RIGHT NOW WE HAVE--SUNSHINE

 and clear blue skies--but for Florida, being the Sunshine state--I sure did not see much sunshine this week!!!!  We had alot of dark dreary days and some rain mixed in!!

It was another bit of a stressful week--I am soooo thankful for my stitching life style and my blog friends--otherwise????????????

I did finally get the heart block from a couple weeks ago done--

But now for the 'story'!!!  First, mine did come out too big--but there is others this big in this line--so it will be ok--Notice, that I put a dash line around the edge--3/4" from edge around all these hearts I have done--think we are on the 36 or so block--so I did that first--then appliqued the heart--got it finished and went on to the this week's heart and happened to look over--and realized--I had appliqued the heart to the wrong side of the fabric and the dash line design--so now the question--do I unstitch the heart or do I take out and  redo the dash line---guess which one I did???   The dash line got redone!!!

then I moved onto the new block--

I love this week's block--now--I have to say--I, also, made a big mistake on this one--I did the tracing of the words on the back side of the fabric--but I couldn't redo that--so the little tulip design is just a bit harder to see--but will be hopefully, ok!!

I also got this week's Country block done--

A pie bird--and here she is with my 2 pie birds--I have had the yellow one for a very long time--in fact it was probably my Moms--so it's old--but the black one is a new reproduction one, I'm sure!!  I did not realize the yellow beak on the black pie bird--so may redo this one--then again??????????????

Here is the new counted cross stitching project I am working on--

I have gotten more stitched on this since I took the photo--the kitty's head is in now!!  Wonder if 'Di" will get this done by this Halloween??

I did some work on the counted cross stitching wall hanging--

Step one is done--the lace between the rows--now on to step two---

And I have gotten some hand quilting done on the bird panel--

Plus I did get a Sunbonnet Sue designed--that I am using Christmas Plaids for the outfits, almost done-the first one--have a 2nd one all cut out to applique--and waiting on more plaid prints to come in the mail--

and talking about the mail--I ordered a plant stand from Amazon for only $33--that came this week--and I got it all put together allll by myself--it's taller that me--and it is very sturdy!!

I got it so I would have a place to use my things for holiday/seasonal decorating--I have no shelves on the walls-- cause my walls are full of quilts!!!--as the shelves are just wires--I knew I needed to find something to put on the shelfs to put the displays on--I somehow--discovered thin canvas painting boards that came 3 to a package for under $4 at Walmart--and they will be perfect--NOW--I just need the decorating fairies to come along and decorate them--I am just not good at that---!!

I did get the new fall table covering on the table in the kitchen and did decorate it--

Well sorta decorated--who knows if it will stay this way??????

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Trauma--still--when  you have lived in HUD senior housing for 22 years--you do start to lose your patience with people--especially those in charge--who are getting paid good money to take care of and handle the 'larger' jobs in living within the building--but they treat us like we are all dumb, stupid, and unimportant--they are here to just put in their hours and then collect their nice big checks and go home to their nice houses--!!!  This week for me it was air conditioning woes--on Thursday morning I woke to mine making all kinds of loud noises--so called the front office--well--one of maintenance men did come up-Merit--and of course the a/c was between cycles so 'no' noise--could he stay a minute and wait for it to turn on so he could hear it--nope--but--he did take it out and looked it over--that is good--only--it did not take care of the problem--so Friday morning I call again-again he came up--between cycles and he was 'mad'--finally said he would change it out-but wouldn't guarantee the next one would be quieter-- but again he  did not really hear the noise--so he had no idea how loud it was--he did change the unit out--took all of 10 minutes--and he left in a huff and still angry!!  What can I say--I am grateful to have a place to live and not be on the street--cause if I couldn't live in a HUD housing project I would be one of the homeless souls who the ride the bus as I have very little income--so I will just whine now and then and go right on quilting and knitting in between rants--thanks for listening!

BE GRATE THIS WEEK OF WHERE YOU LIVE--AND WHAT YOUR HOBBIES ARE--

HUGS AND BLESSINGS, DI