Best retreat ever

or worst?

May the odds be ever in your favor! ;-)

Winter projects

Between weather-related cancellations, 40 some days of sub zero weather, and just the time that's available post Christmas, I've actually been able to do quite a few creative things:

Felt Valentines

Holly's Quilt Top

There are a couple minor changes that aren't in this picture.

Craftsy Class

I've been getting these emails from JoAnn's with offers for a free Craftsy class.  I did this one and learned a few things!  The format is easy and user friendly.  The only trouble now is I'm getting LOTS of emails from them on their pay classes.  I'd be more tempted if my 'net access were a little faster.  There really are lots of good topics!

I finally framed some of my post cards

It's a half price frame designed to hold 3 snapshots.  I removed the mat, added the green background and just taped the cards in place.  It's hanging on the end of the bookshelf.

Edith Stein Conference

 Gallons of famous coffee.

Two days of Jen's friends. :)

Which led to making this

I hope your ears aren't permanently damaged, Jen.  I'll get this in the mail asap.

and finally,
No picture, but if there were it would be of 3 huge binders and several hundred post-it flags marking all the edits completed and sent in for the USCCB's Catechetical and Conformity Review.  This project has been going on for several years (Holly was helping me with it when she was home in the summer - that's how long ago), and it's a pretty big deal to have the revisions in the mail and out of my hands!

So. Much. Drama.

Heard in a conversation today:

"... the DESTRUCTION that it yields!"

Subject:

Yes, the subject of that 15 minute, 20 person discussion was the evils of icing and food coloring, the superiority of cake over cookies in the hospitality world, and the difference between cake and bars. (Is the icing on bars less destructive than cake icing?)

I suggested that pie is superior to all of the above and we should just move in that direction, but do you know how messy cherries are?