On the 5th Day of Christmas.....

On the 5th day of Fabric-Etc's 12 Days of Christmas Quick and Easy Gift Ideas (why did I make such a long name for this, anyway?)....we feature our Chicken Pincushion, with a new twist! If I were that chicken, I wouldn't be too happy with the photographer - it's not the best likeness. Looks like she has her beak up in the air! Anyway, when you see her in person, she's pretty darn cute. So, back to the twist. We made these last year and stuffed them with poly fil and then some poly pellets to give them a bit of weight. But we found that they kind of "flew" around...not heavy enough. So, this year we unstuffed this fowl most of the way and filled her in with our crushed glass insides. Much better!!! You'll have to come and look - OK?

What else happened today? Well, Jan and I took down the boutique and moved the Nifty Notion Sale table, because tomorrow Mary Ann is teaching the Gucci Bag class and it's a full class! I know this is a busy time of the year, and there are lots of others who are interested, so she'll teach it again in January or February. Let us know, and we'll put your name on the "to be called" list we have at the store. And we got fabric! "Just Desserts" from Clothworks arrived. It's pretty darn cute. Jan has already gotten our 60 degree ruler out and has a very fun tablerunner to cut out tomorrow while the class is going on. Otherwise, we're working on Fat Tuesday for February and trying to clean up the messiness that I always seem to attract.

Enough for tonight.... I'm doing some "shock and awe" to some wool felt charm squares we also have a plan for tomorrow. Stay tuned!