A DAY TO REMEMBER

 For most of us it is a day to remember those who gave their lives so we could have the freedom's we have had --til now--the future is now uncertain these days, it seems.  

I did not lose any family members in the military that I know of--but did lose '2' school male friends to war or ship accidents on the way to or from the battlefield--and I lost '2' good friends who had just signed up to join the Army and was out celebrating and had a car accident on the way home from the celebration--now that was 'sad'.    My father was in WWII and so was one of his brothers--but they made it home.

So--now on to what I did last week--

I got a big project done-- to the layering stage--

This is my Chookshed Challenge for May--I cross stitched these sheep squares a long time ago--probably a good 15 years ago and have finished them at least 2-3 times into a top--only to not like it at all and then unstitched--but this time--it will stay this way, and get quilted and  hung up, some day to enjoy!!!!

This is where I am on the current Counted Cross stitch project--

and this is the area I am working on now--

So this one is moving along--

Now yesterday I did start another cross stitch--for some reason I do not like to have more than one Cross stitch project to work on --but I did start this one--as I have been collecting some Bee themed items for a bit of decor probably in August!!  S000---

Now I will confess here and now-that both the black areas and the gold area's on the bee have 3-4 color changes--but--I am not doing any--my Bee will be just black and gold!!!!????

I got more orange peels appliqued on--

Someone should of called me and told me to count how many 'more' orange peels I would need to do by making this larger-----cause there is alot of them--more than what was done in the centerpiece of this one!!--(I did get more done on this one yesterday while watching the Indy 500)

While looking for a few new yellow fabrics to add some interest to this this I found this small jelly roll--

And I did use 2 yellows from this jelly roll--but look what else I found in this jelly roll??

Look at those Flamingos---now I have to do something with this jelly roll--I have had this jelly roll for a long time!!!!

And for my flower garden--

I believe I got one more done while watching the Nascar race last evening--but forgot to take a photo of it!!!

On Thursday my friend Carolyn and I took a walk--she had told me she had found a cute little sidewalk library the next block over so we went to check it out--

This is soooo stink'n cute--it is painted a bit darker yellow than it shows here--we each picked out a book--

But look at the lady's house who has these--

The Library is just like her house!!!

After this we kept on walking to end of the street and turned the corner and went into Harvest Thyme Cafe for lunch--it looks like a 'tea house' inside--it was a nice relaxing time and some good food--we tried 2 different kinds of French toast-a Strawberry one and a Chocolate chip one--and we shared them--we both decided we actually liked the strawberry one the best--!!!

WELL THINK THAT IS ALL I HAVE FOR NOW--OH I DO HAVE '2' SETS OF FABRIC -- COLLECTED--ONE IS FOR A KIDS/BABY QUILT AND THE OTHER ONE FOR A CHICKEN QUILT--WE'LL SEE IF THE SEWING BUG HITS ME THIS WEEK OR NOT???

TAKE CARE--KEEP PRAYING THAT WE DON'T LOSE ALL OUR RESOURCES TO LIVE ON AND THAT WE CAN AFFORD TO BUY FOOD NEXT MONTH--WE NEED THE FOOD TO KEEP UP OUR ENERGY TO STITCH!!!

HUGS, DI