I ate my words.

I told myself ....

"I'm not going to make any holiday gifts or 

seasonal crafts this year."

My friends and I have ENOUGH!

I know that sounds strange coming from a

CRAFTY blogger. :)

But.....

Life is BUSY.

I wanted to TAKE OFF the pressure.

FOCUS on the important stuff.

 I was doing really good until I saw this.

Then I tried one snowflake...

and....

I was hooked.

It was a fairly easy project.

I used some old red fabric that had

little gold dots on one side.

I didn't like those sparkly dots....

so I used the backside!

The lime green is linen.

I love linen on the table.

Guess what this is on the back????

Yep!

Flannel.

I even had some lime green cotton

that matches almost perfectly

for the binding!

Woo Hoo!

Another project

without

spending A DIME!

Sometimes it's FUN to eat your words.

;)

And you know what???

I'll probably EAT my WORDS

a FEW more times before CHRISTMAS.

There are just TOO many inspiring things

floating around BLOGLAND!

I'll try NOT to get too

DISTRACTED on the FUN things

and TRY to focus on the

IMPORTANT things.

Do you have this FOCUS problem

sometimes too??

:/

I realized AFTER

fiddling with ironing selvages for this project

that I have a very BIG roll of

white bias tape that would have worked

REALLY well.

NO fiddling.

NO pressing.

I'll try to remember to use it next time!

I wonder if there'll BE a next time??

Yeah....

I think there will!

Thanks for the tutorial on these snowflakes Riel!

I used 6" squares for the snowflakes.

3" wide strips for the sashing.

I'm loving my new table runner!

Adding this post to some show and tells today

over at.....

 AmandaJean's, Sarah's, Karen's and Amy's blogs.

Seems there are LOTS of parties in blogland!

:)