SeWonderful Quilts

Getting ready to send my box of quilts in to sewonderful quilts. A great charity that gives quilts to sick children in the hospital. They will send you the fabric if you want, or you can use your own. The patterns can be as simple or complex as you feel like making. If you enjoy sewing, please check them out.


Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Ramblings from October

The Altar at St. Ferdinand

nun doll collection at St Ferdinand

We attended 1st friday Mass at St. Ferdinand church.

 

replica of the original St Ferdinand

 

 

 We kept busy making a birthday gift (top) for a BFF. And 2 baptism gifts for some special little friends.
*all crafts and sewing projects were done by bashing my stash :) no new material or supplies were bought*

 We did some rock climbing!

And some rocking out to 1D in the car :)

And of course some shopping for beautiful little girls.

 We had friends for a visit and went to the Art Museum.

And did some "trunk or treating" and fell in love with baby animals at the petting zoo.

A very happy girl that her costume for her history project is Finally done! And a very happy momma that it was done 95% by said happy girl! She did a great job.


Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

A garden for Mary

I posted yesterday, that I was reading A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms  Mary was the first saint, in this really awesome book. Each chapter has suggested activities to do with the kids, and Mary's was a Mary garden. January in Illinois, probably not the best time to start a garden. We needed a new center piece for your dining room table, we have been changing it according to the season or holiday and the kids have been making them. So we decided to make Mary be our center piece and make her a rose garden.

First we got our supplies, the large pink octagon is the base for our roses, the green circles are our leaves and I used my quilting ruler to trace 4 inch squares out of construction paper, the little slips left over I threw in our bookmark box.

 we rounded the corners then drew a spiral in the squares, cut along that spiral and rolled it up, gave it a pinch and then glued it the our leaves.



 We used the dessert plate to make Mary's garden 2 tiered.

 We glued our roses on to the base, I put a book on top to hold them down in the glue to make sure they really stuck.

 She said "mom, let me take your picture, you look beautiful" how could I say no to that :)

I sprayed a little craft glue all over it when we were done to be sure the roses really stuck, and the girls sprinkled glitter on the bottom roses. It was a fun afternoon craft and a wonderful center piece!

St. Mary pray for us

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi





Thursday part 2

Well I never even started the post for Thursday part 2 until Friday afternoon, : ) but we did not do much we made a prayer book, with the A.l.t.a.r. prayers. Adoration, love, thanks, ask, reconcile. And some more quite reading. And I do not remember what else! And so for today we have not done much, me and Maria went to Joann fabric to get some things for a up coming craft show. They were having a big Presidents sale so they were super busy.so it much longer then I thought even though I new it would be busy and allowed more time then usual. so we got home had a late lunch. and watched The Little Princess, with Shirley Temple. And I plan on going through a couple of  folders of school stuff. We will doing a couple of things after dinner, just what I am not sure yet.

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Wow,

Wow, lots happening over here at teaching saints. We had a big move to a new town, only about 20 minutes away from where we were before but we downsized A LOT which meant a lot of going through and getting rid of for all! And in the middle of it all I planned a All Hallows Eve party for church. which thanks to some very creative priests was a HUGE hit. we had about 150 kids and everyone had a great time. And that was a the end of a long, and very busy summer. So much for a quiet fall, lol. but we are now settling into a normal routine again, Praise be to God!! So I hope to be blogging more often. May God Bless you during this month of thanksgiving. And don't forget to pray for those in purgatory. We went to a awesome remembrance mass last night. and we will be doing this awesome craft on Tuesday, from Waltzing Matilda. She really has some of the coolest ideas. enjoy.

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi