Friday Finish

 Well I have somewhat of a finish

to show you all today.

Summer Refreshes.

Left Side.

Right side.

I was able to get this stitched just before

my mom took her tumble.

I wanted to make it into a pillow,

but just not enough time.

Oh well...there is next year.

I chose my own colors from stash.

I did not like the green in this.

To me Summer incorporates the colors

of red, whites and blues.

Now I did not use white floss as the

fabric was white, however I did use

two blue colors. 

They were so close in color that you cannot

see the difference in my pics.

Well anyway that is my story and am 

sticking to it. LOL

Now its time for Fall and Halloween stitching.

If I can find the time.

I know my plans have already changed.

Spending more time with my mom

has taken away from my stitching time,

but it is what it is.

In other news,

my sister is in North Carolina

visiting with her grands before school starts.

My brother is busy with his wife now.

She had thyroid cancer surgery a few weeks past.

Her test came back and she has cancer.

Now she has to go for imaging 

to see what needs to done.

Plus she also has to have heart valve surgery.

She is going for a stress test nest week

before deciding if she will be able to

go through with that surgery.

That leaves me to go see my mom

 for the next week.

I have to grab her clothes and wash them too.

The three of us kids decided to do her laundry.

My brother has yet to do any. LOL

With my sister gone...it leaves me.

So now I need to go see my mom more often.

Thankfully Bob has been helping out 

with dinner.

Fridays though he meets me somewhere.

By the end of the week we are just dragging. 

My granddaughter Mikayla is having

her own issues at MSU.

She lost her ID and could not get on the bus.

She got locked out of her dorm 

once already now.

Then she was almost was late for class one day.

The life of a Freshman college student.

Its a big campus.

It will take her some time to get use to it.

Hope everyone enjoys their long holiday weekend.

Happy Labor Day to my US friends.

Pre Labor Day Blessings To All!

Janice 

 

Makers Monday

 

Meet the Gals.

They are my latest creations

which I call my Woodland Witches.

First up is Soleil ( Sun)

Her outfit is black and orange.

Her hair from raw wool.

Her favorite thing to do in the woods

is to look for mushrooms.

She is hand stitched by me.

Next is Luna (Moon)

She chose an outfit in black and purple.

Strolling along in the woods with

her sister she came upon 

this woodland flower that she picked.

She was a bit chilly and wanted

to wear her scarf.

She loves flowers and thus her scarf

just had to have a flower button on it.

Each of these gals were entirely 

hand stitched by myself.

I drew out the pattern and grabbed

fabric from my stash.

I had wanted these gals to be for sale

at our store...however Bob told me 

last Friday he had already marked down

our Halloween inventory at the store.

Since I don't want these gals to be 

on sale right away....looks like they will

go into the vault for next year.

However if anyone is interested 

in purchasing these gals,

Just send me an email at

primsbythewater@yahoo.com

It will be first come as I only created

one of each.

Next year I hope to open up

an Etsy shop once retired.

I wanted to make just mushrooms too.

Just never enough time for me.

In other news.

Friday morning my mom 

was not feeling well. She vomited

up her breakfast.

The only therapy she did that day was

weights on her legs and pushing a ball

between her legs.

They did not get her up to walk.

Tuesday the therapist was not there,

so no therapy that day either.

They don't have therapy on weekends,

so this is a set back for her.

She told me she does not think she 

will get better and was crying.

Am hopeful she was just saying that

because she was under the weather

that day...but who knows.

They drew blood again and we are waiting

  on the hemoglobin level now.

With her blood level dropping this may

also cause her to become weak too.

Mikayla has already been asked to 

a sorority party.

She turned it down because she

wants to get to know more people

before deciding on anything.

Well have to get my butt to work.

Bob asked me last night why I was 

not retired yet.

He was being a smart you know what.

We had a community bonfire and

lo and behold an old neighbor of mine

from my other house came to it.

Have not seen him in 40 years.

Neither of us look like we did back then,

but once we found out...

all of my neighbors were saying what

a small world it was.

How we found out was his wife's name

was the same name of his sister. 

Her and I hung out during high school.

When I mentioned to her I knew someone

with that name...that's when it clicked.

Unfortunately his sister had passed away

years ago.

It is such a small world when you think about it.

Woodland Blessings To All!

Janice 

Antique Trail

 

Well the yearly antique trail 

came and went.

This is only the second time in 

the 23 years it has been going on

that I missed it.

The first time I vended instead of shopped.

I hated every minute not being out there shopping.

This time it did not feel right going

with out my sidekick in the passenger seat.

AKA MOM.

A few folks new about my mom's situation.

These three amazing ladies let me shop

their early bird sale.

(they dont usually have early bird sales)

I think it was God who might of told them

I needed a break.

All I know is they were a godsend to me.

I was able to visit them a few days ahead 

of the trail weekend.

First place I shopped.

This adorable small wool teddy

with original cardstock flag bowtie.

He will be perfect next year

in one of my Americana displays.  

Just a wonderful bunny mold.

Finally another antique bunny mold.

Me loves my bunnies.

Second stop.

This bee skep.

It is not old, but I would like

Bob to make me a wood bee skep

holder next year so I can display this outside

in the Summer months.

Original bee skeps would have had

 a hole in them for the bees.

Gotta love an Arnett Santa.

This one is holding a cake crock.

Santa's coat is gold so will be perfect

for my untraditional Christmas look.

Next up is this flax hank.

It is the fiber that makes our linens.

For some reason am getting back into pewter.

This plate was calling me.

Finally this antique Americana parade hat.

Next year one of my teddies will be sporting it

on its head.

Ooops I did buy one more crock jug.

Forgot to take a pic of it.

I will make sure to let you know what it

was in my Autumn display posts.

Finally my third stop.

This vintage drum.

Loved the graphics on this.

It included the drumsticks.

This  Americana pillow.

Final piece was this handmade 

wood quilt block made by my friend.

Had to come home with me.

It was screaming Autumn 

with the colors of dark brown, tan and cream.

I want to give a big shout out to

Tracy, Sara and Ruth.

You ladies made my day.

In other news,

mom is losing blood again.

Her hemoglobin is down to 8.0.

They are testing her every other day now.

They are thinking about do an endoscopy test,

however she wants none of it.

It is her choice.

They also now put her on oxygen at night.

Bob and I went to see her last night.

She was very quiet.

Obviously something is on her mind.

The good news is she was able to take

one step with the help of the therapist.

Mikayla's first night at MSU (college)

was not what she expected.

Her and her roommate went to movie night.

Her roommate ditched her and she freaked

out trying to find her way back to her dorm.

She got back around 11:00pm.

I would have freaked out too.

Glad she is alright.

Nice to be able to sleep with the widows

at night these past few days.

Off to work now.

Antique Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Sunday Starts

Today's post I am showing you

two new starts. 

I first cut out the shapes.

Do you know what I will be sewing up?

If you guessed an acorn, you were correct.

A few sewed up waiting for their stems.

One finished.

I added a chenille stem so it can be bendable.

Wait until you see how I displays these

in my upcoming Autumn decor.

Next I pulled out this pattern 

I purchased last year called

Hello Fall by The Scarlett House.

I started this on my lunch hour Friday.

This is a one hour progress.

Am using my own colors from stash.

Will totally be different from the pattern.

For the words am using Swamp Water.

You may think swamp water would be green.

Mine is a dark brown with a hint of some

very dark green in it.

In other news,

am still trying to catch up on my blog reading.

Thank you to everyone for their comments.

from my last post.

Since my last post, my SIL had to have

throat surgery for cancer.

Because of the cancer diagnosis,

they now took her off the transplant

list for a kidney.

She also has night blindness now.

My mom was given an extension.

Monday they will review again whether

she gets to stay or not.

This will be a week by week basis now.

Just sad to have this hanging over our heads.

Good news is she has begun taking baby steps.

Bad news is her hemoglobin has gone

down to 8.0 now.

They drew blood again Friday,

so we are waiting to find out the results.

I have been visiting her 3-4 days a week.

It takes me an hour each way to get

there and back from my home.

When I leave after work, it makes for

long days.

 Anyway am going to catch up on

my household chores and maybe get some

stitching in.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.

We finally had a small thunderstorm come

in the wee hours this morning. Much needed.

Sunday Blessings To All!

Janice 

Whippy Wednesday

Hello friends.

Well my Sampler Summer idea

of stitching on my three samplers

until the first day of Autumn

hit a snag when my mom fell. 

I did finish the final bird.

Worked on these flowers.  

Then I continued the left side of the border.

Came to the corner and across a bit.

Finished these flowers.

This is where I ended up for July stitching

on my Antique Birds and Angel.

Once I knew my mom would be

transferred to a rehab center,

I began stitching then on

Sarah Casey Unwin.

I finished all of the upper half now.

I purchased this sampler for the saying.

The saying stitched up fast with only

only color used.

The small trees on each side were also

only one color.

I did change some of the peach

in the flowers to another pink.

The fruit bowls were suppose to be peach too.

I again opted for a rose.

My third sampler is this one.

Feniscowles Hall.

This one will be a tribute to my

paternal grandparents and their parents.

Am stitching my grandfather's name

and his parents in Deep Sea Blue.

My grandmother and her parents

will be stitched with Cherry Cobbler.

The alphabet and saying were done in

Dublin Bay.

The alphabet was included in this pattern.

For those new to my blog,

my great grandmother married

her cousin. This is why her name is

Rosemary Husson- Husson.

I did not make a mistake.

I will now stitch on the border and then

begin the tree on the left.

I have yet to decide where I will add in

my grandmother's parents names.

Toying with doing them either on each side

or at the bottom.

 Will make my decision once all completed.

I also need to stitch in 

my paternal great grandfathers name.

Am thinking right above 

great grandmother's name now.

Finally Summer Saltboxes.

This was my lunch stitch.

Not much progress because I have been 

skipping lunches to be able to leave

work early to see my mom.

I almost have the sheep on the right finished.

Sadly this will be put away now.

Am getting in the Fall mood now.

In other news,

I wish it was September.

August has not been a good month for me.

My daughter had to have surgery

for an infected wisdom tooth and a cyst was found.

Hopefully not cancerous.

My son was in the ER for a possible heart attack.

Found out his sugar was extremely high,

which he found out he has diabetes.

Our hope is he can control it now.

One of our good friends passed away last week.

My mom may be kicked out of rehab.

The determination will be made today sometime.

We will appeal if her insurance will not

accept her to be there any longer.

Our appeal agreement 

will be that we pay out of pocket.

If they agree she is making some progress,

they will accept our appeal and she can stay

on a week by week status.

If not we have 24 hours to find another facility

to transfer her to.

Am praying this is not the case.

Well off to work.

Wednesday Blessings To All!

Janice