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

Farm Life

Well not much stitching has been done by me these last couple of days. Busy with grandkids and stuff in general.

This next week will a fun week for me. I will have Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday to myself and then on Thursday I leave (with my sister, niece & great niece ) for Pella, Iowa for there Tulip Festival. My sister & I went last year and had a great time and seen alot of beautiful tulips and of course spend time with my super sweet niece.

In my last post I mentioned something about spring time on the farm so I got a couple of pictures to show:

Here are 2 of the calves that were born last Sunday

Sharlee loves the new baby chicks that I got.

If she could she would have spent the whole day in there
holding the babys

This last picture was taken on Thursday. I watched both my grand daughter, Sharlee and my great niece, Amaya. So ofcourse I had to get some pictures of the girls together.



Sharlee & Amaya

Sharlee loved holding her as long as Amaya didn't cry.

The rest of the afternoon is mine so I think I will get some major stitching done and watch a couple of movies that I have been wanting to watch.

Have a great stitching weekend everyone

Denise

TUSAL & an update

Well I forgot to post my TUSAL yesterday because I spent the day searching the new 1940 census that just came out in April and I lost track of time. I just love to family history stuff.

Anyway here is my TUSAL

Aprils Tusal and previous months orts

I got a little bit more done on Blooming with Inspiration since my last post. This picture really shows the true colors of this piece. The fabric is this really pretty lite blue.

Blooming with Inspiration

 I was just outside and notice that in my walk around the farm this morning we have 2 new additions to our cow herd. Two of our cows had giving birth and one of them was stilling cleaning her baby up. The joys of spring time on the farm. Couldn't get close enough for a picture maybe in a couple of days. On Thursday we get our new baby chickens so the grand kids will be having fun helping with them.

Off to go visit my sister for awhile. I hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Happy Stitching

Denise

Finished photo & update

Finally got a photo of my finished ornament that I started on Sunday and finished up on Tuesday.

Cardinals for a Cure
Blue Ribbon Design
32 ct white Belfast Linen
Used WDW Floss
freebie from BRD - 2010

So now that I got it done I picked up Blooming with Inspriation again.

This is the last time I update you.

And this is as of this morning



Well I don't have anything else to report at this time, so this post will be short and sweet.

Its raining here so I can't work outside, hemmm back to stitching works for me.

Happy Stitching

Denise

New Start

Yesterday I had the house to myself so I sat and stitched on a new Christmas ornament.

I  stitched on it a little bit this morning also. Its always so fun to start something new. I didn't want to put it down.

Cardinals for A Cure
Blue Ribbon Design
Freebie - 2010

After I get this one done I am going to try and get Blooming with Inspiration back out and completed.

I hope every one is having a great start to the work week.

Happy Stitching

Denise

Why is it so hard to think of a title?

Good Saturday morning everyone. The sun is shining here and it is suppose to be in the 70's today, but with the good you also get the bad. Its suppose to be in the 40's by Monday with maybe some snow. Not that it will stick around long but not a good thing for my flowers that are blooming.

In my last post I said I would be updating my blog the next day and we are now 6 days later so here we go:

We had a lovely day on Easter and most of us eat our meal out on the deck ( there were about 30 people and not everyone could fix around the dinning room table)  and enjoy the sunshine. After the kitchen was cleaned up we went on our wagon ride

some of the kids

with a few adults mixed in

I can't remember what day it was but I got my self in the mood for some quilting and this is where I left off last night. As you can see I have the strips done and now I have to assemble the borders.

This picture will give you an idea of what it will look like. It's not anything fancy but I will enjoy covering up with it in the winter as I watch tv and stitch.

Snowball Block

Next up I have another finish from the Crazy January Challenge 2012

This is my 3rd CJC finish this year.

Count your Blessings
Shakespeare's Peddler
Started -Jan. 3, 2012
Finished - April 12, 2012

I used 40 ct French Vanilla R&R Reproductions

and the GAST colors that were called for in the pattern.

I enlarged the picture so you could see the buttons that I added to the picture. I was cleaning and moving thing around and came across an old tin that belonged to my great aunt. It stuff full of these old buttons still on the cards they were sold on. These are just a few of them.

Well its noon here and I have not got much accomplished here yet, so I better get my butt moving so I can sit and stitch later.

enjoy your weekend!

Happy Stitching

Denise

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

I hope everyone is having a Blessed day.

We have plans to go to my in-laws for our noon meal and then taking a wagon ride around the country side with the kids. Its a beautiful day here in SD so I should get some great pictures of the family.

I will be back tomorrow with some updates from this past week.

Just wanted to pop in and wish everyone

HAPPY EASTER

Hopefully I will beable to stitch this afternoon after we get home.

Happy Stitching

Denise

Happy Weekend!

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!

I have been meaning to get a post out earlier this week but that darn o procrastination thing set in.

I finished Stitching Easter Spots by The Trilogy on Monday (26th) and had hoped to get it finished into an ornament but that has not happened yet so here is a picture of what is done so far.

Easter Spots
the Trilogy
Started - 3/20/12
Finished - 3/26/12

I used 28ct Irish Linen - Tea dyed and for the floss I used a combination of GAST, Weeks and DMC.

The material that it is laying on is what I am going to use for the back.

On Tuesday I dug into my basket of CJC2012 projects to see what I wanted to work on next and I chose Blooming with Inspiration.

This is what I completed on January 10, 2012

And this is what I have completed as of last night 3/30/12

Blooming with Inspiration
Blue Ribbon Designs
40 ct Wisteria hand dyed fabric from Lakeside Linen

No more stitching this weekend for me, I am determined to get my paper work done so I came turn my taxes into the tax preparer on Monday. I don't have much left to do if I would just sit down and put my mine to it. Every year I dread this and my DH has too keep asking me is it done yet?

On to other stuff before I have to get off the computer and get to work.

My Niece, Chrissy found out that she is having a little girl in August. I am so excited and can't wait to meet little Miss Abigail!

Our new shop is coming along, here are a couple of the last pictures that I took of it.

3/29/2012

3/29/2012

Well maybe if I get my paperwork done sometime today I will be able to sit and stitch this evening.

I hope everyone has a nice weekend.

Happy Stitching

Denise

continuation from yesterday

At the beginning of the month I had a giveaway that Lesleyanne won, well I pack it up and forgot to take pictures of everything that I sent her but if you go to her blog she has a picture for you to see. (HERE) I did get a picture of the cross stitch piece that I sent to her.

Got Luck by Plum Street Samplers
32ct Ant. white  Wichelt Permin Linen
DMC Floss
Started 3/2/12   Finished 3/4/12

When I finished this one I also finished another piece that I had stitched last year and was in my pile to finish. I sent this one to my Niece in Iowa.

Last night we had guest in the house until 9:30  so I did not get much stitching done but I am hopeing to get my Easter ornament done sometime today.

I am going to leave you with some farm pictures, enjoy

Sharlee and her big brother Gavin

My DD1 had fun taking pictures of our calves last weekend

Can you see her finger up in the left hand corner.
She said she was trying to show how long his tongue was.
Silly girl!

Sonny Boy

Well I better get busy figuring out what I am going to make for noon meal for the shop workers. Boy I can't wait for them to be done.

Also Krista  at Just Stitching Along awarded we with the Liebster Award and I will blog about that tomorrow. Some day I will get caught up.

Happy Stitching

Denise

TUSAL, & Not that much stitching this week!

First up is a picture of my orts for the Month of March.

The doily  that they are sitting on was made by me quite a few year ago. It is the only hardanger that I have done. Its not that I didn't like doing it, I just love doing cross stitch better.

I haven't done much stitching this past week and I think it is because I told myself I had to finish Enchanted Alphabet before I could go on to something else. Well I just am not into finishing it, even thought it is so close to being done. And my weekend was packed with family stuff. Friday morning my niece had a baby girl and named her Amaya ( I made a bib with her name on it - picture in last post) Friday night my DD1 had a Pampered Chef party that I went to and DD2 and her 3 kids came up from Iowa to spend the night ( no stitching on Friday). Saturday came along and we had a house full. DD2 & I decided to run to town and pick up a few groceries, came out of the store and my car would not stay running. DH came to the rescue and said I had a fuel pump out. So they haul it to the shop to get worked on.  Got it back on Tuesday. I hate being with out my car. Any way back to my week end. Saturday night we attended a wedding of some friends of ours and did not get home until after 11:00 pm (no stitching on Saturday). On Sunday DD1 came out with her kids and we did some sewing. Not stitching but sewing. See she got the gift card to the local quilt shop and she spent it on these cute Cupcake Potholder pattern and material so she made one and I worked on a countertop ironing mat so that I don't have to pull out my ironing broad for my little ironing jobs. I forgot to get a picture of my daughters cupcake potholder that she made but I did get a shot of my ironing mat.

Sunday night the kids were still here for super so DH & I made lobster  tail and steak for supper. Oh boy did we stuff ourselves. It was so good. ( we even got to have leftovers on Monday night). Monday night after we ate supper we had a Insurance meeting with our agents (no stitching monday night) and Tuesday I had to get ready for out Equalization Meeting for the township, which was Tuesday night (no stitching on Tuesday ) By now I am going thru withdrawal. So Wednesday morning first thing (after I got DH off to work) I go in search of something to stitch. I found an Easter ornament by The Trilogy, found my supplies and sat down and started on it. I had been working on it about 1/2 hour and someone came walking in my house. It was DD1 with Sharlee. DD1 forgot to tell me that she didn't have daycare that day and I needed to babysit. There went my plans for the day. Oh well could have been worst. So between yesterday and today here is my progress ( I have my granddaughter again today)

Easter Spots by The Trilogy

Well blogger won't let me share anymore pictures with you so tomorrow I will share the rest with you.

Happy Stitching everyone.

Denise 

A finish, A Frame, A Fabulous Day

What a beautiful day! All my windows are open and I can hear the birds a chirping. I love this 70 degree weather. Wouldn't it be great to have spring year around. The cooking at noon for the men is going OK. And what ever is left over is what I feed my husband and it seems to be working pretty good so far.

Progress on the new farm shop and office

picture taken on 3/15/12

With temps in the 70's for the next few day the workers should make some good progress on this project.

And with all the cooking, cleaning and babysitting I have managed to get some stitching done:

first thing I finished stitching and making it into a flat ornament went in my give away , can't show a picture yet, so after Lesleyanne lets me know she has received her package I will post a picture of it.

I completed this bib that I show you in an earlier post.

Finished this on 3/13/12

I also finished 8 Baptismal bibs for our church. I forgot to take pictures of them before I took them to be stored at the church and be used as they need them. I cut out a pattern on white cotton and embroider a cross in the center, add a little lace and sew the front and back together, iron them and they are ready to go.

Monday my framer called and said my picture was done so Tuesday after I fed the men I made a trip to town and picked it up. It turned out great, these pictures really don't do it justice.

Metamorphosis - Ink Circle
Framed 3/13/12

A close up of the frame I chose

The light colored mat is the same color as the center design.
 A light green.

And lastly I have been working on Enchanted Alphabet but not enough progress to have its picture taken, so my next update maybe I will have a photo.

Tomorrow my niece goes in to have her baby, My sister is so excited to be a first time Grandma. Not only does she get one grandchild this year, but her oldest daughter is also having a baby that is due in August. My husband and I will be great aunt & uncle 5 times this year. Baby's all over the place!

Off to get some stitching done and watch some TV!

Happy Stitching

Denise

Winner

Boy I don't know where my head was the other day when I drew the winner of my give away. I email her for her snail mail and then started reading blogs and then on to something else and completely forgot to do my post. So this morning first things first before I started play on this darn computer - getting this post out there.

Names in my Grandmothers old serving dish

Congratulations Lesleyanne ! she has already sent me her snail mail and I will be making a trip to the post office sometime today.

I have been doing some stitching but can't show anything yet as they are gifts so in a later post I will update you on these pieces.

Life this week has been a little busy. On Monday they started building DH's new shop here on the farm. And it looks like its going to be quite large.

There are 3 guys that are working on it and my sweet husband volunteered me to fix them there noon meal for them. Wasn't that nice of him (not). But I put on my happy face serve them up. I hate tring to decided what to make for supper everynight and now planning a noon meal also. I feel like all I am doing is cooking and doing dishes (I don't have a dish washer - my choice). And I will be glad for these next 2 weeks to be up. Maybe then I will start talking to DH again. hehehe.

Tuesday night we had our Township Board meeting, so monday & tuesday was spend getting there check book and end of year papers in order. Tonight is Catholic Daughters meeting and I am the Financial Secretary so I got  the papers in order for that. So not much stitching time

 this week.

And again today and tomorrow I have my granddaughter during the day while her parents are at work. And she is now demanding my attention.

Until next time

Happy Stitching

Denise

Metamorphosis finished!

Don't forget to sign up for my 1st year Blogoversary, 5 days left. Leave a comment on the post HERE.

I have started putting my box together just have a few more things to pick up and it will be ready to mail out to the lucky winner. Good luck everyone!

Yesterday Feb. 29 was my oldest Daughter birthday. Yep I had a Leap Year Baby. She was born 32 years ago and this would be her 8th actual birthday. I have taught both of my daughters to cross stitch but Jill finds she likes quilting better. So for her Birthday present we gave her a gift certificate to the local quilt store so she could pick up supplies that she needs. She was excited because with 3 kids and normal family expenses she doesn't get to spend a lot of money on the fun stuff.

Happy Birthday My Beautiful Girl!

Yesterday morning I finished Metamorphosis

Now to take it to town and get it framed

Really like the colors in this one.

Metamorphosis  Tracy Horner - Ink Circles 2011

37 ct Antique White Edinburgh Linen

GAST that were called for.

Started Jan 5th 2012

Finished Feb 29th 2012

Well my granddaughter is here and wanting my attention so time to go.

Everyone have a great day

Happy Stitching

Denise