Sunday Starts

 

Plus two mini finishes.

Any ideas who this fella is?

Or this little gal?

I finished Parade Sam

from Notforgotten Farm.

One of the many "Littles"

Ain't he adorable.

I did change the color of his coat though.

More red than rust.

I also added some red into his firecracker.

Then I finished Betsy,

also from Notforgotten Farm.

I did change her shoes to red.

They were suppose to be the same rust

as her hair was.

She does have a sweet face,

but I wish I had stitched some pink cheeks

like Uncle Sam had.

It was not in the pattern...but now I think

that I should have.

Now for my focus piece through July 4th.

I purchased this pattern to celebrate

our Semi Quincentennial.

America's 250 birthday.

For our important birthday,

I have chosen an important pattern.

America Two Hundred and Fifty 

by Plum Street Samplers.

Here I almost finished page 1 of 10.

4 days of stitching this.

In this pattern there are 5 flags

with stars that represented America

 from the beginning when we were under

British rule to after the

Revolutionary War.

One star will also represent 

the crown for King George III.

Am looking forward to stitching

all of them and everything in this pattern.

I love history and there will be many

historical motifs in this. 

The blue star to the left is the 

Grand Old Union Flag.

The red one on the right is the 

Union Jack.

This next flag is the

American Flag.

The one over one initials of TJ

stand for Thomas Jefferson.

There will be 5 initials of those men

who were tasked to the writing of our

Declaration of Independence.

These gentlemen were all part of 

the Second Continental Congress.

They worked tirelessly from

June 11th to July 4. 1776,

and our declaration was published

on July 5th, 1776.

Page Two is now completely stitched.

This page took me 9 days.

Now onto page 3 of 10. 

Not sure if this will be finished in time

for July 4th...oh well.

There is always next year.

In other news,

All of the much needed weeding, planting

and bags of mulch have been completed.

Thursday I decided to make my favorite

Spring pie which was a strawberry rhubarb one.

We had a warm piece with vanilla ice cream.

After two weeks of sunny days, we finally

had some rain early Saturday morning.

Sitting outside now most every afternoon,

I have now had chipmunks, squirrels and even

a baby bunny come real close to me.

We hope not to have any more sightings

of the Garter snake that was

in our one shrub one day though

Tundra kept barking at it.

 Am hoping his barking made it leave for good.

Tomorrow my brother and I are headed

to my mom's once again.

We have to decide what to do now with 

the stuff we wanted my sister to look at

before we decided on it.

She went there Saturday and was still

overwhelmed and would not look at it.

We are getting tired of her attitude

quite frankly.

We told her we have a drop dead date

of June 12th and then nothing

else can be taken out of the house.

She is overwhelmed... yet everything

is on tables and even priced for her to see now.

We left one area for her to go through and look at.

My brother and I were the ones overwhelmed

all the months we have been cleaning

out mom's house.

No excuse for her to be overwhelmed.

Well I hope everyone is enjoying

the rest of the weekend.

Cannot believe how fast the days are going now

since retiring.

First Sunday Of June Blessings To All!

Janice