Rule #3, Christmas EPP, Nespresso Coffee Love, Tumbling Blocks Stars Or Diamonds

 Rule #3 Stop putting things off. The day, hour, and minute has come!

And to celebrate this rule...

Christmas Stitching is fun stitching! Any seasonal stitching is fun I guess but I especially love having something Christmasy to work on.  This was a project from Nicole Young who is  Lillyella.

 Quite a few years ago, Nicole generously offered the EPP templates for free to make this pretty tabletopper and they are still available.  I pinned it to Pinterest in 2014 and kept meaning to try and make one. That day has come!  What a great little gift it will be. It was fun to look through my Christmas fabrics which didn't last long enough as I have so little of it. Anyway, this is a great little project if your turn has come to give EPP a try. 

Here is my beginning.  Not an auspicious start exactly. Just have the templates made and a few possible fabrics picked out. Including that extra large men's shirt I bought at Value Village as I thought it a perfect Christmas candy stripe.

And is there anything you have put off and now realize the day has come!

 Tumbling Block Stars is the name I have been told for my Tumbling Blocks EPP project. These photos are not highlighting the stars instead picking up the diamond rows. Whatever I call the blocks, the project is moving along nicely. Better yet I am still enjoying the hand stitching in making the blocks and sewing them together. Neddy was his usual helpful self for the floor photo shoot.

I have four major sections and still in the cardboards all.  It will be one of those projects where I can say, an enjoyable million hand stitches later...

In keeping with the time is now idea, we bought a Nespresso coffee machine and milk frother.  We'd been talking about this for years but being sensible waited for our Keurig to give out which it did last week. We are learning the names of the coffees and which are our favourites.

  I've also learned it has a decaffeinated choice and can froth almond milk too, not just regular milk which is good. It is like starting each day with an extra little treat!

A huge thank you to all who made suggestions for new scissors! It seems a lot of you enjoy your Fiskars and almost as many like Ginghers.  There were several suggestions for brands I'd never heard of so a little research is necessary, it would seem. I've been looking and will let you know soon which I've ordered.

I'll leave you with this fun photo. A Norther Harrier bird resting on a black bear asleep on a bale of hay! I guess with phones able to take such good photos, we will be seeing more and more remarkable nature photos. You can read more about it in this The Prince George Citizen article.

I wish I could get my body into the state of relaxation that bear has achieved!

Linking up with the creative, kind folks at Not Afraid of Color, My Quilt Infatuation, Life in the Scrapatch, Confessions of a Fabric Addict and Brian's Home Blog.