Sh-h-h, I am back

Sh-h-h-h, I am trying to stage a blog come back. You know what I learned about complaining…it can get worse. I thought May was the pits but June was no bed of roses either and now July started off with a bang.
Remember our house guests? My second son, Hugh and his wife Anne, who were [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and I want to wish all Mother’s a Happy Day. May you spend it, doing just what you like to do best. I envy all of you who will have time to stitch, I might get to put a stitch or two in tomorrow evening if I am lucky.
We are celebrating [...]

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It’s May!

Before everyone thinks I have dropped out of blogging I thought I should explain.
It is May!
Unlike Camelot, where everyone frolics in the meadow singing:
“Tra la! It’s May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev’ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
Tra la! It’s here!
That shocking time of year…”
 Blissful is not a word I would use to describe this month; [...]

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March snow

  
 
 
 
I really don’t know why snow surprises me…I have seen snow into April. In fact the very first house we bought, we moved in March 27 or 28th and it snowed April 1…April Fool. We had a window in out kitchen that you could see the back yard and so DH and I built [...]

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P a s s i o n & Scissors

ED Note: This was suppose to post Saturday Jan 31, 2009.
Yesterday while I was glorying in the fact I was semi caught up I took time to stitch and watch Oprah. The subject was: Do what you are passionate about. As I was stitching away, I begin to think about what I was passionate about; [...]

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Changing the header

Yesterday, I decided to change the header of my blog.
The train did have significance and sentiment but only to me and did not reflect this blog. My youngest son had set this blog up for me and this was his choice of a picture. His brother, my second son also works for the railroad that [...]

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Continuation of previouse post

ggu Thomas John
Originally uploaded by sudukc

Sorry about the confussion but I cannot get these pictures to post on WordPress, so I am posting them from my flicker account. This is a pain in the back side since you can only do one picture per blog.
I had not yet stitched my youngers grandson his birth annoucement…and [...]

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Somethings just get lost

I can’t believe that it has been another month since I last posted. I am not very good at this yet but maybe life will slow down a bit and I can get a post in here and again. (ED Note: I also have been trying to post this message for the last five days…I cannot [...]

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My history

 This post camFe about because of two things. First I have been thinking about Sharon B’s challenge for July (http://sharonb.wordpress.com/): “What is it to be at the half way mark? For me three word lead to a mix of ideas. “Half”, “Way” and “Mark” all lead off into interesting directions that can be represented in [...]

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Long May She Wave

 
HAPPY 4th of JULY!
And these are my flags…(L-R) Hanging flag is a Blackbird design…One of the few cross stitch pieces I have done in the past few years. It is done on 32 count linen over 1, mighty small I might add. Two the Point, a great needlepoint & cross stitch shop in Overland Park, Kansas [...]

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