Nephew's photo in Air Force

This is Jarrod K. Strohkirch. My husband's nephew. He joined the Air Force this year and now will be going to live in Germany for two years sometimes next year..He will have to have a year tour in Iraq, after his tour in Germany before the 6 years is up, if I have my information right. Hope the war is over by than..Just look at him, he is 24, handsome man..He just might catch an eye of a German girl..watch out girls..lol

Received cards, photo and charms

Received this wonderful family photo from my nephew, Christopher, his wife, Tracey and lil Gwendolyn..it is a beautiful photo and thank you so much, Merry Christmas and see you three on Christmas Eve day brunch..love you all.
Received all the Christmas charms today..in my package was 5 each from Diane B, Steph W, Nikki W, Emily R and BAH. They are wonderful and I will be adding some of these to my charm bracelet and rest will go on my tree, will have photos after I finished decorating it..haven't started yet..lol Thank you all so much..Merry Christmas!!
Received these two wonderful cards today from another group from Colleen D. I love the batik candle, miss doing my dyeing..will get back into that next year..The first one is a Christmas card pc. Thank you so much, Merry Christmas

Cards received, Button and Indgredient exchanges

Received this today, 12/13 from Freda in another group for the scrappy pc. I have this fabric too and have some scraps from it..thank you very much..

I received buttons from my sis, Mary A and Linda B from our buttons exchange. On the left is from my sis and love the shoe and cameo button. On the right is from Linda, love the porcelain on the upper right, the joy and Christmas tree button..Linda sent over 20 buttons and the requirements was only 10. It was a fun and easy as pie exchange and will do it again in next but with a twist, a theme one..lol
I received the candle card from Linda M of Canada for a Candle swap and the one on the right is from Carolyn from ca for the scrappy swap. it was fun and thank for swapping with me.
This is what I sent Cynthia for a goodie bag exchange. A few things not shown but all in all, everything..lol She did loved them all.

Cards received today

I received two cards from one of my girls in my group today, Donna M. One for the abstract Christmas and Ornament pc. They are wonderful, thank you,

My Sister's charms

These were made by my twin, Mary Adkins, for my group swap. This was her first time and you did great..See they are not hard to do..so much fun, thank you and love.

Quilters take this quiz

http://www.pbs.org/americaquilts/fun/index.html
I got 14 right, I am not a traditional quilter so I think I did pretty good. lol..lets see how you do..

Snow Baby cross stitch done..

I have finally finished all the 6 kits I had with Snow Babies..I have added glitter to the bodies almost like the ones I make in ceramics.. I almost ruined more than one..I had left my glue gun on for almost a week. Forgot all about it and been gone for hours at a time..Someone up in heaven is for sure watching over me..I think it is my dad, Fr. Rick, Donna and of course God himself..how can one go wrong, lol
I also in between taking breaks, I have trying to get the house ready for the Christmas Tree. Cleaning, bad word..lol but I am up to it..lol How are you all doing in getting ready for Christmas? Hope in wonderful spirits..When I was done for a day, someone emailed me and when she told what was going on in her life, I felt so horrible that I was sitting here feeling sorry for myself..there is always someone worse than you are...I wish you all the best of spirits as the holiday arrives.