Whippy Wednesday

Hello friends.

Today am showing you my WIP's 

for this month.

First up is Penny Pumpkin.

I continue to stitch this during

 my lunch break at work.

Did my own color conversion of this pattern.

I wanted a more primitive look.

The pumpkin is finished now.

Along with the leaf and vine on the left.

Plus a bit more of the border.

Next up is House On Pear Hill.

The house is finished.

Working on finishing the grass now.

This has been my nightly stitch after dinner.

I want to get this finished and framed 

for my Christmas decor. 

Once again my primary Christmas colors 

for our keeping room this year

 will be yellow and orange.

I call this my un-traditional color scheme.  

Once the grass is completed, 

the bottom row of pears is all thats left

plus a small border row.

Finally Laura Vorgensen 1853.

This one am doing with my mom and dad's

wedding date for my heritage wall.

She is a biggie.

You can see my feet (slippers) at the bottom.

In order to take a pic of this one, have to place

it at the end of the bed....and still it is all not in.

Have my moms name in now.

Then added my dad's name in.

Now working on the center motif.

I have a confession.

When I purchased this pattern online,

I had thought it was a church on a hill.

My parents were married in a church on a hill.

Upon further inspection once I had 

the paper pattern, what I thought was a church

was just a house with shrubs and a pond in front.

I was very disappointed in this.

So I ended up stitching in a steeple

 to make this a church.

Will add in a brown cross on top of that as well.

I hate this pattern so much.

The symbols are very hard to read.

Even the colors are too similar to read.

Also the picture was deceiving on how

much confetti (color change) stitching there is.

It will be nice once completed, 

but am just not happy with the pattern.

I recently just purchased another one

 from this designer.

A very small one this time.

Looking at that pattern...same issue

as the symbols are very hard to read.

Will not be purchasing any more from this designer.

Will also be glad when this one is over.

If not for being a part of my heritage wall,

this would have been sent to the closet unfinished...

that is how much I hate this pattern.

In other news.

Friday afternoon I am heading back to my mom's.

Am doing her church bazaar with my sister there.

Saturday is the show.

Have not vended anything since covid.

Bob and I use to vend antique shows and craft ones.

We dont do either anymore,

however my sister talked me into this one.

It will be fun visiting with her and my mom though.

Bob will be home spending some quality time

with Tundra. LOL

We have also been having some unusual high temps.

Am not complaining, but do know the colder

weather will make its return eventually. 

Well friends.

Have to get ready for work.

God Bless America Blessings To All!

Janice

I Finally Found It

 Yes Sireeeeee.

It took me 11 years,

but I finally found the final piece

of furniture I wanted.

Would you believe I frickin

found it the weekend of the antique trail too.

Yep I was perusing online...

like I always do.

Could not believe I was feasting my eyes on

on what I have been searching for forever it seems.  

Was at my mom's at the time and called Bob

up right away.  

I could not pick it up right away as it was in Ohio,

but picked it up a month ago.

I wanted it the day I saw it.

With Bob's peripheral vision still not up to par,

 I drove our cargo wan both ways.

It had to be a quick trip as I had to go to work

the next day and Tundra went to our doggy sitter. 

This bottom drawer was originally used

 for putting you shoes inside.

Back in the day shoes were sometimes called mules.

Thus this particular piece of furniture is called a

Mule Chest. 

The top would lift up to add all of your

quilts and coverlets.

It is a deep one.

Back in the day there was no such thing as a closet.

Even both of my grandparents farmhouses

had no closets in their bedrooms.

I have seen these in pine and blue.

I really wanted a blue or red but not pine.

Had come across a blue one, but not the right blue.

I was being picky but I knew this was my last piece...

and it needed to be special.

I added all of my blankets inside.

The drawer has my July 4th decor inside.

This is how I decorated it for now.

Just a simple display.

If I ever find a hanging cabinet

this red color, I may swap out the candle shelf;

but for now it will stay here.

A final view from my stitching chair.

I am over the moon at finally finding

my forever mule chest.

In other news,

This Halloween was the best night for

trick or treating in many years.

We never got the rain.

Although a bit windy it was still 72 degrees

at 7:00pm when we left the restaurant.

Dinner was good.

Bob ended up getting Cajun Angels, 

which was steak bites and mushrooms

in a cajun seasoning.

His cousin got shrimp scampi

while his wife got mahi mahi.

We all loved our food.   

Breaded chicken parmesan was dinner last night.

Tonight I am making an enchilada chicken casserole.

Bob will be making strawberry margaritas for us.

Dragging out my Christmas totes

to start decorating for Christmas.

I will do one thanksgiving display for 

my November CupboardScape,

but want to get a jump on the decorating,

so I can enjoy it before the rush.

Plus I can take my time...since I can only

do this on weekends. 

What will your plans be this weekend?

November Blessings To All!

Janice

Past And Present

Hello everyone.

As October winds down, I wanted to share

just a few past Fall and Halloween decor

for my newer blogging friends.

For my long timers, hope this post does not 

bore you too much,

for at the end will be a new bit of Halloween. 

Before of our keeping room.

This was an old railroad rack.

 

Keeping room again.

..

One Halloween at the antique store.

An October past CupboardScape.

One more pic of Halloween at our store.

This was years ago.

Now for the new.

If you remember this huge Victorian house

up the river last year did a skeleton graveyard.

This year they added a large skeleton

to the top of the house,

with a rope going all the way down to 

another huge skeleton on the ground.

Then they added more skeletons

to make it look like they were climbing the rope up. 

Other skeletons are hanging all over the house.

Although you cannot see it in the pics Bob took,

also on the roof of the portico, they added

a bistro table with 2 skeletons sitting in chairs 

with what looks to be drinks on the table.

This owner owns a construction company.

He brings in a crane to reach 

all of the levels of the house.

At night it is all lit up, and for Halloween

he has music playing outside.

The lines to get candy are quite long

with kids on the sidewalk both

North and South of the house.

He must give out pretty good candy for those lines.

We know because we drove by it last 

Halloween evening going home.

There is no parking on this road,

so I quickly pulled over for Bob to take

these pics before a cop came by....

which they often do...especially on Halloween.

In other news,

We are finally getting some color changing 

of the leaves in our neck of the woods.

However most of the trees just turned brown.

Yesterday it was 61 degrees and we enjoyed it.

Since I will be hosting Christmas this year,

will be dragging out my bins to start

decorating.

I like to take my time, 

so decided to start this weekend.

Halloween evening we will be going to 

one of our fav seafood restaurants for dinner.

This place is s packed all year,

therefore we go once yearly.

Bob's cousin and his wife will be joining us.

I can taste my lobster ravioli now.

Plus we always get a smoked salmon

dip appetizer with toasted bread. 

Well off to work.

Past & Present Blessings To All!

Janice

Friday Finish

Hello friends!

I have two finishes to share today.

No FFO's

Fully Finished Objects.

Oh well.

Always next year.

 

The first one was a freebie by La D Da.

Smell My Feet

Her stockings were done in light and dark purple,

and orange.

Trick or Treat was done in Jack~O~Lantern.

I will stitch this into a pillow for next year.

Quaker Sampler is my last finish.

I used three different shades of gray.

Hard to tell here though.

Again I want to make this into a pillow.

In other news,

Mikayla has been accepted

 into 6 colleges thus far.

My granddaughter is a smartie.

Right now she will be graduating high school

with seven honor cords.

I only had one.

Am so proud of her.

She wants to major in Forensics.

This weekend will be pricing new Christmas

items for the store.

We have been there most every night

adding items in.

I also had 7 boxes of candles to check in.

Right now we have 74 different scents.

Something for everyone.

What are your weekend plans?

Another Friday Blessings To All!

Janice

Center Stage Right

 

Or is it stage left?

Any hoot,

more of my Autumn muted color tour.

So lets go into the hall.

We have a very wide and open hall.

It is nice and not so claustrophobic.

Again brought out more of the blues, grays and browns.

End of the hall area.

Drysink by the front door.

I made all of these pumpkins.

Even added just some brown to my horse.

I did forget to replace my red pillows

for the gray ones I have.

Shame on me.

Oh well.. pretend they are gray. LOL

Tundra is sleeping over here right now,

or I would change them out and re-take a pic.

Heavens to Betsy if I disturb our prince.

I purchased these pumpkins at a shop near us.

I tried to support local when I can.

Well that does it for the Fall tour this year.

Hope you enjoyed it.

In other news,

just got back from my mom's.

My daughter, grands and I took my mom

out for dinner again last night.

Same restaurant we had her party at.

Food was again good as always.

Weather is picture perfect right now.

Yet those of us know Winter is close behind now.

Well off to work on getting some stuff done

around the house here on my day off.

Hope everyone has a great new week.

Stage Right Blessings To All!

Janice

Fall Is Taking Center Stage

Autumn is in full swing here in Michigan.

The days are definitely getting shorter.

The nights are getting colder.

Enough that we turned our furnace on now.

However not much in the way of a Fall color tour.

Maybe I took a cue from Mother Nature

with my decor in this room.

Rather than using yellows and oranges,

I chose gray, blue and browns.

Let's take a peek. 

In fact someone was peeking at me

when I took this pic.

Why are you taking my picture mom?

Right after my second picture he got up and left. LOL

Oh Tundra.

Let's continue.

Blues, gray and brown in my crocks.

More blue and gray.

This years color scheme was more calming to me.

All of the pumpkins were made by my

nephews wife Holly.

I simply love them.

Actually these pumpkins were my inspiration

for the color combo I did in our living room.

A much more un-traditional Autumn look.

They always say having a blue bedroom calms you.

Having blue in my decor here calmed me.

Stay tuned for part 2 of my un-traditional

Autumn decor.

Have you ever thought of doing other colors in

your Fall decorating?

In other news,

driving home the other night from work,

I saw the widest rainbow ever.

I was only a mile away from home driving 

along the river. 

There is no parking along the river road.

In some places the river is right up to the road.

This rainbow was so huge 

every color was vividly noticeable.

I was hoping to get home quick so I could take a pic,

but it was gone once I got home.

Last Saturday my granddaughter Mikayla

had her final homecoming as a senior.

She, her mom and brother missed my mom's

party because of this.

They will be heading to my mom's this Sunday

to take her out to dinner.

I am going to go up as well and spend the evening

once again with my mom. 

Bob has dinner ready so going to go eat.

He usually cooks for me Mon, Tue and Wed,

but is doing it today too!

Hope everyone enjoys their upcoming weekend.

Center Stage Blessings To All!

Janice