Party On !

Last night Tiger was laying on the floor, looking out the kitchen window and making that sound, should I bark or not .

The neighbors were hosting a party and I'm guessing did not know it :) There were so many more squirrels, but it was so hard to get a picture out the window or maybe they were camera shy. There is a black squirrel that goes up and down our lane on the wires and plays catch me if you can games with Tiger. I'm sure he was there, but all the others were grey.

Small Finish

Tree of Life from Periphaeria Designs

32 ct. Flax Fields R&R

Silk floss by HDF

This little fob took 2 evenings to do, from start to complete finish. I've mis-placed the tag for the floss and can't remember the name. The front is a freebie and the little bird on the back is from the Blackbrid Designs Honeysuckle Manor book. The scissors are Elizabeth I from Klemscott Designs .

A Trio

Bluebird by Blackbird Designs

32 ct. Flax Fields R&R

Crushed Berry by Hand-Dyed Fibers

Spring by ??
28 ct. white Monaco

Pastel Rainbow by Hand-Dyed Fibers

Quaker Flower by The Workbaset
40 ct. Attic Lace Lakeside Linen

Caribbean Eve by Hand-dyed fibers

I'm a new fan of hand-dyed fibers in silk. My first stitch with them was the Quaker flower and I wasn't crazy about it. Could be that it was 1 over 2, but the end result is good. Next was spring, which if anyone could tell me where this free design is from I would appreciate it. Oh and I just stitched the word not the little flowers on it. My third was the Blackbird design and that convinced me. I have more different colors to try, will probably do some small little pillows.

I have a new picture in my header that I took at Trout lake last week. You really had to be there to see this, but believe me it was funny. Mother and her babies were swimming around and there was a big puppy there, and he went after them, she got her babies away and the next thing you know the father duck comes over and gives her heck, it was quite of the site, both were quacking and flapping their wings at each other. I'm guessing she won as he left and she continued her swim around with the babies.

Sew Blue

Design by iStitch

28ct. white Monaco

ThreadWorx #1016

If you look at the pattern, you will notice I left off the alphabet on the top, but did use the numbers with my initials on the back.

Pretty Lady

JBW Designs - French Country Dog

28 ct. Ivory Annabelle

Cherry Wine Sampler Threads By

The Gentle Art

I'm always telling my Tiger that she is a "Pretty Lady", so thought it would be appropriate for the back.

Spring Flowers

Click here . The page will be black, left click your mouse and have some fun ! Hope you enjoy it.

Happy Easter

Liberty Primitives & Needlework

14 count Spun Sugar from

Sassy's Fabby's with DMC

Snowy Pines

LHN Ornament of the Month

28 count Flax linen with DMC

He's Back

The other day I noticed the eagle was back. This is very unusual as he only comes for about 2 weeks in February.

Last night we had a bit of a storm, windy and raining all night long. This morning it was fairly nice and then BAM poured rain like there was no tomorrow. This lasted a couple of hours and now has stopped and the sun is trying to come out.

I went to Michael's this morning to buy some DMC to finish off a couple of things. This is when I got caught in the rain storm, not nice.

So now I am off to put those last stitches in so I will have something stitchy to show next time.

PS Soon after I posted this, the sun disappeared the rain started and we have lighting and thunder...crazy weather !

Apples

Little House Needlework

40ct white linen

I started this one, maybe a year ago and had the border and the word Apples done. A couple of days ago I was looking for something and came across it and decided it was about time to finish it. My first cube finish and I'm really not pleased with it. I was stingy on the needles and didn't get the stitched piece as snug and straight as I should have, I rushed it too much. Oh well it's staying home and going to sit on my kitchen island to remind me to eat my apples.

Happy St. Patrick's day

Crow

Primitive Betty's

32 ct. unknown with DMC 310

For some reason when I saw this I felt the need to stitch it right away. It seemed to take a long time, but in reality it was only a couple of days.

I have a couple of St. Patrick day items I would like to stitch, but would never get them done by tomorrow, so I am going to see what I have for spring. Speaking of Spring, ours has seemed to disappear. I'm finding it rather gloomy and colder than it should be.

On a rather sad note, I just got an e-mail from my LNS that they will be closing April 30th, after 35 years. Not sure why they are closing, if business is bad or it's for personal reasons. Right now all sales are final, but I'm guessing there will discounts soon. Guess I'll have to stock up on some stash :)

Shamrock Biscornu and Fob

Here's another cute design from Nic Wray of Linden Bee Designs

I stitched these on 14 ct. white adia with DMC and yes those scissors are from Yuko. I was very surprised at how sharp they are. I'm very pleased with them.

Spring Snow

It was bad enough that the wind kept me up half the night, this is what I woke up to this morning !

Joy and Rain

It's been awhile since I've posted anything. Everything and everyone here is fine, time just has a way of flying by. My arm is better and the foot, well it's better too, although by the end of the day it tends to be a bit sore and puffed, telling me I'm carrying too much weight around :)

I've been stitching a lot of different things. I'll get 3/4 through one and can't find a color I need, put it aside and start another and the same thing happens. I need to put my floss away after each use and not just "throw aside" in a basket or bag for doing later.

Here are a couple that I did manage to finsh. Well I still need to do the beads on Joy, but if I forget it will still look ok.

LHN

32 ct. cream linen

DMC

Linden Bee Designs

by Nic Wray

28 ct. antique white evenweave

DMC

Right or Left Handed

I'm right handed and just this week realized there are some things you naturally do with your left hand. As you know I fell and injured not only the ankle, which is healing slowly, but did something to my left arm. It is not bruised nor swollen, so I really don't understand why it hurts as much as it does. I can't seem to put pressure on it. Some examples of this are, toilet handle to flush is on the left, so reach out your left hand and in my case yelp :) Sink, hot water tap is on left, yelp again. Going downstairs, hand rail is on left, hold ever so gently just in case I fall. Since I was walking much better decided to go to the store, getting in and out of car, BIG YELP ! I'm sure there must be more, but these are the ones I noticed.

Today was suppose to be a Friday Finish, went to cut out a fob I had stitched this week and went to hold the ruler in place with my left hand and rotary cut with the right and I almost cut the fob in half.

At least this hasn't stopped my stitching, as long as I don't need to cut the fabric smaller to stitch on. Hmmm.... maybe some WIP's will get done :)

No Medal for Me

I took quite the tumble at Trout Lake this morning. I wasn't watching where I was going and was along the edge of the gravel walkway and with all the rain it was uneven and I took a tumble. I felt my right ankle turn under me, and as I fell somehow used my left arm to try and brace myself. A city worker and another dog owner came to my rescue and offered help, as much as Tiger would allow them. The guy was trying to help me up and Tiger just looked him in the face and gave a low growl, she's such a good protector. Anyways, with the help I managed to get up and was able to stand without putting much weight on the ankle. I hobbled over to a log, closest place to sit, and sat for awhile, hobbled to my car and sat for awhile, thought about calling someone to come get me and decided I should try and drive home. I managed with using my left foot to brake. Hobbled into the house, sat in the recliner and Mom got me an ice pack for the ankle which by this time is swollen, but surprisingly not hurting as much as it did at first. Mind you I tend to have a high tolerance of pain for things like this. I was covered in mud, jeans and jacket are in the wash now, my favorite over the body purse may be ruined, I'll try and see if I can salvage it. Oh and my left arm hurts if I try to put pressure on it, so picture this, getting up from a chair not putting weight on your right ankle nor left arm. There really should be a medal for that :) I would win gold !

Valentines Day

Just got back from seeing the movie Valentines Day. It's funny, surprising and makes you think about the meaning of friendship and love. I don't want to say too much about it, surprises are always good, right ? If you do go to see it, enjoy !

Once in a Lifetime, Twice in One Day !

I was at my computer reading blogs this morning when this truck drove by honking away, I looked out the window and people were lined up and down the street. I went and asked what was going on, imagine my surprise to find out that the Olympic Torch was going to be right outside my front door. I ran in to get my camera and told Mom she should come out. Not only did the torch go by, it was also the spot for lighting the next runner's torch. We then had to go to the Credit Union, only to find people lined up for blocks upon blocks waiting for the Olympic Torch to go by. Mom went and did her business and I found out that the torch was on it's way to Trout Lake. So we headed there and once again I got to see the torch not only go by but being passed onto the next runner. I didn't get a good photo of the torch, but the videos I got are not too bad, you can really hear and feel the excitement from the kids at Trout Lake. There's a few of them, so if you would like to see a small part of the 2010 Olympic Torch relay click here and enjoy :)

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Fob or Pillow

Here is the matching fob, guess pillow, as I forgot to sew the ribbon on :)

Lenka's Designs

28 count Monaco white

Needle Necessities #1090