Isn't he the cutest

Baby you've ever seen? Of course I am prejuidiced. This is my great nephew Johnny taken about a month ago. He's such a sweet baby boy I just love him. He gets on all four now and hasn't quite started crawling. He does roll from one place to another to get what he wants. He's going to keep his parents on their toes! Of course he has doting parents so he'll be okay.

Until next time Happy Stitching!

Birthday Stash

Yesterday I received my birthday package from Kajsa. I loved it. I was bad I didn't wait for my birthday to come which is Tuesday. I love that little needle holder, the cross stitch is so pretty. She did a good job on it. She also gave me a couple of leaflets on my wish list. I love the Margaret Sherry Cats and John Clayton Scenery pieces. So she gave me one of each of those. She also sent material. So I was very happy. Thank you Kajsa. I also have close up of the Needle case.

Today my dad and I went down to Farmers Market. I love fresh homegrown tomatoes, plus picked up cucumbers and red potatoes. I wish tomatoes lasted longer around here but they don't. The other day I picked a couple of cucumbers and some green beans from my brother's garden. Boy there is nothing better than fresh vegetables from the garden. So I had a good lunch today!

Tomorrow starts our Evangelistic Crusade at our church. We've been preparing for it the past few months. The speaker is from VA.

I was picked again to be UFO task accomplisher of the month. This time they picked Santa I can explain. So I got that out and started working on it. I know why it's a UFO.....it's small but it's not easy! I know my carpet needs shampooing bad! Almost did it this week but something came up and couldn't. Just pretend it's not there okay!

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Birth Announcement is finished

I finished this earlier today. It was the hardest piece to get into as it was so easy and boring I could do it in my sleep. I am unhappy about the bees in the corner, I may be taking them out. I'll see when my niece sees it what she wants. I don't think you can tell those are bees. This will be the center of the Winnie the Pooh wall hanging

I will post tomorrow as I just got my birthday package from Kaysja and I love it! Thank you Kaysja.

I just walked in a few minutes ago so I need to get organized here. I've been with my mom for a couple of hours. She is not doing too good, we're not sure if it's her heart or what. But my dad is there now. There has been a whole lot going on in our family and it's taking a toll on her.

Well until tomorrow Happy Stitching! Barb

Whiskers

The other day I was at the computer and just happened to look down and there was Whiskers looking up at me me so sweetly. I don't know how long he had been there.
But 5 minutes later he knew he had my attention and he wanted me off the computer! What happened to my sweet little boy! Needless to say he won I was off the computer

Today is suppose to be a stormy day so if I want to vaccuum I better do it soon. My sister is coming to town later today she'll stay with my parents until Thurs. She is bringing her deep steam vaccuum to do their rug and then bring it over here and I'll do my rug it needs it bad. Then we'll probably go shopping and try to figure out things to do for most of the day since we won't be able to be on the carpets for a few hours.

Oh I'll get some stitching time in today too. Until next time Happy Stitching. Hope these pictures did what I wanted but I have my doubts. I added a photo as an after thought a couple hours later. Sorry I accidently added two photos of the same picture. The Lighthouse is coming along much better now the worse is over.

I got Tagged!

Okay I got tagged. I knew it would happen sooner or later. I got tagged by Jacky. The rules are you are suppose to tell 10 wierd things about yourself and then tag 10 other people . (That is if I remember that was all there was to it) So I'll do the 10 things first '

1. I'm not sure I can tag 10 other people

2. I spend too much time Cross Stitching

3. I love my cat.

4. I'm not big on eating out

5. I prefer to be left alone I'm not much of a mixer

6. I do not like Steak

7. I do not like Ice Cream

8. I love to watch HGTV

9. I Love Chocolate Chip Cookies!

10. I will not get on elevators I am afraid of them!

Okay I tag

Michelle (Natvie Texan Stitching
Jen Jennxstitch
Jen Jen's Stitching
Sarah Just Another Flamingo on the Lawn
Cath Pumpkin Patch
Margaret Stitch or No Stitch
Johanna Jo's Stitching
Janice Amazing Stitches
Meari Meari's Musings
Barbara Mainely Stitching

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Progress

I have stitched somewhat on this this past week so thought I would give you an update. The clouds aren't my favorite part but they are getting close to done now so the rest of the peice will go smooth. I tend to like to do the what I think will be hardest first and get it out of the way. Here is progress after about 22 hours of stitching.

Until next time Happy Stitching!

Birth Announcment Sampler

I am doing this piece on the side. Just when I have a little time now and them. This morning I made an aggressive effort. Now that it is well underway I like it but at first I couldn't stand it which is why I moved so slow on it. (I started this piece middle of July. It just took forever plus a thousand years to get it to look like anything. The corner squares are suppose to be in pink and a flower but Melissa didn't want that for her boy so I found a bee in the same book and I knew she would go for that as she likes bees. (Not the real ones.) I really don't like doing the corners at all. Oh well..... This will be piece no. 5 towards 25 challenge as I have stitched 2 other pieces from the book and have two more to go for Johnny's wall hanging pieces to be done. This his Grandother is going to make the wall hanging.


I haven't talked about my stitching goals for the month for a while so I did make some for this month. We'll see if I keep them or not. They are to finish Pigeon Point Lighthouse and this Birth Announcment. Possibly do a deGrazia graph for an Indian Quilt. Stitch more on Wild Menagerie or another UFO piece. I also would like to start Tigger.

Our church picnic was fun on Sunday. It was a beautiful day for it and a lot of us took advantage of just walking down to the Lake. (The park is on Lake Michigan).

The heat is continueing. We really need the rain bad. I'm just staying in with the air conditioning.

I have enjoyed seeing all your blogs. Some of your blogs I can't make comments as the Security bar that asks if you want to see the pictures of the people keep popping up. I say yes and it comes right back up. Some of you I just close it and then re enter and I can post but others of you like both Jenn and Jen I can't do that to. So sorry, I'm am not ignoring your blogs and if I could post I would. Somnetimes I don't get blogger but oh well....

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Start #4

Only this will count as #2 towards the 10 challenge. I think I explained all that earlier. I would like to stitch from at least 10 books that I haven't stitched from before I even think about getting any more leaflets. The picture is a little dark but it's useable. I need to get an extension plug for my scanner since getting DSL I don't have a spot to plug in my scanner.

This Pigeon Point Lighthouse piece will go to Cross Stitchers for Charity for a Lighthouse quilt we are doing. It's going pretty well. I've stitched on it for about `10 hours now. There is a lot of backstitching to it. Typical of Stoney Creek, yes, another Stoney Creek piece! Man people are going to think I only do animal or scenery pieces. I have to do a horse piece, but I may take a break and do a couple of other things in between that are not scenery or animal related. I also want to pick up Wild Menagerie sometime in Aug and Sept while the sun is still bright and the lighting is good.

Today is my nephew Bryans 23rd birthday. I'd wish him a Happy Birthday but he doesn't have a blog and doesn't come here. Besides he needs a new computer and doesn't have Internet Access right now. New Sat. I think (Aug. 4) is my brother's birthday. We have several birthdays (including mine) coming up soon plus 1 anniversary all in Aug. Aug. and Dec. are the big birthday months in our family!
My blog roll is growing. I keep finding more and more blogs I like. Only on some I have problems making comments. So some of you like, Jenn, I can't make a comment as that security block comes out, even though I click yes, then just click it off it pops right back up. Some blogs I can click it off and it won't pop back up. Oh well...

Tomorrow is our church picnic. I'll make a caserole tomorrow for it. I have almost 3 hours free between church and going to the picnic I'll make it then. I do need to go do my dishes right now. Until next time Happy Stitching!

Surprise! The Tigers are Finshed!

Did I say Sunday I wanted to finish these? They are done now! I worked hard on them today. I have the Lighthouse all kitted up to start tomorrow! These Tigers were so much fun to do but I'm glad I'm done with them. This is I think 4th piece towards 25. Since I have stitched from the book before I can't count it in the 10. See I decided either 10 projects from books I have not stitched from or 25 pieces altogether which ever comes first. Now the Lighthouse and the Horse after that can count towards the 10.

There is a lot going on in our family right now I can't talk about. Things look a little better than they did earlier this week but it's one day at a time. Plus something else happened, I'll know more on that next week, then I might say something.

It's suppose to rain tonight and tomorrow! We need it so bad. I love thunderstorms especially at night. Unfortunately my dad golfs on Fridays. But this week he will be golfing on Sat. anyway only that is for CLBC.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

One last Update on Tigers

This piece is pressing towards the finish line! The second baby is going in much easier than the first one did, but the first one is larger too. I hope to have it finished end of the week. Perhaps Sunday even. Then I will finally do the Lighthouse I've been planning to do "next" all summer. I still am working a little on Johnny's birth sampler but not a lot. That piece is so boring it's not calling my name at all.

Did you notice I changed the template. I decided I was tirred of the other one so went with this one for now. In the fall I'll change again. This one still has a summer feel to it.

Sunday is our church picnic. I already have everything ready I'm going to make for it. So will do it Saturday. We are also getting ready for the crusade in August. (The week of my birthday LOL!) They always seem to have special meetings around that time of year.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Question of week

Which project (finished or in progress) are you most proud of & why? I had a hard time really deciding on this one as there are several I really like a lot. Especially in the scenery ones as most of them do look so much like the actual spots. I finally decided on this Waterfall piece. I loved stitching it years ago and you can almost see and feel the water streaming over the falls. I just love it.

Update on Tigers

This is progress on Tigers as of this morning after about 38 hours of stitching.
It's coming slow as it is so detailed, but I really am enjoying it. On the side I am doing the Birth Announcement for baby Johnny. That one is so easy it's boring so the two go good together side by side.

Oh I saw an interesting question on a message board and thought I would ask it here. How many life times would it take you to stitch all you wanted in your stash? My answer is at least 3 but then those life times I would buy more stash so my answer would be forever.

Well there isn't much happening right now. I basically just wanted to post an update on the Tigers. The first baby is just starting to come in now.

Start to Tigers

First, I want to say Thank you for your comments to Navajo Land. They meant a lot to me. This piece has now gone off in the mail.

This is my progress on Tigers after 16 hours of stitching. It's a little slow going and took a while to look like a Tiger but I think you can tell the Mother Tiger is coming to shape. The two babies will come in later. I've also started Johnny's Birth Announcment. It's part of the Winnie the Pooh wall hanging. Instead of flowers in the corner I may put a bee. I'll see Melissa Sat. and ask her what she thinks. She didn't want flowers as that's too girlish and I agree.

This has been a sad week for our area. Last Sunday morning a young Police Officer was shot and killed in the line of duty. He was setting up a perimeter to deal with the man who was holding his family hostage, the man shot and killed the officer. A couple weeks earlier the same Officer had arrested this man for spouse abuse. The funeral for the Officer is tomorrow. I didn't know him, some friends of mine knew the family and was friends with them. He left behind a 3 year old daughter, along his parents, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and fiancee. Several funds are being set up for her. They were saying different places Police Officers were coming in from. Some are coming in from Scotland for his funderal tomorrow. An officer hadn't been shot and killed in this area in 20 years.

Friday and Saturday the Teens at church are having their annual yard sale. I sent a couple of things over for them to sell but I'm not going to make it to the sale this year. Oh well..... Just too much going on right now.

My mom, brother, nephew and their dog are on the other side of the state right now. Tim and Andrew are camping. Mom and Autumn are staying at my sister's. They will be going in and out of the campground. I didn't go for 3 reasons. One I don't do well at campgrounds, the campfires, grills etc. get to me. There is too much construction, Tim would be kicking me out of the car. Plus there really wouldn't be much room in the car for me. Especially since they would be taking Autumns pen. Maverick would never allow Autumn to be loose in the car and he be in his pen. Autumn and Maverick are good buddies and so funny. Maverick has a huge back yard to run in which Autumn loves and is a treat for her. Maverick tries to get Autumn to chase him, she does but she does have to take shortcuts to keep up with him. They are so funny.

The problems with my computer are now gone. We just installed a good Anti Virus and that really took care of the pop ups etc.

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

Navajo Land Monument Valley is now finished. This is picture of it. It looks better in the picture than it does in person believe me. This will go to a Native American quilt we are doing at Cross Stitching for Charity.

My mom brother, and nephew all went to other side of state. Tim and Andrew are going to be camping and mom will stay at our sister's. Kay and Mom will be at the camp ground off and on. Today is a nice day for them as it is hot but tomorrow is suppose to be stormy.

I am having some problems with my computer I am so unhappy about and it's a frustration! I will be calling someone tonight to have them come look at it this week. I have a feeling I am going to be unloading all my programs and reinstalling them. Great fun!

Until next time Happy Stitching!

I don't really know what is happening. For some reason I can't type in the Title bar. I had wanted to say One Last Update on Navajo Land. As you can see it's pretty close to being finished. Probably will be done Monday. That will be great. Then I'll start the Tigers for a girl who chose Jungle Animals for her quilt.

It is getting warm out again. I'm in my air conditioning as possible. I watched Parent Trap. I had hoped to see Parent Trap II for some reason I'm not finding it, oh well, I'll return the DVD to my Mom and we'll watch it at her house later. It is her DVD. Come to think of it, I did get 3 DVD's this week I haven't watched maybe I'll put one of them in as soon as I am done here.

Have you ever decided you were sick of eating the same food all the time? I have. So today when I went shopping I bought a lot of things I normally don't eat. Especially fruit and Mexican Food. I hope the Mexican Food isn't too hard on my system. I've been having a lot of problems with my Acid Reflux, and I think it's my Gall Bladder acting up. You seem to get heart burn a lot when you have Gall Stones. I have the option to get an ultra sound but just haven't done it yet. Anyway I hope I like this food, I sure bought enough of it!

This Wed. our church is starting a Bilingual Bible Club for 4 weeks. I was asked to work in it, but said no. For one thing I'm not bilingual. Now if they find they are really short of help then I might do it the remaining 3 weeks. I am going to work in Adventure Club again this year. I got asked Thursday night. Correction---I got told Thursday night I was working in it. That's okay, I have done it for 10 years and I really like working with the kids.

Well we'll see if this gets posted without a title I still can't type it in.

Finally A Finish!

I laid Navajo Land down for a few days to finish this piece off as it really needs to go off into the mail. I'm like under the wire on this square. It's going to a quilt we are doing for a little girl who has been ill off and on the last couple of years.

Thank you for your comments to Navajo Land. I have appreciated them and will be going back to it tomorrow. Hopefully I'll finish it up early next week we'll see.

Anyone have special plans for tomorrow? I'm going to my parents house, my mom and I are going to watch Yankee Doodle Dandy like we always do on 4th of July. We also are doing some shopping at a couple of stores. Wonder if I could hit Jo Ann or Hobby Lobby? Maybe they will have a good sale for 4th of July?

Well until next time Happy Stitching and Happy 4 th of July!

More Progress

I'm 3/4 of the way done on this piece now. I hope to have it done July 3. Just a date to shoot for. We'll see. It may be more like the 5th before it's done. But I'm anxious to get it done.

Does anyone have plans for 4th of July? I'm not sure if I'm doing anything or not, my guess is no. Which is fine with me. I can stitch more. Besides right now they are saying it's going to rain Tues. and Wed. We'll see. I may just stay inside and stitch or if it's nice go to some friends with a pool and join others there. They have a get together every 4th of July.

Anyone else have an older cat? I'm noticing Whiskers is starting to show his age more (14 1/2). He's still pretty vibrant but he doesn't jump like he use to. Today was the first time in a few days I saw him on his favorite shelf in the closet.
He had justlooked up there and walked by, went to the bedroom.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Lake Michigan

My sister was in town for a couple of days and we went to Lake Michigan Tues. and Wed. evenings. It was beautiful. The first night were no waves and was calm and peaceful. Last night it was wavy and I have a picture. You can't see Kay or Andrew but they are in the water. I might have a picture of the sailboats too. We'll see the good picture of them hasn't really cooperated in uploading but I'll try. Afterwards we stopped for Ice Cream where my niece, Christina works. I don't like ice cream at all but it was so warm I got a kiddie Hot Fudge Sundae. It did hit the spot. So the third picture is Christina at work. The last picture was taken over a year ago. My niece, Michelle, and her husband Scott, were with us from OR. We are at the channel but it doesn't look like any boats were coming through at the time.

I signed up for DSL my kit is coming next week. I can't wait. Maybe then I won't get so frustrating waiting for things to come up on computer etc.

I'm plugging away on Navajo Land. I expect to finish it next week and will show an update on that in a day or two. I am so pleased at how well it's going. And for being so detailed it's taking a short amount of time. But I will have no finishes in June! That is the first time in a long time I haven't had one finish during the month. I probably will have 3 maybe 4 in July.

Well-until next time Happy Stitching!

Look! I'm twice as far in 3 days

I really have been flying on this piece. I can't believe it's twice as far in 3 days. It's cruising along and I really am enjoying this piece. Thank you for looking and thank you for the comments so far.

Navajo Land Update

I have gotten quite a bit of progress on this over the last few days. It is an interesting piece and once I get further into it will enjoy it more.

We just ended Bible School today. I worked with the 4 and 5 year olds and that is not my favorite age group at all! But I did like the kids. They were so cute. Some of the innocent things that come out of their mouths. Yet they have minds of their own. They controlled us very well. Although Thursday and Friday they were really good to be honest, especially for having so many of them.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Another new start

Okay I'm turning into a habitual starter and not a finisher. But this piece will be finished at rate I'm going sometime next week. I thought this was going to be an emergency so I laid down the Hide N Seek to do this. For being by Stoney Creek it is a fairly easy and fast moving piece. This is what I have done today. Sadly, I'm not sure when I'll get back to Wild Menagerie, I'm hoping August but no guarantees.

This is Navajo Land Monument Valley by Stoney Creek, at least what I've stitched today. It's going to be fun to see this come to life.

It is so hot today and there was an O Zone warning so I didn't go to Bible School, but tomorrow and rest of week I'll go. Tomorrow will be a busy day anyway as we'll go to Bible School then go to lunch and Bible Study at another lady's house. So I won't be stitching tomorrow.

There isn't much else happening right now. I'm just hiding in my air conditioned apartment with Whiskers, who is keeping me company. He likes to either get on my lap or sit on arm of my chair when I stitch. He's such a sweet heart.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Well a little more progress

This past few days. I was hoping to get the Tiger all finished before laying it down again. I don't know if it will make it. The Tiger seems endless. It is almost half the piece taking up over 4 of 9 pages.

Last night I went to a Southern Gospel Sing. They had 8 different groups, none were well known names. The only ones I recognized was Northern Edge. All the groups were from the Great Lakes Region. It was really good. There wasn't a big turn out last night, but I'm sure today and tonight there will be a lot more.

Monday starts a week of Bible School at our church. It just runs for 2 1/2 hours in the morning. I'm working in it. Not sure I will make it on Monday as it is suppose to be really hot and we have no air conditioning. I have breathing problems so heat and I don't go well together.

I really need to lay this piece down and finish up Hannah's piece plus do a Lighthouse, but this piece is going so well I just can't lay it down. Ever have a piece like that.

Thank you for all the comments so far.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Some Progress

I hope you can tell I've made progress on Wild Menagerie. I'm still plugging away on it. At least now you can tell the Tiger is going to be a Tiger. I really am enjoying this piece for now. I hope to have the Tiger completely in and the Lion almost done if not done by time I lay it down. A couple of people said it only took them a month to do this piece. They must stitch faster then me or spent more time on it then me, because I've worked on it over 130 hours and not even half done. Each their own I guess. I'm not sure I may have to take out some but I'm waiting until I know for sure.

Today I did some shopping for our Food Pantry at church. I had fun getting stuff that we normally don't carry but thought we should. I went to Sam's Club so we could by bulk on stuff we really needed, like canned meat, fruit, and soup. I got some other stuff kids like. Things like Speghetti O's and Raviolli, Apple sauce. We were stating to get low and it just wasn't coming in so I used some of what we had in our account. Hey if I don't use it, we don't get money next year!
Next week we have Bible School so it will be a busy week. I'll work with the kids. I don't know what age yet.

Well until next time Happy Stitching.

Wild Menagerie

Remember this from last fall when I said I wanted to work on it and didn't? My name was drawn at Cross Stitch Pals to be UFO tasker of the month. Since I accepted the challenge I had to stitch on the piece the manager chose for 10 hours throughout the month of June. Wild Menagerie was the choice and since I had planned on stitching on it this summer sometime, I accepted the challenge. It is going slow, I have done some frogging but I have stitched on it 12 additional hours. Bringing total to 116 hours through the 4 years I've been working on it off and on. I hope to work on it the first week of the month through Sept. and see what happens from there. I also am trying something out so we'll see if this picture turns out. I shrunk it down hoping that would help with uploading we'll see.

Christina's Graduation

My youngest niece, Christina graduated Friday. She was one of 17 kids to graduate. She went to a small private Christian school. It was a nice graduation, for personal for the kids. Christina presented the school with the gift the class chose to leave the school (An Eagles Costume). Everyone thought that was funny and the principal thought that was typical for this class. They sound like they were a really fun class to have had through their school years. Eagle is the school's nickname. I am going to try to post a couple of pictures of Christina and one of Johnny. He's almost 6 months old now. We'll see if I'm successful.

Saturday was her Openhouse and it was a nice beautiful day for it. Quite a few people showed up for it.

On the stitching front I am plugging away on Hide N Seek. The kitten is starting to come in now. Also my name was chosen to be the UFO project stitcher as Cross Stitch Pals. That means I have to stitch 10 hours on the piece they have picked out throughout the month of June. I think I can get 10 hours stitching in on it. I wanted to do work on it this summer I had just hoped to wait until July but oh well.... So I have dug it back out and I'll go back and forth between the two.

New Scanner

I got my new scanner hooked up yesterday and really like it. Only it is a little strange in that you have to unplug it instead of just being able to turn it off. So it's a little bit of a pain to unplug and plug back in whenever I want to use it. But oh well.....It seems to work good. A little slow when posting but that's okay.

I'm a little ticked off. I called the office here this morning and told them I had a leak under my sink and cleaned up the flood. The receptionist couldn't hang up fast enough. Fine, except maitenance still has not come in. If they don't come by noon tomorrow I'll recall and make sure Kelly got the message right. I just am not using the sink much and when I do I do wipe the water up, but basically I am using the bathroom sink. For dishes I just filled a big bowl with water washed and rinsed them in that and dumped water out in bathroom sink. A real pain. Since you have to make 2 trips one for wash and one for rinse. I'm not letting the dishes accumulate. But I'm not one to anyway.

Tomorrow night my youngest niece, Christina graduates from High School. It's a small graduating class maybe about 22 kids. They have nice graduations. Saturday is her Open House. Can't believe all but one of my nieces and nephews have graduated now. Andrew is in 6th grade he's a lot younger than the others. The kids grew up so fast!

This particular piece is only after 10 hours of stitching. It's Hide N Seek by Bob Harrison. The kitten will come in probably Sunday before I reach it.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Sea Otters are finished

How was everyone's Memorial Day Weekend? Mine was very quiet. Friday night we had a get together at my brother's for Na-Jong who was their exchange student this school year. She will be returning home to Korea for the summer then live with another family next year. Kevin's youngest child, Christina graduates Friday night so Na Jong will be living with a family that will still have children at the school. They will be doing things with her next year though.

Sunday we had a tribute to our past and present vets. They had a color guard show how they fold the flag and the meaning of each fold. We sang mostly patriotic songs. They also had a slide presentation of those who served from our church past and and present. It was a nice service.

Yesterday I did get a scanner, just have to hook it up yet. Hopefully this one will be easy to figure out.

The Sea Otters are finished. I loved doing this piece and seeing it come to life! It will go to Samantha at Love Quilts who chose Sea Life as theme of her quilt. Thank you for all your comments of the past to this piece I appreciated them.

Well until next time. Happy Stitching!

Problem solved for now

I have solved the problem with my camera for now. I changed the settings and found one that it would let me take pictures the screen wasn't black. I also do think I need a new memory card. But I'm not deleting the pictures from my camera for now as the same spots were used continually, if you know what I mean. My brother is having problems with his computer again which is frustrating him so I couldn't go there today if I wanted to.

Tomorrow night we are having a family get together to send Na-Jong off. She'll be with my brother and sister-in-law through next week, then she returns home and will be back in the fall living with another family. Because Christina is graduating next Friday, and she is the youngest of their children, Kevin and Beth really didn't want to have a child next year. Another family was found for Na-Jong to live with. We are so happy as she really wanted to return her Sr. Year to graduate with her USA friends. She also plans to go to college here in the states, which one I don't know. Christina will miss her a lot but they'll keep contact and see each other off and on next year I'm sure. Actually the whole family will miss her she fit in real well. But the only boy her age in our family, well we don't see them getting together.

I am almost done with the sea otters. I think I'll have it finished Saturday. I really have enjoyed doing this piece.

Well, until next time Happy Stitching.

HELP! I think I killed my Camera!

I was trying to take a picture of a piece and the screen was all black! I think the lense opened up that was first thing I looked at. My brother says it could be I need a new memory card. I hope it's that simple! He has a scanner, I'm going to his house tomorrow to try to learn how to use it and when I do I will be bugging him to take me to buy a new scanner. Courtesy of the credit card, the card I vowed not to use! Oh well.....sometimes these emergencies happen. Any suggestions on what brand to get. I loved the one I had, it worked great almost 5 years then quit working. But they don't sell that brand around here anymore! Well until next time. Which may take awhile. Happy Stitching.

31 Years ago Today

I graduated from Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music. Man it doesn't seem possilbe! I remember it like yesterday. There were 5 of us in our house that were graduating and our families were all coming in the campus was filled with activity and we Seniors were getting ready for our big night. Man the great memories of those years. I still have contact with a few of my friends from those days but a very few.
I really have a problem getting clear pictures with this camera I'm going to have to have my brother work with me or get a scanner. Try to figure out his scanner and then get the same brand myself I guess. Does anyone know how I can get rid of the shadows. I even tried going outside to take pictures and that was a disaster!

This is my progress of my Sea Otters as of this afternoon I really am excited about this piece and enjoy doing it. Thank you for all your comments so far.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

What a difference a Day Makes

Usually I don't show progress pictures 2 days in a row but I just couldn't leave the baby otter without a face and was pleased with the progress I made on it today. I really am enjoying this piece a lot. This is by Stoney Creek. Typical of Stoney Creek has a lot of backstitching but the backstitching really makes it come alive I think. While I am no fan of Marilyn, owner of Stoney Creek, she has some good designers work for her and I do my share of pieces by Stoney Creek. Do you have a designer you seem to do a lot of their patterns? What designer?

Until next time Happy Stitching!

Start to Sea Otters

I love doing this piece and it's moving along very well. This will go to Samantha at Love Quilts who chose Sea Life as here theme. I love doing sea scenes. I thought these two sea otters were cute. The baby will come in a little more later, actually I'm working on the baby now.

It is a nice sunny day outside. Good day to go out an enjoy it.

Not much is happening around here. Our Care Group started up again. (It's a Women's Bible Study that meets May-Nov. A lot of the women are older and do not like to drive in the winter which I don't blame them.

The house is now in the new owners hands. They take possession as of today and I'm sure they are getting ready to move in this weekend. This is a young couple with no kids yet. I'd like to see the house 5 years from now, I'm sure they'll have renovated it.

Oh on Love Quilts, they are really in need of more stitchers and if you have time to stitch for a great cause, please come over and join us. They need more stitchers for Samantha's and Nevaeh's quilts, due July 1, then for the Aug. children they can use more. For some reason this has been a slow year in getting people to sign up for the quilts, so they are not taking as many children next year. Here is link to their site just click on 2007 children: . If you want to see previous quilts done click on previous children. Thank you.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Another quick Finish

This is the last of the quick finishes for a while. My next few projects are larger and more detailed. I thought this was a cute angel so did it for Nevaeh R at Love Quilts. She chose Angels in pink for theme of her quilt. This was from an older book called "Angles on Angels" by Sabra Publishing.

How was everyone's Mother's Day. We did it yesterday as my sister left early this morning. Plus when we went shopping for the gifts I got too excited about my brother's gift and wanted her to have it last night. It was a Lounge Chair and thought it was the perfect one for her. My sister and I got her gift certificates to a restaurant she likes.

Now everything is done I can go back to life as normal. Things won't be quite so hectic now. I can get more stitching time in.

This afternoon I watched Carousel and State Fair. I have the Rogers and Hammerstein series and figured I would watch a couple of them this afternoon. State Fair was good, Carousel not as good but alright I guess. I won't watch that again anytime soon. I ran into the store to get The Sound of Music before they sold it out and just got the whole series instead and Muic and Lyrics which is a brand new movie out staring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant. I'll watch that one tomorrow. Thanks to the charge card, naughty me, I had not wanted to use it for a while. I was doing so good on getting it down!

I have my next project all kitted up and am anxious to get it started tomorrow. It's Sea Otters by Stoney Creek. Do you plan ahead what projects you are going to do. I have the next few planned. Well until next time Happy Stitching!

VT Heart

This was such a fun, easy stitch. I was looking for a Floral Heart to do for the Virginia Tech Quilt and someone designed this for me to do. I love the colors and it was quick piece only taking about 10 hours altogether.

Thank you for your comments to Gather at the River. I'm not sure why I didn't enjoy it except it just didn't click with me, and I kept thinking of all the other pieces I had to do. Plus I'm not sure it's going to go on the quilt so I felt like I was wasting my time. There is another piece I want to do and sent that along with this piece.

Well we survived the last couple of weeks. The move is done, the moving sale is over. What didn't sale is going to the Teens for their yard sale. My dad and Pastor Nate are going through it today. What doesn't go there will probably just get thrown out. Dad rented a dumpster for a week. We should have charged for the stuff we put in the dumpster, people were always going through that and finding things they wanted, especially metal. Oh well. I was dreading the yard sell but it really turned out to be a lot of fun and our parents made out better than I expected. My mom got me The Prince and Me DVD for working at it, even though she didn't have to. I had part 2 and was looking for the first movie, she found it. I really enjoyed it. I never got into videos but I'm sure getting into DVD's.

Someone told us about Suduko site being on line. I love doing those puzzles, so I've spent a few hours on that site yesterday and this morning. Now my poor cat will never get any attention, no one will ever get through to me when they call, and I won't get any stitching or housework done. I'll be at that site! Just what I needed another site to go to!

Well, speaking of stitching and housework, think I'll go do some. Until next time. Happy Stitching!

VT Heart half done, and Successful Moving Sale

I haven't had a lot of time to stitch on this piece but it's about half done. It'll probably be done Monday or Tuesday. This piece was designed for the VT Quilt project. It will go there for sure. This piece is so delicate and pretty I love doing it.

Thank you for your comments to Gather at the River. I'm not sure what my problem was on that piece except it just didn't click with me.

We survived the last 4 days. Once we got through Wed. the rest of the time was a lot of fun. The setting up and marking of everything was hard. We were all exhausted that day. But then Thursday came, the yard sale was a lot of fun. My parents sold a lot of things which should help. Actually a lot more sold then I thought would. I didn't think the CD's and Video's would sell well but they really did. Most of the CD's were Southern Gospel of the different groups with Bill Gaither. We were surprised by how well they sold.

As much fun as the last few days were I don't think any of us will do this anytime soon. We are all tirred and relieved to have this over with. Now next week is just cleaning the house and closing it off, and unpacking everything in the apartment and putting them in place. Neither one of those will be bad at all. Oh I need to spring clean here too as we have an inspection next week.

Now the hectic weeks are behind I can start reading and making comments to other blogs more. Sorry I haven't done much of that lately.

Well until next time Happy Stitching.

Gather at the River is Finished

I was happy to have it done. Although small it irritated me and I was anxious to get it done.

We spent most of today pricing everything for the yard sell. Thre is a lot of stuff to price there. Hopefully the sale will do well. The weather is suppose to be great for us so that will help.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

New Family Member

We received big news in our family yesterday. My niece Michelle, finally married her long time boyfriend, Scott. Scott fit into our family right from the start so everyone is very happy. Michelle always said she was not going to have a big wedding. She saw it as a waste of money and did not want the attention the bride gets, so they got married very quietly out west where they live. They didn't even invite their parents or brothers and sisters. My sister said they are just happy the two finally got married and they always knew this was how Michelle would do it so they weren't disappointed. You have to know, Michelle is a very quiet, shy, reserved, private, person, and not for being in the limelight. So this was her ideal wedding. So I'm going to be looking for a wedding piece to do. Probably will let them pick the pattern when they come home this summer. There's no way I can start it before Aug.

It's been a busy time with our parents moving yesterday but they are all moved in, now they are trying to unpack and find everything. Well...I had dog duty, my job was to keep Autumn away from the guys as they moved things in. Her and I went on so many walks yesterday. She is adjusting well to the apartment. She loves seeing all the people and the other dogs. Deciding who will be her friend and who won't. There are an awful lot of dogs in the complex. There was a day animals were not allowed in rental properties, not anymore. I'm glad, as I have my cat! We did a pretty good job yesterday but there is still a lot to do. This week we are getting ready for the yard sale Thurs-Sat. My sister is coming in Tues. to help mark everything and be there the first day. Then she has to leave Fri. morning.

I stumbled and twisted my ankle yesterday so it's really hurting. I'm just getting old. I've had so many problems with my asthma and reflux disease. I'm almost convinced my gallbladder is acting up. I have to be very careful what I eat. I'm hoping it's not that. I'm finally going to break down and call the Dr. for an apt. Hey, this is a good way to loose weight.

I have started my piece for the Virginia Tech. One of two I will be doing anyway. It's a portion of a larger piece from America's Best Loved Hymns called Shall We Gather at the River. I'm just doing part of the picture. This is progress after about 18 hours of stitching this past week.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

First finish towards 25

I loved doing this piece. It is so cute! I've been eyeing it for a long time as it's in an old book. Sometimes the older ones are best. This will be for Briannah Grace's quilt. She's not even 2 years old so her parents chose christian as theme of her quilt and wanted a verse pertaining to healing. I thought this would be very appropriate for her.

Well the packing is coming slow but sure at our parents house. My sister-in-law came yesterday and we finished off the kitchen. We had fun doing it. This weekend is the big move!

I need to kit up my next piece and eat lunch! I'm hungry. I don't eat breakfast. Shame on me.

Until next time....Happy Stitching

I Fell Of the Wagon

I was feeling frustrated and down yesterday so ordered some patterns. Three were for charity but then I ordered the Spring and Summer Snapperlands. I had the Autumn and Winter ones. Now to find time to do them. So I changed my side roll to Finished Pieces in 2007. Also I am going to start over but go for 25 instead of 50. I made it to 21 this time so should be able to make it to 25 we'll see. Is it okay if I do that?

This piece is moving really fast. I am doing it for a baby at Love Quilts. Her parents chose Christian as theme and wanted verses with healing in them if possible. I thought this would be appropriate. It is so cute and I love working on it. I half expect it to be done tomorrow.

I love our weather. It is suppose to be close to 70 today if not reach 70. I have the windows all open to air it out after being shut up all winter.

Well...until next time Happy Stitching!

Sailor Teddy Girl is Finished

I finished this a little after noon today. This will go to Colleen at Love Quilts. It might be used for any child as it is a little young for a teenager. I decided to go with pink for the boat but wish I would have gone with yellow. Oh well....next time I'll make sure the color is right.

It's been a busy week and today I'm a little drained so just relaxing . Tomorrow I'll do more packing at my parents house. I'm not as young as I use to be!

It is so pretty outside today. Spring is here for the season finally! It's great to see the sun and have it nice out.

Well, I'm going to start my next project. It's a Christian theme has a rabit and says "All things are possible with God." Until next time.

Happy Stitching!

Sailor Girl Teddy Bear

This week's question of the week.."How do you decide which stitching blogs are worth repeat and/or regular viewings? Are there certain things you look for in particular? Are there things you wish there were more of? Less of? Is your blog a good example of what you like to read?" I basically look for blogs that show a lot of their stitching. I like seeing their progress pictures too. I also like seeing pictures of their children and scenery pictures. What I don't like is when the blog is used to vent. I don't mind someone doing it once in a while we all do that, but all the time no I won't read them then. I hope my blog is a good example of what I like to read. I like seeing progress pictures and finished pieces, and try showing them each time I blog.

This is progress on Little Girl Sailor. It is going to a young girl at Love Quilts. I'm enjoying this piece, it is very easy and moves fast. An easy piece to do these days. I hope to have it finished sometime this week. There is a lot of white in this so it may not show real well. I do have a question. I goofed in the sail boat. The post should have been yellow instead of pink. I discovered it too late to even attempt to rip it out. Should the boat itself be yellow or pink? I thought pink just for continuity. Yet yellow would be a different color. What do you think?

Well, I better go get ready for church. Until next time.....Happy Stitching!

Here's Johnny

I am going to post a picture of baby John and his mother, (my niece), Melissa. He is 4 months old now and is so cute. He smiles until he sees a camera then he just looks as if you are crazy if you think he is going to let you get a picture of him smiling. I hope to get more pictures of him next week. He is so strong. I claim he's going to bypass crawling and just go to walking. Although he can get to all 4 but just isn't quite old enough to figure out how to crawl yet. He is getting cereal now and likes that.

A lot has happened this week. The closing date for my parents house will be this coming Tues. They will move the end of this month. They had to do it when my sister and brother-in-law could both help as they are taking the piano, a desk and some other stuff back to their house.

Monday afternoon Kay will get in to town then Tuesday & Wed, Kay, mom, and I will start packing up things and start deciding what will go to the apartment and what won't. Needless to say not everything can go. What doesn't go and no one wants we will sell at a yard sell first weekend of May. Kay leaves Thurs. so then it'll be mom and my sister-in-law and I when (Beth is there which probably won't be much as she works and does have a busy schedule.) Although right now Beth is pretty sick my brother took her to ER today as she's getting worse instead of better. So the next few weeks will be busy. I think Melissa and Johnny will be there Tuesday too. I told Kay we'd put Johnny to work he's a big boy now. LOL!

I got my hair cut today. It needed it really bad, it looks so much better short. Then tonight I have to go over to church and help set up for tomorrow night. We will have our first Sat. evening Contemporary Service. It'll be the 2nd Sat. of each month.

I think we are done with the snow for this season! FINALLY! Most of the snow melted today. The next few days the forecast is to not have rain or snow and have 40's for a few days, then have 50's!. That sounds Great!
On the stitching front, I've done a little stitching but not much. I'm working on a Teddy Bear which would have been done by now but I haven't had that much time to work on it. Along with other things, I am trying to do my spring cleaning! Yea right, that's going slow too.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!

Happy Dance Sulphurs is Finished

How was everyone's Easter? I went to my parents house after church. We had a good church program yesterday. There was a lot of music. My mom and I watched Easter Parade.

I put in the last stitches of Sulphurs this morning. All that frogging I had to do, I still enjoyed the piece but was happy to have it done. This will go to a young girl at Love Quilts who chose Butterflies and flowers for her quilt. I can't wait to see pictures of that quilt. This is #20 of the 50 challenge. Yes I'm still in it. How many other people are in it? Only on me I won't reach 50 within a year I know that.

My parents house has sold. They will be having the closing soon. They do have their apartment so anytime after the closing they can move in. I'm going to be going over there a lot to help mom pack, and decide what is going to the apartment and what is not. Including all the CS pictures I did for them and my brother. Not all of them are going to be able to go. I said if any of the kids want them, they could have them.

Today I got a piece back from the framers that turned out beautiful. I love it. So I'm' posting a picture of that also.

Well until next time Happy Stitching!