Complete Joy..

Sweet B had school vacation and her mother who teaches in another district did not. she spent a couple of days with us. We went to the fabric store where I had to slow her down a bit or I would have had to Morgage the house lol. On the way home we went by Chaos and Kindness' venue, so we stopped and had a look around and bought a sweatshirt. Can you tell she loved it!!?

Back to the fabric store, we bought a pattern for a Harry Potter pillow. Now it has been many many years since I have delt with a pattern like that. But we made it! She added the eyes she felt he "looked a bit soulless" her words lol

She has crazy designs skills! She felt the bunnies needed the fabric pieces in the ears and maybe a baby in her pocket! She picked the fabric and buttons. She blew me away!

Here she is with her creations! 

See the duck with the red bow? She drew the pattern and sewed it and came up with a duck! She is 11!

She hand sewed and got on the sewing machine. 

She was getting ready to leave and wondered if she could have space in my closet for a few of her things she would like to come back to?

I love opening my closet and seeing this. 

So now that she is home, and the lovely chatter and busyness is gone from my room I have gone back to hooking. 

Another sneak peek.

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We were in the mid 60's today the wind came up and the temps are dropping like a stone! A foot of snow is in the forecast for Friday. I am ready for spring! But it still is Feb for a little while anyway. 

Have a wonderful week!

Snow Squalls

We had snow most of the day yesterday. It only amounted to a couple of inches the sun came out and we cleaned up. We no sooner got back in the house and the snow squalls started off and on all into the night. 

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My amaryllis has become specular! And speaking of flowers in the winter.  

Today we met our daughter and son in law at the tiny post office to pick up Sweet B. She has a different vacation than my daughter, so we have her for a couple of days yahooooooo!

It is hard to see but this post office has germaniums blooming in the windows and there are curtains at the windows. 

Such a happy little place to pick up your mail. 

Sweet B loves a project, so I had a couple of ideas and off she took.

The start of bunnies as gifts. She is doing a great job on them. We just took some time to look at pintrest. She said but I want to do them all. Lol Yep that is how it is. 

We are going to the fabric store tomorrow for fresh supplies and to see what we can find. 

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We are chilly and windy not a good combination. I am now ready for spring we are in the last full week of Feb and our temps go up and down all the time now. So, I say time to move on to spring. 

Have a wonderful week.

Quiet Mornings

I like to get up early in the mornings sometimes I catch a sunrise but mostly I like the complete quiet.

I only turn on the lights that are completely necessary. 

I get the coffee maker already before I go to bed so just a flick of a switch and I have coffee brewing. I go back to work today after my 3 days off. I like my job, but I love being home. 

I was able to walk yesterday. My same old route. The dirt road turned into mud last week from the warm temps, but we went back into the deep freeze so lots of ruts some ankle deep. The past 2 days have been so cold and lots of wind making the air temps well below zero. But in the next couple of days a warmup is coming it will be up in the 40s. A nice rest for our woodstove. 

The lines for the maple sap are just waiting for the right time to run. warm days, cool nights. Yesterday when I walked it was so cold, I could hear the trees snapping from the sap freezing in the trees. 

I am still working on my new rug another sneak peek. This is a smaller cut than I usually do but also a much smaller rug than I usually do. I am also trying to use mostly strips from my extras basket. 

 There are 5 of us that usually go to Star Island each year. We have not been together for 2 years. 3 of us went to Star last year but just not the same. There are small plans for a gathering. Not for months yet but it does my heart good to at least talk of plans. 

My sweet friend gave me an amaryllis for Christmas I think it is blooming at the perfect time. Just when you are getting a bit sick of winter and need a little lift. 

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I have lingered enough time to hit the shower and get ready for another day. Have a wonderful day!

It Makes Scents

My sweet friend from Vermont sent all of us that go to Star Island together a valentine. The backing is from some of the old woven seats of the amazing rockers on their porch. I guess they sold pieces in their gift shop I missed it, but she made great use of it. 

I had a quilt block that I never did anything with. I gave it to Sweet B (my grand) and she used it to make a heart for her cousin for her birthday. She hand stitched it picked the button and filled it with lavender. She said her cousin loved it and now the whole family wants one. Lol she comes next week for a couple of days looks like we will be busy. 

I finished hooking my fish now for the binding. 

A little sneak peek of my next rug. I did a lot of tweaking to this rug pattern. It was a paper pattern and I felt it needed more. I will show you more soon. 

I think a lot about scent. Scent can be one of our earliest memories. 

I love lavender and spay liberally. My rug hooking room smells of lavender. I have dried lavender and candles. It just makes me happy to walk in and smell that. 

At Christmas we had grandparents who sent us gifts and one year one set forgot to put tags on them. My sister and I both immediately smelled our gift and told our parents it was our dad's parents. He looked at us like we had lost our minds. But everything she gave us smelled of roses. Oh, and so did she lol. 

We were little and still we associate that with her. 

I also burn a candle every night after dinner. I want to get the food smell out of the house. It makes me feel like dinner is done and cleaned up time to relax for the evening. 

Not sure anyone else feels this way but there is an awful lot of money spent on things that smell good.

Well, I will leave you with this the sun was setting, the sky was dark except for one spot the sun came through. The church steeple and the clock tower for the college was all that was shining. 

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Super bowl Sunday I am going to make homemade pizza. I am tired of paying 11.00 for a small cheese pizza! Oh, the prices but that is another post. 

Our wonderful Patriots are not in the game, but we will still watch. 

Have a wonderful week!

Sweet B

Old Phil saw his shadow in these parts 6 more weeks. I hope Phyllis is right he lied. 

And then there is this old wisdom. It was bright and sunny for us so she must have gathered lots of firewood. 

We have been very snowy this past week a storm on Sat that really hit the southern part of our state and a mess on Friday we had to shovel sleet! at least an inch of it. with about 8inches of snow on top. so heavy and wet. Nothing brewing in the next 5 days, but it has been very cold again. 

We got a weekend visit from Miss B our grand, so I spent some time in my wool room pulling out lots of things for her to create with. 

And here she is in her glory. she loves stitching. I will show you more, but she made presents so I have to wait until after valentine's day.

We also made walnut boxes.

when you opened them, they had bits of fun in them. this one had bits of fabric and lace. with a necklace we made from acorns I had. We cut fun things from card to roll up and stick in too. 

It was so nice to have her to have her here, she is a delight and so creative. 

Have a wonderful week!

A Pain In The Foot...

We are all signed up for the backyard bird count Feb 13th and 14th

We are officially old!

I pulled out my needle punching. This was all done but the finishing. Now it is finished. This is only my second piece. It is very rough but

it is done time to move on. 

Not really sure this is my thing, but I have this kit from who knows where and I will finish it and then decide from there if needle punch is for me. 

My fish from my rug school. I started to do the background in blocks. I did not like the look, so I am mixing it up much better to my eye. This is a good size rug I will put it in our upstairs bathroom.

So, I am sure as you have all heard we got a snowstorm here in the East. Well, we are north, and it didn't amount to much here but of course I baked bread. 

I have had a couple of health blips nothing life threating it just had to be taken care of and that meant antibiotics. 3 different kinds! I was feeling very sorry for myself. And then it happened my calf hurt and then my foot hurt so much I could not walk on it. I sat down and had myself a think. Just when you think you have it bad the universe gives you a kick in the foot. So truly what every you believe or what your faith is sometimes it gives you something to think about. I am very thankful for that hurt foot and time to think. Life is pretty good for me and my family. And by the way it is back to good. I am back to walking my 3 miles and doing yoga. 

We are pretty cold so the fireplace has been a blessing, not sure you can tell but the snow was flying out that window when I took that picture. Yes, my life is pretty wonderful

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Have a wonderful week!

So I Had This Idea...

To say we have been cold is an understatement. 

The fishing derby and pond hocky will have plenty of ice to play on.

One of the days we had wind chills -30 to -40 brr I never left the house!!

While not the beauty I usually see at sunrise it still is pretty.

Husband has been tucked away in his heated shop. It makes me smile to look out and see the lights on in his shop. He is keeping busy just trying to get through this winter and this stuff.

And because I have been on the computer way more than I should have I got 4 new patterns in the mail this week. YiKes! (More on those another time)

So like I said I had this idea. I have lots of Christmas patterns and thought to myself. You do not have much for valentine's day. Soooo

I did this! Kind of crazy but we hang wooden hearts in our windows and that made me think why not?? And do I have a style?? Do you see the moon? It was not in the original pattern just like my fox rug I just finished I had to add a moon. 

Miss B has been learning hand stitching in school (yeah for the art teacher!) And she loves it, so she made a pillow at home on her own. How I love her choice of fabric and how proud she is of her work. Oh, B how I love that face!

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My friend and I got out for about 3.5-mile hike today. We got to the top and no view the trees had grown in ugg. But still so good to get out in the chilly air and move.  

We have not gotten to at least 32 since we started the cold snap. today I think it got to 20 degrees, but the sun was shining which made the difference.

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Have a wonderful week and if you are in the north stay warm.