I'm making a candle mat for "Woman's Gift" for Christmas with my family.  The mat will be about 6x8 rectangle, looking just like a mug rug.

I googled candle mat and what came up was mats that are round.  But who's to say that a candle mat can't have four 90 degree edges??

pattern is from conniekresin.com

(thank you, Connie)

And 45 minutes later.....

Then....

And a half hour later....

More to come.

favorite photos of the day

Bradford pear trees glistening with ice

 

 

Glistening winter garden

 

 

 Late afternoon sun

 

 

 Almost home and this was the iciest street I encountered today

cabin in the woods

What a day for a photo op!  This little cabin's

 been sittin' here and waitin' on me

to stop by and take it's picture.

Our last 2014 Christmas is this weekend. ....

I loved this idea for gift wrapping using two different craft paper wraps.   

The pressies were for our 2 great-grands.  They tore into them.  

Their 7 year old boy-cousin they brought actually commented on the wrap.

He liked it!!  I was tickled that this young child was noticing the effort <3