Three Kitchen Fairies

Merry Christmas!!

Our Christmas Eve dinner is almost ready. The turkey is in the oven, the empanadas are done. The girls baked ginger cookies for Santa. Jose is in charge of dessert and salad, and he's in the kitchen as we speak, and the fairies are taking a nap. They'll stay up late tonight because our celebration of Christmas is more South America style. We'll be having a late dinner, and after we put Baby Jesus in the manger after midnight the girls we'll open presents from mom and dad and grandparents. We'll celebrate tomorrow too with presents from Santa...if we're in the "nice list"

But I didn't forget about you. My lovely bloggy and flickr friends who make my crafty life much fun. This is a little something for those creative friends that host fun giveaways, flickr groups, and quilting bees, as well as fantastic swaps. Thank you too all of you who swap with me this year and too all of you who gave me ideas, tips, and answer my e-mail with question about such and such. I love you all, and as a token of my friendship and gratitude I made this for you.

 
You can download this embroidery pattern from here. Feel free pass it along to your friends, it was made for sharing because after all that's what we do, right? I wish you a merry, merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a wonderful New Year!! XOXO

A quick post...I just found this feature in my Typepad account, and I decided to give it a try. I uploaded a picture and I have no idea how this post is going to look. This is a quick project I made a couple of afternoons ago. It's made of Christmas fabric scraps and some light canvas. I mounted it but I kind of messed up in the streching part, so the seams look to strechy and that makes the lines crooked. I like it anyway, and this proves that I'm now enjoying this Christmas seasom. Hugs!!

into the Christmas mood...

We're only six days away from Christmas Eve, and I've been having a hard time getting in the mood for it. Although I 've been playing along (setting the Christmas tree, and all sorts of decorations,) the daily issues of life kind of ruined what ever peaceful, cheery feeling I have within myself every morning of the last week or so. Two days ago I actually felt quite Grinchy when the printer wouldn't let me print a silly drawing I was working on. Mr. KF was nice enough to take all of us out of the house to go visit Santa at the mall, and the for a nice drive through down town to see the Christmas light. He fixed me!! but he doesn't know that yet, hehehe, and I got my Christmas mojo back.

 
My nine year old daughter came to me with a wonderful idea she found in her American Girl magazine. It was a mixture of cocoa and some other yummy things such as chocolate morsels, marshmallows, cinnamon, and sugar [in this case] to make a personalized cocoa mix. Those Christmas light made me feel so in the mood that we rushed to the store to get the ingredients and the jars to make these cuties to be deliver to all her aunts, grandmas, and cousins for Christmas. We spent the afternoon mixing, labeling, and decorating these jars. We try the cocoa and it turned out to be quite a heart warming delish.

She even wrote the  recipe, just in case any of you wants to give it a try...

...and that's how my fairies got me in back the mood, right there: in the kitchen.

Now I'm sewing  place mats out of Christmas fabrics, and I have so many Christmas-ish ideas are flowing through my head...
 
 

Cupcake obsession + embroidery pattern.

Do you remember this post?? Well, maybe you are new to my blog or you haven't been around for long. I have this obsession with cupcakes.

I bake them, I eat them, I draw them, and I embroider them too.

...here is another picture so I that I make my point. To make this story (post) short just let me tell you that I have this original pattern on my etsy. It's almost free, sort of speaking. Thanks to your lovely comments, there are at least four more embroidery patterns in the making. I'll be keeping you "posted."
 
 

Pincushion again...

 

I can never get tired to playing/making these pincushions. They're a such happy stuffies. The fairies love to stuff them.These pincushions have been in great demand among friends and family. I made a batch of ten and four are already gone.

So hurry up!! I know you can make them too but I'll save you the time since your "to do" list is already full. I'll deliver them in a clear box with a pretty bow, and ready to go.

Checked them out at my store!!