Jan 5/18

Blogger is agreeing with me tonight so here are the photos that I tried to upload last night. The first wall hanging was done with the contents of the Janlynn kit.

The second one was stitched on a scrap of Monaco that I had in my stash. I could not find a hanger at our local craft shop but they had these painted wooden craft sticks (20 for less than 3 bucks) so I grabbed a bag of the sticks along with some bells.

The kit did not have any backing material and I felt that the hanger looked unfinished without any backing so I slip stitched the hanger to felt that I cut with my new Olfa cutter (so fun!!). The picture does not show the sparkle in the felt very well. I thought that the sparkle, although hidden unless one has flipped over the piece, gave the hanger a fun element.

Cardinals are my favourite birds and I had several pairs at my feeders and gardens when I lived in the neighbouring province of New Brunswick. They are slowly making their way to this area as I have heard that they make regular appearances in the next town over. I have yet to see one here at my feeder although I think that I may have had a female cardinal at the feeder over the weekend. Some people say that seeing a cardinal means that an angel is visiting you. I don't necessarily believe that, but the romantic in me is not quick to discount it either.

Happy stitching!

Jan 1/18

First finish of 2018!!

I finished this piece while watching one of "The Hobbit" movies this afternoon. Then, we bundled up the dogs and took our puppy to see the ocean for the first time. The dogs had fun running free on the beach and taking a good sniff of the shoreline. Tillie, the puppy, started to shiver so we headed home after about 20 minutes because she had snow and ice hanging off her from running through snowbanks and sea water pools.

We had a quiet New Years Eve and New Years Day in an attempt to recover from the past few months of illness and holidays. The weather is overcast with just enough flurries that we run a shovel across the deck every so often. Several days of flurries are adding up to a decent amount of snow on the ground and making the driving a little interesting.

I hope that everyone is having a good start to 2018! Happy stitching!

Dec 31/17

Some Christmas vacation stitching! A Janlynn ornament on perforated paper. I chose this one because it fit nicely into my suitcase and it should not take long to complete.

Happy New Year and Happy Stitching!