A DAY LATE--BUT--

I guess one day late--is better than 2 days late--right????(lol)

I spent most of last week collecting gifts for 4  boxes that I needed to mail out--and I spent all day Sunday writing out Christmas cards in the morning and then all afternoon wrapping gifts and getting them boxed up and ready to take to the post office-- Which I was a good girl and did get them over there first thing this morning--yea!!! (oh on a side note here--those 4 packages cost me $77.00 to mail--ouch!!)

One of the projects last week was finishing up these, mostly, counted cross stitching projects--

Two of these ended up being gifts--

and this one-

was also a gift for my sister June--

and I also got the cake board wrapped in fabric finishes, on the backs of these 3 for me--

The first one was a gift about 4-5 years ago from a blog friend--I did the embroidered one of the tree lot and then this last one of the Cranberry lodge!!!

And I took some photos of where I am at with some hand work projects--

Last night I did get the 'gifts' block finished so I am all caught up on these one til Joy gives us the next block--

And I am working on these two embroidery pieces here and there!!! And I this afternoon I did get this month's bird block finished --photo next post!!

And in knitting I worked on making some soap bags for gifts--

These all got sent out today in the gift boxes!!!

And here is how I have displayed my Christmas pillows--

This is a little padded stool that Frannie gave me when I moved in here --so I just opened the lid and put some of my cross stitch pillows in it--some of these were gifts, some I made--

And here is how I have the rest of them displayed--again some were gifts --but I did make alot of them myself, too!!!

And all I can say is--I don't think I will be bored for the next 12 days to Christmas--lots of events and things I want to do --like bake some Christmas cookies--and as our weather here is suppose to get -really cold after  Thursday--like the day time temps will only be low 60's--that's like 30-40 degree temps for us Floridians--it will be good baking weather--so let's get the oven heat'n up!!!!!

Take care--be safe and don't forget to rest and put those feet up and watch some Christmas movies!!!

Hugs, di