It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

The tree is finally up and decorated. Between all of the cookie baking, the tree and decorations, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here!

Most of my tree decorations are handmade, either by me, our children, grandchildren or talented friends. This snowman is one of my favorites...it is made from a burned out light bulb and uses a tea dyed child's sock for the hat. It's a great way to recycle light bulbs and anyone can make them!

While I'm on the subject of Christmas, I want to thank my friend, Melanie, at Jellybean Angel for this Christmas Spirit Award.
Here are the rules for the Christmas Spirit Award...

You must be a true Christmas lover to receive this award. The person to whom you give the award must also be in love with Christmas. You must link back to the person who gave you the award. You must list 5 things that you love about Christmas. If you can't limit it to 5 things, then keep going till you run out of space! Pass the award along to as many people as you like. That can be 1 or 50. It's up to you! But, you must pass it on to at least one person in order to keep the Christmas cheer going! Let your recipients know that you have tagged them by leaving them a comment.

These are five things that I love about Christmas...

1. Baking Christmas cookies (and eating them!)
2. Classic Christmas music (Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra...)

3. Working on Christmas projects next to the fire.
4. Shopping and more shopping.

5. Seeing my grandchildren so excited about the holiday.

I'm going to bend the rules a bit and rather than nominating specific blogs for this award, I would like to pass it on to all of you who love Christmas! Just leave a comment saying that you love Christmas along with a link to your blog if you choose to accept this award.

Blogging Friends Forever Award

Melanie at jellybeanangel awarded me this Blogging Friends Forever Award.

The rules are as follows:

1. 5 people are allowed to receive this award
2. 4 dedicated followers
3. 1 new follower to your blog who lives in another part of the world
4. Please link back to the person who gave you this award.

I will give this award to:

1. Julz of Julz Dezign

Julz lives in New Zealand and is a fairly new follower of my blog.

2. Anya at Hills Creek Quilter

Anya is the one who talked me into the idea of starting a blog...without her, I wouldn't have a blog to follow!

3. Barb at *We* Quilt

Barb was one of the first people to comment on my blog and has been a faithful follower from the beginning.

4. Kathy at Creative Urges

Kathy is another one who found my blog early on and has also been a faithful follower.

5. Kutiekare at Quilting With Grace

"Kutiekare" has been following my blog for awhile and always has a kind word to share.

Kreativ Blogger Award

Much to my surprise, my blogging friend, Kathy, from Creative Urges has passed the Kreativ Blogger Award on to me! It's quite an honor...thanks Kathy!

The rules of the award are:

1. The winner may put the logo on her blog.

2. Put a link to the person you got the award from in your blog.

3. Nominate 5 blogs.

4. Put links to the blogs.

5. Leave a message for your nominees.

My five nominees are (in no particular order)...

Anya at Hills Creek Quilter

Deb at The Angel and the Pukeko

Barb at *We* Quilt

Karen at Journey of a Quilter

Melanie at jellybeanangel

All of these ladies have wonderful blogs full of inspiration for quilters! Visit their blogs and I guarantee that you will be impressed with their talent.