Give Thanks!

Give thanks! What an open request this is. We can be thankful for so much in our generously blessed lives that it is time-consuming to try to enumerate each category, not to mention each item. Our individual faiths dictate the supreme thanks and our personal experiences dictate our inter-personal gratitudes. This season of the year gives us an opportunity to remember and to voice our feelings.

At Heirlooms & Comforts we would like to give a collective thank you to all our wonderful patrons who visit us from day to day and have become integral components of our business family. Your beautiful faces and personalities have become the joy of our daily business life. Thank you for making our days!

Sara

Thanksgiving Hours
At Heirlooms & Comforts we will observe the following hours:

• Wednesday, November 23: Close at 2:00 pm
• Thursday thru Saturday, November 24-26: Closed

Reopen for regular hours 10-5 on Monday, November 28.

Last Minute Class
Recently we pointed out a winter (holiday) print to Gail Sexton and instantly she declared that it needed a snowman. She gave it a snowman and friends in a matter of a day or so, and now the resulting wall hanging is a Last Minute Class. Gail has created a pattern for the delightful wall quilt that is about 24"-27" square and is offering it to you as a class on November 28 and December 5, Mondays, from 10:00 to 1:00. There is a $3 pattern and a $48 tuition for this class. You go home with a friendly snowman design that has your choice of cats or dogs with the jolly fellow and with your choice of hat style on the snowman. Really, this is one of the nicest designs we have seen for the winter! This promises to be a great learning experience. See it soon and register for the class.

H&C Feature of the Week: Christmas Motif
At Heirlooms and Comforts this week we will continue to offer Christmas Motif fabrics at 30% off regular price with a 1/2 yd minimum cut. Remember that we will be open only for three days this week; so get into the shop before you begin cooking for the holiday or traveling for Thanksgiving so that when you are "stuffed like a turkey" you will be ready to sew and sew.


Filling the request from the Stabilizer Event
This is sure to "stabilize" you and your center of gravity!

Mema's Pound Cake
1 lb. Creamery butter softened at room temperature
3 cups sugar
2 cups of eggs
4 cups of flour
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon extract (can substitute almond extract)

Cream butter and sugar in electric mixer until light in color and fluffy in appearance. Sift flour before measuring. Alternately add eggs and flour and salt, beating as little as possible to thoroughly mix. Fold in extract, blending well.

Bake in a greased and floured tube or Bundt pan at 300 degrees about 1 hour or until lightly browned and pulling away from pan. Done when testing "straw" comes clean when inserted into cake. Turn out onto cooling rack and try not to cut it before it cools (ha, ha!)