December.....(340)

Today's Stroll piece is the last of the Shepherd's Bush Fold series, December.  

 I went to the VGN Christmas lunch today and it was lovely. We had a talk on felted wool sculptures and made a little felted 'fob'. Sharon, one of our members, made us sweet little pin holders out of salt shakers filled with gold beads for the 50th anniversary of the guild. This is getting filed away for future reference!

 
There was a pottery sale going on, at the church where we meet, for a local charity so I checked it out after the meeting. Won't this make an adorable ort container???

And to end....we got wonderful news yesterday! The path is cleared for my daughter and son-in-law to travel to Sierra Leone and bring home James and Esther. They leave early Tuesday morning and return late Saturday night. So very soon we will be the proud new grandparents of two darling children. I will post pics as soon as I can. Plans are to keep things very low key for the Christmas season as they will be quite overwhelmed with our culture as compared to theirs.

Thanks for stopping by and your "twisted threads" of friendship!

Stasi

PS     Don't forget to enter my drawing...here are the details from the 11/22 post..good luck!!! I am extending the deadline to enter until 12/10/17.

"I just realized today is my 500th blog post....330 just this year--wow!!! To celebrate I'm going to have a giveaway. For every comment left between today and November 30th, you can enter to win the framed piece, Out of the Box by The Trilogy; it's tiny and can fit almost anywhere. Or, if you'd rather do some of your own stitching, you can enter to win the chart Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow  by Carriage House Samplings. Just leave a comment and state which item you want a chance to win. You can have one entry per post through the 30th and I will pick the winners on December 11th."