Let The Christmas Season Begin

 

.Well my friends...

with Thanksgiving over now,

let the 2024 Christmas season begin.

We even had snow yesterday to start us off.

My posts will be done every other day now.

So let's start with our bedroom.

This metal tree Bob made from an old tin.

He put them in the store to sell,

 but I kept one for us.

I like to place vintage elves around the house

for the grands to find.

Been doing this ever since they were little.

Lets see if you can spot them.

Last month Bob says...

I think you should but a new bedspread.

Not sure why, because I thought 

our red and white quilt was still fine...

but you dont have to tell me twice.

I bought this red coverlet one from an online store.

Me thinks it looks good with my antique ones

having as our headboard.

Please dont mind Bob's Bi-pap machine.

I did not want to unplug it just for pics.

Its sits on the black cabinet Bob also made

by his side of the bed.

In other news,

it is snowing out here again.

Was not expecting this.

Need to go out to the grocery store.

Will have to get my butt moving soon.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

Remember I will be posting every other day now

until about the middle of December.

Hope you enjoy my Christmas 2024.

Let The Season Begin Blessings To All!

Janice

November CupboardScape

 Full discloser for this post.

I do not have much turkey related items

around my house...therefore

this is not one of my best CupboardScapes.

Maybe next year I can have 

some turkey pillows finished...

and maybe a hooked mat.

This turkey is an old heavy metal one.

Years ago we found many animals

 in a collection someone was selling and I kept the turkey.

I should have kept the lamb too...oh well.

Dont even remember the other animals.

Cannot keep everything. LOL

The turkey pitcher is new.

We were selling these in the shop.

The little turkey is a vintage pepper shaker.

Not sure what happened to the salt one.

The drieds in front of the metal turkey

are dried cow pea pods.

I have had this string of them for years.

They use to be purple when I first bought them.

Close up of the pepper shaker.

Of course I had to add my child's vintage quilt

as the backdrop.

Best colors for Autumn decor.

In other news,

I hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving.

We will be heading to my sisters,

where we will watch part of the parade and then

the football game.

Our Detroit Lions always play on Thanksgiving.

We are hoping they win this year.

Fingers crossed anyway.

Plus we will be eating a feast.

Cannot believe November is almost over.

The cold weather is coming in.

The flannels sheets are on the bed now.

Donna, you stated you would email me your contact

info, however I did not receive anything from you.

My email is primsbythewater@yahoo.com

If I do not hear from you before my next post,

I will need to draw another name for the snowman.

Thanksgiving Blessings To All!

Janice

Friday Finish

Hello friends!

Today I only have one finish.

It is a fully finished piece though.

This was  a pattern by Blueberry Ridge Designs

called House On Pear Hill.

Once again the colors 

were more muted than the photo.

 

At first I was not happy with the colors.

However the more I stitched on it,

I started to fall in love with this.

Glad I did since the floss in this was

all specialty ones.

It would have been more expensive if

I had changed them up.

It fit a normal 8x10 frame so that was good.

Less expensive than having to order one.

The frame was also on sale. Another win.

I did add museum glass to it.

Debby at Hobby Lobby said 

it was another great piece.

In other news,

have you ever heard that if you find a penny

in your house, that an angel came to visit you?

Well the other day I found one.

Then Bob found three of them in our store.

I am thinking it was my dad.

Bob thinks it was his dad, as he often

came to the store to visit Bob

before he passed last year at this time.

Yesterday morning it was snowing pretty good.

Tundra loved it.

Then the rain came in and it all melted.

 

So last night we drove up the river an hour

to make an appointment at Best Buy

to take in my computer.

Twice I called the store and it routed to India.

Could not understand either of them.

So we drove up to make the appt with the Geek Squad.

It was nice at our house,

but the closer we got to the store...

the darker the sky got.

The biggest snowflakes and rain was coming down.

It was getting quite slick when we got out

of the store.

We were going to eat in that town,

but decided to drive closer to home.

Glad we did as the sloppy mess ended closer to home.

Ok, now for the good stuff.

The winner of my lil snowman is 

Donna.

Congrats to Donna and also a big thanks

for all that commented.

Your comments were all so very special.

Donna, please email me your contact info at

primsbythewater@yahoo.com

I will have Bob mail it out to you next week.

Well hope everyone has a great weekend!

Friday Blessings To All!

Janice

  

 

You Are The Best

 

All of you are the best blogging friends

one can have.

Some of you I have had the pleasure 

to meet in person,

and others I have got to know through

years of camaraderie.

Some I am just starting to get to know.

Either way you all are the best.

With this the season of being thankful,

I want to thank you all for following along

with me on my blog journey

with a giveaway of this sweet snowman.

He was drawn out by me using wool felt

and various fabrics. 

He sports a wooden blue heart to show his love.

How could you not resist this sweet face.

He will only melt your heart...

and wont melt himself.

Although I am not ready for snow,

he would be a perfect addition

to add to either your Christmas or Winter decor. 

If you would like the chance to win him,

please make a comment 

telling me what you are most thankful

for this year.

You also must be a follower.

Open to only my US and Canadian friends.

If you like to share this giveaway on your own blog,

feel free to do so.

In other news,

I am most thankful to have my mom

in my life still.

My dad passed when I was 35 years old.

Christmas was his favorite time of year.

He passed just before Christmas

and we buried him on Christmas Eve morning.

This is the one holiday I still go all out

decorating the whole house.

Somehow I feel his presence and believe he enjoys

the Christmas ambiance of my home

this time of year.

He loved listening to Christmas music

and he would just sit at night looking at the 

tree and all of the decor my mom would set up.

Well before I get even more teary eyed,

I will announce the winner of 

my snowman in my next post.

Good luck everyone.

The BEST Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Look What The Cat Dragged In

Hello Friends.

Well my cat is Bob.

I asked him to find me table.

A table he got me.

It even has a drawer.

It also has a nice patina.

Both sides come up.

Now why did I need another table?

Well this was our computer we used at

our gift shop.

Even though we closed that store and sold 

the building, I still need it to complete

my inventory since we moved a portion

of said inventory to our antiques store.

Once I retire from my real job,

this table will be moved to the living room

where my current table resides for my

work computer.

For now it will remain here in the guest room.

I think my cat did good.

What do you think?

In other news,

cannot believe Thanksgiving 

is only a few weeks away.

I had so many plans to stitch up some turkey

pillows and even hook a turkey.

Well most of those plans fell by the wayside.

 I wont even finish the turkey I just started.

Maybe, just maybe, I will have more time

when I retire. 

Yesterday driving home I saw a heron flying

through the marsh.

Two things wrong with this.

1. He was flying North.

2. Usually our herons have left by now for Winter.

Just weird.

More weird is a town about an hour and a half

west of us had a tornado on Sunday.

Here in Michigan this is a first for this time of year.

Also weird is for me driving into work

on Thursday as usually I work from home this day.

Have to go in though today...again more weird.

Well hope your upcoming days are not weird.

Thursday Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Sunday Starts

Hello friends!

Hope the weekend is going good for you thus far.

Today am showing what I will be currently

working on for November.

First from Prairie Schooler.

Its all about the turkey. LOL

I dont have much turkey items,

so I want to keep creating some turkey pillows,

to eventually fill up a bowl or trencher.

This is my one day start.

I got two leaves completed.

Working on a third one.

GOBBLE GOBBLE.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner.

My second start for the month 

which I will be alternating

is another Prairie Schooler pattern.

This one is called Button Up.

 

 I want to make this on into a pillow too.

Also I will not be adding as much red into this.

When it comes to snow related items,

I am more of a blue person.

 

As you can see from my one evening start,

I already changed the words from red to blue.

Will add a pop of red to each square. 

For this one will do the word winter in red.

I also am cross stitching a border around

each square instead of doing 

a backstitch around each one.

In other news,

the church bazaar was so-so. 

Not many sales, but did enjoy visiting

with folks I had not seen in such a long time.

Also enjoyed spending time with my mom and sister.

Rained the entire way back home this morning.

A slow drive but at least no deer to be found.

Well have to get some housework done.

I have tomorrow off for work.

Please take time to remember our Veteran's.

They serve to keep us free.

Freedom is not free either.

Sunday Blessings To All!

Janice 

 

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