I Like What This Has to Say

I don't know where I found this quote - probably on another blog. 

Each of our lives is like a painting and we are the master.

Each day and each act can be another stroke on the canvas.

If our hearts are in the right place, we will create something

of beauty that will touch peoples lives and be remembered.

Robert Duncan

I found this beautiful blog  Lilac Lane Cottage - not a stitchy one - but definitely eye-candy.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Thank you for the comments on my last post.  They mean so much to me. I am so grateful for my stitching and blogging freinds.

Happy July!

Time continues to fly for me this year.  I'm not stitching as much as I'd like but I have many things to show you this time.

So, be warned, there are lots of pictures in this post.  I think that you can double click on the pictures to make them larger.

I finished stitching The 1892 Pledge by Sam Sarah Designs. I received this at the Stitcher's Garden Retreat in 2010. It is pressed and ready for the framer. One of these days I'll mosey on down there.

I finished Make It Do by Heartstring Samplery into a little pillow. It will live in a little trug with its other friends.

Blue Mountain Bunny by The Sweetheart Tree is stitched and ready for finishing into - are you ready - a little pillow.

The pictures that follow are the result of stitching over a couple of years - and languishing in the box of shame for quite some time waiting for inspiration.  I have probably spent more time thinking about how to finish these babies than it actually took me to put the book together.  I have mounted each of these on scrapbook paper and put them into an 8" x 8" scrapbook.  I apologize for the glare on some of the pictures.  I don't know how to correct it. 

January Tea Pot and January Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

January Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

January Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

February Tea Pot and February Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

February Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

February Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

March Tea Pot and March Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

March Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

March Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

April Tea Pot and April Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company (this is on of my favorites - these are mounted on cork)

April Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

April Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

May Tea Pot and May Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

May Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

May Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

June Tea Pot and June Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

June Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

June Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

July Tea Pot and July Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

July Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

July Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

August Tea Pot and August Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

August Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

August Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

September Tea Pot and September Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

September Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

September Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

October Tea Pot and October Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

October Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

October Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

November Tea Pot and November Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

November Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

November Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

December Tea Pot and December Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

December Tea Pot by Just Another Button Company

December Cup of Tea by Just Another Button Company

A picture of the scrapbook in its spot in the kitchen.

Progress on A-B-C by The Prairie Schooler. I am stitching this over one so it's a bit of slow one. I have found the right strength glasses which is making a difference in how fast I can stitch and the amount of stitching I can accomplish in one sitting.

On the health and wellness front, I manage to get in 10,000 or more steps each day.  Regular, i.e. daily, trips to the gym are helping in this respect.  I am losing weight - slowly - but still losing.

I hope you enjoyed today's post and will come back again soon.