June 27 2014

Hi everyone!

It's been awhile since I have been writing I have been taking a step back from everything these past few months.  It has been nearly a year now since Grandma has been gone and I have really felt it  these last few months.  It's time now to shake myself up and get on with life. so my new promise to myself is to try and do something different each week  whether it is read a book ( have a lot on shelf waiting!)  or work on a different craft again but each week I will make myself get up and  actually DO something.

I have been working on cross stitch patterns lately and have completed a few. This is a new craft for me  and I think I have gone overboard on stocking up on kits!!  I sure won't fun out anytime soon!!! 

We have had so much rain lately I'm surprised we have gotten anything done around here but My son and his girlfriend Ronakay  have managed to work some more on the  ponds in the front and also put in a large vegetable garden in the back yard. We started out with plants in pots but he decided he wanted to make a better garden so  they did!!  I don't think they realized what hard work it would be!!!LOL  now they know why we had pots!!

We saved a baby goose from the pen the other day the adults killed the others they had again this year but we found this one before they could stomp it . It is now in a kennel in the sitting room until it gets bigger hopefully Kyle will get it a home like he promised or we will be back to four geese to care for. Ronakay named it Aflac  so it will probably end up being a family member!! Maybe it will get along with the chickens instead of the geese pen!!  We used to have two duck that thought they were chickens so I suppose the goose will do the same!

We have been looking into getting new a/c and heat system later this year and a roof next year  I think it will take a bit of saving to get it done but hopefully it will  get done  before June of next year!!  We have decided to go with a new system that is ventless so we can close off all the floor vents in the house and seal them up. Ever since we had Mr snake come visit I have been paranoid about the vents in case something comes in through them!!  We saw these systems on the D.I.Y shows where they re model peoples homes the comments from others that have them seem to be good so here's hoping.  The roof is a perma roof  and is meant to have a lifetime warranty after it is installed.  Hopefully we are doing the right thing upgrading what we already have instead of getting a new note for a new house to be built.  We got kind of nervous about building when there is only maybe 15 or so more years until Hubby can retire the list of what ifs scared us so repair and upgrade is the new motto for now!! 

Well not much else now so I had better go now that I have bored you all!!  July is just around the corner need to get going and start on x-mas gifts!!   Can you believe it's that time already?  This year has flown.

Jennifer

January 6th 2014

Morning everyone!

It's COLD here today!! at least for us it seems cold I wouldn't want the snow some of you are getting!! My snow shoveling days are over!!

I am planning on a quite and slow year this year craft wise.( note I said planning!)  I have started making cross stitch  pictures  and doing some embroidery again.  I have  few projects lined up  I decided that I wanted to work on things that I have been wanting to do but have been saving for later I guess it seems like later has gotten here at last!

1. Wish by Red Brolly

2. Winter in Bog Land by Ellies Quiltplace

3. Love Entwined by Esther Aliu

4. Dear Jane

5. Shabby Roses Home by Jenny of Elefantz

6. faith in friends  in homespun magazine ( I believe the designer is  Lenna Green of Little Green Cottage)

7. Henrietta Whiskers by Bunny Hill Designs

8.Miss Kringle "Jingle" Quilt by Erin Russek

9.  finish embroidery table cloth

10. put together witch wall hanging

11. finish putting together crochet squares into afghan


I hope to have most of these done by the end of the year but  we will see.!!

I have to limit my swapping this year if I want to get all this done  as you can tell most of these patterns are hand applique  or embroidery so I will be trying to finish watching all the star trek shows this year as well I have made it up to season 4 on star trek deep space nine then  I think voyager is the next show after I watch all of the other seasons of DS9  . 

Here is a picture of the first block for Wish quilt

1st cross stitch this year

second cross stitch this year

chest of  drawers Husband made me for x-mas!

bedside table he made for himself.!

Well I hope you all have a great 2014  with plenty of  good health and  prosperity .!

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well I hope you all have a great 2014  with plenty of  good health and  prosperity .!

12.4.13 cont.

Awful Awful afternoon yesterday..   I had a nap in the afternoon and heard a comotion in the front of the house  went to see what was going on and  sitting in the middle of the klitchen floor was




          A SNAKE!!!!!!!




Can you believe it I like to have died right then.   I never knew I could scream so much in my life!!!  I can laugh about it now I managed to get the dogs locked up but not the cats they were hunting it    

I wasnt sure if it was poisunous or not all I saw was black about 14 inches long    I managed to get on the center counter  and called  every man I knew around the neighbourhood to come help and only got 1 response. My friends husband drove right over but when he got here he couldn't find it  so he left me!!

HE LEFT ME!!!!

Thank God for my son he was already at work and had to come all the way home 3/4 hr drive one way  he gets here comes in the house  says he had to use the bathroom first then he would find the snake. walks towards the hall and picks up the snake!!!!      

It was  like it was waiting for him!!    Turned out to be his  snake that he hand raised outside when it was hurt (had the scars on him not that I looked !!)     I dont know how it got in the house though  that thing is old at least 6-7 yrs      

This weekend the house will be gone over with a toothcomb and any and all air gaps or holes blocked off!!!

so that was the rest of my day yesterday!!!!!!

today I keep looking at the floor where I walk and checking chairs   it will take a while to get over this!!!

12.4.13

Hello everyone!! 

The last month of the year!!   I sure hope next year goes smoother for many of us!!I think we all deserve a year with a lot less stress.lol

sal  2013 finished(couldn't get it to go the right way but you can get the idea!)

Well I have been working away on the UFO list and actually got a few finished.  my list for this year was 38 items and I have about 4 items left on the list!!!  not bad  if I would stop making new ones it wouldn't be so many!! Oh well there is always tomorrow....

angel quilt back

angel quilt front

plenty of fish quilt quilted

oriental quilt (moms keepsake material)

oriental quilt back

shabby rose cottage bom

block book front

block book back

block book inside pattern from elliesquiltplace.com

shabby roses cottage bom

ufo quilt done

shabby roses cottages by Elefantz.com

I have started  working on the wish quilt by redbrolly as well I have saved the patterns for awhile  and it was top of the list for 2014 but started it now.










well  I need to go and get some more cleaning done before the repair man gets here. Our satalite box  needed replacing  but I couldnt get it to program when I got the new one in the mail so they had to send a  tech to fix it for me!! they had to come the past saturday to fix my sons as well in his room should have done both when they were here but they said they couldnt as new box was shipped to me.!! I guess this way they get paid twice at least I have the repair plan on my  bill so I won't get charged!!

Hope you all have a great week 

Blessing for a great Holiday season  to you all.

Jennifer

11.20.2013

Morning,

I can't seem to access Blogger anymore so hope this  blog post will actually work.

I haven't done much craft wise lately  I have been actually reading books!!!  I finally got my new glasses  and boy what a difference they made. I have really enjoyed catching up on some of my books that I have been saving.

I have been working on cross stitch and also my cover for the block book.  I need to get some more things done but just been lazy.!!

Here is the November sal done . I have gotten half of Decembers done then only the  group letters to be done after that.

this is the kitchen after Ronakay painted the bottom cabinets for me!! now just to get the floor re done and it will look better again for a few more years!!

well I am having trouble getting  pics posted on here so I will go now and hope you all have a great week.!!

10.29.13

Hi everyone,

It's been a long time since I have blogged. I have been playing lurker on my favorite sites but other than that I pretty much was keeping to my self . I really think it was just this time of year a lot of memories and thoughts the  last while  .

Any how    I have been watching too much HGTV programing !! I decided to give my kitchen a spruce up  we usually get major things worked on thanksgiving holidays and x-mas holidays so this year as we are still waiting for the home to be relevelled and re blocked
I got the paint to re do the bottom cabinets and picked out the tiles for the floor after that is all done my kitchen should be good for another 5-10 yrs!!!Oh and I picked out the vent a hood to replace the old one that is there. We might get the hallway walls paneled  at x-mas time it only need about 5 pieces to  do it but  hubby will have a lot of trim work to do with the wood to make it flow with the livingroom.  Ronakay is doing the painting for me and she said she will do the hall doors as well  I will be so glad once the inside is completed. 

Hubby made me a window seat box the other week for the living room it now holds my quilts for winter so we don't have to dig in the closet.  we thought the little dogs would like it better as they would have more room to sun bath but no they wouldn't go near it so we had to move it to the other side of the room and re assemble their old ledge setup and put it back!!   still have the windows to replace in the living room but at a stand still until leveling is done so hopefully next year we will get all the windows done in the house at one time instead now. It will be a big project you have to have at least 4 windows to replace for them to come out to get the better deals so we will get the small bathroom ones replaced as well to make up the numbers.

Hubby is taking off work on monday  for the Drs for us again need to get prescriptions re done Have an appointment for the vet in the afternoon to get the rest of the dog shots done as well that will be another year completed.  Hubby broke his work glasses the other day so he will go  on Wedensday next week to get glasses  for home and work I will have to hold off again I think as I  doubt we can afford both of us but we will see.

I have been working on hand sewing now as I  seem to have lost the  mood for quilts or at least large ones!!
I have been getting the cover for a block book embroidered   and also working on a cross stitch of the month. I have Octobers nearly done and the patterns for the Nov and Dec waiting.

  I think I got carried away when I  got into the cross stitch for a hobby I bought too  many kits that I liked. thought I would get enough for next year but I think I have enough for the next few years!!  I still have some more to pay for and  receive I ordered them  already I should get a nice group of them by next week. 

Well now that I have bored you all I will go  hope you all have a great Halloween !!

Many Blessings!!

wip 9.11.13

Hi everyone,

I have been  taking a break from crafts for a while while I sorted my life out a bit better.
Some of you might have recalled my posts over  the last years about my Grandmother in Scotland. I was always sending her photos of projects and telling her about what I was doing every day it made her happy to hear of what we we were all doing . She passed away a couple of weeks after her last sister  so it has been a very hard month this past one.  I still jump for the phone at different times thinking it is her calling. I know this will get better over the time but her passing is still very raw.

I put my  mind on the  ufo's I had sitting around that had easy sewing so I could loose myself in  the machine that worked real good to get me by the first few weeks I ended up putting 4 quilts to be finished !! I only have a couple more to get done  I believe I now only have about 6-8 ufo's left !!  these are some of the smaller ufos I completed. I will post pics of the bigger ones later.

I decided this past week to just sit and read books I have not sat and read for such a long time I forgot how relaxing it is to loose oneself in a story.  My husband  made me a nice bookcase and table to sit by my chair for the football season.

  I bought a lot of cross stitch kits (hope I enjoy doing the cross stitch!!) and I sorted all my sewing room and the drawers I have stashed all around It was nice to have all the  smaller material back on the shelves I had more than I thought I had!!!

We also replaced the couch in the living room finally on labor day weekend  we got a sleeper sofa so we could pull it out to lay on and watch tv and to sleep on if we have another hurricane.  the quilt ont he back is a ufo finished as well it was actually my mothers ufo pillows that I took apart and made into a quilt instead these were the reason I first started quilting at the local bee!! it only took me  over 12 years to do them!!!

I I have been sitting outside a lot more in the mornings and letting Gizmo run with the other dogs it is so peaceful out in the front listening to the birds first thing. 

I made a block of the month yesterday but this morning I realized I had messed up the block placements but I still liked it so I left it alone!! 

I also finished my  farmers daughter  block this is the last one that has been posted for awhile. The poor lady lost her house in the floods.

Well I will go now and hope you all have a great week!!

Blessings!!