a SIMPLY SPLENDID weekend

We had a delightful weekend and I spent a LOT of time sewing! I'm making ALL of our Christmas presents this year {there will be more posted on Christmas thoughts later} and I was delighted to spend time behind Kenny {the new Kenmore from DaddyBoy... which I LOVE btw}, Vicky {the Viking embroidery machine} and Sally {my Singer serger}. Yes, I had a full blown sweatshop running here and you can see my fuel pictured above. I wish I could show you what I was working on but those of you on my list wouldn't be surprised... maybe I'll give you a sneak peek later on this week!

After I finished up some of my projects I went back to that pesky quilt. Are y'all so tired of hearing about that silly little quilt? Well, I decided I wanted to LOVE it and not just LIKE it. So I went back and quilted it. Just X's across all the squares. I washed it. And well, now I LOVE it. It's wrinkly, soft, and even better than before. I came home from a baby shower today and Justin had John Martin wrapped in it... I thought my heart would melt!

Sometimes I leave y'all hanging on previous posts, one of which is the floors... we had an industrial dehumidifier in here for 5 or 6 days and it took care of most of our problems. The only person who notices what little "water damage" we have is me. So, we're thankfully leaving well enough alone and the insurance people CANCELLED the claim! Praise the Lord! The 2nd thing I've left y'all hangin' on is my Aunt Glenny. She is home and thankfully doing better than expected. Her speech is showing signs of improvement and she is comfortable. I look forward to seeing her over Thanksgiving! Thank you for your prayers for her!

Speaking of family and Thanksgiving, we are planning to spend the Thanksgiving holiday at the farm with Mom and DaddyBoy and the rest of my extended family. I have a mission while I'm there {I'm telling you so to hold myself accountable}: record some family history. I've been reading Rick Bragg's newest book The Prince of Frogtown and Justin and I listened to Ava's Man {which I've previously read, along with All Over but the Shoutin'} on the way home from NC last month. Bragg has shown me just how little I know about my family. And because tomorrow is not guaranteed I intend to spend some time with my living grandparents and get some history! Bragg is phenomenal story teller. If you've never read any of his books I suggest you start with All Over but the Shoutin'. He grew up in Jacksonville, AL, which is not far from a place we hold near & dear, Anniston. We lived there for one very precious year; Morgan was born there. Anniston is a BEAUTIFUL small town in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains with kind people and a lot of charm, and holds sweet memories for us.

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In other news, I cleaned up the blog this weekend... can you tell? Narrower margins and a new search bar! I was going to attempt to add "labels" to all my previous posts, but I've been at this too long and the time it would take to categorize all previous posts made my head spin. So, if you've read something on here before and want to find it again just do a search and hopefully it will pop up!

I hope each of you had a delightful weekend too!