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Progress on The Red Barn

2012-02-13T11:20:00.000-05:00

I have been stitching and hopefully will finish this piece mid week.
I will be so happy to get it done.

My sinuses are really acting up. They have been for months but the past week they are having a field day! I had to miss a Talent Show at our church Sat. and missed church yesterday. I also couldn't go to a birthday celebration yesterday for my brother but we are having one for Katelyn who will be 2 March 1 this Sat. so I'll see the same family then.

This winter has been the mildest winter for us that I can remember. When we've had snow we've had it, but otherwise it's been nice. I can't believe this is already middle of Feb.

Oh by the way Happy Valentines Day everyone. Hope you enjoy it.

Until next time happy stitching!

Start on red barn

2012-02-02T16:32:00.000-05:00

Hello! This past week I started The Old Red Barn for a little boy at Love Quilts who chose Ranch as theme of his quilt. This will be an interesting quilt. Not too many kids choose ranch for their quilts. So far it has 2 or 3 barns, a couple of horses, and cattle. I can't wait to see this quilt.

I finally had a tooth pulled this past week that was causing all kinds of sinus problems. Now I will be able to make the appointment to get my partials. Since I didn't do it today, I'll do it Monday. There is one tooth that needs to be pulled only because it did not come in all the way. Since it's barely there it will be a surgical procedure so I'm waiting until the tooth really acts up. It hasn't so far hopefully it never will.

This Sunday we are having a potluck at church and annual business meeting. We also elect new Board Members. I'm up for Evangelism Department. I was on it for 3 years then because I was a Board Member for 6 years had to take a year off. Really I was ready too. I really liked being on that board it was a lot of work but that's what I liked about it. Plus I like the Outreach end of it.

We had a lot of snow fall last week and this week it has all melted. They say it may come back next week. This has been a very mild winter for us. I don't remember it being so mild. I've enjoyed it. I also love the fact the days are getting longer.

Finish #12

2012-01-25T16:32:00.000-05:00

Five finishes in January That is a record for me. I think my next two pieces will go fairly quickly too. But not sure.

I did this piece for the daughter of a friend of mine. She asked me to do a flower for her daughter's room. The girl is severely handicapped so she wanted bright colors. Now I've barely started a barn piece for a Ranch Theme quilt at Love Quilts. Now that will be an interesting quilt to see all done up.

There isn't much happening right now so until next time Happy Stitching!

My Needle is Smoking!

2012-01-22T08:09:00.000-05:00

Four finishes in January and I might even finish the Swamp Rose Mallow by the end of the month. That would be an all time high for me 5 finishes in one month. That rate I will make it through the 50 challenge. Which I changed to 25. If I make it through 25 in a reasonable time then I will try for 50. My credit card would really appreciate that! I am trying so hard to reduce it. So far I'm doing great on the one card, not so great on the other one.

I loved doing this piece. It was a nice break from the flower. It was easy and went quickly. I did it as a Lizzie Kate SAL at Every Stitch Counts.

We had a lot of snow fall this past week. Now tonight they are calling for thunderstorms south of us. This week will be a warm up by the looks of it. I hope the rest of the winter stays this mild.

Well...I have to go get ready for church. Until next time...Happy Stitching!

Another new start

2012-01-20T12:46:00.000-05:00

I laid the Swamp Rose Mallow down to start this Lizzie Kate piece I am doing as a Stitch Along at Every Stitch Counts. (A Yahoo Group I belong to.) It's taking a little longer than I expected but the hardest part of it is done now so the rest should be smooth stitching.

Until next time.....Happy Stitching

Progress on Rose

2012-01-16T11:58:00.001-05:00

I made quite a bit of progress the last few days on the Swamp Rose Mallow, so I thought I would post it.

My sister and brother came to town for a few hours on Sat. We went to a steak house and I don't like steak at all but everything else was delicious. We had a nice visit. For some reason they didn't want to stay at our parents house. Something about 2 little grandchildren they have about 45 minutes away from here, so they went to stay with their daughter and son in law and spoil the grandkids some more. Addie is adorable and Nolan is just starting to crawl now so he's getting more fun for them too.

However weather conditions were not the best. On the news they said our county got 16 inches of snow between Sat, and Sun. morning. It must have fallen closer to the Lake and north of here as while we got a lot we did not get 16 inches. Everything looks beautiful outside, even the snow on the trees. Because of the weather we didn't have too many in church yesterday. But we have a lot of Senior Citizens and it was icy and risky for them to go out in. Today is calm but more snow is expected tomorrow. Hey...it is January and this is Michigan. We knew the no snow would not last long.

Well, until next time Happy Stitching!

Swamp Rose Mallow

2012-01-13T09:44:00.000-05:00

Hello! Everyone getting a lot of stitching time in? I am. We finally got hit by winter weather, I'm staying inside today. We didn't get hit as bad as areas north and south. We usually get the milder ends of the storms but we still had about 3 inches fall since yesterday. So that's not bad. The ground is very nicely covered and it is pretty out there.
I decided to start stitching this flower I found in an old book. I still say there are a lot of good patterns in those older books. And with my resolve to make it through 50 patterns without buying a pattern, use the books I have well so far this is no. 11 so far so good. But it's usually when I get to 22 or 23 I usually blow the challenge. This time I am not going to. Remember that okay? Remind me if I blog that I want to buy a book.

Anyway a long time friend of mine has a severely handicapped daughter and she asked me to do a flower for her to put on her room. She really wanted bright geens, pink, purple. So I found this bright pink piece in Wildflowers Galore by Canterbury Designs. I hope she will like it.

Tomorrow my sister and brother-in-law are coming in to town for the day. They were going to come today but the weather isn't going to allow it. Not so bad here, but getting from their place to here would be a problem for them.

Well, until next time....Happy Stitching!

Flamingo is finished

2012-01-10T11:48:00.000-05:00

This was such a fun and quick piece to do. I loved doing him. It will go to a little boy at Love Quilts who chose Sea Life as theme of his quilt. Now I think I will kit up the barn or will I do a Wild Animal or will I do flowers or a Lizzie Kate piece or the Sewing Maching? Decisions decisions I'll know this afternoon, guess you'll know when I update next.

Today is my dad's birthday so I better call him and say Happy Birthday. He is 83 today but you would never know it. He's still very active.

They say winter will come in a couple of days. Good for Lake Michigan, I was starting to think we would soon be able to walk over to Wisconsin or Illinois if we didn't start getting some snow.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

A New Start

2012-01-07T17:14:00.002-05:00

Hi again. I started this piece yesterday and have worked on it less than 10 hours and is already almost half done. I love doing this Flamingo and it's moving quick. Refreshing after the Puppy. This piece will go to a child at Love Quilts who chose Sea Life as theme of quilt. Also I rescanned the Cocker Spaniel and this one turned out much better.

Until next time Happy Stitching

Cocker Spaniel finished

2012-01-06T10:01:00.000-05:00

I finally finished this guy today. I used my better scanner but boy did it scan darker colors than what it is. Not sure what is with that. Maybe both my scanners are dying on me. Now to kit up the Flamingo.

This has been a very mild winter so far. We are about 30 inches of snow behind average. But winter is not over the rest may collect big time or next year we will pay. So I'm enjoying this while I can.

Not much has happened since I last wrote so until next time Happy Stitching.

January House

2012-01-04T16:12:00.000-05:00

Hello! How was everyone's New Year. Mine was very quiet. I didn't want to go anywhere just stayed home and watched the Nsw York ball drop then went to bed. I did go to my parents New Year's Day and had lunch with them and my nephew Andrew. Andrew was staying with them for a few days. He's 16 now, the youngest of my nieces and nephews. Boy that makes me feel old have the youngest be 16 and the oldest is 36 now. Time flies so fast.

I took a brief break from the Cocker Spaniel to do this piece as a Stitch Along at ESC. One of our members is designing 12 houses, we'll do one a month. This is the first of the twelve. Only I think my scanner is dying, it didn't scan too well. I do have another scanner though so next month I'll use that one. These houses are fun to do. I'll go back to the Puppy tomorrow and probably finish him up Sat. I don't have much more left on him to do.

This has been a quiet week after being so busy last week. Seems nice so I'm doing a lot of stitching.

Well...until next time Happy Stitching!

A weeks's prgoress

2011-12-30T08:38:00.000-05:00

Hello Everyone! This will be my last post for 2011 so I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and stay safe. It's been a pretty good year. It's had it's down moments but over all a good year. We had 4 baby boys born into our family, early January, Wyatt, early Feb. Connor, then end of June Nolan was born and 5 days later Chase was born. Now we find out Connor and big brother Scott are going to have a baby brother or sister in Sept. (Although Amanda tends to go early so probably Aug. or even July given how early Connor was.) Amanda and Luke and the boys are getting ready to move from VA from AL where Luke will be working with the Coast Guard.

We are getting more seasonable weather now. It has snowed a little and melted but next week we are suppose to get substantial snow and winter will really be here then.

Later this morning my parents, nephew, Andrew, and I are going to my niece's. My sister and brother in law are there now, along with another niece and her family from CO and a nephew and his family will be in from IL. We will be meeting Wyatt and Chase for the first time so we are excited. We also will see Addie, Nicholas and Nolan again. It'll be an interesting couple of hours 5 little ones 3 and under! Think it will be noisy enough! Plus they have a big dog, who is the nicest and most gentle dog you'll ever meet. She's a very old dog but so sweet and gentle she's a beautiful brown labador retriever.

I made quite a bit of progress on Cocker Spaniel this week. His left foot has to go in plus the shoe.

Thank you for all the comments you have made this past year and thank you for reading my blog. I really appreciate it.

Until next time....Happy New Year and Happy Stitching!

Another quick Christmas finish

2011-12-17T17:31:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone! This year I seem to be doing small Christmas pieces with the exception of finishing up Three Kings which is on it's way to my brother's now. That piece and Bethlehem went out there as my sister-in-law liked them. I wasn't going to do anything with them anyway so I was happy to send them out there.

I loved doing this quick Merry Christmas piece. It was a lot of fun to do. By doing these small pieces it gets me to the 50 challenge. Yes I had to start over, but now have about 7 or 8 pieces toward it so it's a good start. Maybe by doing these smaller peices I'll actually make it to 50 without buying anything. I've been trying for 5 years now and closest I came was 22.

It doesn't look like we will have a white Christmas! It doesn't seem like Christmas without snow. We got a little bit during the night but not much and they say it will be gone by Monday. Oh well....maybe we'll have a very mild winter, that would be nice.

I have found it best to add pieces at the bottom of the post. When I do it on top they don't seem to post.

Well....I'm going to go get my mail, do dishes and then pick another piece to start tomorrow. Until next time Happy Stitching!

Three Kings Finished

2011-12-12T19:08:00.000-05:00

Hi again. Hopefully this time I can post Three Kings. It is completely done now. I've started a small Christmas piano piece. Not as small as the tiny candle but it's small by my standards.

Christmas on the Lakeshore was very successful. The singers and drama players did great. We also had about twice as many people come as we've had in the past. It's starting to take off now. Plans are already being made for next year.

We celebrated Johnny's birthday yesterday. He is so cute, of course he was all excited.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Tiny Christmas Candle

2011-12-10T11:40:00.000-05:00

This was a tiny quick finish, but not the easiest. I'm not sure what I'm doing with it yet.

I got to asked to work at Christmas on the Lakeshore yesterday afternoon. So I went last night and it was really good. It's going to be fun seeing all three performances.

2011-12-09T09:52:00.001-05:00

Another new start

2011-11-23T16:12:00.000-05:00

I thought this would be a pretty piece to do. I know it's definitely spring like but I really like it. I'm not sure what I will do it, It may possibly go to Love Quilts for a future religious quilt for a girl.

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoys all the food. I'm going to my brother's for Thanksgiving dinner. It'll be fairly quiet as the little ones will be at their other grandparents so we'll miss them. But we'll see Kevin and Beth, and I think Jeremy and Christina and their other halves will be there so that will be nice.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching!

And Yet Another Finish! Two in one week 4 in 3 weeks.

2011-11-18T14:16:00.000-05:00

November seems to be my month of finishes!   I don't think I've ever done 4 in a month let alone in the first 3 weeks of the month.

The Little Mermaid nearly didn't get finished.   Yesterday I was working on her in the Food Pantry as it was quiet and she went flying across the table and unto the floor, with my help.   The hair and face were so frustrating!   They took 4 days to finally finish. That was this morning! The rest of it was done in about 3 hours.   I still say if I decide to do a Disney Princess again I may go to a Psychiatrist first to see how sane I am! The piece I'm doing now is fairly easy too.   It's a flower and butterfly by Imagination with Ps. 17:8.

Well....until next time---Happy Stitching!

And a third finish in November!

2011-11-15T08:51:00.000-05:00

I am on a row. Three finishes in November. I haven't finished 3 within the first two weeks of a month in I don't know how long if ever. I received this as a RAK from Sue V about 3 years ago and finally had time to do it. I had to leave the bottom part off as I miscalculated and left too much on top. I am not only finish deprived but center challenged as well! Now to get out Arielle and hopefully finish that within a week. Than that and the rooster can go get framed and be mailed out to Missouri for Christmas.

Well--until next time Happy Stitching!

Rooster is finished

2011-11-11T11:25:00.000-05:00

Hi Everyone.    Two finishes in two weeks! That's rare for me.   I finished this this morning and really enjoyed doing it.   Now to select my next project!

We had our first snow fall yesterday. It snowed hard for a while and I really thought we would be covered, but fortunately the ground was too warm and it didn't last long.   Reality is though it will be here soon enough like it or not. Oh don't get me wrong, winter is a pretty season, and when we were young I loved sledding and figure skagting etc.   Now I'm older, the older I get the more I dislike winter. Oh well...this is Michigan and we do get the best of all 4 seasons so we are lucky.   About a month ago on ABC News they were saying the 5 safest weather places to live in USA and Michigan was one of them.   It surprised me that Alaska and Hawaii were in the top 5 but they were.

We are making plans for Thanksgiving.   We are going to my brother's house.   So it'll be nice. I don't know if all the kids will be there or not, probably 2 of them, but the one that's married may be with his family. Nuts, I want to see Johnny and Katelyn.   But I will shortly afterwards as we'll get together for Johnny's 5th birthday in Dec.   Can't believe he's turning 5 already! He is still a loveable character.

Well, until next time Happy Stitching!

A New Start well under way

2011-11-07T15:14:00.000-05:00

This is from the same book the Pig and Bunny I did a year ago were from. Stoney Creek's Farm Babies. I love doing the animals in this book and I'm sure I'll do more. This rooster will go to my brother who collects roosters. I love doing this piece. The rooster is so much fun to do I decided to do the grass and sun before I finish him off.
Well....until nexst time Happy Stitching!

Soccer Players Finished

2011-11-03T14:51:00.000-04:00

Hello Everyone! How was your Halloween Night. Mine was a lot of fun. We had Trunk or Treat at church and we had a lot of children show up. They were so cute. The highlight for me was my niece, Tabbi came with her 9 year old son , Ashton. Unfortunately we were really busy when she came so I didn't get to talk to her much. I really felt bad as I didn't mean to ignore them. Also my niece Melissa and her husband John, brought their two little ones over to the apartments to see her Grandmother and me. Johnny was Captain America and Katelyn was a bunny. They were so cute. So it was a great night.

I finished the Scocer players about an hour ago. I'm not sure why the different skin tones one leg one tone, the other another or the arm different too. But that was the pattern. It was a fun stitch but I'm glad to have it done. I have started a Rooster for my brother. My next few pieces will be animals I think. The rooster is from Stoney Creek's Barnyard Babies. So far it's going well.

We are enjoying some nice weather but it is suppose to get colder. It is that time of the year.

Well....Until next time Happy Stitching!

Soccer Players

2011-10-28T14:46:00.000-04:00

Once again it's been over 2 weeks since I've bloogged. Truth is I almost lost my stitching mojo and for about a week just didn't even stitch. I got so frustrated with that wedding piece I laid it down for a while. Maybe after the first.   Blending filament is absolutely awful to stitch with.   I have the second bell almost done but just couldn't take it any longer.

   So I got this piece out to do for a girl at Love Quilts.   She likes the colors of lime and blue.   And also likes Soccer along with other things.   So I got this piece to do. It is going quickly. It got me back into stitching. I even have my next piece picked out.

   This past week our Landlords who live in another state and owe several Apartment Complexes decided to have all our hot water turned way down and would only have thenm turned up if everyone in each section would sign a waiver saying we would not sue if we got burned by hot water.   Totally ridiculous! Our manager had all the water tanks turned down without telling us ahead. Didn't even tell us we had to sign a waiver to get it turned back on until we called the office to complain! We are so upset. Long story short, all 4 of us in our unit did sign the waiver yesterday I came right out and told them off and told them they should have warned us first and told us about signing the waiver ahead of time. I never complain I have lived here a long time and never caused any trouble but I was angry. I told them the least they could do is send out notes telling people about the waiver. But they won't I know that. I said I know you don't care about us and left.
Okay I spouted out they saw a side of me they never saw before.   I called today and apologized for my behavior they accepted it and told me I wasn't the only one upset.

   My last post I mentioned I was going Apple Picking.   Well I went and it was fun.   We even got a hayride without the hay!   There was about 35 of us on that.   We were going to a couple's house for potluck dinner but there were too many of us so we had the potluck at church. It was so good we had the best Barbeques.   I made my 7 layer bars they liked those too. I didn't take any home. It was a beautiful day and it was fun.

     Monday we are having Trunk or Treat at church. I'm doing the Apple Cider and donuts again. Last year we didn't do it and people missed it so we are doing them again this year.   I'm looking forward to seeing the kids all dressed up.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Still stitching on Wedding Bells

2011-10-10T19:05:00.000-04:00

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted.   Mostly because I really hadn't had time to stitch that much on this plus working with metallic threads really slow you down.   The bells are completely done using blending filament with 1 strand of floss. Not my favorite thing to do Metallic thread is not easy to stitch with. I have found using shorter threads does help.
Tomorrow my sister is coming in to town for a couple of days.   Wed. we'll go do some shopping. I'm hoping to go to Jo Anne's and get some floss and also some 4 braid thread for my next project.   I'm doing a Halloween piece   a cat sitting on some pumpkins. Also by Stoney Creek.   I must like Stoney Creek as I've done well over 50 of their patterns.

Saturday I'm going Apple picking with our SS class.   I've never done that before so am looking forward to it    Only it's suppose to be done in the 50's Sat. Brrrr....after having 70's for a few days.

I don't get into sports too much but I really am happy the Detroit teams are tunrning things around.   After loosing so much the last few years, this year so far has been great.   Especially the Tigers and Lions.   So I'm rooting for them.

Well....untill next time Happy Stitching!

Still Plugging Away

2011-09-26T15:51:00.000-04:00

Thank you for the comments to my last post. It's coming slow but sure.   I did take a few days off to work on a baby elephant for Bryan and Chrissy's 8 month ol;d son, but I made a bad error in the beginning and didn't notice it until it was over half done so it went into the garbage.   I am completely convinced that I cannot do baby pieces.   I've made so many attempts and they've ended in the garbage. It must be a mental block or something.   Out of 16 great nieces and nephews 2 of them have pieces and a 3rd one will get one when her grandma makes it into a pillow. I've decided maybe by the time the kids are teenagers they'll have a piece maybe, just not a baby piece. The picture doesn't show it well but the bells are done with metallic threads and also the blue ribbon has metalic thread with the pink in it.     I am still enjoying this piece..   It's over half done now.

We had our second week of KIA Club last night (Kids in Action).   We had 15 the first week 14 last night. Down one but had several new ones and those that weren't there last night we knew they were out of town at least most of them.   We use to have 70-100 kids in Adventure Club several years ago but when we changed leaders although the format was the same the kids stopped coming then we tried a new program for a couple of years that failed miserably.   So now we have something really good again and it's just going to take time to build

We are starting to get our fall colors. I thought it was a little early but the middle of October is jsut a couple of weeks away and that's when they are suppose to peak.   I love seeing the fall colors.   I just don't like the season that follows. I use to love winter but the older I get the less I like it.

Well, until next time....Happy Stitching!

Progress on Wedding Bells

2011-09-16T17:09:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone!    Hope you had a great week.

I did get quite a bit done on Wedding Bells.   I'm glad I started it all over as it looks like it will come out right now.   I think I am going to take out Christiana's and Bryan's names and move it over a notch.   I didn't think I would have enough room to get booth their names on it but I had more room than I thought. Do the letters B and C look alright.   I had to sort of wing it as I couldn't find those two letters anywhere in the book.   And of course they didn't have an alphabet guide.

It's been sort of a busy week. I haven't been home much and today Whiskers is soaking up all the attention he can get.  I try to do something and he meows wants me to sit down in the chair so he can get on my lap.   Right now he just jumped onto the computer desk and is rubbing me to get me off. At almost 19 he pretty much gets what he wants.   He's been so good about letting me brush him lately. It use to be he wouldn't let me and he got a few mats.   Slowly but surely they are coming out.

Earlier this week we went to Ludington State Park where my sister and brother in law were camping.   I can't believe the fall colors were really starting to show on our way up there and back.   It was a nice day cold but nice.

I am going to be honest here.   I can't decide to keep blogging or not. I enjoy it.   People do seem to read it but I get so few comments I'm thinking no one likes my pieces.   Only problem with that is if you will notice, the pieces I do always go to other people or to Love Quilts so I go with their tasttes and wants, not always what I would choose to do if I were stitching for myself.     I know I don't have a way with words like a lot of you do. Some of you are so gifted in writing.   I don't know, I'm just started to get discouraged. The main thing is the receivers seem to like my pieces.

Our Food Pantry is growing in staff.   We now have 7 people working in it and another one started training today and another person may start training soon.   Plus a couple of people take me shopping and like being involved in the food pantry that way as they can't commit to one day a week.   We also like so many other food pantries are getting more people needing food and having a hard time keeping the stock for it.   Fortunately next month we are having a food drive and the church usually comes through in a big way on them. We've only had 2 other ones in the whole time we've been open which is about 4 years now.

Well.....until next time Happy Stitching and thanks for reading my blogs.

Twin Towers

2011-09-11T12:58:00.000-04:00

Shortly after 9-11 my brother asked me to do a Twin Towers piece.   I found this one by Mystic Stitch and really did ennjoy stitching it.   Today it hangs on his walls.

Like everyone else I remember where I was and what I was doing the moment I found out.   Tim had called me and said a plane hit the Twin Towers. So I turned on the news and shortly after saw the second plane hit. I knew it was an act of terrorism that second plane didn't even try to miss the tower it headed right for it.   Like everyone I was almost glued to the TV.   I called our church office told the secretary so she turned on her radio.     After the other two planes sturck I wondered what would become of us.

A few days later we found out a man in his 30's that had gone to our church mostly in the summer and was on the softball team was working in Windows in the Twin Towers.   He did not get out.   I had seen him and his wife and daughter a few times but did not know them personally

My nephew was shot in Kuwait training for Iraq.   He lost complete use of his left hand.   He saw the bullet coming and ducked, putting his hand above his head.   At least it hit his hand not his head.

Anyone alive that day will never forget and it changed America forever.

Well until next time Happy Stitching.

Started all Over

2011-09-09T16:41:00.000-04:00

I made a serious error on the original piece so I had to start this all over. I was so mad! But it was easier to start over than to frog it.   It's going good now.   A lot of what I had done on the first piece is done here only I took a little different approach for the right side as it's so much easier to work down then up. I see the picture is a little crooked and I think I'll use my other scanner as it shows the piece clearer as the colors in this piece are so light.   It is a pretty piece. I hope Bryan and Chrissy like it.

I have a dumb question   Can you make Meatloaf with eggs.   I ate my last two eggs this morning and I should have saved them for the meatloaf I had planned to make tonight. I have to do something with the   hamburg I unthawed and I had wanted meat loaf.

I won Last DMC Standing game at ESC a couple of weeks ago and received my package today.   A lot of floss!   It was nice. I love that game but this was the first time I won it.

Well until next time Happy Stitching.   Have to figure out what I'm going to do with the Hamburg.

Wedding Bells Started

2011-09-04T15:48:00.000-04:00

Hello! I hope everyone is having a good and safe Labor Day Weekend. I can't believe the summer is over! Usually I am looking forward to fall but not this year I so enjoyed the summer I hate to see it end. Although I do like the fall colors and we can already see the trees starting to turn. A large group from our church went up to Center Lake (our church camp) for Family Retreat. Friday was nice but not sure about yesterday. We had some big storms in our area then it cooled doown a lot and tomorrow is suppose to be cooler. Hopefully the storms didn't hit them up there. And as far as tomorrow, they probably won't swim anyway as they go home that day.

I promised my nephew and his wife a Wedding piece 3 years ago. They were married in Feb. 09 and now have an 8 month old son so it's about time I got this done for them. I started one for them three years ago but it just didn't take off, I kept making mistakes, didn't like the material I chose and the pattern just didn't click with me. This is much different. Though very detailed and tedious it is clicking with me and going okay. But I love Stoney Creek patterns. It isn't a large piece though so hopefully I can have it done by the end of the month get it to the framers and then hopefully give it to them at Christmas. They live out of state and I'm hoping we'll see them at Christmas. If not I'll give it to my sister and she can give it to them when she sees them.

Well until next time Happy Stitching and have a Safe Weekend!

Lighthouse Finish

2011-08-31T17:58:00.000-04:00

This was a real quick finish.   It's actually from a book called Lighthouse Sampler by By the Bay Needlework.   I did have a problem in that I didn't have a couple of colors and I misread one of the symbols by the time I discovered it I had too much done to take out plus I didn't have the correct colors.   I'm sure I'll do more from this book and the colors I was missing will be replaced by the time next spring or summer comes. Living on the shores of Lake Michigan I love Lighthouses.   We use to go down to the Lake a lot and watch the lighthouse and go to the channel see the big boats come in. Those days are over the big ships don't come through like they use to but smaller boats do.

I had thought about doing another summer piece, or doing the soccer piece.   But instead I have kitted up a Wedding piece I promised my nephew and his wife I would do for them.   They've been married 2 1/2 years now so about time I did one.   They also have the cutest baby boy who is almost 7 months.   I really need to start doing pieces for my family too. The great nieces and nephews have very little if anything I've stitched. Problem is I'm not big on baby or young child pieces and most are 3 or under!   All in time since there are 12 of the 16 that don't have anything stitched from me it will take time maybe by the time some get them they won't be so young.

I just heard I'm average as far as Americans drinking Pop go.   I drink about 4 cans of Pepsi a day which is average.   I need to cut down thouogh.

Well.....I hope everyone has a Good and Safe Labor Day Weekend. Until next time Happy Stitching.

Lighthouse Start

2011-08-30T17:22:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone! Thank you for reading my blog.  I hope all of you on the east coast made it through the hurricane, flooding and earthquake with limited damage, well as limited as they can be. I have never been in any of them so have no idea what it is to go through them.   Well I do know know what high winds are like as we do get those sometimes.

I had hoped to finish this tomorrow but it's not going to happen so I decided to post this today get one last post in in Aug.   I really hate to see August end.   It was such a good month this year.   Usually August and December are the two months I hate the most.   But not this year at least not Aug.   Maybe December will be almost as good.   It sort of sounds like Friday will be the last warm summer day for the year after that it drops to 70 which really isn't all that bad.   Still a little cool for those who want to camp one last time though. Yes cool even by MI standards.

This summer you may have noticed I'm on the kick of doing summer projects.   Who knows I may be in such denial that the summer is ending I may sneak in one more summer project before doing the soccer players.

Well---enough whining about the end of summer.   Until next time Happy Stitching!.

Black Bear finish

2011-08-26T10:53:00.000-04:00

I loved stitching on this piece.   It was so much fun!   I hope we do another Camping Quilt and I can do another piece from the book. Think I better buy the book though.

To those of you on the East Coast I hope and pray you stay safe the next few days and that the hurricane will break down and not be quite so strong.   But stay safe!

Tomorrow we are having our KIA (Kids in Action) Kickoff Carnival.   We are having games and a petting zoo.   I can't wait.   I'm working the Prize Table.   Hopefully it will go smoothly.   We are hoping for no rain. Right now scattered showers are in forecast but in certain areas and I think later than what our fun will be.   We are even having a Dunk Tank. Three of our Pastors are going in it at different times. I'm looking forward to the fall season's programs to begin.

Oh I'm having a problem with making comments on some of your blogs this message comes up saying I don't have permission to view the page.   What do they mean, I've seen the blog, read the page yet I don't have permission.   I'm wondering if people are having problems comment on mine since lately I have been a little dissappointed by how few comments I'm getting. I don't know if people just don't like it or if they can't comment. I know I don't comment on everything I see either, but right now on some of you I'm having problems with the comment page, others no problem.

Well, until next time......Happy Stitching!

Lots of Progress on Black Bear

2011-08-19T13:51:00.000-04:00

I know I am speinding entirely too much time on this piece but I love doing it and it's hard to lay down something I enjoy so much.   Only problem is I don't see any eyes on this poor bear.   But the pattern doesn't call for them so he must have hidden eyes.

Earlier this week tragedy nearly struck at church. A teen-age boy from a family our church just loves was hit by a hit and run driver while running with his cross country team.   They were crossing the business disstrict of the expressway had the green light and a driver from another state trying to get past the semi's and run the red light hit James. Worse part is it happened right in front of his younger sister Abigail who also was running with the team. Fortunately James thought enough while flying through the air to put his arms in front of his head so he would hurt his arms before head when he landed. He was able to get back up. A couple of teammates flagged down a driver had her take him to the hospital while other team members took care of Abigail who was very shook up.   Why do drivers hit people and drive off as if it never happened. One of the semi drivers did take off after the driver and came back with a partial license number unfortunately the hit and run driver was from another state. Police told James parents they may not be able to track him down but did contact all Police posts between MI and the state the driver was from plus contatacted that state. No way of knowing if he lives here or in the other state.   Fortunately James didn't have to have surgery and was hoping to be able to run with the team today if he felt up to it. They had their first meet today.

Sunday is our annual church picnic down at Lake Michigan. Hope it is a nice day. I'm going to make Pizza Casserole. That usually goes over big.    One of my friends said she was making her Macaroni and Cheese, which is always a favorite.   This time I hope I get some.   We are having a Pig roast but I really don't like Pork.   I like barbeque spare ribs if they are tender and fall off the bone.   Speaking of spare ribs that's what I had Sunday when we went out for my birthday. I loved the red skin potatoes.   The spare ribs tasted better the next day. Funny how some foods are like that.   I made Spanish Rice last night and had some left overs today and it tasted better than it did last night.

I just noitice we can change the font size if we want. LOL!   Last Sautrday my brother posted on my Face Book Wall: "Friends of Barb....starting tomorrow you will need to use a larger font so she can see it. As she will be at that age. This has been a public service announcement from her much younger brother....Kenn"   He's only 3 years younger than me!   I felt like replaying and saying Kenn? Kenn who?   I didn't know I had a brother Kenn.   But I was good I didn't.

Well...better close this book and do some more stitching....well read some blogs first.   Thank you for reading my blog.   I notice I get very few comments but people do keep coming back and that encourages me.   Until next time.....Happy Stitching!

Bear for Camping Quilt

2011-08-17T09:59:00.000-04:00

We are doing a camping quilt at CSA for Love Quilts. I love doing this piece even if the bear has a lot of black in it. I really wish I would have joined in on an earlier quilt but hopefully we'll do more. All that floss I have , I didn't have 3 of the colors so I ordered them from 123stitch. I'll have the floss by the end of the week. I was so proud of myself, I only ordered floss, aida cloth and floss robbins. I didn't order any patterns!

Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you enjoy it. I enjoy reading others and do leave comments sometimes. Well....I better go downstairs and put the clothes in the washer into the dryer. Until next time Happy Stitching!

Butterfly finish

2011-08-15T15:21:00.000-04:00

This was a quick Butterfly finish we are doing at CSA for a teenage girl. The quilt will be this butterfly only in 3 different colors and 2 different angles. This is the one sent to me to do. At first I was disappointed because of the colors I really wanted blue, but I really liked this. It was a quick finish. I'll kit up the camping quilt square and start it tomorrow morning.

Yesterday was my birthday and it turned out to be a nice but busy day. We went out to eat where I got a free meal and ate the left overs today. The left overs were actually better than yesterday. Some left overs are like that. I got talked into barbecue spare ribs and I like spare ribs as long as they are not dry. These were so moist and tender. And I loved the red skin potatoes. Yummmmmm.

Well until next time.....Happy Stitching.

Seashell is finished

2011-08-12T17:56:00.000-04:00

I finally finished this earlier this afternoon. I really wanted to do a seashell. Why I don't know and I really don't know why I picked this one except it was in a book I hadn't stitched from and I'm wanting to stitch from books I haven't stitched from yet.   It's ridiculous over 1,000 books and only stitched from almost 300. Although there may be books I stitched from I didn't record.

Tomorrow I will start a butterfly piece I'm doing for CSA.   We are doing a butterfly quilt for a teen age girl. It looks like it will be quick.   I also received the material for the camping quilt we will be doing for a boy.   I am looking forward to that one.   The butterfly looks like it will be fun too.

This weekend Unity Festival is going on down by the Lakeshore. I went last year enough for the next 5 years. It was good but soooooo many people.   This year Michael W Smith will be closing it tomorrow night.   I forgot who the other one was.

I got my new Bible earlier this week. I got New King James Study Bible and I like it.   My sister sent me a lot of money for my birthday so that was the first thing I got.   My birthday is Sunday and oh no I'm hitting the big 60! I remmber as a child that was so old.   In fact I remember Grandma Cooper who I just adored (she was not my real grandma but I called her grandma her family and I were so close.)   Anyway she seemed so frail and old when I first met her, and I think she was 59 or 60. I don't feel frail and I don't feel old.   Although I got notice this week that my Disability will continue. We sweated that one out.

Well, until next time Happy Stitching!

A New Start

2011-08-08T14:26:00.000-04:00

   Hello everyone.   It's been a really busy week so I didn't get a whole lot of stitching done.   I thought this would be an easy quick piece but it hasn't proven to be easy. I think if I had to do it over I would pick blue material, the colors would show better and it would be easier to do.   I am outlining the whole outside so it does show better on the scan.

  My mom just called asking where I wanted to go out for my birthday on Sunday, then told me where Dad wanted to go as I would get a free meal. I said fine as it is a place I wanted to try I had never been there but heard it was good.   As long as they have something other than steak I'm fine.   I don't like steak.    Also she said my oldest brother and sister were sending them money so we could go pick out my Bible next week.   I need a new one really bad. I'm ashamed at how so many pages tore out of my Bible.   Any book after the book of Hebrews is basically out it's there but loose and falls out easily.

Bible School went great last week.   We had 75 children which is more than we have had in years.   Eight of them accepted the Lord!     A lot of neighborhood children did come which is what we were aiming for.

Saturday was our first annual Pig Out .   We held it on our lot next door to the church. The day started out rainy so the men put up tents for everyone to eat in and tents for the different ministry booths.   By the time the Pig Out started the rain had cleared out we were so happy. We were happy with the turn out too.   I definiately think this will be an annal event.   Now Aug. 27 we will have the first carnival to kick off our Kids and Youth Programs for fall. We are having a petting zoo, dunk tank and a few other things.   It will be fun. I can't wait for this and can't wait for the fall program to start.   I think it will be much better than it has been in a few years.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching and Thank you for reading my blog.

Dolphin Splash is finished

2011-08-01T17:19:00.000-04:00

I finished Dolphin Splash earlier this afternoon.   I really enjoyed doing him.   He was so much fun.   Now I'm just going to do a quick Seashell piece.

Saturday we met baby Nolan for the first time.   He looks just like his big sister Addie did when she was his age.    He is so cute.   Addie just adores him.   We had a good time with Heather, Brian, Addie, Nolan and yes their dog, Triscuit who made sure she got lots of attention.   Triscuit is the best natured dog you will ever meet, she is great with little Addie, very gentle.   And believe me Addie does poke at her, etc, anything a 3 year old would do. And Triscuit who is 10 years older than Addie tolerates it all.

Addie of course was the star of the day, she was so sweet and cute. It's amazing how much a child learns and picks up at this age.   And they pick up everything and copy everything.

Bible School started at church last night.   We had a good start.   Our goal is to have 90 kids by the end of the week, we'll see.   It's going from Sunday-Thursday.   Sat. we are having our first annual Pig Out.   We are having a Pig Roast plus others from the community will compete in a Pork Competition and we'll have other food.   Plus the different ministries of the church will have tables out.   The Food Pantry will be represented.   I'm looking forward to the day.   Actually August will be a busy month, there isn'at a weekend we don't have something going.

    I had a PT evaluation today, and she doesn't think I will need it. The ENG showed a weekness on the right side of the brain so Dr. thought PT would help.   I had a Cat Scan last Thurs. don't know the results of that yet, maybe I'll find out Wed.

Well...until next time....Happy Stitching!

Have I made Progress or Have I Made Progress

2011-07-23T10:53:00.000-04:00

Oh Yes! I've made progress!   Hopefully the niece post will have the finished picture. It is moving really fast now and I am still loving doing it!

I have signed up for a couple of quilts we are doing at CSA but am waiting for the information to come out.   One is a camping quilt I'll do the bear for that and the other is a butterfly quilts.   By looking at the pictures I don't like the butterflies they selected but they say they are real easy so we'll see.

Is everyone staying cool? I'm staying inside with the air conditioning. Yesterday was a cool 80 plus degrees.   Who ever thought in Michigan we would call 80's cool usually that's hot, but compared to what it's been it's cool. We can't complain we don't have it as bad as parts of the country.   I do wish I could just get down to Lake Michigan or any lake around here and cool off but since I don't drive. Besides probably better off staying inside with the air conditioner turned on. Fortunately we have not lost our power here.
We did a couple of weeks ago for about 30 hours due to a tree landing on the power lines. Would have driven me crazy except I went to my parents house for that time. With astma I need air conditioning. I used my dad's computer a little too.

   Thank you for reading my blog.   I know I'm boring compared to a lot of you, I just have a quiet life, but I do appreciate those who read, and follow my blog and also the comments I have received. Well I'm going to read a few blogs. Until next time Happy Stitching.

Progress on Dolphin Splash

2011-07-18T17:57:00.000-04:00

Maybe I'm not as far as I had hoped to be but it is finally about half done. I really do enjoy this piece. I just loose my spot a lot. So that can be a real pain. But you can see the big splash this fun loving guy is making. And he is having fun.

Like most of the country we are in a heat wave. It isn't so bad when I stay inside with the airconditioning. But step outside and oh.hhhhhhhh boy it hits you. And the rest of the week is going to be just as bad. At least we just have it in the low 90's at the highest, but I do want to dip into a lake and just enjoy it. But oh well.

The teens from our church are in Missouri this week on a missions trip at Child Evangelism Training Camp. It's hot out there. I can remember several years ago the Training camp while just a few miles east of us at Wolf Lake. The then Director and several of the campers were come to our church.

We are having Bible School at our church I think next week. Oh man next week is going to be busy then. I have other things going on then too. This morning a friend of mine went over to the church to help Pastor Dale string and hang the paper fish. It was hot in there but we got them all hung.

Now if anyone dares to take them down we are telling them they can put them back up. We can see the teens especially trying to pull them down. The children won't be able to reach them. They are hung a little too high for them.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching.

Another quick finish

2011-07-13T17:02:00.000-04:00

I decided once a week I would take a break from Dolphin Splash to do an easy quick piece (1-3 days piece). This one caught my eye and I liked it. Reminding me God was only a Prayer Away. We adults forget how easy it is to approach God how He wants in on every detail of our lives. One of our Pastors said he loves it when young children pray as it's so simple yet genuine and they have the right idea, they tell God everything. Our little Addie was at a family dinner with her dad's family and Heather (Addie's mom and my niece) said Addie had to pray, and she named every member of the family in her prayer (unfortunately about 20-25 members. They kept trying to say "Thank You Addie, but Addie kept on praying for each person telling God a little something about them." She was only 2 at the time, now she's 3. But we adults like to complicate things handle things ourselves and forget God unless we are really in a mess. God likes the child like faith, the child like prayer in telling Him everything.

Tomorrow I am have an eng to see if the can get to the bottom of my vertigo and the lightheaded problems I've been having. It wasn't suppose to be until late Aug. but they called yesterday and said they had a cancellation so I could come in tomorrow. Fine I'll get it over with. It's been cancelled twice on their end so we're finally doing it.

Anyone ever do this? Dump expired milk down the drain only to discover their garbage disposal isn't working and everything backs up? Ugh!!!! And I hate milk So I call the office of course, it's Wed.l no one is there! So I leave a message, then track down a maintenance guy and told him. He told me what to do which is what I had already done, left a message on the voice mail and they'd get it in the maitenance office. I had hoped they would come today but it's almost 5 and they are not here yet!

I keep finding more and more blogs to read and like. I so enjoy reading the blogs, I'll go to reading some more in a few minutes.

I'll go back to stitching Dolphin Splash for a few days tomorrow. Until then Happy Stitching!

Another week of Progress

2011-07-09T17:25:00.000-04:00

I so enjoy this piece.   I think with it being so warm out it cools me down to do it too.   But this guy is just having too much fun!   I made a mistake somewhere. I'm hoping a minor one to take out but if not well improvise is the name of the game!   And hope in end no one notices. He's not quite half done yet either.
He will go to Cross Stitching for Charity and isn't due until Feb. So I have plenty of time.

It's been a hot week around here. I'm thankful for airconditioning! I've also been working in the Food Pantry a lot.   There's a lot of work to the food pantry I never knew existed.   I think we do have someone that will direct it for a while anyway until we get someone trained for it.   There is one lady who would love to do it she tries to do it now but I think everyone would quit if she was in charge she'd bulldoze over all of us. But things are going better between her and I and I'd like to keep it that way.   Just wish I had a stronger personality is all.

Well, I will close for now. Not a lot has happened around here I have a boring life.   Until next time Happy Stitching!

A Very Quick Finish

2011-07-07T18:28:00.000-04:00

I took a brief break from Dolphin Splash to do this quick piece. It only took a total of 8 hours. This will go to my niece Tabi, who loves anything to do with Live, Laugh, Love. I ask her mother to finish it into a wall hanging and then give it to her at Christmas time. In mean time I'll try to find a race car pattern for her Tabi's son, Ashton who though only 8 can tear a car apart and put it back together and tell you what he is doing and why.

Tomorrow I'll go back to Dolphin's Splash and post progress on it in a day or two.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching!

Some progress and a big announcement

2011-07-01T19:01:00.000-04:00

Happy 4th of July weekend! I hope everyone has a great weekend and says safe! W@e dib;t have any special plans so it'll just be quiet.

I havn't had a whole lot of time this week but I did make some progress on Dolphin Splash.   You can at least see the dolphin better and see he's having fun.   I love doing this piece.

Last week I was waiting for the birth of my niece or nephew.   Two hours after I posted Nolan Donald was born.   His big sister, Addie, loves him!   Then Wed. June 29 the second baby was born, Chase Michael.   Remember I said that Michelle and Heather were in a race to see who would have their baby first.   Heather was 5 days over on both chilodren, Michelle delivered 3 weeks early on both children.   Michelle has a little 21 month old son, Nicholas.   She says Nick loves to hug the baby.

Today has not been a good day and I'm glad it's evening.   Not much went right today.   Started with a phone call from someone working in the food pantry.   Then I thought I fried my phone as lightning struck while I was talking to someone looking for a ride to make an emergency run to the store for the food pantry, never did find a ride.   Then the Director of the food pantry e mailed me and said he had to resign as he didn't have time to do it. He's working 60 hours a week.   Finally I called the phone company from someone's apartment and they were able to restart my modem.   Also I think I finally have hot water, I did dishes and it stayed hot.   I haven't had much hot water all week, finally got to tell the office and ask them they said they'd turn the water tank up, they did turn everyone's down, but the little they turned it up helps.   Now to see if I can take a hot shower!

Well----until next time Happy Stitching!

A nice new start

2011-06-24T13:48:00.000-04:00

I spent over a week working on the PM R and it went into the garbage! I couldn't get the rabbit right if my life depended on it.   So I got out Dolphin Splash by Pegasus.   I had been eyeing it for a long time and finally decided to do it and am enjoying it.

I got bad this week. I bought 2 new pattern books, both by By the Bay.   But I bought them to do for Love Quilts also.   It is summer and I want to do summer scenes .   I'll just have to hold the 3 pieces until themes open up at Love Quilts or at Cole's Quilts.   I haven't done anything for Cole's Quilts for a few years.   We'll see.   I also ordered a lot of floss. Since I don't drive it's hard to get out to Jo Anne's so sometimes I have to order on line. Wellll......I can't just get floss when I order on line so of course I have to order patterns.   Makes perfect sense doesn't it.   Okay......Okay....any excuse.

Also this has been a bad week!   Sunday started out great!   A couple had their 50th Anniversary Open House and gave the money to the Food Pantry. (They had requested money for food pantry in leu of gifts.) We thought we would get maybe a couple hundred dollars $300 if we were really lucky. We got a lot more than that.   I had spent about $500.00 on food and miscellaneous things for the Pantry, well that money was recooped plus some.   Then came Monday....one of the ladies called me to say she was quitting the Food Pantry because she felt she was a trouble maker.   But she wasn't.   I have to admit I read the signs and so did our Director and why she called me and not him I don't know.   After crying for awhile as she was a good friend and now she may stop going to our church I don't know when I'll see her again, in heaven...but I was upset for her for the way she was feeling.   I know she had problems with the politics of our church and the way we did things but still. Plus she is a lot more emotional and sensitive than any of us ever thought I think.   Then Tuesday came and something else happend, Wed. brought more bad news pertaining to my aunt she is on Hospice Care now.   She is my mom's last surviving relative. (well she has cousins but her parents and other sister are gone.)

Tomorrow we were going to go to a picnic a couple from church have every year but I guess we aren't now.   For one thing I forgot to buy ingrediants to make anything for us to bring. Plus mom isn't feeling up toe it anyway.

Last Sat. we went to 2 open houses.   One for the couple who had their 50th and the other for my cousins son who graduated from HS.   Since she came to everything we had, we thought we'd better go to hers.   It was nice seeing my dad's side of the family again.   I don't know why we don't try to get together more often we all get along real well and it's so much fun!

We are still waiting for my niece, Heather, to have her baby. It was due this past Monday. We thought we were kidding when we said Michelle and Heather would have a race as on their first child Heather delivered 5 days late and Michelle had her's 3 weeks early so we joked they would be born the same day.

Well....this has turned into a book, so until next time.....Happy Stitching!

Gardener Penguin is finished

2011-06-14T15:47:00.000-04:00

I finally finished this earlier this afternoon. It took longer than I expected but it was cute and fun to see her come to life. It is for a Character Animals Quilt at Love Quilts. That's the thing about Love quilts you do pieces you would otherwise never do and this is one of them. Now I'm just doing a couple of small Precious Moments pieces from their Alphabet book. The letter R for Ryan and the letter C for Cole. It is a quilt some of us at 123 stitch are stitching for a family who lost two little boys in the tornadoes in Oklahoma a few week ago.

There isn't a whole lot going on just a lot of Open Houses and a picnic coming up in a couple of weeks so until next time Happy Stitching!

More Progress on Penguin

2011-06-10T09:53:00.000-04:00

I haven't had a lot of time to stitch on this this past week but when I did I got a lot of progress.   I had really hoped to have it done by now.   Maybe early next week.

This past week I spent a lot of time with the Food Pantry.   Note to self don't order from Feeding America, Love Inc. and go shopping for food all the same week.   There's a lot of food to be put away.   There's only certain things we can get from Love Inc and Feeding America so we go shopping at Walmarts and Dollar Store. We find the best deals at those two places. It's good I go shopping with Sue as she prevents me from buying the more expensive stuff she knows how to look for the deals. (Sue is the newest member of the Pantry Staff).   Although we are adding more.   They want two of us on each day which we really were suppose to be doing all along, plus add some men for Security and helping to stock shelves etc.   I did put a dent in what we had in our fund this week.   Hopefully some of it will come back in a couple from our church is having the 50th anniversary and in leu of gifts they requested people give money to the Food Pantry. Nice....we'll see how much comes in.

Tomorrow my mom and I are going to another Jewelery Party. The lady booked the party from me and my niece is the one selling the jewelery so we felt we better go.   June is always a busy month. There isn't a Saturday that we don't have something to go to this year.

I had planned on doing laundry, mopping floors etc today. But I'm so drained and it's so rainy and dreary outside I just feel like stitching!    Well until next time happy Stitching!

Retrying

2011-06-05T16:06:00.001-04:00

It drove me crzy that my last post posted the way it did so I'm retrying. I'm just curious to see how this one will post. Until next time Happy Stitching.

Friday's Progress

2011-06-03T12:32:00.002-04:00

I didn't get a lot of stitching time in this week but I did make some prgress. It goes fast when I work on it.   This next week will be a little slower I think.

I can't believe this is already June!   It's true what they say, they older you get the faster time goes.   By theend of the month, my niece, Heather will have her 2nd child.   They chose not to know the sex.   It will be interesting to see how 3 year old Addie does. For a while she was determined she was having a baby brother now she's decided she's having a baby sister so Lauren or Nolin we'll see. Her older sister, Michelle is expecting her second child in July. They have a little boy who is 20 months. This second one is also a boy.

I keep wishing I had the gift of writing like some of you have or the gift of gab.   Your blogs are all so interesting I love reading them and appreciate those who read mine.   I also see I have a couple of new followers, thank you.   I hope you enjoy my blog.

Hmmmm.   I just posted the blog and went to view blog it said Friday's Progress and underneath read more so I clicked on it and got it but wondered how that happened.   Is blogger changing things again or acting up again!?
Well until next time-Happy Stitching.

For Those Who Serve

2011-05-30T08:34:00.003-04:00

Sine today is Memoirial Day I thought I would post this picture.. I did this for my nephew shortly after he was shot in Iraq when the war first began. This was a kit by Jannlynn . I did this and the Liberty Bell for him and he loved them. Let's not forgwet the sacrifices of our Service People on this Memorial Day.

Have a Happy and safe Memorial Day. Until next time Happy Stitching!

A Fun start

2011-05-28T16:59:00.000-04:00

I said my next piece would be a fun and funny piece.   It's called Gardener Penguin. I'm doing it for a Character Animals Quilt being doing at Love Quilts.   Now that the head is in on the penguin I think the rest of the piece will go quickly.

I think the sun is finally trying to sneak through the clouds.   I thought today was going to be a nicer day out than it was.   But the rest of the weekend is suppose to be great. At least there was no rain today so those camping this weekend are having a good weekend. Tomorrow our Sunday School Class is going to have their class outside to be different, so hopefully it won't rain, it's not suppose to.

I haven't mentioned my cat , Whiskers in a while.   He's still doing really good for his old age.   He loves to get on my lap and curl up especially in the afternoons. I love it as at 18 1/2 I really don't know how much longer I'll have him.

Today is my niece's husband birthday.   So if you read this , Michelle, say happy birthday to Scott.   They are camping for the weekend.   She was wondering how she would do sleeping on the ground in a tent being 34 weeks pregnant. That will be interesting.   They live in CO.   They also have a 20 month old little boy. They have already had him skiing which he loves, and canoeing which he tolerates. He's following in his parents footsteps being an outdoor person.

Well, until next time Happy Stitching!

Finallty Finished

2011-05-26T17:13:00.000-04:00

I finally finished this piece today. Of all the Precious Moments pieces I've done this was the most boring and tedious.   It took me forever.   I can't wait to start my next piece tomorrow. It is a funny piece and going to be fun to do. It's a whimsical penguin.
    I am determined to start doing pieces from books I have here rather than buy new books this year.   I think I did buy a couple of new projects and did the one (The Birds and Flowers). But now I don't even want to buy any for Love Quilts or to do as gifts, I'll chose from my stash.
    I hope all of you that are in the areas of the storms are safe. You are in my prayers.   My brother is getting delarious from all the storms, he could swear a cow went flying by his house and he wanted it to land in his yard so he could have steak.   Of course he was being funny.   He said all the years he's been in St. Louis area this is first year he's seen tornadoes, and none like this year.
    It's been a rainy few days here but we are north of the storm so we didn't get them just the rain. Nuts, I love a thunderstorm at night.   It's been cool too, but tomorrow is suppose to warm up and even hit 80's this Sunday. It'll be a nice weekend.
   Well until next time Happy Stitching!

So Why am I Stitching This?

2011-05-20T12:40:00.000-04:00

I knew those hearts would give me fits.   I knew there would be some improvising so why did I choose the most tedius and boring PM piece I've ever done.   Because it seemed perfect for the little girl. Her story touched me.   That's not easy to do. I think the rest of the way will be smooth sailing and I really think I'll have it done middle of next week. I have my next 2 projects all picked out. I'm getting anxious to start something new I've never had a PM take so long.

I think our cooling spell is over (it lasted over a week), we are now enjoying some warmer weather   It may be rainy at times but oh well....I love good storms at night.

Tomorrow my sister will be in town for a few hours. So we'll probably play our favorite games, Mexican Train Dominoes and Push Rummey.   I doubt we'll do any shopping.   She's basically on this side of the state to see her daughter and family so she's spending most of the time with them but tomorrow they had made plans not knowing she was coming so she's coming here.   After all when you promise your 3 year old daughter you are taking her to a dance recital you take her!   We think Addie will be in all her glory and be dancing the rest of day tomorrow.   She gets to take Dance Lessons in the fall as she's old enough now.

Well until next time....Happy Stitching!

Some Progress on Precious Moments piece.

2011-05-13T13:09:00.000-04:00

I haven't had a lot of time to stitch this past week. It's just been one of those weeks.

Last Sat. I was doing my laundry at my brother's when we got a call saying my second dad, , died a few hours earlier.   He was in an accident with his wife Friday afternoon but it was a minor accident and so he went home.   That night he started bleeding in the head so he took him to the hospital where he died.   They are not sure if the accident caused his death or a pre existing condition.   He was 84 and had a bad heart.  . His first wife Katherine, is the one I was close to.   She died of Alzheimres and a blood clot a few years ago. Katherine and Bill became my second parents years and years ago when I was a young child and they were home on furlough from India.   After his current wife's first husband died I started praying Bill and Ruth would get together and they did. For a few years Bill lived right across the parking lot from me, but after Bill and Ruth married, he moved to Ruth's house.   I saw him a few times after that.   The last time I saw hime was at the funeral of another long time friend. He gave me the biggest hug he had in years.    I wonder if he knew back then he would die so soon.   They say he had a preomonition so maybe, but like I said he was 84.   I have missed Katherine and will miss Bill.   I will always be greatful for the role they had in my life and for the example they set to so many of us.

Because Bill's funeral was Wed. I didn't make it to our last BSF session this year.   It''s a sharing session anyway but is usually good.   Next fall we will be studying from the book of Acts.   That will be interesting.
Wonder if a lot of the history of the church will come with that.

Well.....until next time Happy Stitching!

My "second dad"

2011-05-11T13:53:00.000-04:00

I met Katherine and Bill in 1961.   I was a young girl and they were missionaries to India home on furlough.   We struck a great friendship that lasted for many years.   They were my 2nd mom and dad.     Katherine and I were expecially close.   Katherine died in 2004 of Alzheimers and a blood clot.   Bill lived across the parking lot from me so we kept that bound although had drifted apart.   The last time I saw Bill was at a funeral of another life long friend and he had given me the biggest hug. One I hadn't had from him in years.
Through all the years we knew Katherine and Bill they were great examples for us to follow.   Always putting the Lord first and they never quit serving the Lord.
I could go on and on so many good times, so many pranks, so much laughter.   I'm sure Katherine and Bill are sourounded by children in heaven as they were on earth.   Katherine and Bill loved children but were never able to have any.   I also wonder if Bill is being allowed to pull some of his pranks up in heaven.   He loved to pull them on earth.   I'll always grin when I think of that mischievious grin he would get when he was about to pull a prank or successfully pulled one or his hearty laughter at things.   He will be missed.   But it's not Goodbye to Katherine and Bill or so many in Katherine's family but it's See you in heaven!

Precious Moments Start

2011-05-06T09:02:00.000-04:00

Not sure why the shaddow happened, maybe the scanner is getting old.   Anyway this is called "You Have Touched so many Hearts."   I had to do this for little Lola.   Her story really touched me and it was sort of sad how her parents had to leave the Mission Field because of her illness.   Hopefully she and they will be able to return some day.   It will be sort of a tedious and borning stitch but PM's are really cute.   I think I've done about 25 of them down through the years.   And I signed up for a PM Princess one to do after this one.

Busy day lies ahead.   A friend and I are going shopping for the Food Pantry.   We want to get some things that are hard to get from Feeding America and Love Inc.   At one time it looked like we had an overflowing pantry now it's emptying out and we have the money so there's no reason we can't build the stock back up.   We are amazed at how God has come through for us. He seems to make sure we can replenish the food once we start getting really low.     Sue is really good at finding the good deals to make the money stretch even further.   Me? I'm one who. unfortunately grabs what catches my eye and worry about the price later.   I shouldn't be that way. We akso have discovered evidence of unwanted guests in the pantry so we are going to get some tubs to put the sugar, flower, and anything else that draws those little critters to food in.

I went to the dentist yesterday, got my teeth cleaned and only have one cavity. I was surprised the problem I'm having with my jaw is not a dental problem. Here I convinced myself I had lock jaw, or at least a bad infection in my gums, but nope.   I also was blaming it on to the vertigo problem.   Oh well....I go to the ENT Monday and then Thurs. have an asthma check with my regular dr and say something about the jaw then I guess.   Man!   It's no fun to grow old.   My mom says I have arthritis in the jaw.   Well....why not, I have it in the shoulder, hip and ankle so why not shoulder too?

Later today I'll go to see my brother.   Actually do my washing there and spend time with their dog, Autumn.   Autumn is my special pal. Makes my cat a little jealous but oh well..

Well....I better go until next time Happy Stitching!

Happy Dance It is Finished!

2011-04-30T14:28:00.002-04:00

I finally finished this piece!   I enjoyed doing it but it is really not a piece I would normally select. That's the thing about Love Quilts though, You find yourself doing pieces you would never do otherwise!   Anyway I am happy to have it done!   Now unto the flowers for a coule of days anyway. Well maybe I'll finish the Wildflowers.   I mislaid the book! Grrrr    Hate it when I do that!

Tomorrow our little Addie turns 3!   She's growing too fast and is now a sweet little girl. Still insistent she is having a brother in June.   We;'ll see. For her sake we hope so.

Until next time!   Happy Stitching!

It's almost done

2011-04-28T17:41:00.000-04:00

Hopefully I will have this done on Sat.   Then I'll go back to the Wild Flowers at least for a dady or two. There is a child at Love Quilts having Precious Moments or Angels as theme of their quilt, so I want to do a square for that one. I just have to look and see what type of angels people are stitching as I have a couple of cute cherub books I'ld love to do a piece from. Otherwise I have lost of PM books. While I do enjoy stitching this piece. It is sort of a fun one, it just isn't one I would normally pick out to do. It will go on a Western Quilt at Love Quilts.. I made a lot of progress on this this past week.

    It's been a fairly quiet week so not much to say. We had a birthday get together for our mom's birthday last Sat.   It was a fun and noisy morning. Johnny, Addie, and Katelyn can make a lot of noise!   But they are so cute.   Addie will be 3 this Sunday so I better get her card in the mail! I met to mail it out today and forgot to!

Until next time Happy Stitching!

A week's Progress

2011-04-22T09:41:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone! Happy Good Friday!   It was on Good Friday 27 years ago my nephew Jake was born only that day was Apr. 1.    It's a little rainy today but it will clear out, and I think Spring will finally be coming to stay!   It's about time as it is getting to the end of Apr.
     The next few days will be busy.   My sister will be in town today and tomorrow.   Today we'll do some shopping and play Mexican Dominoes and Push Rummy later.   We love those two games and whenever my sister is in town we have to play them.   Tomorrow my brother and sister in law is having us over for brunch to celebrate mom's birthday. She will be 78 on Tues.   So two of my nieces and maybe a nephew will join us for that. Can't wait to see Johnny, Katelyn, and Addie again!   Addie will be 3 May 1. Can't believe it. She is still very ademant that her mother will have a baby brother for her in June.   We're not quite sure how she'll respond if Heather has a girl.   But like I said to Kay when she was expecting Bryan Michelle and Heather then 6 and 8 were determined to have a sister.   When Kay wasn't looking they would put their doll clothes on Bryan to make people think he was a girl!   Fortunately they didn't harm Bryan he turned out to be pure boy and today is happily married with a 3 month old son who looks an awful lot like he did.
   I have gotten quite a bit of work done on this piece.   It goes fast when I work on it.   Now you can see what it looks like.   I think it will go to a Western Quilt later.   I seer it more Western then Music and Dance.   Another lady said she would fill my second spot on Taylor's quilt.   I already had the Treble Clef on it that I did last August.
     This week really has been a rough week with my Vertigo.   In fact I really have been nausiated a lot. I finally got my ENT appointment moved up, and then did end up going to the Dr. on Tues. as I was trying to work in the Food Pantry at church and it was awful.   I ended up leaving early and seeing the Dr. later, he gave me a different prescription that helps a little bit.   Still not gone but at least I can function. l just have to be careful and lay down a lot is all.

Last weekend we had our first Easter Egg Roll at church.  Because of rain and my vertigo acting up so bad I didn't get to go, but I heard a lot of good reports and they were very happy with the success of it. It'll be something they'll do every year.   I also think just on Trunk or Treat the nieghbors are going to be asking the church to do it.   Have a great Easter Weekend!   I love this time of year.   Easter really is my favorite Holiday as we celebrate the death and ressurection of Christ and have hope and peace in Him!

Need Opinions Please and be Honest

2011-04-15T16:16:00.000-04:00

Okay here is my dilema.   I said I would fill in for Love Quilts to do a Music Square.   Had the pattern all picked out and laid it aside and can't find it. In my search for my music pattern books (which I only found 2 or 3 of the 6 or 7 I have) I found this piece and thought "it's easy, cute" I'[ll do it for Taylor." So away I went stitching.   It's going fast as you can see as I started it 24 hours ago. So this is only about 5 hours of stitching.   Anyway, the further I get the more convinced I am that this is not Taylor. No I don't know her but it just doesn't seem Taylor to me, and it says more for a Western quilt square. I have 3 options 1) to go to another piece Stoney Creek which is all I have outside the one I want to find. Which will take a while, and I am struggling with Vertigo so hard to stitch long periods of time.  2) just keep stitching this one and hope it's okay 3) there is someone who might be willing to stitch a second square, I might just ask her to do one.   It'll be her 2nd square for Taylor but this is my second square for her to. Treble Clef I did last summer is going on her quilt.   What would you do? I love doing this piece, and will keep at it. Then I'll go back to the flowers maybe, or find another music piece.

    Like I said I am really struggling with Vertigo. It's so frustrating. In fact it's been so obvious that people at church really notice it bad and have helped me out a lot.   I had hoped to wortk at the Easter Egg Roll tomorrow but doesn't look like I can now.   Maybe next year.   Someone did give my dad a suggestion that worked for their mother in law, the dr. had told her to do taking Vitams B, C, & E for 10 days, taking less every 3 days.   Anyone ever try this? Anyone with Vertigo have any suggestions.   It is the lightheadedness I'm having problems with not the dizziness.

   Well, until next time.....Happy Stitching!

Easter Finish

2011-04-13T17:29:00.000-04:00

I just finished this piece not too long ago.   I loved doing this piece and it provided a nice break from Wild Flowers which I will go back to doing tomorrow. This will probably go to a young girl at Love Quilts who chose Christian as theme of her quilt.

I rhink I passed the instpection today for my yearly rent. This is the first time they have done an instpection for this.   It's to see if there are any damages, and if there is then I'll have to pay for them .   Hopefully they didn't find anything. I did tell them this is first time this particular inspection was ever done and they said they realized that I wasn't the first person to tell them.   We'll see. They have a major nspection being done by the city and the state coming up so they want to take care of what they can ahead of time.   Thji is there first year of going through this and last year we had all different people in the office so this team is very nervous. Good as that may work for them. This place is pretty good about keeping up on reapirs though so I don't think they have much to worry about.

This Sauturday we are having an Easter Egg Roll for the neighborhood children at church.   It should be fun.   The children will hunt for eggs and then come inside to hear the True Easter Story.

Well, until next time Happy Stitching!

A New Start

2011-04-09T16:58:00.001-04:00

I laid the Wild Flowers to do this piece. With Easter coming around the corner and we celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ I wanted to do this piece, and I may try to find another Easter piece too.   I love the Easter Season.   It's my favorite. I love the colors in this piece.   It's not quite half done, but I started it only yesterday so you can see it's going really fast.

Today is a beautiful day outside, in the 60';s and we're loving it!   Tomorrow is suppose to be 80 in land, us a little cooler but severe storms are coming in too.   Of course they will be at night. I love night storms.  When we were young my sister and I would shriek with delight at the thunder and just giglle as we lay in our bed. Awww the memories.

Tomorrow after church we are having lunch with my brother and his wife. They said they just felt like having mom dad and I over.   I work at the Resource Center after church tomrrow but that only takes a few minutes.

Well --until next time   Happy Stitching!

Isn't it Beautiful?

2011-04-04T14:34:00.000-04:00

I didn't fall off the wagon as when I stitch it it'll go to my sister-in=law. She took me out to Jo Anne's and I saw this pattern couldn't refuse it. I have since looked at the pattern, it's not going to be an easy stitch. I did tell Beth I would do it for her, no guarantees when it would be done.
Well, until next time....Happy stitching!

Slowly but Surely

2011-04-02T15:05:00.000-04:00

I don't have that much more left.   Hopefully by end of next week it will be done providing I don't decide to add more to the bottom. I lvoe this piece it is so pretty.   I'm just anxious to get it done and do something else..
   Today seems to be a descent day with the Vertigo. It's not acting up as bad as it has been.   Good as I won't be able to see the ENT until mid June.   That's a long time to put up with Vertigo.   Although last time I put up with it 3 or 4 months.
   It seems so nice to have the spring weather popping in.   I know they say this will be a rough year for allergies and I'm feeling it.   I finally got an Air Purifier to help and surprise it helps a lot.   What took me so long.   Actually my sister bought it for me for Christnas at the suggestion of one of our sister in laws.
    Thank you for reading my blog honest this piece will be finished some day!   Until next time Happy Stitching!

Slowly but surely it is getting there

2011-03-28T17:48:00.000-04:00

I don't thik I'll get this done by Apr. 1 like I had hoped but oh well.     It is slowly getting there though

My stitching time and time on the computer has been limited.   I am having major problems with Vertigo again.   So I am sleeping a lot as I was told that was the best thing I can do.   I have found when I am really light-headed and lay down, when I get back up I am better for a couple of hours.   I am not going to let this go on for months like I did last time.l   If I'm not better by end of week I'm going to at least call the Dr. for an appointment.   I don't like going through the exercises he does but they do help.

Thank you to everyone who has been ready my blogs and leaving comments.   I really appreciate them.   They are really encouraging.

Lots of Stitching-Lots more Progress

2011-03-22T16:00:00.000-04:00

I've done a whole lot of stitching the past few days and got the big yellow flower in and decided to do the purple flower after all.   I'm just hoping that didn't put me over the 9 inches across.   By my measurements it's barely 9 inches but I can't get it all on the scanner so I don't know. Hopefully it is just barely over 9 inches.
Hopefully this will be done early next week.   I love stitching on it but am anxious to have it done.   Then I want to do a couple of Easter pieces.

Well....our nice weather has come to a temporary end.   Rest of today and tomorrow are suppose to be nasty with sleet and ice and snow.   It's going to be upper 30's the next several days. It is still March. We won't have spring to stay until mid April at least. If we are lucky early April.

Until next time Happy Stitching.

A week's progress

2011-03-18T11:39:00.000-04:00

I didn't get quite as much done on this as I wanted there are some slow spots to it but I'm still enjoying it.   The stems do go a little further to the right but I'll catch them next week.   The only thing I don't like about this piece is it is spread out over several pages but it's working out fine.

Today my niece, Melissa is 30.   She was the one who got my very first Cross Stitch piece that I actually finished.   It was a birth sampler and to this day she still has it.   In fact about a year ago she asked her mom to take it out of the frame and make it into a quilt with some pieces her mom made for her when she was a baby.   It really turned out nice.

Tomorrow my great nephew, Ashton, turns 8.   We are going rollar skating.   I have not rollar skated in years and the verdict is still out if I will try it again.   I use to love to rollar skate so in a way I want to. We'll see.    I need to get him a birthday card.

We are enjoying our spring like weather.   It's been 40's, 50's here.   Next week is back to 30's but it is still March.   And 30's aren't that awful.   I just can't wait for mid April and then spring might be here to stay.

Well, until next time Happy Stitching!

Almost twice as far!

2011-03-11T11:24:00.002-05:00

I absolutely love this piece.   I think in 5 days I've gotten twice as far on this.   It's coming together really well. Since there are no half stitchings and no backstitching to speak of it is moving fast.

The sun is shiniing bright today hopefully will melt more of the snow. Slowly but surely the snow is melting.
I know spring isn't great for those of us with allergies, but I still love Spring. Everything is so fresh and new.

So far I think the Food Pantry transition is going fine.   Clif hasn't met with us yet but Tuesday him and I will meet and then he'll meet with all of us.   There were some things I asked him to discuss in the meeting.   Right now we have a well stocked food pantry.   I used some of our grant money for Feeding America and plus put in a food order from Love Inc.   Love Inc always goes above and beyond what we ask for.   We really appreciate them.    I just love how our food pantry is looking.   Everyone has worked so hard on it.

I am praying for those of you in Japan and those of you who are under the Sunami watch.   I can't even imagine what the people are going through.

I want to thank everyone for reading my blog and making comments.   I really appreciate it.   I've even noticed I'm getting more followers.   So I welcome you and thank you for following my blog.

Wildflowers Progress

2011-03-06T18:01:00.000-05:00

I love stitching on this piece and it is going fairly well.   I can't wait to get even further along and get some of the pink flowers in.    I am having to cut the size down to meet the Love Quilts 9x9 guidelines so cutting off points are sort of hard to determine.   It is such a pretty piece though I absolutely love stitching it.

     Today is a nice sunshiny day. The snow is once again starting to melt. This is the time of the year where we have nice days then nasty days.   But on other hand we really don't want the snow to melt too quickly or we will have a flooding problem and beleive me this year a lot of snow means flooding. Fortunately this part of the country doesn't have a big flooding problem. It just seems nice after a long winter, to see little signs of spring start to come in.

     I'm sorry but I have to tell this story about my 4 year old great nephew, Johnny.   I'm an animal lover but I laughed so hard when I read it on his father's face book page.   It was a conversation they had at their kitchen table yesterday afternoon.   Johnny: Daddy, when I get big may I have a gun to shoot some birds?"
John: What kind of bird, chicken?, turkey?"   Johnny:   "No that goose on the lake (they live on a lake). John "But what if she has babies.   You don't want to leave the babies without a mommy do you? "   Johnny: "Okay....I'll just shoot one of her babies then!"   That little stinker!   Out of the mouth of babes!

Well on that note....Until next time......Happy Stitching!

A New Start

2011-03-01T17:43:00.001-05:00

I am really thinking spring.   And I enjoy doing this piece.   It will be so pretty when done. It is Wildflowers by Larnette.   It will be smaller than the actual piece to meet the Love Quilts requirements.   But this is how much I have done in just 10 hours of stitching.   Yes I am going to love doing this piece/

I know I said I'd post the winners of my drawing Monday night or Tuesday morning.   Sorry it's Tuesday night.   I did get hold of the two winners last night and sent the patterns out today.   Congratulations to Dawn (Golden Angel Works) who won the Laughter of Angels and Kim (Ride the range) who won the Cat Nap piece.   I hope you two enjoy stitching them.

I am so happy! I passed the Safe Serve Course I had to take for the Food Pantry.   Because my dad's computer is slow it took two hours to get through it all..   And only about 15 minutes of it pertained to us as we do not serve prepared meals nor do we have a refrigerator.   We just give out non perishables.   But since it was required I grudgingly took it and sat through the two hours.   That means I am now Certified and we can stay on with Feeding America.   We are still waiting to hear if we get any money fromn a Dance-A-Thon that was held last week-end.

Today my great niece, Katelyn turned 1.   They had a party for her on Saturday but because I was still sick from a cold I didn't go.   I did see the pictures on facebook and it looks like she had fun.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching!

PM Japan is finished

2011-02-27T18:38:00.000-05:00

YES!!!!!IT IS FINISHED AND YES I AM SHOUTING! I am so happy to have this piece done./ Parts of it was okay.   But other parts.....oh.hhhhhhh boy!   So much frogging! The backstitching didn't even bother me I really enjoyed that as you can see the piece be more real and come to life.   I may be willing to do other pieces from this book but not Japan again.

Now I have kitted up my next piece.   It is Wildflowers and so pretty.

Tomorrow night or Tuesday morning I will draw names for my giveaway so you have through tomorrow to enter if you want.

I ve had this stupid cold all week and I'm sick of it.   I'm actually starting to believe my sinuses will never be clear again.   Both my sister and I have had sinus problems the last few months and we totally blame our parents we inherited their sinus problems!   Oh well.....I know I don't have it as bad as my mom though.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching

Blog Giveaway

2011-02-25T15:36:00.000-05:00

I usually don't do these things no do I usually enter them but I'm going to have a blog giveaway. I barely went through myo stash and found these two that I will never be able to stitch because of my eyes. I can't stand that so thought I would offer them as a Giveaway to someone who will stitch them. One is The Laughter of Angels by Design Connection and the other is An Afternoon Nap by Brucilla. The laughter of angerls didn't scan too well sorry. You don't have to be a follower of my blog to enter. I hate it when people say first follow my blog then post a comment. That to me is just begging for followers. I will ask you to post to this and tell me which one you would like. I will draw names Monday, Feb. 28. Check back Monday night I will post who wins and how to send me your snail mail address. Until next time Happy Stitching!

Finally it's Moving Faster

2011-02-23T10:22:00.000-05:00

I know the picture is a little crooked there.   I knew once I got the head, hair and the mountain and building done the piece would move quicker. It just took close to two weeks to get the mountain and building in. I kept having to frog.   As you can see there is a lot of detail to this piece. Even for a Precious Moments piece a lot of detail.

I didn't go to BSF today.   I seem to have caught a nasty cold fast and furious plus I had such a sore throat and headache I just said forget it I'm not going anywhere.

We didn get a lot of snow Sunday. I think we gained almost all that had melted.   Took a week to melt but came back in a few hours. Unfair.   It's melting some again now.   It's that time of year we will get snow but we will have more nice days, especially once March gets under way.

We have to have someone certified to work in our Food Pantry if we want to stay with Feeding America.   I tried yesterday to take the test, and for 3 hours we tried accessing it and couldn't do it.   So just called it a day.   I came home and found several messages on my computer so when I try to take the test, The access key was on my conmputer, that really would have helped!Thursday or Friday I should have an easier time of getting in. Yesterday I was trying from my dad's house on his computer and it just was not cooperating at all. My mom says "Now you know why I won't touch a
computer."   She may be the smart one.l

Well, until next time Happy Stitching. I'm going to read some more blogs. I'm trying to catch up.

Happy Valentine's Day

2011-02-14T15:47:00.001-05:00

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!

      It's been a busy week but I did get some progress done on the Japaneese Ptecious Moments piece.    Good thing I don't mind backstitching as there is an awful lot of backstitching to this piece.

       My sister came to town a few days ago.   We played some games one day and went shopping the next.   I was so disappointed my favorite clothing store went out of business at the mall.   Oh well......

       Saturday we had a clothing giveaway at church.   We got lots and lots of clothes but didn't have a whole lot of people come. We really didn't know what to expect.   The organizer was satisfied with the turn out though,   I think if we could have gotten to our church sign and posted it plus if it would have been spring , summer, or fall, we would have had more people come.

       We are finally getting the warmer temperatures!   It is so exciting to see the icicles melting off the deck and see the snow slowly melt away.   We still have lots on the ground but it's coming down

       The Food Pantry is going great.   We have received a grant that we never expected and will use it to buy more food from Feeding America.    I will be stepping down as cordinator.   I've been having a lot of problems with one of the workers who would love to take over the pantry and run it. Without going into details the last two weeks were horrible she was leaving nasty notes questioning things she shouldn't have, telling the other two ladies to do things I had not wanted done and was against church policy. Finally I had had it and after talking to two of our Pastors we decdided to finally put a man in that will not put up with Deb.   We realize we are mixing oil and water and we are proceeding with caution.   But I've been wanting to have Clif take over for 6 months now and we finally decdided now was the time and Deb will just have to deal with it or quit.   I'm feeling I'm doing what is best for the food pantry, and best for church. I will remain on the staff, and still do all the ordering and be the assistant so my role won't change much I just won't get the hassles any more.

    Well Happy Valentines Day and until next time Happy Stitching!

PM Japan Progress

2011-02-04T14:10:00.000-05:00

I picked this piece back up to do yesterday.   I'm hoping the worst part is done now.   Usually on Precious Moments pieces once the hair and face are done the rest goes quickly and easier.   We;'ll see. There is an awful lof of back stitching to this one.   Oh well....
    Well we survived the Blizzard of 2011.   Now it's nice and sunny and beautiful to look out at.   the next 3 days are suppose to be upper 20's or even 30 then we go back into the deep freeze again.

Tomorrow I'm having a Jewelery Party at my mom's.   I'm not too excited about it. I only invited about 4 or 5 people as my mom's apartment isn't big at all.   My niece sells the jewelry and wanted me to do it, so I'm doing it to help her out.   I just hope a couple people show up.   If not oh well....

Well until next time.....Happy Stitching!

Birds and Flowers are finished

2011-02-02T11:44:00.000-05:00

I loved doing this piece.   It is so pretty. It will go to Love Quilts Charlotte's Kids Birds quilt.   This is one of my all time favorite pieces I think. It even stitched up easily.   Oh, there was some frogging and I ran out of thread from the kit because of the frogging but I enjoyed the piece so much it didn't bother me.   That is one thing I don't like about kits, they really should send more threads with the piece than they do.

We got caught by the Blizzard of 2011.   We got about 14 inches so far and doubt we'll get much more than that as the worse is over.   We were warned this was coming. Anyone who wasn't prepared it was their own fault.   We had a lot of snow on the ground to begin with so adding 14 inches is a lot.   My deck is about buried I think and I can't even open the door to knock off the icicles. Oh well.....I get a thrill out of watching ice melt anyway.   Whiskers is very unamused by it, he just goes to the bedroom and sleeps in his corner or on my bed.   I will admit I didn't expect there to be so many closings, I expected schools but not businesses or factories.   Even our county buildings are closed. Garbage isn't being picked up and even the city buses are not running!   It's bad but we can handle it. We are not alone. I just hope everyone stays safe and warm.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching!

Progress on Birds on Flowers

2011-01-28T14:58:00.000-05:00

I absolutely love working on this piece.   It is so pretty I think and makes me think spring!   Even if we are covered with snow outside and the icicles are so thick outside the windows! Spring will come!

Tomorrow my Great Niece, Chelsea will be 2 years old. So if her parents see this Happy Birthday to Chelsea.   Otherwise she will get her card and I'll say something on her parents facebook page tomorrow.

Until next time Happy Stitching

Birds and Flowers

2011-01-24T12:21:00.000-05:00

I just love doing this piece.   It is so pretty and makes me think Spring!    It will go to Love Quilts Bird quilt for girls.

It's snowing again today. I heard on the News that this is the Global Warning affect.   We are on the cold snowy end of it.   Sounds like much of the nation is.  I just want it to be spring.

Anyone else having a problem getting the new children at Love Quilts to download for them. I can get the ones through March but not the ones Apr. -July.   It's frustrating me. I've been trying for two weeks now. Than I posted on their message baord and someone posts "You need to go to LQ's homepage.:" Dknow that I've been doing that for 2 weeks and it's not working!    Someone said they would e mail me the current themes. We'll see.

Well, until next time....Happy Stitching!

Sandcastles is finished!

2011-01-21T14:17:00.000-05:00

I finished this earlier today. I really did enjoy stitching this. I love doing beach scenes. This will go to Love Quilts. They are doing a quilt called "A Walk on the Beach." for future child. I just am not real happy with the stitching on this, to me it looks sloppy. I don't know. Now I will go back to the Japan piece for a few days anyway. I made a mistake on it so am going to have to frog quite a bit which makes me unhappy but oh well....

It has been cold and snowy the last few So far we are not getting our January thull. In fact for a while I couldn't open my deck window to get the icicles, now I finally can but they still are pretty long. I get a thrill out of watching them melt. Next week is suppose to warm up so I guess I'll have a big thrill then. LOL.

Not much has happened to write about since I last posted so until next time.....Happy Stitching!

Progress on Sandcastles

2011-01-18T18:27:00.000-05:00

Even though I am itching to start the bird and flower piece I have decided to just sticdk to this until it is completed which should be by the end of the week.   I have enjoyed this but there is so much light brown in it.   But that part is almost done.

     Today is my sister's birthday so Happy Birthday Kay.   I don't think she reads this blog much I don't even know if she knows it exists to be honest.   Her and her husband had a couple days off together (a rarity) so they decided to go skiing for a couple of days.

     We are in the midst of a very cold week.   Today was nice but was warmest day we'll have for a little while.   Not enough to melt those stupid icicles!   Oh well.....

    I can't believe we are over half done with Jan. already.   I love it when Feb. gets here as Feb is such a short month and has some days of sun.   And then March the snow starts to melt some.   Plus I love the fact the days are getting longer.

    Well until next time Happy Stitching!

And Yet another New Start

2011-01-14T14:13:00.000-05:00

Like I said yesterday I started yet another piece.   This is Sandcastles by Sudbury House.   I am doing this for Love Quilts.   The title of the quilt is A Walk at the Beach   so it's anything pertaining to the beach. I thought this piece was cute. Usually I do lighthouses but decided to do something different this time.
     Thank you for your responses to the bird piece I posted yesterday.   I do recognize the name of the company now, I just knew it by the American Name.   I can't wait to start on that piece.

     It is very winter like here.   We are getting a lot of snow like most of the country.   The icicles on my deck were so big and fat, I finally managed to get the sliding window open today so I could knock down what I could anyway.   At least I can look out and not see icicles reaching all the way down now.

This weekend some friends are coming in from out of state to be at our church. They just returned from a short term (1 year) missions trip to Mexico and are now going to be full time missionaries. Since they grew up in the church I don't think they'll have a problem getting support from us

Well...until next time Happy Stitching!

Who is the Designer

2011-01-13T17:49:00.000-05:00

This was one of 3 kits I ordered from The Stitchery and received today. I cannot wait to get it started but I'm not sure who designer is since it seems to be from a foreign country. Fortunately the pattern is easy to follow and the floss is very easy to figure out. By what I can tell the designer is Verachtert . I've never heard of them. I can't wait to start stitching it though it is so pretty I think

I am turning into a serial starter I think. As I started a 3rd new projecct the other day called Sandcastles by Sudbury. It's almost half done so I may just finish it out before I start this one. I'll post tomorrow what I have done on it.

Until tomorrow.....Happy Stitching.

Let It Snow, Let it Snow, Let It Snow

2011-01-07T17:23:00.000-05:00

We have had a lot of snow fall the last couple of days.   It's suppose to let up tonight but hit the counties south of us hard.   It was beautiful to look out at. Today was a good day just to stay in and stitch!
    Yes, I started another new piece.   I found this in March issue of Cross-Stitch & Needlework. I received it the other day and wish I had time to do the whole sampler but I never would finish it so decided to do smaller pieces from it.   It is a Victorian sampler and while I do very few victorian pieces I really do like them.   So it's different from what I usually stitch but I like to break away from that.   I will go back to the PM piece.   But I also know I have 4 pieces coming next week, and all 4 I am going to want to do immediately.   I must have AHDS or whatever they call it as nothing is holding my attention.
Well....until next time   Happy Stitching

PM Start

2011-01-05T14:06:00.001-05:00

It doesn't look like much yet but this will be a Japaneese Girl from Precious Moments All Around the Worl.d book.   I am doing it for Chross Stitchers for Charity.   I'm not liking the needle so it's slowing me down. I ordered 3 packs of the needles I do like but they won't be here until next week.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them.   This is the shortened version of a long story.   I kept getting these bills from my former phone co that said - so many dollars. I would call them and they would always say "That is how much we owe you, you overpaid." So fine.   Finally just before Christmas I get another bill and call them and ask what is going on?   She apologized and said that is what we owe you you don't pay us we'll get the refund check out to you and again apologized for it taking so long. So okay, about a week later I get the check so I'm think good this whole ordeal is over I'm done with that company and threw everything away. Bad move....Monday morning I get a call from a Bill Collector telling me it got turned over to him because I ignored all their attempts etc.   I told him the whole story and told him I had the refund check. He was baffled by it. I gave him the number of the check, (fortunately I hadn't cashed the check and will wait now). In end he said he would look into the whole matter and get back to me in 35-40 days.   He also said he sent me a letter, I still haven't received it so neither one of us could figure that out either.   He was real nice about it and understood my anger and confusion.   Never will I use that company again.   Oh I called the phone company later and was real nice as I knew the person I was talking to wasn't responsible. He had no idea as to what happened sent me to financial services, they had no idea what happened and tried to return me to billing.   When I told her billing sent me to her she says "oh shute!" and we both started laughing. So I have a very bad impression of them believe me. Not the people I talked to but the whole system as a whole is something to be desired!

After making the calls I was so upset I ordered 2 patterns from 123 stitch plus the needles and some material, and sent a check. Good on my part.   But next day I ordered 3 items with my credit card from The Stitchery which I seldom do but I just couldn't resist them. Can't wait to get them and get to stitching them.

We are getting a lot of snow these days.   We had a fairly mild Dec. although we did get a White Christmas, January is catching up to us!

Now the best for last..    Last night Wyatt James was born to my nephew and his wife.   We are so excited.   In the end Chrissy was just miserable the last 3 weeks.   Then yesterday they sent her home from work.   She called Bryan and went to hospital and they admitted her.   My sister thought they would be in for a long night but actually the baby came soon after that. He was born at 7pm.   So now I have 13 great nieces and nephews with 2 more on the way!

Well until next time.....Happy stitching

Last update on 3 Kings

2011-01-01T15:27:00.000-05:00

Happy New Year!   I hope everyone has a great New Year.

It only got half way done but I''m not working on it until December now.   I don't do Christmas except in Dec.    I had wanted to take a picture of it but I have to buy a piece for the disc as it's so small before I can upload it unto my computer.

This morning I started Precious Moments Japan piece from PM Around the world book. It is for Cross Stitchers for Charity.
\    Yesterday we had our family Christmas at least those that were there.   Tim came but Wendy and Tabi didn't feel up to it. (Wendy's mother was buried yesterday her funeral was Thurs. and it finally started hitting Wendy her mother was gone.) Johnny and Addie stole the show and Katelyn was so precious.   Next year she'll be running around with Johnny and Addie.   We had a White Elephant Exchange which was fun.
It was a noisy fun afternoon though.

Until next time Happy Stitching!

Progress on Three Kings

2010-12-29T11:55:00.002-05:00

I've made quite a bit of progress on this piece the last 3 days.   I had hoped to finish this piece by Jan. 1 but I seriously doubt that will happen.   Depending on how far I get and if the thread holds out I will finish it early Jan. I'll make that decision Dec. 31 and see where I'm at.    If I'm close to finish I'll finish it out.   If not I may get it out on UFO weekend.   I am doing this on Oppascent material using Gentle Arts Hycyth thread. The more I think of it I think I'm going to have my sister frame the Baby Jesus piece and let her grand daughter, Addie have it next year.   She has this thing about Baby Jesus.   She just loves singing Happy Birthday and is completely convinced her baby brother will be baby Jesus. She is only 2, and no one says she's having a baby brother.   Her parents don't want to know if the baby is a boy or gir until the birth in June.

How was everyone's Christmas.   Ours was very quiet, just mom, dad and me.   Wendy's mom died that day.   She had been ill all month and the last couple of days it was obvious she wasn't going to make it.   In a way we are glad it happened this year and Wendy can move on into 2011. This year alone Wendy's step dad who raised her, her step mom, her grandfather and 2 or 3 other relatives died so it's been a rough year for Wendy and Tim.     Her funeral is tomorrow afternoon

Friday is our family Christmas. We are having a White Elephant exchange for that.   I need to wrap that pressent, plus, Ashton's, Johnny's, Addie's, and Katelyn's gifts.   I'm hoping I find Tim and Andrews, since I can't find them.   I'm hoping I sent them home with Wendy to wrap that day we went shopping before her mother went bad.   I do have Wendy's gift card here.

Well....Until next time Happy Stitching!

Merry Christmas

2010-12-25T12:39:00.001-05:00

How appropriate finish this piece on Christmas Day. I loved this piece when someome first posted in their room at Cyber Stitchers. I e mailed her and asked her where she found it and she e mailed me the information. I started it as soon as I bought the book and went great until the second angel and the second half of the hay. I frogged so many times. It still isn't perfect but I just improvised.
Said as long as I have the shape right I won't care if I get a color wrong here and there. I just wanted to finish it. I still love this piece. It's what Christmas is all about. Even 2 year old Addie has been singing Happy Birthday to Jesus all month long. And since she is going to have a baby brother or sister later this year in her young ming she thought she would ask for Baby Jesus for Christmas she understood that can't happen though.

I
l'll be going to my parents house in about an hour and we'll unwrap our gifts and have dinner than. Our big Christmas is this Friday with rest of family.

Merry Christmas everyone! Until next time Happy Stitching!

A New Christmas Start

2010-12-24T14:36:00.000-05:00

Two or three years ago I did Winter Village and Bethlehem.   I bought the Three Kings pattern the same time but didn't start it until the other day.   (Yes I will finish Baby Jesus, but I ran into a problem there so am just doing a little a day or it would go in the garbage.   While I have made progress not enough to post.   Actually I'm waiting until it's finished to post it. I   know I scanned the piece crooked!
    I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.   Christmas Day itself will be very quiet as I'll just go to my parents and it'll be just the 3 of us I think.   I have a problem this year.   I couldn't find the gift cards I got my great nieces and nephews, finally found them and they are in mail probably they'll get them Monday or Tuesday.   Now I can't find the Christmas present I got my brother, Tim, or his son, Andrew.   I'm hoping I gave them to Tim's wife and she took them home with her to wrap.   Our family Christmas itself will be next Friday.   My sister-in-law, Beth bought me a cake pan (as I lost mine at a church picnic) so I can make my 7 layer bars for it.
She's tied up these days as her mother is not doing well at all so she's been at the hospital with her virtually day and night.   So I haven't been able to ask Wendy. We really feel bad for Wendy as this year she lost 3 very close family members and 2 others who were pretty close now it's touch and go with her mom. The other night they called the family in as they didn't think she would make it through the night.   She's holding her own but she's on a respirator and no Nursing Home in town will take her because of the Respirator so she will either have to go to Chicago or hopefully one of the Hospitals here in town has a long term unit, hopefully they will have a bed open up for her very soon.
    Until Next time Happy Stitching    and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone

Baby Jesus

2010-12-18T08:18:00.000-05:00

Remember this one?   I think each Christmas I have worked on it a little since I started this blog in 2006,   I will finish it this year. I've done a lot of frogging on this one and I think I will be improving a little bit in one area as I can't figure out where the mistake is.

  It looks like we we will have a White Christmas this year.   We are getrting the snow and it's not going to be warm enoough to melt.   Speaking of Christmas.....I better get my Christmas cards out.   I hate doing that! Each year I vow I'm going to do a little at a time but I always wait until the last minute.

   I am done with Physical Therapy now.   I'm not saying the pain is gone but it is much more tolerable than what it was.

    Well I'll keep trhis post short.   Until next time....Happy Stitching

Gentle Moment-Finished!

2010-12-13T19:32:00.000-05:00

I really stitched like crazy the last couple of days to get this done tonight.   I was really anxious to do a Christmas piece.   I really did enjoy stitching on this piece.
     Friday was a busy day for me.   Starting with the cat scan.   It went well, I was scared for nothing. I don't know the results yet but sure it turned out fine.   Then had Physical Therapy the afternoon. This week will probably be my last week of it as my shoulder is responding well to it and while there is pain not nearly as much as there was. So I'll just maintain the therapy on my own I think.
    Friday night we had a birthday party for Johnny who turned 4 on Sat.   Yes, that baby 4 years ago I blogged was coming and announced his birth is already 4.   He's a smart little dickens too.   Just too cute.   He's 4 going on 10 I think.   Of course he was all hyper and excited at his party.
    We got hit by the winter storm somewhat but not nearly as much as most areas did.   It snowed a lot late Sun. morning as we got out of church then a couple hours later cleared out.   But boy is it cooooooold out!
     We had Christmas on the Lake Shore at church over the weekend.   Everyone did great and there was a good attendance at all 3 of the services.   I think the best part was the children but it was good.
    Well...until next time Happy Stitching!

Its Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

2010-12-06T16:38:00.002-05:00

Yes, we are getting hit by the snowstorm but not as bas as some areas.   We will get heavy snow for about 20 minutes than it's just flurries.   We do have probably about 6 inches on the ground, maybe more.   I just hope my nephew and his wife make it back to Chicago area safely, it's suppose to be worse as you head in that direction. Chrissy is about 8 months pregnant due the end of Dec. first of Jan.

Also my niece and her husband and baby son are flying back to CO today.   Michelle, Scott, and Nick flew up for a 4 day weekend.   We went to another niece's Friday to see them.   It was so much fun.   Nick is starting to talk a little and has now mastered the art of walking.   Addie just loved seeing her cousin Nick and wanted him to stay with her.   Addie and Nick were so entertaining!   I wish we could see them more!

   I have made some progress on Gentle Moments.   Today was the most I worked on it in the last 10 days put together.   And the rest of this week is filling up so won't have much more time to work on it this week. Good thing I like to backstitch as there is a lot of backstitching on this!
One of these days things will slow down.

     Last week Christmas came to our Food Pantry.   Someone from another church called and said they had a Food Drive in November and they gave half the food to the Rescue Mission and we could have the other half.   Of course we accepted it. So one of the ladies met with them Monday and got the food downstairs.   Tuesday another lady and I came in and were shocked by all the food. So a couple of our Pastors brought the food into the Pantry and we started putting some of it away.   The men of our church had been concearned about the shelves we do have sagging and afraid they would collapse so they bought us 6 Gorrilla Shelves.   They put 3 up last week and 3 more will be put up Wednesday.   So that gives us a lot more room for the food and so much nicer than what we had.     Usage of the Food Pantry has picked up a lot too.   Last week we had 12 families sent to us which is more than we usually get in a month.   So we are just hoping and praying our food holds out.   We may have to get an emergency supply of food from Love Inc.   We are now open 4 days aweek and added 2 ladies to the crew. Plus our Youth Pastor is going to be the Director, I'll report to him.   He also will be our contact with Love Inc.   I think things will go much better now we made that move.   We were really having problems with one of the ladies causing problems between Love Inc and she was trying to take over the Pantry so we basically reduced her role.   I half expect her to quit on us as she is unhappy with us on that move.

This weekend is Chrisstmas on the Lakeshore at church.   This time I'm just going and enjoying it on Sat. I've worked hard on other things our church has had this one I wanted to sit out and enjoy.   The church is all decorated for it.

We also have Johnny's birthday party Friday night to go to. He is 4 years old now.   Remember 4 years ago on Dec. 11 I was posting saying we expected him any moment.   Boy those 4 years have gone fast.   He is now a big brother.   Actually we think he is going on 11. LOL as he is so advanced for his age.

Well, before this turns into a book I will say until next time.....Happy Stitching!

Progress on Gentle Moment

2010-11-19T16:39:00.000-05:00

I haven't had a whole lot of time to stitch this past week.   I think I did more today than I have this whole week put together.   But it's coming along and moving fairly fast for a Stoney Creek piece.
     I started Physical Therapy on my shoulder and hip yesterday.   Yesterday was just more or less an introductory section.   They also noticed my left side was weak (which I always knew that but I thought everyone had a weaker side so never thought about it.) So they want to strengthen that too.   They are going to ask for 12 sessions in 4 weeks but most likely will get 8 sessions to start and if needed may get an extension.   Next week being a holiday week I only go on Tuesday.
    The week after next we will open the Food Pantry 4 days a week to see how that goes.   A couple of other ladies were willing to help with it.   The one just joined our church and she asked to work in Food Pantry.   Come to find out she has a lot of experience, I may just learn from her.

Anyone have special plans for Thanksgiving? We are going on other side of state to my sister's house for a couple of days. We'll hopefully ride with my niece and her husband and little girl (if there is room in their car.) Which we think there will be as we will pack real light. I doubt I will take my stitching as there will not be room in the car plus between Addie and my sister's dog I don't think either one of them will let me stitch even if I did find time. Addie is going to own me and I will love it!
Well.....until next time....Happy stitching.

A New Start

2010-11-12T15:13:00.000-05:00

Since my stitching chair got taken over by Whiskers I thought I would blog, & read a few blogs. I laid down the Autumn Sampler for now but do plan to finish it eventually.   I was just anxious to get going on this piece.    This is Gentle Moments from an old Stoney Creek Book called The Dreamland Express.   It's going to be a little boy hugging a lamb. I will be sending it to Love Quilts.

    Well....my MRI got called off until the Dr. can get approval from the Insurance Co.   Oh well.....I'm not sure I could handle it today anyway it's really not one of my better days.   Even my neck is very painful along with the shoulder and arm and nothing is releaving the pain.   I go to my regular Dr. on Tues.   problem is most pain pills really get my stomach. The Dr.'s office just called and said I had degerative arthritis in hip and shoulder.   At least I know.   I will start PT and see if that helps.

     Earlier this week I went to a Premiere Jewlery Party at my sister in law's.   One of my nieces just started selling the jewelery.   It was a small but fun party.   I also got to see Johnny and Katelyn a little bit and I met my brother's dog Sam.   He's a cutie.   Although my brother took Sam to my parents house with him for the party and Sam found all the toys that my parents had for Autumn when she visits.   My niece conned me into booking a party only having it at my mom's.   I told her it would be only a few relatives.   She was fine and in January.

I got Raked

2010-11-08T15:43:00.000-05:00

Today the mail came with this package from Chris in IN.   It was from my wish list.   I can't wait to do it as it get's cloer to Christmas.   Now I have 2 Christmas projects to do this year, this one and Gingerbread Trio by Little House Needleworks I got from Sue P a couple months ago.

   Well--I am going to have the MRI after all only it will be an open one.   I lost the battle.   I guess it's better to be safe than sorry but I really think the hearing loss is heredity but because of it being gradual and the problems with vertigo I was having they want to rule out the benign brain tumor.

Tomorrow I'm finally going to get my hips and shoulders x-rayed. I had to wait because I switched Insurances.

Tonight I am going to a Jewlery Party.   My niece just started selling it so she's picking me up and taking me to her parents house.   I'm not big on jewlery but Christmas is coming up I may get a couple pieces as Christmas presents for friends.

I started a new piece today just because I felt like getting it going.   I don't have enough done to show yet.   It's by Stoney Creek of a Little Boy hugging a lamb from one of their older books.   I'll finish the Autumn sampler at the end of the week.   I just wanted to get going on this piece.

Well...until next time Happy Stitching!

Progress on Autumn Sampler

2010-11-05T17:13:00.000-04:00

I got somewhat further on this piece the last few days. I think I will finish it up Sunday afternoon. I am really enjoying this piece. I do have my next 4 or 5 pieces selected.

We woke up this morning to snow! Boooo! Hiss hiss! I saw it and thought "Tell me this isn't so!" Oh well it is November. Often we have snow in October.

I found out yesterday another of my nieces is expecting a baby. Heather and Bryan have been wanting a second child but because of her back were hold off. They were given the go ahead but she is already having back problems. Unfortunately she inherited my mom's and brother's backs. It's a curviture of the back. They have an adorable little 2 year old daughter, Addie. Addie will be a good big sister. She's use to be around babies at Day Care and her cousins.

I didn't get to do Ttunk or Treat at church this year but I heard this time we had over 700 kids. Each year it gets larger and larger.

Well.....until next time Happy Stitching.

Autumn Sampler by Prairie Schoolar

2010-11-02T16:24:00.000-04:00

As much as I disliked doing the sports logos, I like doing this piece.   It is a little different for me but I am really enjoying it and it is going quickly.   I am about half done so this may be done Friday or Saturday as the top half has more stitching than the bottom.   Nuts I keep forgetting to upload my pictures until the end so they end up at the bottom.   I would prefer them on top...Oh well...

Well.....today was voting day.   I am so glad it's here and after today we don't have to hear anymore political advertisements for a couple of years.   Problem is I didn't know who to believe who not to believe.   I just voted and we'll see what happens.   I will say I was really surprised by how vocal people were on Facebook.   I'm not sure I'm quite that brave. But somethings people put on Facebook I don't know.....I think they are doing themselves more harm than good. But I like facebook as it has put me in touch with friends from long ago and family I really don't get to see because they live out of state.   I love seeing pictures of the babies!

Today is my sister and brother-in-laws 37th wedding anniversary.   Boy it doesn't seem possible it seems like it was just yesterday!

Well-until next time.....Happy Stitching!

Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T15:19:00.000-04:00

I acutally did this piece a few years ago.   But with it being Halloween I thought I would post it. It's a different Halloween post but look at the expression on that pumpkin as the kitty comes down t love it.
Tonight we are having Trunk or Treat at church but first time since it started I won't get there.   I'll miss it.   I loved handing out the donuts and apple cider but we aren't doing that this year.   I really can't do the trunk or treat though because I don't drive.   Usually my brother or dad could do it but this year isn't working out.   Oh well.   They don't allow Trick or Treating in our complex.

Yesterday my niece brought Katelyn and Johnny to see her grandmother and me.   (We live in same complex).   Katelyn wasn't dressed up as she is a baby and Melissa said it was too hard, but Johnny was dressed as a Knight.   He was so cute.   Katelyn was her adorable smiley self.   She is such a happy baby.

I have my next CS piece well underway. I'll post it in a couple of days.   I just wanted to drop by and say Happy Halloween.   Until next time Happy Stitching!

Happy Dance! It is finished

2010-10-29T14:47:00.000-04:00

It is finished. HURRAY! I am glad to have this piece done. In the end I almost hated it I wanted it to be done so bad. I'll send it out to Cross Stitch Addicts early next week so I won't even have to see it again. Not sure I will do another sports logos anytime soon and am glad I only signed up for only one. I have now started an Autumn Sampler by Prairie Schooler which is much more enjoyable.

I have not made Brocolli Cheese Soup in years and lost the recipe. One of my friends posted a recipe on Face book so I went to the site and thought I would try it out. I don't know. I may have goofed by using garlic powder instead of the cloves. But we'll see. I'll wait an hour before I put the cheese in it too.

It's been a quiet week and have a nice quiet weekend coming up so will close. Until next time...Happy Stitching!

The end is in sight I think!

2010-10-25T17:33:00.001-04:00

I haven't had much time to work on this this past week either but I think the end is in sight and hopefully at the end of the week this will be done.   I did order the 947 thread today and it should be here Friday and I'll be able to finish the orange off then I think.   I am going to run out of 947 soon I fear.   Here I was just out by Jo Anne's Friday and didn't even think to go in there.   We had other things on our mind like getting a baby shower gift.

My sister came to town Friday and her and I went shopping to get Baby Shower gift for her daughter in law who is expecting their first baby in late Dec. or early Jan. The shower was nice and she got a lot of nice things for the baby.   That baby is going to be well dressed, she already has all kinds of clothes all different sizes for the baby plus quite a few toys.

Friday and Saturday was our first annual Mystery Dinner Theater at church.   It seemed to go over really well we heard a lot of nice comments about it.   The Premises was the church bought the house next door and 3 ytoung boys had dug a treasure under the house before it was built there. They could not get the treasure until after the house was gone.  This past spring ;the house was bulldozed and 3 boys (who are the grandsons of the 3 original boys go back to retrieve their treasure and it's ;gone! Who took it? There were   sevedral suspects and everyone just had to follow the clues and come to the conclusion. Friday night 3 groups got it right, Sat. night none of them did. Saturday night was hard as we had to go through our routines knowing who did it yet not give it away.   Friday night we didn't find out until everyone else did.   Well 2 of the 4 pastors knew and the person who was in charge knew.   Who was the one who stole the treasure?   Me!!!!   I was so embarassed when I read my name on the screen.   I turned beat red and buried my head. Oh I allegedly started a cat shelter with the money I found so I didn't even keep it to myself!   Like I said 3 groups got it right Friday, 3 groups thought it was my dad, and the last group thought it was Martha Sinclair.   Sat. night 4 groups thought it was my dad, and 2 thought it was Martha Sinclair. Although there were individuals from each group who thought it was me, they were outvoted.   So Sunday I took a lot of fun abuse at church.   The whole thing was fun but next year if we do it, I really want to be part of the crowd guessing.   Those of us involved wanted to know all the clues and see the videos and didn't get to join in on the guessing.   But it was fun it really was. See my Dad has been very involved in our church for over 50 years and is Chairman of the Elder board.   Also he allegedly was one of the 3 boys who buried the treasure and the only one still alive so he pushes the elder board to buy the house and later buldozed it.   At least that is the made up story.   The only truth in the story is yes the church bought the hosue with intent to bulldoze it for either a youth center or estend the parking lot.   I did live in it for 5 years but I moved out 7 years ago.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching! Next time this piece will be done!

Some progress anyway

2010-10-18T17:23:00.000-04:00

I haven't had as much time to stitch on this this past week, plus I'm having a hard tim really getting into it seems like I stitch and stitch and get no where on it. But it's doing better now. I think I'm about half way done. I'll be so glad when it's done.

Saturday we went on a color tour and to a farm. Some of us rode on the wagon which was fun. It was a really nice day for it. The only problem was the leaves were past peak. It's so hard to judge when to plan these tours. Everyone had a good tinme I thnk.

I found out more about the Mystery Dinner. I don't know a whole lot yet, just my part. I don't want to say a whole lot for fear people from church will read this. I am having a problem with the dates and the incident as they don't correspond but maybe once I know everything it will all connect. I will not know who did it until Thursday night when we have dress rehearsal. Then I'll have to keep quiet about it Friday when I see my parents and sister. My sister is coming into town that morning to take mom and I shopping for the baby gift. Saturday we are having a baby shower for my nephew's wife. They are expecting a boy in early Jan but live out of State so probably won't be back until after the baby is born now.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching!