What are you doing New year's Eve? I'll tell you what I'm doing! I'm working hard and hardly working and really excited to put 2019 behind me and get started on my own decade of the roaring twenties! 2020 here I come!

From 2009 to 2019 I did a decade in review as recommended from Marie forleo. this experiment led me down a rabbit trail of seeing some victories and a lot of losses in my life. I am anxious and excited looking into the new year and how the 20s I'm hoping are going to be the best decade yet! in this episode I talk about my father and his passing in 2009 from ALS and my last Christmas with him that brought me to tears.

I got a new phone I don't have an external microphone to work with it because it doesn't have the port for headphones and I'm not sure why but when you listen to this podcast you will hear click click click in the background. if you listen all the way through you'll hear me talk about the gifts that I'm planning on sewing for my friends family and my son's teachers and all the wonderful things that I love to do!

In today's episode I talk about how my quilting journey began and where I am now when I look at my mound of scraps and go on an endless thought journey about what to do with them. Head on over to my website and share your thoughts about what you do with scraps and any pattern suggestions you have. www.themelaniegrace.com

It's Thanksgiving week and I'm talking to you about thankfulness, gratefulness, appreciation. I challenge you to do my verbal gratefulness challenge!

Self-care shouldn't be something that stresses out. in this episode I talked about real deal real life small self-care things you can do for your future self that will set you in a much better mood to take on each day.

Well day jobs fuel my day dream job so I guess I have to keep it.

In today's episode I talked about how the first podcast I did last week Launched a massive thought in my brain that caused tons of research and really made me think hard about my future. And yes that is a dream of owning my own quilt shop

hi hi Melanie Grace come drive with me and hear me talk about how I have journeyed from creating friendship bracelets as a kid to now being an avid quilter and macrame creator. This podcast you will listen to my journey of how I got here and where I want to go. Head on over to www. The Melanie grace.com for more information see you next week at 10 a.m. on Tuesday