I have been very bad about keeping up with my blogs, fifty thousand excuses but not a single good reason.  First was the death of two wonderful men that has left a hallow place in my heart.  I never got to meet either of these men but I still feel the lose deeply because of the women they leave behind.  One was in Nova Scotia and one in up state New York and they both died the same night.   I lose myself in my sewing so I have gotten a lot of my Christmas presents done this last month.

My granny square afghans are done.  I have one for everyone at our Christmas Eve party.  The sweaters are getting there as you can see they have filled the box and starting over the top.  I have two more in progress and four more to do.  Also I have started on the Halloween trick or treat items.  I have the ghosts almost done. 

I have these and seven more ready to stuff.  Then I’ll switch to pumpkins, candy corn,  and owls.  And of course my Star War figures take up most of my mornings.  I work on those in the morning as they are hard on my eyes and by afternoon my eyes are tired and I make too many mistakes to make them fun. 

As you can see I have quite an army going now.  

Here is the other end of the rows.  Now my table is almost full so I have put the Storm Troopers up on the other shelves. 

I am making four sets of each and as Joe told me you need more than one storm troops in order to play with these, so I have made four for each set.  I am now finishing up Han Solo and he will fit on the table with the others but when I do Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and Jabba The Hutt I will a\have to fine another place to put them.  Then I will work on the second book of patterns.  I have two of those done in this set but there are ten others.  I do have until Christmas to finish them so should get them done.

Two weeks ago my three daughters got together for a sister vacation in CA.  

Here are my baby girls,  That is Shanti, then Kathy and then Patty.  This is the first time they have all been together in over 40 years.  They are all close but never together at the same time.  Shanti lives in NM, Kathy in CA, and Patty in FL all three have very busy lives but knows live is fleeting so decided they need to get together at least once a year.  I was invited but that is a long trip and they are better off without an old lady tagging along and slowing them down so instead we got together on face time and I got to visit with them for about an hour.  It was wonderful and I didn’t get too tired. 

I found it hard not to cry, I was so thrilled to visit with these three sweethearts and I got all caught up on their visit and their lives.  I am truly blessed.