OH-DEAR ME--

 I had plans and photos for last Sunday's post and that didn't  happen--so I thought--OK--I will do one on Monday afternoon----well maybe I can do it Tuesday--and that is how the whole week went---tomorrow--tomorrow-----

I did a big shopping trip on Monday--Tuesday was an doctor appointment and it was the second one with a new doctor--but --ended up seeing someone else in the office and she was rude --and more than rude to me--and this office-- in the two visits have managed to mess up 2 of my 3 medications for high blood pressure--( and they won't fix it or they keep sending it to the wrong pharmacy--grrrr) yep--inherited my Dad's high blood pressure--I try to stay calm--but especially these days--that is not easy--!!! I will not be going back to this doctor!!  And Wednesday and Thursday both were shopping trips with a friend on the bus--and then on Friday I did do some sewing and some prep work for a couple projects--Saturday--I spent half a day repotting all my new plants and a couple of the older ones--I make my own soil mixture--so that takes time--and then we won't even mention the mess I made and had to clean up--but I like to think my 'plants' are so much happier now and appreciate what I did for them!!!!

So if I had posted last week-here is the photos--

Oh and the week before was busy tooo-- with some Birthday celebrating--

The Cross stitch bird book is all about birds--one side of the page has information and the words in black are the words you look for in the puzzle!!

Gifts from my daughter--one of these was for Easter and one was for my birthday-and this one--

and this one was for Mother's day--

She also sent me '2' gift cards for shopping at Publix grocery store--

My son and daughter in law--took me out to eat at Red Lobster for my birthday and Mother's Day--

of course I got lots of 'shrimp'--yummy--and even got a slice of their chocolate wave cake--oh my--it is so yummy--but I am a good girl and do not eat it all at once--I eat a little each day for at least '2' days!!

They gave me a Visa card and this gift--

This is a kit and my little gnome has a hat for each holiday and something different on her front for each one--I love playing with 'toys'!!!!

She is on my door on one side and right now this is on the door next to her--

Back to sewing--

Where I left off last week--

and I got to this point on the Orange Peel--sal--had to think about where I wanted to go with this??

Picked this quilt to do the hand quilting on next--and did get it started--

Another little sweater was finished--

And a couple shopping items--

the first one is from JoAnn's sale and second one I found at Aldi's for only $4 and it heavy and is actually a bird house for outside--

Think I know what colors I am going to paint these!!!

I also redid the bedroom wall that week--

Along with doing over part of the china cabinet and my shadow box--

This week I have worked on these projects--

Got the extra block finished for display that Melisa gave us last year--

And I decided I wanted to make my orange peel piece a bit larger as I will use it for a table cover on my round table--so I cut and sewed another row of 5" blocks all around the first set--and last night I got 2 more peels appliqued on--I do needleturn applique!

And here is where I am on the Grandmother Flower blocks between the last 2 weeks--

six are done-how many more to go???????????????

And a gift to me from a gift card from my girl-friend, --

And yes--I do have a plan for this jelly roll--but first I have to do my Chookshed challenge!!!

WELL--I GUESS I GOT EVERYONE ALL CAUGHT UP ON MY GOINGS AND DOINGS!!

WHAT ARE YOU A DOIN??????

OH AND OUR HEAT HERE IN  FLORIDA HAS HIT--SO WE ARE IN SUMMER MODE ALREADY--

KEEP COOL AND KEEP ON SMILING AND LAUGHING--IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH!!

HUGS, DI

GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS???

 

TO ME--yep--today--Tuesday is another milestone birthday for me--I just want to know 'how' I got here--one minute I was a teen ager--can't wait to be out on my own--then a mother--then a working single parent--then a daughter helping her parents though cancer and the end of their lives, and then a Senior citizen--oh--my--what a ride!!!!!

I do have finishes to show you in my real life right now of being a quilter--

first up is May's block from last years stitch along with Melisa--all hand quilted and hung up to enjoy for the month of May-

and I also did Junes block--

When I need to finish one--I always do '2' while I have the supplies out--and this time I even have a 3rd one ready for hand quilting of her's it was a bonus block--but it's not finished yet--

And I got the red hexie project finished--

Doing that big stitch line around the blocks really set this piece off ---

And here is where I was on the Orange Peel stitch along on Saturday--

But I  have worked more on this one since--and in fact I had ordered a few more 'yellows' for this one--

I had 2 more yellows ordered--only when they came in they were a pretty light green background--yet online looked totally yellow???

And here is what I am doing with these 2.5" squares--

I am making Grandmother Garden flowers--from these Tida prints--I have a third one done since I took this photo!!!

And here is where I am on the Counted Stitching project--

I have gotten a bit more done on this one--but not alot!!!

And for May's Chookshed challenge--I, again, chanced my project as mine was a Christmas project and I am just not ready yet for working on Christmas--so I picked this project--

I have played with these blocks off and on--for over 10 years and keep unstitching how I did the flimsy--hope this time I can finish them and like them????

And here is some better photo's of Jenny's bom for 2024--

These were such 'sweet' little designs to stitch--thanks Jenny!

And look what showed up in my plant--??

My own little Fairy and her house!!!

Well that mostly catches me up on the stitching from--

But I have a question for you---

Are you doing any 'stocking' up--for the shortess that they say will happen???  During Covid I did but all the wrong things really and then alot of it spoiled and had to be thrown out --and I did get caught with no toilet paper--So I am doing some--but this time with things that I know I will use and will last for a long time--if nothing else I figure I am saving money cause we know that prices will be going up--so just wondered if you are also doing anything in stocking up--and I know we all have lots of fabric and patterns to keep us busy--oh and I did just ordered some more thread--was running low and found out that Connecting Threads was having a sale--and for whatever reason--I have always used their thread in  my sewing machine!!!!

GO OUT THIS WEEK AND HAVE SOMETHING SWEET TO HELP ME CELEBRATE MY '77TH' BIRTHDAY!!!  THEN TELL ME ABOUT IT--WHAT EVER YOU DO THIS WEEK--ENJOY YOURSELF--

HUGS, DI

A QUICKIE--

 Post--to show you I did get my #4 Chooky challenge worked on--

and it is now a nice flimsy--

sorry neither photos came out very good--

I will see if I can get better photos for my regular Sunday post--

this was Jenny's bom for 2024--

hugs, di

HAPPY BRIGHT AND SUNNY--SUNDAY

 Well---April is almost in the history books--only 3 more days left for us to get our projects list done--And guess who is behind--me!!!!  I have not touched this months Chookshed challenge--but like I said--there is 3 days left--soooooooooooooo??????

So what did I do this past week--???  

I did work on projects--

I did do some Counted cross stitching nearly every morning--it's the way I start my day--

here is the section I stitched this week--

and here is what I have done so far--

So it is growing---

And I did work on the 'Orange Peel" stitch along--

I am doing mine in 'needle-turn' applique--discovered I have to make my peels about 1/16th" wider all the way around to get the points to meet--and that is doable--so --I am on the right path--just need to keep working on these--I only have '17' peels to applique on this --yet!!!!

And I spent alot of time hand quilting on the red hexie piece--

I just have 2 rows on the far left side to hand quilt--then to decide how I want to finish this one???

And I got those strips I showed you last week--cut into 2 1/2" squares--

Can you guess what I am going to do with these????

And my Temu order came in and I got some of these rub ons and here is how I used them--

one is the light switch by the door and the other is the bathroom light switch--so fun now to turn the lights on and off!!!

and this one took me a 'minute' to decide how to use it--this is on the wall between the kitchen area and the living area--and is an old phone jack--now  it's a pretty 'kitty' box!!!

I want to order some other things from them--but am waiting to see what is going on first--as China has said they will not send anything though our US mail service and that is how I get the Temu orders!!!

On the plant front--I got a second rose plant--

this one is a pale rose color--but I am worried about the red rose one--it  doesn't seem to be doing all that great--???

And I had to throw out my shamrock plant--but boy did I enjoy it while is was healthy and all the little white flowers it displayed--also the purple pansy had to go--but here is the last couple blooms from it--

they are floating in a pretty dish of water--so am still enjoying them!!

On Tuesday I did get to go to my Son's for a nice dinner which my lovely daughter in law made--

we had fresh Salmon, rice, peas, rolls, deviled eggs--and later she made us fresh strawberries with a cheesecake frosting on each one--cute and very yummy!!!

And this little bunny was in my Easter basket--

I did pack most of my Easter things away--but keep out a couple rabbits for Spring decorating and this is one of those  bunnies!!

Well--time to go for now--am in the middle of sorting patterns and filing them--so my bed is full of paper work right now--doing some Spring cleaning!!

ARE YOU SPRING/FALL CLEANING--OR JUST UP TO YOUR WRIST IN DIRT FROM THE GARDENS?????

HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK--HUGS, DI