Shop, Stitching, TUSAL,& new start

Hi Everyone! Well I managed to put in about 5 hours of stitching yesterday. And I got up this morning and started stitching again, but not it didn't last long because I had to help sort cattle and haul them to the sale barn to be sold tomorrow. So I will be sitting at a stinky sale barn most of Monday watching cattle sale. These are the feeders that I bottle fed last fall.

Yesterday morning we laid some more concrete in our new shop, we had about 10 of our friends show up to help. What great friends we have.

We have to lay one more pad of concrete next Saturday and the shop floor will be complete. My husband is wishing it was all done but we have a long ways yet before the shop is completely finished.

I am still working on Blooming with Inspiration, this one is going to take awhile and I am Itching to work on something else for a while. So I decided to start on a Christmas ornament for the month of May, beings I don't have but a week left in the month to get it done. I have decided to start on Baked Goods by Little House Needleworks. So many of you out there have already done this one and I have had it kitted up for quite awhile so now is the time.

As of 4/30/12

As of 5/20/12

And I also finished up Forever in my Heart and framed it simply in a black frame.

This young man left this earth way too early in life. I made this for his mother who misses her son deeply, and is missed by all his friends.

And my final bit of news of course is TUSAL time.

Mostly from Blooming with Inspiration

I hope everyone has had a super weekend

Happy Stitching

Denise

Update & Tulip Festival

I have been putting a few stitches in since my last up date but not as many as I would have like to.

First up is Blooming with Inspiration

Just got the red boarder and started one of the flowers done. not much done put I hope to pick it up again and work on it after I finish up a project I started on the 25th.

before



as of 4/30/12

From Samplers & Santas

The last line that I have to stitch on this piece is

Forever in my Heart.

I should have it completed sometime today, I already have the frame for it, so a finish is in sight.

Thursday my sister, niece & great niece went to Pella, Iowa to visit my other niece and to attend the Tulip Festival. But the tulips had already bloomed and so we didn't get to see very many flowers this year. But we had a great time spending time together and spoiling the baby. The following pictures are from our weekend together and some are from the parade that we watched on Saturday.

Amaya

Uncle Nate talking to Amaya

My niece Chrissy, my sister Darla,
my niece Courtney and her daughter Amaya.

The following pictures are from the parade.

at the beginning of the parade they had the cleaning
of the street  

this little guy even had a pipe in his mouth

they had a group called parade of babies

Tulip Queen

Mayor

costumes of the different counties

there wooden shoe salesman

this float was from the place that my niece Chrissy works at.

 Well these are only a few of the pictures that I took from our weekend in Pella. The time there went way too fast. I got back home on Sunday evening so Monday was spent cleaning and catching up on laundry and today I need to go and stock up on groceries.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Happy Stitching

Denise