Retirement Complete!!

After 35 years of working, working, working, Mr. Polka Dot is fully retired! Thursday night there was a wonderful retirement dinner, complete with gifts, plaques, speeches and a wonderful slide show. The kids gave a tribute to their dad! We had a few tears, and some wonderful laughs, at dad's expense of course!!! Saturday we had our family party to celebrate the big retirement and to introduce our baby to all of the family. Who would have guessed that our 100 degree weather on Thursday would turn in to 60 degree weather with rain on Saturday. But no worry, party on family!!!

A couple more bindings done, but the pile is still quite big. Now I will definitely have more time to whittle it down. Here's another project started a while back.....2 years ago to be exact! Good thing my friend Carol doesn't comment publicly on my blog because she would so bust me on this. My Reindeer quilt from the Peppermint & Holly Berries book. She only asks me on a weekly basis how is my Reindeer quilt coming:-)! Well 5 blocks done and at least I have pulled them out from under the pile and I am touching them again!!! Only 4 blocks left. She is yelling at the computer right now "that's the same 5 blocks you had done 2 years ago"!!!!!!

Have I mentioned before that my family are major Angel Fans? Well the last several days have been a little trying. Sadly Monday night we failed to beat Boston. Despite all our cheering and yelling we were of no help!What a let down after such a wonderful season, but Boston played so darn good!!! OK, now we switch hats and start cheering for the Dodgers!!!

I found some wonderful new (well new to me) thread for hand applique, WonderFil Invisafil. It comes in all kinds of colors, but honestly, it just melts in to the fabric and even using a neutral color on darker fabrics, you just can't see the stitches.

I just love this time of year. Getting out Fall decorations, Thanksgiving and Christmas really just around the corner. Our weather is still wackadoddle here though. After a cool weekend of 60's, we were back up to 100 yesterday. And next week Santa Ana winds will be blowing. Hope Fall is falling all around where you are and you have lots of wonderful projects going on. See you later alligators :-)!!