Happy (snowy) Thanksgiving !!!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! We have some of the white stuff here at MBIAJ Headquaraters (northeast Pa) ..... so "Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go...... the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh in the white and drifted (1 - 2 inches ) snow .....over the river and through the woods hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm hmmm hmmm hmmmm (don't know the words here) Thanksgiving Day !!"

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Be back soon!
Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)

Thanksgiving Holiday Head Gear ........

Hello everybody out there in Blogland! Well we're closing in on Thanksgiving here in the USA and if you don't yet have your Thanksgiving Holiday Head Gear selected, well you've come to the right place. We here at MBIAJ Headquarters are your Thanksgiving Holiday Head Gear resource guide!




First up is what we like to refer to as the "turkey tiara" .... available at Pottery Barn Kids ....OR you probably could make one fairly easily out of felt or even just construction paper .





Looks like Kitty might want one of those ..... after all, who wouldn't look good in a turkey tiara ?











And of course you just cannot show up at Thanksgiving dinner without your Pilgrim hats !!! The instructions for these are in ......






...the November issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine and online.





So, hurry along and whip up a bunch of those turkey tiaras and pilgrim hats because wouldn't it be fun to see grandma, grandpa, Uncle Herb, Aunt Martha, Cousin Earl and all of the rest of the relatives all sitting at the Thanksgiving table wearing their Thanksgiving hats!?!?!!! .... it would look like they all just stepped off the Mayflower and are celebrating the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth don't you think ?!?!?!

Be back soon !
Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)

Pissed off Pilgrim ....

Good morning Blogland Neighborhood! The MBIAJ Paperwork Dept is coming up for air briefly to say hello and see what's going on around here. UH OH ....... Kitty is looking like one pissed off pilgrim (or does she look more like a furious flying nun?) Anyhow, I think she's irked because the MBIAJ Sewing Dept is SOOOOOOOOOO far behind on projects (from what I hear they're still trying to get a couple of minutes together to finish up this Halloween wall hanging !) ..... and now that Thanksgiving is slightly less than a week away, you just KNOW that Christmas will be here in the blink of an eye ..... and, as is our usual state of affairs, MBIAJ Headquarters will be hastily clearing away our rotting pumpkins to throw Christmas together at the very last minute (and writing out I.O.U. notes for all those unfinished presents ) .....sigh ......

Be back soon !
Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)

Drowning in paperwork ........(and laundry)

Hello Blogland Neighborhood! Is it November already ?!?!???? The days/weeks/ months are passing us by here at MBIAJ Headquarters because the day job has us DROWNING in endless piles of paperwork !!!! (to go along with the endless piles of laundry!)
(sigh) Anyhow, at least the computer seems to be working now ..... so as soon as we can get our heads above water (i.e. paperwork) we'll be back to play here in Blogland!

Be back soon! (hopefully!)
Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)

Happy Halloween !!!!

Happy Halloween Blogland Neighborhood! We're having major computer problems here at MBIAJ Headquarters (and have not been able to get to important things like blogging .... and finishing up the alternate directions to the "Practical Magic" wallhanging as previously promised .....SO SORRY !!! Right now, this blog post is being done on a borrowed laptop and we can't upload any of the pictures needed to go with the instructions ....AAARRRRRGH !!!!!!) SO....since our computer seems to be under an evil spell, we sent for this expert (the one in the picture with the pointy hat riding the broom) to conjure up a counter spell to FIX THE DARN THING !!!!

Time for Trick or Treating !!!

Be back soon! (hopefully!)
Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)

Catching up ...... (trying!)

Hello out there in Blogland !! Have you all been by to visit .....



"Get Your Craft On" at Today's Creative Blog? Well, you should zip on over there because every Tuesday (I think) Kim (Today's Creative Blog Blogger) hosts "Get Your Craft On" where you can join in and post your latest creation! ....AND you can see lots of other crafters', bakers', decorators' fun stuff! So...the MBIAJ Sewing /Quilting Dept thought that SINCE they scrambled to finish the Breast Cancer Awareness Quilt Block Challenge for our local quilt shop AND actually finished and delivered it to the shop with exactly 1 minute to spare (and that was with the extention on the deadline from Wednesday evening to Saturday at noon) .... we thought we'd post a picture of it here AND on the Tueday "Get Your Craft On" ... So.....





....HERE it is!!! "Fight On Sister"!!! Ta Daaaa !








OK .... back to the sweat shop ....ummmm sewing room .... LOTS more stuff to catch up on !!! (including posting the alternate instructions for the quilt class I taught a couple of WEEKS ago ... yikes!!!! They're coming .... I PROMISE !)

Be back soon!
Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble" ....it's time to pick a WINNER !!!

TGIF Blogland Neighborhood and welcome to our Giveaway drawing! Now, as usual, Kitty has to be in charge of the actual drawing of the winner's name and she left instructions for us to meet her outside .....hmmmmm......






......oh no ....she's stirring up something in that caldron ....and she's chanting something about double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble .... witch's brew?!?!??? eye of newt, and toe of frog ?
















.....oh (phew) it's just all the names for the giveaway drawing......OK Kitty, do your magic spell and conjure up a winner !




...."Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf; hocus pocus and a big fat POOF !!! ... and the winner is ......"

















......Jan !!!! Yahoo for Jan !!!! Congratulations !! (Jan email me your address so I can send you your loot!)

Well, what a relief ... we have a winner AND Kitty didn't turn anybody into a frog! THANKS everybody for entering our giveaway and for all of your very nice comments !!!:)

Be back soon!
Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)