A Fun Start To The Day.

Hi to all,
I'm still working on my sewing room. It's just going sooo slow. I pulled out all my fabrics this weekend and sorted them on the spare room bed. Here's a pic of the piles.

I've finished putting them away in my fabric cabinet and a chest of drawers that are now both full to the brim. 1 problem. I still haven't sorted the solid color fabrics and can't figure out where to put them for easy access. At least I don't have as many of the solids as I do the prints.

Over the weekend I took what I had on the walls in my sewing room and hung my Prairie Schooler ABC's. No picture yet because no one can see the mess they surround. I will get pictures posted when the room is finished.

A few days ago we awoke to these mushrooms in our front yard. I've been watching and taking pics each day. It's been fun watching how much they change and so quickly. Since they are right out our kitchen window, it has been a fun start to the day.
Pic #1 Day One
Early in the morning.

Pic #2
Later the same day.

Pic #3 Day 2

Pic #4 Day 3
Almost forgot to take the picture today. This was taken after dark.

They are still there but not really changing now. Guess they'll start drying up soon.

I've been stitching on my monthly stitch a long. I've finished August and am working on Sept. I have been stitching on Mermaids a little but not alot of progress there. I pulled my lighthouse sampler out of the rotation basket the other night and am stitching on block #4. There are 9 blocks total. I didn't realize I haven't taken updated pictures of these so will do so for next posting..... It just dawned on me, most everything I'm stitching on are multiples. Houses of Hawk Run Hollow are blocks of 12 house. Light House Sampler blocks of 9. The Prairie Schooler alphabet are 27.(26 letters and 1 extra). Monthly stitch a long, 12. Could it be my OCD????
Until next time, keep stitching.
Deana

Another Sad Day

Monday, Sept 6th,2010 Steve's mom, passed away.
The funeral was Thurs.afternoon.
After my aunt passing the end of April, mom the end of June and now my mother in law, I hope this is it for a long,long time.
It has been such a stressful summer,actually the last year. We have had many good friends that have been there for us with prayers, cards, flowers and visits. We appreciate and are very thankful for all of you.
Steve is going to work tonight so will be sleeping some today, I am hoping to work in my sewing room today. I'm still trying to get it organized with the sewing and quilting stuff from moms. I bought fabric for a really cute Halloween wall hanging about a month ago and have not had the chance to start it. Then I decided if I bought more of the same fabric, I could do an assembly line of 3 of them. One for Angie,Sabrina and myself.
Needless to say I have done nothing since my last post,so the Prairie Schooler ABC's have not been framed,the frames haven't even been assembled or painted yet.
I have ordered a couple of patterns for Needle Delights and think they may come today, I'm excited to receive them. They are the Halloween issue and the Christmas ornament issue of Just Cross Stitch Magazine. The other one is a cute Halloween design called Olga. I can't think of the designer and am too lazy to get up and look at my list, but it's a primitive Halloween cat sampler.
That's about it for today. Hope your weekend is an enjoyable one with some stitching involved.
Deana

A New Look

Good Morning,
After messing with my blog yesterday and this morning, I now have a new look to it. One simple thing, to change the picture at the top of my blog,became a huge ordeal. I tend not to change the layout and such because I always have to fight with it. Does anyone else have the same problem?
Yesterday Steve and I took a nice motorcycle ride around the Mark Twain Lake area with another couple. Stopped and ate lunch at The Rustic Pine restaurant and it was very good. Best onion rings I've ever had. After we got home Steve took a nap since he had worked the night before. I spent some time sorting and ironing fabric scraps I brought home from moms. Since ironing isn't one of my favorite things to do, I set down and did some stitching on my Lizzie Kate August Stamp.
Then just a quickie supper. I cooked a pork roast Friday, so I shredded it, added BBQ sauce, baked a couple of potato's and made stuffed spuds. Add sour cream and shredded cheese. Yum!
I'm really feeling like stitching on something fallish, but keep telling myself, I don't need to start anything new. But I already have everything I need for it, so why not? The last couple of mornings have that Fall feel to them. Maybe that's why.
I really need to work in my sewing room today. I have the frame mouldings we cut down for The Prairie Schooler ABC's that I have stitched. Maybe I'll put the frames together, paint them and get them finished up.
I guess I should start breakfast and wake Steve up so will say TA TA! for now.
Deana

Hi Everyone,
Hope your having a good week. Just one more day and then I have 3 days off. Yipee!
I finished R is for Rabbit the other night so here's a pic of it.

It looks really wavy but it straightens out easily with my hand, just won't stay that way long enough for me to get the picture of it.
We cut down frame moulding the other night so now I think I have 4 or 5 Prairie Schooler ABC's to frame.
Just finished my Stitch A Long for July this morning. After work tonight I pulled together the threads for August. I fell behind after mom passed away. I am hoping to get ahead so if things get hectic during Oct, Nov and Dec. I can have them done before the end of the year.

Steve worked the State Fair Fire Dept. mid August and the fire dept was having a raffle as a fund raiser. Steve bought $20.00 worth of raffle tickets and was the lucky winner of the cute Fire Truck pedal car. You don't know how long I have wanted a Fire Truck pedal car. We have quite a collection of fire dept stuff, so it will be so cute sitting with the it.

Here's a new pic of Sage with one of her many toys. My house looks like it did when the girls were growing up. These "kids" don't pick up their toys either.

And Buddy roaming around trying to find just the right spot to hide his toy. He put it in 3 different places, each time he just wasn't satisfied with the spot so he would go back and get it and try another place. Finally after roaming around for a while, he just gave up and got up on the couch and laid down with it.

And here's Emmie peeking out from under the love seat. She's the only one small enough to get under there. I think she likes to hide to get away from Buddy sometimes when she doesn't feel like playing. The toy in the floor is one of Sage's oldest and most favorite toys. It's a dinosaur I bought for her at a flea market. She chewed the head off, poor thing, and has so much mending done to it.
As you can see it even has had it's fur pulled out. But Sage loves it so much, I just can't bare to throw it away.

After a busy evening, I'm going to go sit down and do a little stitching now.
Have a good weekend and stitch, stitch, stitch.

Deana