Just some quick posting to update this weeks happenings.
Last night we got about 3" of rain (so I hear).Lots of flash flooding this morning. A whole list of road closings on the radio this morning as I was getting ready for work. Since I'm not quite 3 miles from work I don't have to deal with any of them. But I did get a surprise when I got home from work tonight.
The basement leaked in the family room. Steve came in from work this morning and found it. He spent a good amount of time this morning moving furniture and wet vacing the carpet. Then after he left tonight I put in an hour with it.
We have a dehumidifier and fans blowing on it now. Hopefully we can get it dried out quickly. Everything from one side of the basement is now piled up on the other side.
It has the dogs total confused.
The weather channels are calling for rain off and on for the next several days, so I might as well leave everything where it is and keep the wet vac close by.

I don't have any new pics tonight. I have stitched the last couple of nights on The Prairie Schooler, N is For Nest. I don't have much more to do, but since it is one of my rotation pieces I keep by my chair in the basement, no stitching on it for a few nights. I think I'll go upstairs and stitch a little on Houses of Hawk Run Hollow or Quaker Christmas. I really need to be in my sewing room working on the organizing I have started. But that's no going to happen.

I think it's time for a soda, sofa and stitching.
That's it for now.
Deana

Sunny Saturday

It's a Sunny Sat. morning and the weather is great. I had planned on going to Columbia to look for my screen tent to put on the deck, but since the weather is so nice, I decided to stay home, work in the yard,(which I have already been doing today)and enjoy the outside. It may rain tomorrow, Monday and Tues. and I have a ton of work to do outside. This is just my few minutes to cool down and take a break.
I took another picture of Wayward Garden. The first one I took the other day was too blurry to post.

Here's a close up of the $2.00 frame I found at the flea market. A few dings but not really noticeable. I liked it.


I also took a pic of the Christmas House ornament I finished this week.



I emailed Steve the picture of his motorcycle from my last posting, to him at work the other night and he wanted to know if I could see the ghost rider. I didn't know what he was talking about. But after he showed it to me, it is pretty weird. That a look at the picture I have posted of his motorcycle and the round chrome thing just under the gas tank looks like a face looking at you. If you can click on the pic to enlarge it, you really can see it.

This will be a short post for now. I may be back later today with more.
Time to get busy outside again.

April 22.2009

This has been a beautiful spring day....Finally! The whole week is suppose to be like today. I love it! I worked outside tonight raking Sweet Gum pods up in the front yard. Cut 2 bushes down that I didn't like and picked up at wagon load of sticks. I still have 2 flower beds to clean out. The weather just hasn't been nice enough to work outside. It's either cold, wet, or windy.
April 12th was our 34th wedding anniversary and Steve said he was taking me to pick out a new patio set along with a screen tent for our deck that I have really been wanting. We found the patio set that I liked but have been having trouble getting the screen tent that I want. I found the one I really like at Menards but they had sold all they had in stock, even the display. They said we would have to check back. Well, when Steve called this week they had received 2 more in and they were sold. I'm going to do some more shopping around, and hopefully find one I like this weekend. I don't want the new furniture outside without the screen over it, so it's all setting in our living room.
Steve bought a motorcycle this last Friday. He had been wanting one for a good while and had been looking around and finally found one he liked. We went to pick it up a couple of hundred miles from home and hauled it back in the back of his truck. As luck would have it, it rained all day Sat. and Sunday so he couldn't do anything but unload it and put it in the garage. He rode it to work tonight for the first time, to show the guys at work.


Now for stitching.
I finished stitching my Christmas House ornament last night. It will go in the finishing pile. I started Quaker Christmas and have been stitching on it a little here and there.

I added some projects to my rotation. And have updated my list.
I also framed Wayward Garden from The Drawn Thread, that I finished stitching last year. I was in the right place at the right time for the frame. Steve and I stopped by a couple of antique/flea markets when we were shopping for the patio funiture, and I found this frame at one of the shops. I think it looks really pretty with the design, and the best part....it cost me $2.00. Actually cost me $1.00 because I found a dollar bill on the floor in one of the isles.
Well, after looking at the picture I took of Wayward Garden, I see it is way too blurry to post tonight. I will take another one in a day or two and post it then.
Here's a new pic of house #6 of Hawk Run Hollow. It's a little blurry too, or my eyes can't focus tonight. But you can still tell how far I am.

That's it for tonight. I will post a few more pics that I want to get in a few days.
Thanks for stopping by.
Deana

It's Been Awhile

It's been a while since I did any posting, but I do have some finishes. The last couple of weeks we have been busy and just can seem to find time for everything that I want or need to do. I did finish Carriage House Samplings,Fall Gifts. I also finished a small easter easel just in time for easter.


I also thought since my blog is new, I'd go ahead and post some pics of other Easter projects I'm stitched in the past few years.
Here's a bunny pillow I made a couple of years ago.

This is a farmer bunny that was my very first stand up. I took a finishing class. I don't really like making them, the bottoms are a little bit harder than I'd like, but I still make them occasionally.

And the last of my Easter pics. Another stand up.

Last but not least, I finished house #5 on Houses of Hawk Run Hollow.

I am now back stitching on the Christmas house ornament in my rotation. Still stitching on Summer Blue during our Thurs. night stitching group. And stitching house #6 when I'm upstairs in the livingroom. I couldn't wait any longer so I started Quaker Christmas from By Gone Stitches. I'm hoping to finish it for this Christmas, but not going to hold my breath.
Until next time....
Deana

My First Biscornu

I was so excited to get this finished to show off. It's my first biscornu and it was so easy to make. I was a little nerves about the assembly part but aside from just being slow stitching the edges together, it was very easy. I really want to start another one but I need to work on some other finishes first.

I stitched it on bone Jobelan, using Jenny Thompson flower thread.

Last weekend I decided to stitch upstairs in the livingroom on Fall Gifts from Carriage House Samplings. I have gotten to the point of just filling in the last 2 pumpkins, so I'm on a mission to get it done before moving onto Houses of Hawk Run Hollow. It's kind of boring just filling in the two pumpkins but I am so close to being done that I have stitched as much as I can. Hopefully in a couple of nights I will be able to post the pic of the finished piece.

Tomorrow is our weekly stitch night in Columbia and I haven't decided wither to take it along to work on or just take something small.

We have not been able to let Emmie go out on the deck because she is so small she goes thru the spindles of the rails and jumps off the deck. So last Sunday we bought some small wire and Steve stapled it around the inside of the deck. The weather has been nice enough this week to let all 3 of the girls out on the deck.
They love to lay out there when the sun is shining and Emmie has discovered the flower pots with nothing but dirt in them. They will have to be relocated for this summer or she will have everthing dug up.
Also here's a pic of Emmie and Molly playing in the livingroom.


That all for now. Sage is laying on our bed whining for me to come to bed. Boy, it's bad when the dogs tell you when it's bedtime.

Spring Has Sprung

Monday night when I got home from work, Steve had grilled salmon, mushrooms and fresh asparagus on the grill. It was really good. He had bought a pair of cedar planks at Bass Pro and was eager to try them out. With adding a salad we were set for a really nice dinner and I didn't have to do anything.
Tues. We had tickets to the Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden tour that was in Columbia. Our 2 daughters surprised us with tickets as an early Mothers Day/Fathers Day gift.
The concert was great. If you like the Eagles, I suggest you go. It was even better than I thought it would be.
After 4 hours of sleep on Tues. night, I went to bed at 8:30 Wed.night.
Yesterday was my Friday off work so I started it out full speed. Steve was leaving on his annual weekend snagging trip with 3 of his fiends, so after they were off, I started laundry,did some cleaning, then I started working on adding some freebie patterns that I had printed, to page protectors and putting them in my 3 ring binder I have for Freebies. By noon it had warmed up enough to head outside.
I had cleaned up the front yard a couple of days back in Feb. when there was a warm spell,but the back was the part I'm not really trilled about starting. It's big and the flower beds take alot of time to clean out.
The daffodils are up and starting to bud along with the Hyacinths. I love this time of year, when things are budding and greening up. Finally, some color.
I worked for 4 hrs and then my back said it was enough. I did get alot cleaned up but didn't get finished by no means. I still have 2 large beds by the deck to clean out. A small one by the back door, and the leaves have really piled up this winter around the Lilacs. After coming in the house I took a couple of Advil and that along with my allergies I wasn't feeling so well. I think the Advil upset my stomach, and the last 2 times I worked cleaning up leaves, I wasn't feeling to good a little later. I'm starting to think it's my allergy to mold. I have shortness of breath, coughing and just a general feeling of the blahs....
Also, I had planned on getting a load of dirt today for leveling up the yard in places but this morning is looking a bit like rain. The forcast calls for spotty showers but I'm not sure wither to go get the load or wait until next weekend. Guess I'll see what the day brings.
Last night I finished the cross stitch part of my biscornu and started the backstitching for the assembly part. I'm excited to start that portion, since this is my 1st biscornu.
I need to decide what to do today. I really want to get some stitching in today too. I was looking at some x stitch blogs and I can't believe how fast some can get their projects stitched. I wish I could stitch faster and longer. There is so much I want to stitch.
I better get busy now.

Last Wips Pics

Last night I forgot about taking a pic of my pretty stitch counters I bought in
Tulsa. And now that I loaded pictures I took a little while ago, I just remembered the acorn magnet I also bought. Well, that will be for the next photo shoot.
Here's the stitch counters along with some beads I bought at the bead shop. The little turtles are closinase. (I'm sure I got the spelling wrong but I'm a stitcher not an English teacher. I had a idea of using them on a biscornu sometime.
I don't even have a pattern but I couldn't resist them since I love turtles.



Also Summer Blue which I'm not stitching in blue. This is my Thru. night stitching project I only work each week when we meet. It's going so slow that I'm thinking of rotating it so that I can make more progress at home on it and work on something else for a while on our stitch night.











Here's a picture of Emmie playing with her plastic easter egg. And another of her helping me with loading the dishwasher.