Sunday Starts

 It may not be on the calendar yet,

however Autumn is in the air here.

My first Fall start is this Brenda Gervais one.

I Love Fall Most of All.

Fall is my favorite season...just wish 

Winter did not follow.

I have had this pattern for years.

Never liked the orange color for the pumpkin.

I decided to change lots of colors in this.

Orange pumpkin- CCW Autumn Spice

Red Berries- DMC 400

Green Acorns-DMC 581

Brown Acorns- CCW Hickory Sticks

Crow- Weeks Charcoal

I decided to add both green and brown acorns

into this piece like the acorns here in

my neck of the woods.

Don't get me wrong, Brenda is a fantastic

designer...just sometimes I like to

tweak things as I see them.

Next I started another little sampler.

This one is called Eliza's Little Sampler.

Another stitch for my Heritage wall.

This one will I will add in initials of 

my paternal grandparents 

with their children.

Even though the second 

set of this alphabet is the eyelet stitch,

I am enjoying doing it.

The designer also said you could do

these in regular cross stitches,

or even smyrna ones, but I liked 

the look of the eyelets for this piece.

So I am going to get on the cross stitch

bandwagon and only stitch samplers

for Sampler September.

I already have 4 that I am currently working on.

Floral Motif Samlper

Eliza's Little Sampler

Faith 1831

AB 1816 Quaker Sampler.

The following 4 will be added

 into my daily rotation now for 

the entire month.

A small start on each thus far.

First is Mary Hill 1854 by

Needlework Press.

My son Matt has been bugging me when

will I stitch a piece with his name on it.

This is the one I decided to do.

His favorite color is green and there is lots of

it in this piece.

I already changed the border flower color.

Instead of Ye Olde Gold, I am doing

these in Summer sky.

Doing this on 36ct Rhyolite by

Weeks Dye Works.

Next is Hannah Ann Wallace 1850

by With Thy Needle & Thread.

Am doing this one for my daughter.

My first day on this one I finished

the one alphabet.

The secondary alphabet is 

the petite stitch (one over one)

UGH

Plus 2 of the motifs are also 1 over 1.

UGH again.

I already tried stitching the letter "A".

I frogged it out because to me it did

not look like the letter at all.

Now what do I do?

Stitching this on 32ct Pyrite 

by Cedar River Linen,

using all the called for floss.

Then I started The Winter is Past

by Blackbird Designs.

This one I will add in my name with Bob's.

plus our wedding date. 

Am stitching this on 36ct Fresco

by Picture This Plus using all

the called for floss.

The 4th new one I wanted to start

is on hold right now.

I ordered this pattern to honor

my parents.

It is The Pink House Sampler

by Plum Street.

I have the linen and called for floss,

however the pattern has been backordered

Was supposed to get it by Sept. 3rd...

well hat has not happened yet.

In other news,

last week Bob had a horrible toothache.

Kept telling him to call the dentist to no avail.

He thought it would go away.

Our friend Ed finally convinced him

to make an appt.

He made the appt and brought me out of retirement

I worked the store for him.

The very next day he had to have a root canal done.

Also last week we had 2 days of tornadic

weather all around us.

The sirens kept going off.

One touched down 20 minutes North of us.

More tornadoes touched down

a few miles North of my brother too.

My son gets the weather notifications

for our county.

When he received the tornado warnings,

he kept calling me to see if we were ok.

He knows I am afraid of bad storms.

It  was nice he cared about me.

Actually since mom passed, he has been

calling me more often now.

I think he is worried about me.

Heigh Ho

Heigh Ho

It's off to stitch I go...

after I eat some breakfast though.

A Quiet Sunday Blessings To All!

Janice

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Whippy Wednesday

Hello friends.

I am back to stitching. 

These are the projects I am currently

working on.

Floral Motif Sampler.

This is where I last picked this piece up.

Finished the bird on the orange flowers.

Went up to stitch these gray flowers.

Then went down to stitch this green one.

Back up again to complete

 the small raspberry one.

Next to that this red one in a black basket.

Finally this long red flower stemmed one.

I also came down on the right border a bit.

Still many more motifs to complete,

but am loving getting back to this.

Next up is AB 1816 Quaker Sampler.

So there was an error in the pattern.

The brown color in the border below

the first row of letters called for the

teal blue in the pattern instructions.

Which when I started did it in 

teal and not brown which is the photo color.

Did not look at the photo until day 2.

However I also screwed up in this line.

It called for the eyelet stitch.

I stitched the Smyrna one.

Oh well...am leaving it as is.

Finally I decided to add in another color.

I wanted this piece to have a little

more oomph.

Therefore adding in a bit of DMC 501 into it.

Next are the Prairie Schooler angels.

These first two I had already finished.

Have now completed the next two.

Am loving stitching these lil angels.

Hopefully I will have all 8 fully

finished to add to my Christmas tree

this year.

Next is Faith 1831.

This is where I left off last month.

I stitched these birds and flower pot.

Also the bird on the stem of flowers.

Although I did not take an up close pic,

I also started another flower on the left.

So much more to go on this one.

Finally this lil sampler called

Little Quilt Block Sampler.

This is where I was last month.

Almost completed.

Once the design is stitched,

will add in my maternal grandparents

initials and their children

for my heritage wall.

In other news,

well lookie what I found.

I wanted to finish these into pillows

before July 4th.

Just found these the other day in 

our bedroom under some of

my mom's things I needed to go through.

Why the heck I put them in here,

I have no clue...but glad I finally found them.

Today we are taking our doggie sitter

out for lunch for watching Tundra

the days we needed to be North

for mom's funeral.

We fondly call him Grandpa Ed,

and he calls Tundra his Grand dog.

However before we do that, we are

heading out to the farmer's market.

Last week we had the juiciest peaches

along with the biggest and best canteloupe.

Cannot believe the BER months have started.

Time and the months are flying by.

We saw our first trees turning colors yesterday.

Hope everyone is enjoying their

 final days of Summer.

Mid Week Blessings To All!

 

 

 

 

My Own Rug Show

Today I wanted to share the rugs 

I currently have up on my wall. 

If you love rug shows than visit Saundra

www.woodlandjunction.blogspot.com

Up first is one I participated in a hook

along with Saundra one year. 

This one I hooked in memory

of our kitty Peppers.

Another hook along with Saundra.

This one was called Dancing Rabbits.

I drew this out myself and hooked.

Wanted to do a house which is hanging

from a rusty wire.

An adaptation from an antique one I saw.

The majority of this was hooked 

at my mom's for 2 weeks, while

our bathroom was being re-modeled.

I stayed with mom and drove to work 

from her house those weeks.

Added in fabric towards the base of the vase.

Finally another one I drew myself.

Again added in fabric all around 

the vase after the hooking was done. 

Most of my friends thought this one was

an  antique. I might be the antique,

but the rug is not. LOL

In other news,

sorry  President Trump but I will

never call Lake Ontario, Lake America.

I know why he is doing it... but still

it will be Lake Ontario in my book.

This is how we kids learned how

  to memorize our Great  Lakes.

   H- Lake Huron

     O- Lake Ontario

       M- Lake Michigan

E- Lake Erie

       S- Lake Superior

Hames to me is too close to saying HAMAS.

It will remain Lake Ontario for me.

I  also keep forgetting to answer Saundra's question.

One other person retired after me,

while the others quit and went elsewhere.

Unfortunately the top execs had this fool idea

of changing things up.

Without going into detail us workers

 knew this would not work. 

It is just a sad situation where

the top brass has no clue what the bottom

folks do...nor do they really care.

It is all about the bottom line.

 Just glad I am outta there.

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Rug Blessings To All!

Janice

A Wonderful Pick Me Up

 Back towards the end of July,

I was not in the best of moods.

Knowing my mom's days were numbered

had me in a funk.

At that time someone came into the store

to sell Bob some items.

He brought them home and my mood

changed from sad to happy....

for at least a day.

The first item was this Treenware

lidded wooden trinket box.

Second was this brown stoneware 

candle holder from the Civil War era.

Finally this children's horse.

Look at the detail in this fur.

Just amazing.

Some little child had fun riding this steed.

Hubby Bob knows me so well.

It was a wonderful pick me up.

In other news,

Saturday morning we had some

unexpected funnel clouds drop from

a thunderstorm into the water nearby.

Folks all over the mainland and islands

were taking pictures of these waterspouts.

Scary if you ask me because they could

have continued on land...

which one did on an uninhabited island.

We had no severe thunderstorm watches or warnings.

No tornado watches or warnings.

Nothing, zero, nada.

Picture above from Facebook of one

of the waterspouts (tornado).

This same storm passed directly over our house.

Another storm knocked out power

at the storm a half hour before closing,

so Bob came home early that day.

Thankfully it happened later in the day.

Heading today to my brother's.

Hope to stop at Tim Horton's

for my first pumpkin spice Iced Capp.

The one thing I miss about going to work.

I would treat myself to Tim Horton's.

I eat breakfast at home now.

Hoping everyone is enjoying their week thus far.

Wonderful Blessings To All!

Janice

Friday Finishes

 Hello friends.

Well I am in Fall mode now.

Been stitching up and finishing some

Fall patterns...with some I started last year

and did not finish until now.

First is Hello Fall.

Instead of black and gray, I chose two

different colors of brown.

Made it into a pillow to display.

The next one I chose to stitch comes from

the Winds of Autumn Book by Blackbird Designs.

This pattern is called Autumn Sound.

I did not have all of the fancy floss for this,

therefore some of the colors were done in DMC

which was called for as well.

I changed the letter "B" to my initial of "J"

Made this sweet little design into another pillow.

Finally I finished Butternut Tavern.

This design was by Stacy Nash. 

This one I chose to frame.

A perfect one in my opinion.

The triangles in the frame mimic the ones

in the pattern somewhat.

Am looking forward to adding this

piece into my Autumn decor.

Have you started decorating for Fall now?

In other news,

my brother is changing up

 mom's house big time.

Not sure if I told you all he is purchasing

mom's house now.

Before mom's passing, the plan was for him

 to move in  because we were unable

to rent or sell it.

Otherwise mom would have lost her  

veterans benefit to stay in her studio apartment.

Well now he is going to purchase the house.

He already painted the bedrooms.

Mom's bedroom went from blue to tan.

Bedroom 1 went from off white to a rosy tan.

Bedroom 2 went from pink to blue.

He also did a drop down molding, so that

the ceiling color of off white comes 

down about 5 inches.

Pretty cool idea I thought.

He also painted the garage. 

My dad never had the garage painted,

which we all thought was odd.

He has to redo the master bath because

mold was found everywhere.

He ordered an island from the Amish for

the kitchen.

He also ordered from the Amish

wood cubbies in the mud room.

Am pretty sure mom would not like

any of these changes...

but this is his choice now. 

He will also be removing all of

 the wall to wall carpeting which was

original to the house being built

in 1991 to wood floor.

Well thats all I have for now.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend.

I will be decorating and stitching.

Friday Blessings To All!

Janice