Whippy Wednesday

Hello friends,

here is my update on a few of the things

I have been stitching on.

Hope you enjoy.

I sure do enjoy bringing them to life.

 

American Eagle has me wanting to stitch 

as much as I can on this piece.

At first I did not think the house 

would show up on this fabric,

but once the border completed,

you can see it in its glory.

The house is not quite complete yet though.

Bottom right is not stitched here.

I managed to get another bunny completed

on Patriotic Pinwheel Parade.

This will definitely not get finished in July.

I will work a little more on it,

and then put away for next year.

A little more progress on my great grandfathers

stitchery.

Once the letters are complete, will need to add

 the numbers in to be finished.

Plus the addition of my last great grandfather's name. 

At first I thought piece might be boring because

am only using one color, but with 

all of the  letters and different motifs it has not.

My progress on Halloween At Hawk Run Hollow.

Block 8 is completed.

YAY

This block was suppose to be all orange pumpkins.

As you can see I changed things up.

I wanted this block to be more 

Halloween  than Fall. 

So I changed two pumpkins into black ones.

We do have black colored pumpkins here,

along with a blue and green variety.

In keeping with Halloween,

chose black and orange for this block.

While also changing one up

 to be a black jack-o-lantern.

I love the final version of what I did.

How about you?

I am feeling a sense of accomplishment

finally with this piece.

I will also enjoy doing the next block.

At least it is Halloween themed.

Only 4 more blocks to go.

Thanks for following along!

In other news,

It has been extremely hot and humid here.

The air has been on mostly non-stop.

Thankfully for us we have air.

I hope everyone is alright out there that does not.

It was not until Bob and I got married 

that we got air ourselves.

Am so glad we did.

I have the day off today so Bob and I are treating

ourselves to lunch up the river to a cafe that we love.

We love their salads and sandwiches.

I plan on getting their lobster bisque soup.

Bob will probably get chicken tortilla.

They have 5 different soups on their menu.

Looks like we also may get some rain today too.

Hopefully the humidity will go away....

but not today it seems.

Take care everyone.

Whippy Wednesday Blessings To All!

Janice

June CupboardScape

 

Hello my friends!

Today's CupboardScape

is for Father's Day.

I pulled together some of my 

colonial items that our forefathers

may have used in their time.

Hope you enjoy.

In other news,

I believe Summer has already arrived.

Temps in the 90's with no relief in sight.

Next week the humidity will accompany the heat.

Tundra does his business and wants in.

He hates the hot weather too.

I finished up my July 4th decor.

I did not do as much this year.

Only the living room, keeping room,

 hall and cabinet in the room my mom stays in.

I laughed at Lauren's response to me not moving

any more furniture around.

I am trying not too, as it is so hard for Bob

lately to move it.

He is not even buying much furniture

as far as  our antique store goes.

Hope all the father's out there enjoy their day!

June Blessings To All!

Janice

My Next Project

 

Hello friends!

Wanted to share with you all

my next project.

 

 

 I use to have had my bucket bench here.

Decided to move that in the kitchen 

while swapping out my pine cupboard here.

I just felt it would look better in this room.

It is not that heavy so Bob was not mad at me.

Plus I told him I am done moving furniture after this.

 

Now I have another project.

What to add on the walls and top.

As you can see I also need to hide the timer.

I did that by moving my chair here in the corner

Adding in some textiles.

One of my antique splint baskets

on the bottom.

So far am liking this.

Grabbed one of my benches and added

a flag inside my stoneware jug.

I can do so much more with this cabinet here.

Now I need to decide how to decorate this part 

of our keeping room.

Any suggestions on this?

I know for now it will remain a blank slate.

Just hope it wont take me years to decide. LOL

We might go antiquing next month.

Maybe I might find something that 

will need to come home....maybe.

In other news,

Am so tired of getting spam calls.

I am on the do not call list

and I must get at least 10 calls per day.

I don't answer them and send them to voicemail.

One yesterday wanted to tell me they have

my loan docs ready and they just

 needed some more information....yeah right.

Last week we had another tornado

where a 2 year old boy died.

This was 2 blocks from where my boss lives.

I called her the next day just to make sure 

she was ok as I was on my mini vacation.

So sad.

Well speaking of bosses,

you know where I am headed now.

Have a wonderful day my friends.

My Next Project Blessings To All!

Janice

Friday Finish

 Hello friends!

No cross stitch finish this month,

but I do have an FFO (fully finished object).

For those who have been following for awhile,

knew that I had finished hooking

Woman On Horseback.

Well she is FINALLY finished.

I so loved the colors I chose for this one.

Saundra has wonderful patterns that she will

draw up for you in whatever size rug you want.

She did this one for me.

 I also purchased another 

one from her called Potted Plant that I am slowly

hooking at a snails pace.

Hopefully I will get back to it soon.

Any hoot, when I finally finished it,

I knew it had to be hung here.

The colors mimic each other and I simply

love it here now.

Don't you love how a plan goes together?

Taking my time with this wall really helped.

Although the displays on top will change,

the rug and picture and cupboard will remain now.

Currently on top is a 18th century bowl

filled with stone fruit.

A stoneware pitcher filled with turkey feathers.

Plus my pewter candlestick with its beeswax candle.

A side view.

I did move the burgandy candles.

Just noticed the candle on top is crooked.

Will need to fix that. LOL

All decked out now in Patriotic Pride.

Most definitely now we need to paint 

those switch plates.

In other news,

Yesterday I had the day off.

Bob and I decided to go out for breakfast

at this new restaurant near us.

It was good and we never eat out for breakfast,

so this was a treat for us.

Then we went grocery shopping.

Came back home, unloaded

and put everything away.

Then we were off again.

This time with  Tundra

We took a half hour drive to this 

meat market that was having 

a  June meat special.

We love their meat!

I also have today off. 

Today am going to do laundry and clean

then hopefully get some hooking and stitching in.

I actually took three days off as a mini vacation.

Will also be making some banana bread

using up some bananas which were overipe...

which makes the BEST bread.

Then this weekend, also going to bake

some strawberry rhubarb bread and a

strawberry pie.

What will your plans be for this weekend?

Friday Finish Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Change Is Good

 Good morning friends.

Hope this post finds you all well.

Last Thursday I had asked Bob if we

could move a few things in our keeping room.

He always says...

Happy Wife, Happy Life. LOL

He obliged me of course.

This is what we did.

We moved the tv and the tall stepback here.

Moved my horse underneath the tv table.

This cabinet looks much better on the taller wall.

Am liking this look better now.

The tv was where we now moved the couch too.

Before the couch was on the taller wall.

We have more sunlight now with the window in view.

Plus the couch was rather small for such a tall wall.

The blue afghan I crocheted eons ago.

Tundra likes to lay on it.

It fits perfectly in the middle of this wall.

Someday I hope to find another antique red rug 

to replace this blue one I purchased from Lowes.

For now the red white and blue goes very well.

This is the view now coming in from

our back side door.

Am thinking I may sew some curtains for all

of the windows now.

Will see.

As you can see, this room is vaulted.

It goes from 7 feet to 11.

I also started to put out some patriotic displays.

A few close ups.

Two nighttime shots.

With this change I now have two empty walls.

The thrill of the hunt is on again to fill er up.

LOL

In other news,

Saturday night we had our bedroom windows

open and oh my gosh.

A skunk was in the near vicinity.

Tundra must have heard him first,

and of course he started barking.

Well then the skunk kept spraying.

It smelled so bad in our bedroom.

I ended up sleeping on the couch.

Bob did not smell or hear anything.

Thankfully Tundra was NOT outside.

I managed to plant some veggies and 2 flats

of flowers Friday and Saturday before

 the rain came in, so that was good.

Stitched and cleaned over the weekend.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Well have to get my butt to work.

Change Is Good Blessings To All!

Janice