I Have The BEST Friends and Family

 I guess this is slightly out of order but I wanted to thank everyone for taking such good care of me!  My family has been amazing. 
 My husband has be

feel very blessed and humble to know that so many people care about me.
I want to share a few little things my friends and family have sent. 

 My friend Paula, made this adorable pillow and sent it all the way from Kansas!  

Check out the bling on the kitty's glasses!

My friend, Melanin, sent me this beautiful bracelet.  It says "she doesn't fight alone".

Such a great sentiment!  It shows how my friends are always with me.

My sweet husband bought me this bracelet.  

The metal on that is St Agatha.  

She is the patron saint of breast cancer.

My SIL, Julie, had given me a green scapular that was from a box that their mom bought and had blessed many years ago.  

 I have worn it everywhere I have been, even in to my surgery

 (I had it in my sock)!  

I have also received many cards, texts and messages.

This whole experience has been very humbling.

It has brought me closer to God and taught me to pay better attention.

I will update you as new things happen.

~XOP~

Meet Mrs Bumble

I have a friend at work that is CrAzY about Yeti.  

She is expecting a baby and she is decorating the nursery in a Yeti theme.  

I remembered a pattern for Bumble from the Rudolph tv show and went on the hunt for it. 

 It is at a site called Fandom In Stitches.

If you are looking for something that has a fan base you may want to look there first. 

 Disney?  Harry Potter? Comics and super heros?  They have all of that plus more!  

I thought that was where I had seen Bumble and I was right!   

 It is under the Holiday Favorites tab.

OK so paper piecing it is.  It was relatively easy except for two things. 

1- The larger bottom section printed off the paper (not scaled of course).  

I printed it out smaller and measured the differences and

 translated it to my pattern which was successful.  

2-The pattern had all the pieces colored, which was so helpful. 

 All except for the background pieces!  UGH.  

I had to try to figure out what colors went where and 

did no small amount of ripping out and replacing until I got it correct.  

Of course inspector Autumn was right on "helping me"

Take a look at this eye section!

Here is Mrs Bumble all finished and trimmed up.  

My friend is having a little girl so the Bumble had to be in pink of course! 

Still considering adding a bow too. 

I wanted to make this a pillow cover so I had to add to the background.  

I would have made it larger but that is all the pink PB fabric I own right there.  

I went ahead and made a quick envelope back for it and it is all finished!

I just need to purchase a pillow form to go inside and it will be ready to gift

Well, unless I decide it needs a bow, which I would do first.  

What do you think?  

Bow or no bow?

What did you work on over the weekend?

~XOP~