Did you have a great Thanksgiving? I sure did and realize I have so much to be thankful for… my family, my friends, my BFF, my love of needlepoint, my cats and according to Mooch…cat naps!

I went to work yesterday to start decorating for the holidays. I start off by putting everything away from the last display, dust and clean up. I look at like I have just started with a new canvas as I watch it develop and meld into what I want it to hopefully look like.

In case you are new to reading the blog, I am speaking of the NeedleNook of La Jolla.

I am doing Christmas at the beach…well La Jolla is at the beach! I had a beach display over the summer and had always done this window display at Christmas, so I had lots of these ornaments collected along the way… so it was time to get them out of storage!

My finished window! and I am thrilled with the way it came out. Gosh I sure wish that I could stitch a canvas this quickly. I only have 1 canvas in the window right now as I anxiously await the arrival of…

new Seashore Santas by Leigh Designs and I thank Leigh for designing these beauties just for my window! If you click on the link, you can see the rest of the Santa’s. This one happens to be my fav!

A stack of kitty cats on the corner of my couch! AlleyCat was a lazy girl yesterday and stayed hunkered under the covers hours after Sylvester and I had gotten up. He joined her shortly there after.

Can you believe that there is only 25 days left before the man in the red suit arrives? just saying…