As usual, my Christmas cactus is off schedule! But at least it waited until almost Thanksgiving to be in full bloom this year instead of being its usual Halloween cactus!
This year I decided to make the best of it. My son and his family from New York will be arriving tonight for a couple days to spend the holiday with us. I had planned to give them their Christmas presents while they are here instead of mailing them next month. So I decided: go with the flow of the cactus and have Christmas at Thanksgiving. They can decide if they want to open them while they are here or take them home unopened.
To help keep the children occupied tomorrow, I might even get out the Christmas tree and have them help me decorate it. (Quite early for me, I usually don't do it until St. Nicolas day (December 6).
One of the gifts under the cactus includes these neat little coasters that I made the other day. I fussy cut the poinsettia fabric so the bloom would be centered on the back of some and the quarter of the fronts of others.
Criss-Cross Coasters are the quarter squares. The triangle ones are made the same way except you fold the top four pieces on the diagonal and place the triangle points in the corners of the backing.
Fun and easy to do!
And these are the PJs for the 4 New York grandchildren. All the fabric just happened to be from my quilting stash. Imagine that!
Oops, I guess it's time to leave the computer and start making my pies!
nice pj's and great looking plant
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