batt and machined stitched straight lines across like the larger version. The long zipper is an 18" one. I love it already.


The closed up shot.


Here is a picture of the larger bag open.


Showing some of the goodies I made to go in it.


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Winter Soltice

Arrived last night, Welcome Winter....the days are getting longer!



Love this guy.


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More Christmas Lights

Last night was perfect for another Christmas Light tour, we headed over to the Kensington area of North Burnaby.

 Love this Santa with his reindeer and candy canes.

 This house was spectacular, I can't imagine how many hours it took to put together.

 Check out the train on the flat section of roof.

 So many Christmas trees, lights wrapped around trunks, snowflakes abound.

 So much to take in.

 Love all the snowflakes hanging on the outside of the house.

 Candy canes along the edge of the property.

 One last view as we turn the corner.

 Is that the Tasmanian devil dressed as Santa along the fence?

 Another lovely house with a bit more subtle lighting.  To the right there were lovely multi-pointed stars.

 Over to Central Burnaby and the Burnaby Village Museum, dancing ladies under the snowflakes.

 A bit closer look.

 Their large Christmas tree in the parking lot looks great.

 Along Edmonds there are these snowflake banner lights.

 Then down to Columbia Street in New Westminster looking back west.

 One of the main trees along the street decked with simple strands of white lights and snowflakes.

 Looking east along Columbia Street.

 Love the lighted crown representing the Royal City, New Westminster was the first capital of British Columbia before it was moved to Victoria on Vancouver Island.

 Shooting stars and another Christmas tree uptown at 6th Street and 6th Avenue.  Can you believe that tonight at 8:49 PST it is the Winter Solstice!  The first day of Winter and the days will be slowly getting longer!