A beautiful song.

This is such a beautiful song, it's as if this one comes straight from Heaven..
Caution, get the tissues ready!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBaSLH_3sAw

Contemplation....

.........spent alot of time in contemplation, reflection, etc. 
Losing my Mom as a horrible hit.  Earlier in the year, my Grandmother also went to her heavenly home.  We went from 5 generations to 3 generations in less than a year.
I felt a HUGE hole, loss, in my life.  I spent most waking hours of my days crying.
At times the pain seemed unbearable and I felt alone.
My Mother was more to me than my Mom, she was my best friend, my confidant, my prayer partner, my ROCK.  Together, we upheld every member or this big family in prayer.
I prayed to God for days asking for the comfort and peace I so desparately needed.

The purpose of this post is not to bring us down again, but to share.
After days and days of pleading with God, I finally got my peace.  I came to the realization that I now would carry on the prayer for my family, I sure can do that.
God let me know that he is here and I could "feel" his loving arms around me in comfort.
The week of Christmas, everyone in my home came down with a flu.  It was bad as all of us were down sick at the same time and pretty much on our own.  By Christmas Eve, however, we could finally stand on shaky legs and felt like eating a bit again.  So, Christmas Eve day, we quickly brought in the Christmas tree and hastily decorated it.  Then we prepared food and gathered together and we had a very nice time.
Christmas day, more of the same.
You see, the Lord brought this to my attention, my Mother was whole and in the company of the very one who's birthday we were celebrating here on earth!!  Our saviour Jesus!
I would not call her back here ever.

I just want to  let you all know, no matter how badly you feel, you need only to call upon the Lord, he loves us all.  ALL OF US.

I'll be glad when this year ends, looking forward to new beginnings.  For me, sewing is therapy and I'm really itching to get back into it again.
Have a safe and healthy New Year, I'm sure you'll hear from me again before then!!

My heart is broken....

......into a million tiny pieces.
Last night my sisters and I surrounded my Mother as she left this earth for her new home in Heaven.
My Mother was my rock, my best friend, my comfort....everything.
My Mother is the reason I am the woman I am today.
When I was 13, my mother patiently sat me at her precious sewing machine time and again until she had taught me to properly sew.  "No short cuts Maureen, no unfinished edges or seams"....keep it neat.  She made me a perfectionist, made me pay attention to detail whenever I sewed anything.    She is the reason I am the artist that I have become.
I'm SO PROUD to have called her Mom, our family was SO BLESSED to have been able to share part of her 79 years on this earth. 
She was so strong in her faith in God and became my prayer partner.  But God needed her more.......
We rest assured that she is with her Heavenly Father and our family members that have gone before her and rejoice in knowing that we WILL one day have a reunion with her in Heaven.


Fly Mom with the Angels,
I'm sure you are wearing the biggest set of wings.......

If you could...

.....keep my Mother in your prayers.
She's facing open heart surgery for the second time and  it's extremely serious.  This came out of nowhere and has pretty much knocked the wind out of our family.

An ebay auction....or two.

Can't hardly believe it but I did list two dolls on ebay tonight.  I always sell patterns but cannot remember the last time I listed an actual doll.  There are two separate auctions for the actual dolls in the pattern below.  Had so much trouble doing the listing it took 45 minutes to do both of them.  I don't know if it was me or ebay but I'll blame ebay! HAHAHAHAHA!
Here they are, take a look if you like:  http://www.ebay.com/sch/sweetmeadowsfarm/m.html?hash=item519c2b75b3&item=350512444851&pt=Folk_Art&_trksid=p4340.l2562

Have a good evening!
Maureen

HoHOHo, Let it Snow!

Nope.

We are not getting snow, thank the Lord!

In case you haven't determined this yet, I hate winter.

So, what is it, you ask?

It's these two.  Made the snowman for my open house.  Sold it repeatedly.

Completely sold out....of many.  That's how many I made! hehe

So I thought I'd put it in a pattern because it's WAYYY easy.

Are you seeing a pattern here lately, I've been making some stuff that is fast and easy.

I decided he needed more.  So I then made Santa.

I call this pattern, "HoHOHo, Let it Snow"

Seems to fit.......

They are 14" tall and pattern includes both dolls and their clothing.  Even has a source for making

those little round tags or if you don't wanna make them, you can purchase them ready made to

go with your pattern.

$10.00 + shipping gets you this pattern, ready to ship now.

I don't have the epattern for this one.  I'm shopping for a new scanner tomorrow!!!!

Hope your day is a good one, without snow and warm and sunny to boot!!!!!

Open House, Thanksgiving, a whole week....

....gone in a blur.  We had to take our Mother to the hospital early last week, she was in for a few days and decided she wanted to come home for Thanksgiving.  The Dr., however, did not agree but reluctantly let her go.  "You'll be back tomorrow", he said.  He was right.  This time though, she was so ill she had to be taken by ambulance.  I do have regrets as I pushed for her to be home for the holiday.  I just felt she would know if she was well enough and she DID seem much better.  So the week was a swirl of sleepless nights, worry, migraines (of course) and I squeezed in the open house somewhere as well!

A BIG THANK YOU to all that came, and I'm sorry for those I missed while at the hospital.  We are literally picked clean of Christmas items and handmades....not a bad thing :)  We are planning to be bigger and better next year.

We have started to plan our Spring Open House, date will be announced soon.  We will do 4 Open  Houses a year now that we are no longer doing shows.  I wish I had gotten around to taking pictures but there just was no time.  I did get a great pic of three friendly faces in front of the shop, maybe you know them!!!

They came with their festive handmade Christmas hats, you can't tell in the photo but these hats had Christmas lights and they were lit!!!  Such fun!
I did get this picture to share, I love the way this shutter turned out with the candy cane.  I made this so the candy cane is removable, I was thinking some spring flowers would surely look nice!
(Can you tell I'm ignoring winter??!!)