Day 6 - Dec. 31st - Blessings Day

Day 6 is Blessings Day.

There are Blessings (8 of the 9 a year ag0)

and then there are Blessings.

Buy a Blessings Honey Bun and get a free pattern for

Cabin in the Stars which uses a Honeybun for all of the log cabin blocks.

You can also buy a Blessings Baskets kit for 15% off

or a Tic-Tac Baskets kit for 15% off.

And don't forget to type in the promo code "Holiday" for free shipping on all orders over $30.00 (after discounts).

It's New Years Eve. Pep has to work. Brian and Shannon are coming up to camp out (I KNOW - it's still December - but the weather is in the 60's - in MISSOURI) and Cullen and Quinn are spending the night with me. We will all have a great time sitting by the campfire.

Have a safe New Years Eve, all.

Day 5 - Winners & Family Circle Day

First things first - 2 winners to be announced. The winner of the Hemming House Jelly Roll is Jo who started her comment with "Great giveaway" and the winner of the Looking Back Jelly Roll is Colleen who started her comment with "Fantastic opportunity". Congratulations ladies. If you'll email your snailmail address and phone # to Tori at jpqinvoices@yahoo.com she'll get those right out to you.

On Day 5 we have a special on a special kit for you. Family Circle is one of my favorite little quilts. It stays in the sewing basket next to my chair and keeps my legs and feet warm while I'm sewing. All Day today it's 15% off with free shipping.

So - family and angels. It reminds me that I told my oldest son over Christmas that we need a new family portrait after the first of the year. A lot of things have changed since we took this one. People keep growing up for one thing.

And there are 5 new additions for another. Max had Cullen and Quinn and Brian and Shannon were joined by Gabriel, Lilly and Brooke. So we definitely need a new picture.

When I first thought of featuring the kit as part of the 12 Day Sale, I thought - well, I have the family part in a picture but I'm missing a picture of the angel part. And then I remembered Eunice's Angel. She belonged to Pep's mother (Eunice) and has been part of our Christmas since the kids were little. Back when Pep's back was in better shape he would lift Kelly - or later Zoie - to put her on top of the tree. Now she sits on an end table and watches over us.

Happy stitching to us all.

Day 4 Dec. 29th - Jelly Roll Day - Giveaway Day

Day 4 in the 12 Days After Christmas Sale is a Giveaway Day. Have you figured out that some of the items on Sale are bits and pieces. Well - we have one Looking Back Jelly Roll left and 1 Hemming House Jelly Roll. Make a comment, any old comment and 2 of you will win 1 Jelly Roll each. (Using the Random Number Generator of course, so I don't have to pick a favorite comment - which is impossible they're all so nice.) We'll pick a winner the morning of the 30th.

And then, for those of you who aren't randomly picked we have a few on sale. The Remembrance and Astor Manor Jelly Rolls are $5.00 off. And any of the patterns that use a Jelly Roll are $3.00 off.

Good luck - wish you all could win.

Day 3 - Fat 1/4 Day

Day #3 - Fat 1/4 Day.

But back to Day 2 for a second. We had a very nice but rather hurried Christmas with Max and his family - so hurried that I forgot to take pictures. Our oldest son, Brian, is a dentist. December is usually somewhat slow so it's the month we all make appointments to get our teeth cleaned, sealants for the kids, yada, yada, yada. Max's appointment was at 1:00 and Brian's office is over an hour away - really about an hour and a half. Anyway, a good time was had by all and Max made his appointment.

Now on to Day #3.

Day #3 of the 12 Days After Christmas offers a great deal on Fat 1/4 bundles. Buy one at the regular price of $22.50 for 9 Fat 1/4's (a great deal all by itself) and get a free Fat 1/4 Foursome book - 4 quilts using Fat 1/4's designed by me and my friend Sue Spargo.

And another day at the Dentist - hopefully our last one for awhile. I'll drop Cullen and Quinn's table and chairs off at Max's in Kansas City, then on to Olathe for Jake's check up. Pep got me a new Crock Pot for Christmas (I asked for it) and a cookbook. Time to try it out.

Day 2 - Books and Change of Christmas Plans

Max called last night as I was falling asleep to say that he and Michele and Cullen and Quinn were going to have to do their Christmas with us this morning instead of Thursday. Michele is working at Sears and they switched her days off. Oh My! I'm not quite ready.

So I'm up in the middle of the night changing the tablecloth, wrapping one last present and blogging. (I can run the sweeper in the morning.)

This will be short and sweet. Day 2 is Books. All books (excepting Quiltmania and KC Star books) under $15.00 are $5.00 off and all books from 15 - 30 are $10.00 off. And we'll still do it manually. When you purchase the patterns at store the checkout will charge you the regular price. Then Byron will refund your PayPal Account the amount of the discount. Or call Tori at 816-632-7632 to place your order and charge it to your credit card there. You can leave the order on the Voicemail if you see this after hours. And type in "Holiday" or mention it on the phone and get free shipping to the continental US for all orders over $30.00. And ladies, that's the discounted price, not the one that will show up on your checkout order. This just get's so confusing - we'll wing it if you're within a dollar or two. Goodsie (our store) is working on getting it so we can give discounts for particular types of products but for now it's a little confusing.

I'm off to wrap and figure something out for a quick brunch.

Have a nice day .... I will.

12 Days After Christmas - Day 1 - Patterns

I just love technology. Today is the first day of our 12 Days After Christmas Sale. Day 1 is Patterns. All of our patterns are on sale for $3.00 off with the exception of our BOM's which are $10.00 off.

Now for the "love" technology part. Our store has "coupons" but they can't be assigned to individual groups of products. So we'll do it manually. When you purchase the patterns at store the checkout will charge you the regular price. Then Byron will refund your PayPal Account the amount of the discount. Or call him at 816-632-7632 to place your order and charge it to your credit card there. You can leave the order on the Voicemail if you see this after hours. And type in "Holiday" or mention it on the phone and get free shipping to the continental US for all orders over $30.00.

Whew!

Now for the rest of the "Love Technology" part. Kelly is trying to send an email telling you of the items on sale or giveaway each day to all of you that signed up . The email program won't let her upload the images. Last time this happened we had to upgrade our Adobe Flash so she did that again. Nope - still won't let the images upload. And of course, support for the program is limited over the Holidays.

So - check the Blog each day and we'll keep it posted and keep trying with the emails.

Sheesh! :)

On a less technological note - Thank God - here's Jake Christmas morning with this Snowball Thrower. Wow! For trees and buildings only.

And Zoie on her awesome new bike. She did put on shoes and a jacket to go ride it but the weather was really nice here so she got to try it out.

Gabriel, Lilly and Brooke were all sick so we'll do Christmas with them next Sunday. And Cullen and Quinn were at their mother's this year so Christmas with them will be sometime this week.

We truly are having the 12 Days After Christmas.

Happy Holidays.

Nothing like waiting til the last minute! And 12 Days After Christmas Sale.

We finally have a granddaughter that likes dolls. Zoie always loves her quilts but never has been interested in dolls. Now give her a guinea pig, kitten or dog - stuffed or alive - and you're making her happy. But while she cheerfully makes Sumo (Japanese Chin) large pillows to sleep on and Phoebe (guinea pig) blankets, I haven't quite gotten into making them quilts.

Enter Lilly. Lilly loves the Disney princesses. And when I finally got around to giving her brother Gabriel his quilt, she played and played with it. (He just looked at it and went on with his Transformer - didn't bother me - he's a 4 year old boy).

When Princess Ariel got here late last week, my first thought was - "She's got to have a doll quilt!" Ariel and her travel carrier and stroller will fit right into Lilly's room. It's all pink and white and clear colors.

The quilt pattern I immediately thought of was "Country Stars" - just the right size. The colors are fine for here and Lilly can play with Ariel here - we have antique doll beds, etc. but to take home we needed something different.

So here is Country Stars done in Sandy Gervais "Lovely" line. Won't Ariel be cute wrapped in her quilt. I wonder if all quilters are this crazy. I mean, it's Friday. I want to finish a new tablecloth out of one of the Together reds. We have a couple of things to finish in the office and all of the orders are out but I still have some stocking stuffer shopping to do - then there's cleaning, grocery shopping, baking and present wrapping. And I'm making a doll quilt :)

Luckily Brian & Shannon and the kids won't be here until Christmas afternoon. I'll probably be sewing the binding on Christmas morning. :)

We changed out the quilt that hangs in the foyer early this week when Jake was here. Down came "Folk Art Favorites" and up went "Pinecones and Hollyberries". Every time we change quilts the minute we spread things out on the living room floor to switch them, Spike runs and sits in the middle of them. He really likes quilts.

And we're getting ready for our big "12 Days After Christmas" Sale so be watching for it

to start on the 26th. After all Epiphany celebrates the visit of the Wisemen with their

gifts. In the Western churches Epiphany is January 6th. So from the 26th through the

6th we'll have something different on sale each day. And even a few precut giveaways.

So be watching the blog and sign up for the emails at the top left if you haven't already.

Santa will be here soon (Here Comes Santa) and with friends and family, we'll

celebrate what Christmas is really all about.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Jan Patek Quilts to all of you.