~First Christmas Show Of The Season Is In Two Weeks~

It has been a crazy busy place here at Cynthia lee Designs since we’ve been home from Tennessee. My first Christmas show of the season is in two weeks and I’ve been hard at work making goodies to take to the upcoming shows. I finished up all 10 of the snowman pictures, got them priced and packed into the show crates. I did 5 with the words “Let It Snow” and 5 with the word “Snow”…and each one has lots of little snowflakes on them. Only 9 of them are going to the show though…cuz I’m keeping one for myself.

Thought you might like a peek at what I’ve been working on now…and yes, a peek is all you get until I get them all finished. Any ideas on what you think I embroidered these designs for?

Or what these fabric snowmen designs are for?

Well, I hope to finish all these items up tomorrow and will share what they are in my next post…that is if I don’t come down with the flu. Now is not a good time to get the flu with 3 shows coming up, but Mr. D came home from work not feeling well today and we have a feeling that he has the flu. I feel bad for him as it has been a rough week for him. He is the I.T. administrator for a health department and has been putting in a lot of overtime as they are getting things set up for their H1N1 flu clinic to give out the vaccine shots starting next week. So he has already been tired and going with less sleep (which most likely made it easier for him to catch something) and then to top it all off…his car broke down 2 miles from home yesterday. I had to go get him and we had to have the car towed home. ($60.00 to have it towed…oh, was that painful!! If it could of only gone 2 more miles!!) We are hoping this is something the Mr. D and my dad can fix without having to take the car to a shop to have it fixed. The only problem is that my folks are on vacation until November 12th. He is using my van right now…which is ok, since I’ve been home crafting and sewing in my work studio anyways.  Until next time…..        prim blessings, Cindy

~Prim Snowman and More~

I’m back!! From where you ask? We took off this past Friday morning and headed for the hills of Tennessee to visit with family. Mr. D and I had never been to the Smokey Mountain in the Fall before…we had always gone in the Spring or late Summer right before Fall. I must say that October is the prettiest time to see the mountains…the colors were beautiful. We didn’t get any photos on our way down as it rained all day…rain in Ohio…rain in Kentucky…rain in Tennessee. Nothing like hours and hours of rain!!

Since it was a lousy day for picture taking…I worked on all the little Christmas/Winter pillow tuck and got almost all of them stuffed on the trip down. (Pics of them coming soon.) I also worked on getting the prim snowman faces done for the framed pieces that I’m making to take to my Christmas shows. I’m making 10 of them and each one is a little different. I still need to finish up some the frames. (More pics of them coming soon too.)

We had a wonderful time this weekend. Family came up from Georgia on Saturday and we had a big get together to celebrate some birthdays. Mr. D’s parents, his sister, and BIL also traveled down from Ohio. They stayed with my MIL’s sister and we stayed at Mr. D’s aunt Linda’s home. She is an aunt by marriage but is also one of my closest friends. We stayed up late the first night that we got there sharing embroidery and sewing ideas. She had made some of the prettiest Fall decorations for her home and I forgot to take pictures of them to share with all of you . We so wished that we lived closer together and often think about all the sewing, crafting, and embroidering trouble that we could get in together if all those miles didn’t separate us. Thank goodness for email and phone calls…it makes the distance a little less. 

Look at what she made for me. (Linda, I just love it!!)

As you all know…I love my little Chloe!! Yeap…she went to Tennessee too!!

As you can see from the picture above that the sun was shining on the way home, but this is what it looked like when we first headed out for home at 7am Sunday morning.

 

Some fog as the sun started to rise. We would drive through fog and then there was sunshine…then more fog, then sunshine. The mountains were staying true to their name…there don’t called them the Smokey Mountains for nothing!! LOL…

It was hard to get a really good picture of the Fall colors with the fog, but the view was really pretty as we were driving through the mountains.

One of my favorite views of the mountains is when you come across Jellico Mountain right at the edge of Tennessee where it meets Kentucky. I was so hoping that the fog might have cleared by the time we got there…No such luck, but I have to tell you that this was an awesome sight to see. (The fog looked like a lake from a distance.)

The fog cleared up as we got farther into Kentucky and it was a very pretty drive home. I took a few pictures in Kentucky of some quilt square designs that were on the sides of some barns and I even saw one on the side of a shop in a little town near Lexington.

I love going to Tennesse…it has always been my favorite place to visit. There is just something about those mountains that have a special place in my heart and I think that they always will. But after being on the road, I’m always ready to see this site…

…telling me that I’m almost home.

Until next time…      prim blessings, Cindy