April Showers bring may flowers

Good morning dear friends,

Mid week brought us lots of sun, open windows and a beautiful breeze, then the rain came, over night my grass turned shamrock green, grew, well lets say it is now overgrown, and the flowers popped out of the soil, I have tulips wanting to open, hyacinths open up, roses are getting leaves, birds are singing and spring might be here.

I did a quick little stitch last night.  It was a freebie pattern if you bought the button, not sure how I want  to finish it.  Maybe I'll make a run to hobby lobby and see if I can find anything that catches my eye, otherwise, perhaps a cheerful ornament to hang on my kitchen window.

Flower Power
Shepherds Bush
20 ct miscellaneous statsh
dmc threads

This weekend will be spent at a soccer tournament, not sure I will get much stitching done, but it will go with me.  Need to take advantage of the time in between games.  

I hope you all have a safe and blessed weekend

Dawn

not just a happy dance....a disco party!!!

Good afternoon friends, thank you for taking time to visit with me today.  I have been hiding, working hard to finish this Shepherds Bush Toy Gatherer as a contracted piece for my LNS.  I am so happy to report  I'm Done  :)  The stitching that is, I have to put the wool as his beard and since I don't know how to do that, my lns said she would show me how, doesn't look to complicated, but I want to do it right since this isn't my piece.  It's a large piece and done on 32 count linen.  I love the colors but the pattern is a difficult one with a lot of blank areas that you have to use the outline to fill in.  Plenty of beading to, I am pleased with it.  The weight is off my shoulders and I can enjoy working on exchanges and starting on some stuff for me.  I bought Plaid house from LHN a few weeks ago and have been wanting to start it but I didn't, yet, I will this weekend.

This afternoon the kids and I are heading up to Erie to visit my parents, I havent' seen them since end of July, and then I'll see them for Christmas.  It's a 5 hour drive.  If our kids has busing to and from school I'd proabably go more often but between sports and one working, I am the taxi.   Mom gave me her Janome embroidery machine over the summer, I stuffed my trailblazer with stuff, and now I can grab the rest of the "stuff"  I'm looking forward to learning how to use it. 

Well, enjoy the weekend, stay warm,

Blessings,

Dawn 

some progress and an exchange

time to play catch up, well I received an apolagetic email this morning that my stitched with love exchange partner posted late so I have to wait a wee bit longer to see what my partner chose for me, I'm so excited it's hard to be patient, lol.  Feel like a kid waiting for Santa Clause, but I know it will be wonderful. 
Then I went to the mail box and I did have a box for a 1:1 exchange that I did with Shannon from A  Bit of This and That and wow, what a wonderful package, it truly made my day.  I loved everything inside.  She sent me this beautiful LHN Summer House piece, I love the little dog, we both have Golden Retrievers!  All the goodies, some floss and silks, buttons, charms, material and ribbon.  Thank you Shannon!

isn't it beautiful?

I have been trying to concentrate on my Shepherds Bush piece, so hard to do when I have WIPS calling my name!  Here is my slow progress...

Lastly, here is my progress on LHN's Two Yellow houses, I love this piece, the yellows and pinks are so cheerful.  I also ordered the pattern, material and threads for Home Sweet Home that I saw this morning on ABC Stitch Therapy.  Other projects that I have calling are CCN Bless this House and Star Spangled Garden.  So much to choose from...since one Wip is never enough I also started a Old Lizzie Kate pattern I dug up out of my file cabinet yesterday...A slice of Freedom, amazing how many patterns one buys only to file them away for someday. 

I thought I would get more stitching done today, my puppy got her spay done yesterday and I thought she would be all quiet and still, NOPE, says she.  She was bouncing around playing this morning, we had to crate her so she didn't do any damage to her incision.  Yes, she is wearing the cone of shame and not liking it one bit.  Little man Duncan isn't liking her getting all the attention so he is being persistant in demanding attention. 

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  I believe we are going to take out the boat to the lake tomorrow, try to enjoy it this year since it stayed in our yard all last year (DH popped his bicep tendon last June and had surgury to reattach it- he was out of commission on lifting all summer) I can't wait unti Chloe heals up so we can toss her in the water and hopefully have her play with us.  My little Frenchie is so dense he would sink (has his own life jacket) but he hates the heat so he prefers the house a/c.

Thanks for stopping by...

Dawn