Welcome to my Haven...grab a cup of hot tea or coco and see what's up today!

Welcome to my Haven...grab a cup of hot tea or coco and see what's up today!
I Live in a Witches World of Broomsticks and Magick!


May All Your Angels Be Wicked Good!

Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Samhain & Halloween, it's also my Anniversay today!


I hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday today no matter which one you do.
Today I'm trying to finish Hubby's tunic for him. Then I have to make a couple of presents for the next SCA event. After that I have some ornaments to make for a swap that are due soon.
I'll most likely be watching Ghost Hunters tonight.
Have a Blessed Day!
Huggs,
Cleary

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Thanksgiving Swap........


Well now that I know my partner Jenna got her package I can show you what I sent her. It was really fun getting things for her. The Turkey is a candlemat.( Above)
This is what she sent me. I really love everything the candle smells like punkin pie. and the necklase was a kit that I put together. ( Below)

I've been not feeling well this week so it really was nice to get a suprise in the mail.

Hope everyone has a Blessed Day!

Huggs,

Cleary

Monday, October 20, 2008

Busy sewing day.




I've been sewing most of today and it's been really fun, I have most of the top done on my TR I've been making, I couldn't decide between adding Santa's to the green blocks or not but I furgured it looked better with them. Now all I have to do is pillowcase it with the backing and batting tomorrow. This is what the Santa;s look like:

The next thing I worked on today is a project for my group Learning 2 Quilt. We have a project to do each month and it's so much fun, this month we did potholders but I made mine a trivet.The last thing I want to show you is a banner I made for me to show at the SCA. We get to have them to represent us at the events, and this is the one I made for me. As I love hummingbirds and do alot of crafts I thought it represents that really well, plus it's my favorite colors.Well, that's all the news for today. Have a Blessed Evening!

Huggs,

Cleary

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Quiltathon this weekend.

Today is the Quiltathon at Patchwork Times I'm working on a table runner today here are some pictures of it so far. I had to figure out which way I wanted the stripes on the outside triangles to go, so I'm going with this one

This was the other way I had themI'm not sure what I'm going to do with it when I get it finished will have to see. May use it as a Christmas gift.

it's raining here today so I haven't been doing much.

Have a Blessed Evening!

Huggs,

Cleary

Friday, October 17, 2008

SCA: fight practice



I went to my first fight practice last night to watch Hubby fight, boy was that cool. I got a couple of pictures of him in his armor but it was getting dark out so I lightened them up as much as I could, He's the one with the helmit on. Next week I might go again if I feel well enough, hopefully it will be lighter out so I can get better pictures. You should see the bruse he has on his leg from getting hit there. I wouldn't be walking lol. They fight with Ratan swords that they make themselves and most of their armor is made by themselves to. Will post more pictures if I go next week.
Huggs,
Cleary

Wednesday Craft Class

Well I met my friend Amy ( see picture) at the Country store which is the halfway point between my house and her's. Then we went to the class she was teaching at her church. Well, the class she was teaching is a table runner. Here are some pictures of all of us working on them.

My TR came out like this:

I really like the way it turned out and I'm going to make another smaller one this weekend. We are having the class again next week so that everyone else can finish theirs.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Halloween Decorations and a sneak peek......



I figured I would show you some of my Halloween decorations around my house. This is my one of my favorite times of the year. It is also my Wedding Anniversay on the 31st. The picture above is what I keep on my kitchen table. The little punkin is a bowl and the witch's hat opens up.

The Witch I made last year from a Fons and Porter magazine. It hangs there all year round.This is on my front door, it was given to me when I was in the Women's Shelter a few years ago ( I have one for each season). Plus some matching towels hanging in my bathroom.


Oh I found a cute and yummy recipe on this blog for Bat Cupcakes check them out, they look really good and who doesn't love chocolate kisses?


These two cuties are in my sewing room. I also keep the cat up year round . Today I'm going to a table runner class my friend Amy is having it's free here are the fabrics I picked for it, I figured I needed something for Christmas as I made the placemats last year. and these fabrics match the colors of them. I think it's going to be fun and I can't wait to get out of the house for awhile. I'm bring my cramara so I can take pictures and will share them tomorrow


The above picture is of my cover I made for my sewing machine when I take it anywhere got the fabic when I went on a shop hop a couple of years ago.The above is a Plastic Canvas wall hanging I'm trying to finish, it was an RR when I had my group on MSN. So it is really old, but I keep misplacing the yarn so have to hunt for it everytime I want to try and finish it. Maybe this year I will get it finished, it is never high on my list of things to do because every year we go to my MIL's for dinner so I only decorate alittle here at home.

Okay here is the sneak peak I promised you. It's going to be made into something for the Thankgiving swap i'm in. But, I'm not saying what and I hope my partner likes it.

Well I think that's all the news for today I hope you like my decorations. Have a Blessed Day!

Huggs,

Cleary

Monday, October 13, 2008

PlayStation 2 & Nintendo....My other hobby...


I thought I would share my other hobby with you. I love playing video games. Right now I'm playing "Baldur's Gate 1- Dark Alliance". I have both 1 & 2 hopefully they will come out with 3 soon. There is also a book series about this called "The Legend of Drizzt" by R.A. Salvatore, I've read most of them but not all yet. I also play Nintendo 64 & Super Nintendo. I have a bunch of games on them I play like "Breath of Fire" and "EarthBound", "Gaia", etc. So who else plays????
Huggs,
Cleary

What a weekend.......


Well, I spent the weekend sewing bags for a friend of mine who makes grab for the SCA. it was for a trade of a tunic for Hubby and a dress for me. I made 50 of them as you can see in the picture. She is going to use them to sell with the Runes she sells. plus I made 5 more because Hubby and DD wanted some lol.

Then me and DD were messing around with the camara after taking the pictures of the bags. DD is in the top picture. I'm below.

Today I went to the Cottage Housewarming party, you can click on the link on my sidebar at the top. It was really cool of them to do this and they are having lots of giveaways and prizes.

Also don't forget to sign-up for my swap 12 days of Christmas, the link is on the sidebar, it's called Haven's Swaps.

I'm still waiting on my doctor to call. Hopefully they will today. So while I'm waiting I have an idea for my challenge fabric I got from on of my groups. I have to look up Paper doll patterns to see if I can do it as the theme is family and I figured I could use some of the paperdoll patterns for templates. Will let you know how it goes. I also have to start working on my guild challene it's due in Dec. the theme is When I think of Florida this is what I see. I have an idea but just have to make it.

I'm still working on things for my Thanksgiving swap almost have the package ready to send. I'm glad I got postage already or it would have been late as our rearend broke and now we have to fix it. So I had to drop a couple of my swaps for November. But not the ones in December.

Well that's all the news from this weekend.

Have a Blessed Day!

Huggs,

Cleary

Friday, October 10, 2008

My Mess....

Wensday I ended up calling my Kidney doctor about the pain I was in and some other problems, well he told me to go get bloodwork done at the hospital that day so I went, he also told me to take it easy and rest so yesterday I did just that, while waitting for him to call back with the results. So I decieded to clean my sewing area up alittle, Hubby had given me a shelf to put my thread on and that lead to cleaning up the top shelf above my sewing machines.
The pictures below are of what I still have to straighten up and clean. Hope to get it finished this weekend. Will post after pictures when I'm finished.
This is my stash area that needs to be straighten up and refolded soon.

This last one is of my computer desk.




Yesterday we had some really bad thunderstorms come though and a tornado touch down 4 miles away, no one was hurt but there was some damage to farm equipment and the power was out for 2 hours. It's supposed to rain again today but I hope it's not as bad. I'm still waiting on the Doctor to call me back hopefully he will today.
Tonight I have to cut out a bunch of bags so I can get them sewed up this weekend. They are for Runes so I want to have them done by Tuesday so I can bless them on Tuesday durning the full moon.
Well, that's all for today. Have a Blessed Day!
Huggs,
Cleary

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

New Blog- Haven Swaps


I have a new blog I just started. I will be hosting swaps on it. My first swap is 12 Days of Christmas check it out by clicking on the picture below. Well it's over cast and very windy, it looks like Winter here not Fall. Not sure what I'm going to work on today as yesterday we were supposed to go to our Shire meeting and we didn't make it. We went into town early so Hubby could do his Mom's bushs, trimming and weeding and while we were there my back started hurting and then my kidneys went off it was horrible, at first I was just in pain, then I felt like I had to og to the bathroom all the time, finnally I just told hubby to take me home and I layed down on the couch and went to be early last night was up at 5:54am this morning and I still have to call my doctor but I feel alot better today. So hopefully I can go with Hubby to fight practise Thursday as we were supposed to go out to dinner yesterday and he said we will do it Thursday.
Have a Blessed day!

Huggs,

Cleary

Monday giveaway........

http://www.embtreasures.com/2008/10/monday-giveaway-bit-of-benartex-for.html is having a give away, check it out.
Huggs,
Cleary

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Challenge Fabric....



I got this in the mail this weekend it's for a challenge. I have to make a small wall hanging out of it or something small. The theme is FAMILY so now I have to put my thinking cap on. above is a picture of what the fabric looks like and the second one is how big the pieces are I got 3 of them.

I also spent the day tying a quilt, no pictures of it yet.

Huggs,

Cleary

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Angel Stiching Bag

Well today I worked on an Angel Stitching project. It's the Sewing bag. Not sure where it's going yet as I want to make another one tomorrow for my Angel as her colors are different than this. I was making sure I could do the pattern and have iit come out right before I made one for her. I also been working on the Cat Scissor holder but it's not coming out right for me so will have to pick on of the other projects to try.

This is the Front of the bag (Above)This is the back of the bag: aboveThis is the inside of the bag: above The pattern was from May Britt Dammen I had alot of fun making it.

Hope everyone has a blessed day!

Huggs,

Cleary

Updating my pages and blog

  Ive been testing out my embroidery machine after 3 years of not using it and getting it back. I'm going to be able to make Angels and ...