Wishing you the blessings of Christmas

"We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him."

The Wise Men - Matthew 2:2

This humble little hand-made star represents an afternoon spent with two of our grandsons, enjoying crafting together.  How we love our family and we will be super blessed this year to have our whole family (all 29 of us) together on Christmas Day. 

What a blessing it is to have a family who loves each other. We are so proud of the person each one of them has become, and we even see already some lovely sweetness in the life of our little 2 year old great grand-daughter.

We are excited to be able to spend time this beautiful season, thinking about the real reason for the celebrations:

Jesus is the reason for the season.

As someone has said, "Wise people still seek Jesus." 

May your Christmas be filled with love, joy and peace, and may you too be blessed in pondering the greatest gift of all - Jesus.

Val 

Gearing up and Winding down!

At the moment I feel as if I am torn between two realities. On one hand I am winding down - it's the end of a fairly difficult year, it's hot and humid and not conducive to sitting at a sewing machine, and some of our regular activities have ceased for the year. It feels as if it's time to relax and put up my feet.

On the other hand, I am gearing up - preparing for a Church Christmas party on Friday, counting how many mattresses I have for the influx of family with the first arrivals next Sunday, making the Christmas pudding and Christmas cake, buying turkeys and ham and just gearing up for Christmas in general.

We are overjoyed that we will have our total family of 29 with us for Christmas! It's a rare event that we can all be together and amazing that it can happen, considering the ramifications of an ever-increasing extended family.

I am also gearing up to launch the 2020 Block of the Month in January. 

I am on the home run on the last block and then it shouldn't take long to put it all together.



It is one of those projects that gives me great joy every time I work on it.



I hope you are liking it too!

Happy stitching!
Val