Secret Santa Swap

1. What are your hobbies? Quilting and Sewing, reading, movies, ZUMBA!
2. What are your favorite colors? sage, purples, cranberries
   
3. Do you collect anything? Thimbles, Fat Quarters, Anything with bees and/or honey on them
4. Are you allergic to any fibers or animals? No
   
5. Do you have any pets? Angel the tabby cat, and Mr. Pickles, lavender tipped siamese
   
6. Coffee, Tea, or Chocolate? COFFEE! I'm from the northwest so it's our default setting for the most part
   
7. What do you like to read? Crafting and quilting books and magazines
   
8. Do you prefer Cookies or Candies as a sweet? homemade cookies - snickerdoodles are my favorite
   
9. What is your favorite holiday treat? soft gingerbread cookies (the ones from Starbucks are awesome)
   
10. Describe your favorite holiday tradition. Perusing craft and quilting bazaars, annual Christmas party with my quilt group, going to see the Nutcracker production
    
11. Did you believe in Santa as a child? YES!
    
12. When do you open presents? Usually Christmas Eve we open gifts, Christmas morning we open the stockings and have a light brunch that includes cinnamon rolls & hot cocoa
    
13. Do you put up a tree and when? If not, how do you celebrate? We usually put up our tree Thanksgiving weekend. I prefer the fresh smell of a real tree. Each year we choose a different theme for the tree. However, we always have some of our same traditional ornaments on the tree regardless of the current theme. Last year, our Christmas tree theme was GIRAFFES. Yes, you read correctly. My 20 year old daughter is an avid collector and it made for an interesting Christmas tree.
    
14. Does your tree have a theme? (see above)
15. What has been your favorite gift to give? to receive? I love to give to the Angel Tree ministry in our church. I also love to give to local food banks. My quilt group donates quilts to various charity projects as well. This year we are in process of making 60 pillow cases and quilts for a local homeless shelter - 1 for each bed.
    

Busy Bees Fall Schedule

Fall Schedule:

9/20 - UFO Night
9/30 - 10/2 - Fall Retreat at Sharon's. Please sign up with Kelley (retreat coordinator) and pay her the $5 fee
10/4 - UFO Night
10/18 - Snap Purse, taught by Shirley Bates
11/1 - Procrastinator's night to finish annual Christmas Blocks
11/5 - Saturday Workshop - Marlys will also be teaching fun pillow cases :)
11/15 - Penguin Power / Snowball Fight (simple demo)
12/2 - Annual Christmas Party
12/6 - Make-n-Takes - Please sign up with Amy Keyser

Christmas Festivities

We had so much fun at our 10th annual Busy Bees Christmas party this year.

Wonderful white elephant gift exchange! Seriously sweet secret sister gifts.

And best of all, the winners of this year's Christmas blocks...

Drum Roll Please..........

Congrats to Tre and Heather - The dynamic duo!

Enjoy the pics!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Considering the wet and the cold weather, it provides a moment for me to pause and thank the Lord for my warm home. So many others don't have that blessing at the moment. And my prayers go out to them. That's why, as a group, we collected non-perishable foods, hats, gloves, scarves, quilts and blankets to donate to our local charity for the less fortunate. It was a warm and fuzzy moment to be able to unload my van to drop everything off. I was so proud of my Busy Bees Quilt Group for their generosity and hearts for giving.

Thanks busy bees for your kind hearts!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Naughty or Nice?

Check out this fun blog of the season's smokin' hot aprons. You would only need to accessorize with fishnet stocking, high heels and a string of pearls while serving up your own favorite piping hot holiday dishes to your guests. Holy Smokes! How much more fun can a girl have? If we are going to be a slave to the kitchen, why not add a little spice... and I don't mean pumkin spice.

November 2010

I can't believe we are in the middle of the holiday season already! I am still feeling quite ripped off by not having much of a summer. So now it's time to really gear up for holiday sewing. I've got so many projects right now, I almost don't know where to start. It's overwhelming. I opened up a few boxes of my holiday stash of fabrics and supplies, and it's amazing how many unfinished projects I intended to make for folks but never finished. I must have half a dozen half-made projects I could give out for Christmas this year because I didn't have time to complete them all in years past...the holidays are such a busy time of year.

I'm excited to begin the new apron swap with Flirty Apron Swaps, www.flirtyapronswaps.blogspot.com. I love wearing gorgeous aprons as I'm serving up my gourmet feast during Christmas. It's so nice to NOT look like I've literally slaved over a hot oven for the previous 12 hours. lol

Our quilt group has been doing so many fun projects and activities this fall.

11/2/2010 we begin our lighted quilted Christmas wreath wall hanging project.

I better quit writing and get to work!

From one Busy Bee to another, toodles.

Fun in the Sun

Friendly Reminder: We will be meeting this Wednesday at 7 pm @ Crossroads Cafe.

We have a new meeting location at Clackamas Bible Church on Johnson Rd, Clackamas. I sent out an email with more information.

I hope everyone is enjoying summer break. I know I have been!

Amy