Yikes! Where did December go??

I am a BAD blogger!!  And I do apologize for being such a slug!!  I simply cannot figure out where November and December went??

I know part of not blogging is that I only write my blog posts on my laptop...which I rarely ever even turn on anymore...  I have a cool Zaggs keyboard attached to my iPad and pretty much only use that.  I need to figure out how to post from an iPad.  Anyone do this?  Please give me tips and tricks and what app you use! 
Well, lots to share! Since I last posted, I went on a four day quilt retreat with over forty guild members in the mountains of West Virginia.  It was ever so fun and productive!!  I completed a pumpkin quilt top (still not quilted yet), did some applique on my Cozy Christmas blocks and worked on our guild mystery quilt.  None of which is completed yet, so no pix yet!
This year, I fell in love with trees in trucks for Christmas, so I made this little wall quilt for my sister for Christmas  

and I made a larger one for me.  It is all sandwiched and pinned and ready to quilt.

I've been wanting to find a china cabinet to fit a space in my morning room, but could not really find just what I was looking for.  Then I found this cabinet at a consignment store for a really good price.

Solid oak, but the golden color was too light to go with the other furniture pieces in that room, so I darkened the stain and also painted the doors black.  

I really LOVE how it turned out!!  It matches the other pieces perfectly and also shows off my black and white dishes just spectacularly!!  I am so happy with it!

I had been given this cool scarecrow pattern and embellishment kit years ago, and I finally got it made!!  Yay!!  

I always love the fall colors up against royal blue!  Just really makes those golds and oranges and red really pop!!

And the last few weeks, I've been super busy making handmade bee gifts!!  

For one bee group, I made seven quilt drafting notebooks with a ruler, mechanical pencil and colored pencils inside.

And for the other bee group, I made us all covers, mats with pockets, thread catcher and pin cushion, and an inside machine bed pad, 

and tiny Dresden plate spool pin doilies 



for our featherweight machines using a fat quarter bundle of 30's prints.

Of course, I have more adorable photos of our new grandson, Neal!!

He is now 11 weeks old!  And soooo cute!

He smiles readily and is discovering his hands and what they can do!!

And he will be here tomorrow with his parents for Christmas!!  We are soooo excited!!

I know when they get here, time will fly again, and I'll be too busy to post until after New Years!  So I hope you and yours have a most wonderful Christmas and a very blessed New Year!  

And Yogi and I will try to post more often in 2017!!  Promise!!