SHERI HOWARD DESIGNS
Our Wednesday sewing group is having a retreat for 2 days....I thought it would be fun to make Valentine cards with a little stitching. 
The cards measure 3" x 6" The inside colored paper is 2.5" x 4" Put your machine on a cute zig-zag or scallop and stitch the colored paper to the tag. Add stickers, sparkle glue, and ribbon. You can write your love note on the back!
No calorie Cherry Chocolate Valentines from Cotton Way....so fun, so very "Valentine-y" Charm pack friendly!
GET A LOOK AT THESE COOKIES! I have this obsession about frosted Valentine cookies....I know where it came from. I have probably mentioned it before...but when I was in grade school, it was one of three holidays we ever had treats. I only remember frosted Valentine shaped cookies and red punch....every Valentines Day for six years. Perhaps we had other treats, (I don't think so) and the entire school made Valentine Bags for holding all the Valentines. It had such a profound impression on me of fun, colored paper and art time; goodies, cookies and red punch that Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday! I wish I made cookies that look like this. For a very fun Valentine gift holder, check here....SO CUTE! 
This Valentina's Baby quit and pillow are still available in my Ruby Red Dots book. Check for it at Pickledish store Ruby Red Dots book or on at Amazon.com. It is fast and fun. More Valentine goodies to come! Send me your favorite Valentine ideas or crafts and I will post them on my blog.
I have left THIS.
And have come to a week of THIS.....okay, not quite this because it is warm here, but not this warm....although the sun is out, the sky is blue and it has been in the 75-80's here the past week...and even though it isn't a month at a beach house, it is a week in the sun with my sister! I'll take it! Wish you were all here! 
My dear friend Sherie gave me these darling vintage glass buttons for Christmas.
These are very bad photos....but you get the picture.
They are too pretty to take off the card and use.
I will wait until I find the "perfect place" to use them.
My daughter called a while back and said if I ever wanted to make a quilt, they could use a new one.....I hadn't planned on making one for Christmas, but I already had a quilt (the center section to the blue border) finished as a throw quilt. When I couldn't decide what to give them for Christmas... I added borders to make the throw a queen size.....hurried and gave it to my quilting friend Susan Hansen of Suzy Q's Quilts....and voile----MERRY CHRISTMAS.....I even had the binding all sewn together waiting for the quilt to be finished, 'oneday'!
Isn't this cute....I mean the quilting! My granddaughter wanted to be in every picture. Thank goodness I had the throw already pieced because I didn't have time to make an entire quilt....so having a few things stashed away is a good thing!
Erin from House of Turquoise shared this pretty room. Doesn't it look like a soothing place to land at the end of a day....or during the day in the sunshine with a good book? 
When I woke up this morning this is what the trees looked like from my window.
That means it was so cold over night that the moisture in the air freezes to anything...and makes little frosted flakes. It really is very pretty.
Even the fence around my deck was fuzzy! Look at how the frost stuck straight out!
Mother Nature is so amazing! 