A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and has a safe and happy New Year!  The last few months for me has been full of quizzes, tests, note taking and taking care of sick kids!  For my birthday I got a gift card for a book store, which I just spent online.  The books shipped today which I can't wait for!  I am excited!  The books are for my embroidery machine.  I need to do some more learning about it so I can put it to good use instead of having projects that get messed up because of whatever mistake I made.  I was told there is a big learning curve when first introduced to the embroidery world.  I will share with you the books as soon as I get them! (This is so exciting for me, better than Christmas!)

This New Year's eve we will be driving teens to a big dance and bar-b-que in the new year with some awesome food.  Also some fireworks!

What do you do to ring in the new year?  Are you making any New Year's Resolutions or goals this year?

New Toys!

I finally got my new toy!  I'm so excited!  My hubby has been playing with his new bar-b-que's for the last few weeks I was starting to feel left out!  My new toy is finally here!  I love to sew, sewing is my stress outlet.  The more I sew the more it relieves!  Anyways my new toy is an embroidery machine!  Fabulous!  I love it!  The kids love to watch it!

This is the first try at it. Oops.  The green is supposed to be the stem & leaves.  And so I tried again after talking to my older sister who has an embroidery machine for many years!

Ta-da!!! It worked!  Sorry it's sideways!  And here's some more!

Now the machine is working on a pink sea horse!  Here it is finished!

And now a teal one.  I love this color!!

And here is the teal sea horse being worked on.

Here's a dolphin!  I flipped it too!

 

This is a fun new mommy toy!  Gives me something else to do while my buddy is at morning Kindergarten.  The sea life blocks are going to be turned into a quilt.  I'll share the final project once I get enough blocks and get it sewn up!

I hope all you readers are adjusting to kids being back in school and that life is good!