My Family

Here are some pictures of my family on Christmas with their presents. I didn't get one of Hubby this year, he was busy cooking. DD Crystal & Matt didn't make it home either so no pictures of them. Here is Brant with his quilt( looks excited doesn't he?)
This is my MIL with her present.

These where taken last year.

Hubby and Brant.

Tomorrow I will post pictures of the 2 Stocking Swaps I was in this year. Then Monday I will post the Fabrics I'm using for the New Year's Day Mystery Quilts.

Huggs,

Cleary

The Day After -Part 2

(a better picture of me in my pJ's)

some painting supplies for doing scrolls for the SCA, I have to make 4 or 5 of them this year.

Theses are my oyther PJ's they are really confortable.Then I also go new snugglely boots.

I got the 4th season of Chramed from Crystal & Matt. Can't wait to watch it. Now I only need Seasons 5 thur 10, lol
So those are all the pictures of some of what I got for Christmas under the tree. Got some clothes but not saying what kind lol.

Huggs,

Cleary

The Day After...Part 1

(Me in my new PJ's by the tree)

Well, The presents are all unwraped and Christmas Dinner is put away, Family has all gone home. The weather today is colder and it's overcast and yucky out with brief pactchs of sun.

So I thought I would upload some pictures of what Santa was nice enough to bring me.

First off I got a new belt for my jeans, and the black flowerd thing next to it is another set of Pj's like the ones above.

The the big present I got is this Serger. I also got an appointment at my LQS to learn how to run & thread it on Tuesday. Then I also get Free Classes to learn how to use it on different things.
Then I found all these in my Stocking. Heat & Bond lite so I'm set for doing Appliques for awhile.

I also got this like box so Now I can do all the lovely stichery blocks and do my scrolls for the SCA. So now on to part 2.

Huggs,

Cleary

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope that everyone has all their present wrap and can sit back and enjoy time with family and friends this evening and tomorrow. I got Brant's quilt finished and wrapped today so I'm done with my christmas stuff. Tonight me and Hubby will be watching "The Christmas Story" on TBS we watch it every year.

Tomorrow we will be going over to MIL's for dinner. Everyone please stay safe and warm.

Brightest Blessings!

Huggs,

Cleary

Design Wall Monday

This is a Christmas quilt for my Son. I have to quilt and bind it this week in time for Christmas.
Happy Holidays,
Cleary

Happy Yule & other stuff.

Happy Yule!

I have the Candle lite in the window to greet the Morning Sun for this is the beganing of the return of the sun. Tonight is the longest night of the year and a time to reflect on where you are and where you want to be, at least it is for me.
The picture above is some more of my decorations, that's my Teddybear section. The picture below is a tree Hubby got for the party we had today to put all the gift exchanges under and I used my handmade ornaments on it.And this is my new Tree Hubby bought me, since the kids have moved out we don't need the 7ft one so we got a 4ft one and all my ornaments fit on it and it came pre-lighted, what a nice thing that was. No more hassles with string lights. It only took me an hour to get it up not all day, but I also missed the kids because they always helped hang the ornaments on it.
I already put the presents under it so that's all done too. I just have one more present to finish, which I hope to do this coming week. Then on Christmas day DS and MIL will be coming over for dinner. We are having ham this year with all the fixings.

Also, one of the blogs I follow Irish Muses is having a Give-away for Christmas so please check it out. Who wouldn't want so preety stuff for Ireland.

Well that's all for tonight.

Brightest Yule Blessings Everyone!

Huggs,

Cleary

Don't forget our Soldier's on Christmas

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear..
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then thesure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight. A soldier,
I puzzled, some twenty years old,Perhaps a Marine,
huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right, I'm out here by choice.
I'm here every night."
"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,
"Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,

Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.."
" So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done, For being away from your wife and your son.
"Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.

"LCDR Jeff Giles,
SC, USN30th Naval Construction RegimentOIC,
Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq

Thank you to all the Soldier's out there this Holiday season, We love you!
Cleary K. & Family

Jolly Jabber Give-a-way

Jolly Jabber is having a give-a-way( click on the picture above to read about it.) You have to write a letter to Santa telling him what you want and why. So here goes :-)

Dear Santa,
I've been mostly good this year, I mean really really good this year. I haven't gotten any stash that I haven't used and I've even completed some of those oh so troubling UFO's that seem to pile up everywhere. I'm hoping that the raindeer & elves will fill your sack with the following kit. Glace Frosted Windowpanes Quilt Kit by Brenda Riddle

so on Christmas Eve you can leave it under my tree. The reason I would really like this kit is being in the SCA, my persona is a 13 century French Lady and with the Fluers on this quilt it would be perfect for a cover on my bed when I go camping as it is a very period looking quilt.
Happy Holidays,
Cleary

2007 Christmas Blocks Table Topper

Got another UFO done today and already put it on my table for Christmas.


Monday I get to go to my LQS and get a Serger , I can't wait.
Happy Holidays,
Cleary