Sunday

Yesterday I put away Christmas.  Today I finally got out my things for January.  Here is what  I put on display.

Monthly Mania - January by Heart in Hand in the kitchen

January Teapot and January Tea Cup by Just Another Button Company in the kithcen

Hearts of the Month by Leisure Arts hanging on the china cupboard in the dining room

Santa of the Month by Curtis Boehringer in the living room

Be Warm by Shepherd's Bush part of Be-Attitudes series in the living room

 

 

Now, for a little stitching.  This afternoon I got the five pockets for A Fine and Fancy Tulip Tray by Patrick's Woods basted.  Thankfully I did not have as many setbacks with the other four as I did with the first.  It may help that I was trying to baste in daylight.  I tried to take a picture again and I think that my basting thread is too light to show up.

We are having freezing rain as I write this.  Yuck!  I must say that it does make the snow look pretty, kind of glossy like marshallow fluff.

One final picture for today.  Twenty-nine years ago I married the love of my life.

Have a wonderful evening!  Remember, Downton Abbey starts tonight at 9:00.

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.