Easter

It's already April, and Easter, I'm so far behind. But now I'm adding links to Pinterest, so hopefully I can pin some of my own pictures. I'll try anyway.

January, 2012

4 days into the new year, and I made the first valentine. I completely skipped Christmas here, just too busy doing ornaments, and other holiday stuff. Put most of that away, so now have the wire tree bare, and looking for things to hang on it. Started with a heart made of wool, sewed a heart button on it. One down, a few to go, hand sewing, only way to do it to be able to stuff it neatly. I may make them of other fabrics, or colors of wool. I have some red plaid wools that would work. I wanted to get a picture up, so here it is, if I succeed.

October 10, 2011

I'm so behind on my blog, it's painful. I am uploading a picture of my new sweater pumpkins, hand made by me. I have one more to do, and the sweater is gone. I did get more orange clothes to work with, it's getting close to Halloween though, and I'm looking at my boxes of unfinished projects once again. I really should start in January, like the big stores do, planning fall projects, but I'm usually so worn out from the holidays, I don't accomplish much. Maybe this year, I'm not getting any younger, and I may have more time to spend on it. I can only hope.

July 24th, 2011

Today's my Birthdayyyy, Happy Birthday to meeee! 67 and counting.
I want to start over with my "365" project that lasted about 5 days last month. A picture a day, I'm sure there will be one today. I will post later and see how I did.

June 21, 2011

Summer officially begins today, it already has by now, and it's all downhill from here. Don't mean to be negative, but I always think about the days getting shorter again, and we've had such a wet and cool spring, now wet and humid summer coming. I love summer, I was born in the summer, that's probably why I hardly ever wear shoes. Well, in the house anyway.

My header picture here changed now to one of my favorite flowers, the zinnia. It is named "Blaze" and would have grown to 3 feet. It's probably not even available anymore. The seed packet is an original that came out of a catalog my daughter bought at a garage sale several years ago. There were several seed packets in it, no seeds. These were to be shown to store buyers. The company is still operating in Faribault MN, my home town, and I actually grew up on the same block as the nursery. We lived in a corner house from the time I was 3, til I moved out after my wedding day, at age 19. The house was demolished a couple years ago, and now the area is used as a supply yard. I have stories to tell about that place, and I even worked there as a teen and again as an adult. This package is probably from the era of my youth, with it being 35 c. I use many of the seed packets as decor in my house, there are flowers and vegetables.

I now have orange zinnias all around my little garden, and in pots, because I bought 2 dozen of them. I had good luck with them last year, and wanted to have a whole border of them this year. They are called Profusion Orange, are small, grow only to 10-12". I have 4 in one pot, a little tight, but had leftovers, I put the picture above this post. Don't know why, but these flowers remind me of the sun, and the lion's mane. I am a Leo, born in July, and have always favored the sun and the lion, hmmmm. I'm not fierce, and hardly ever roar, but am family oriented and protective.

So, welcome, summer!! I will make it thru with ac and projects to keep me busy, family and friend get togethers, and quiet rides on the lake.

4-1-2011

Happy April! Rain overnite, and some sun forecast for today. Hope so, could use some. I'm almost finished with my sports bear I'm making for a fund raiser. Shameless advertising. But it will go to a good cause. I'm tempted to bid on it myself, and bring it back home. Event is tomorrow. I'll post photos when it's done. Then, on to other organizing, sewing, and spring prep. I'm hoping to get everything out of our storage unit this month, so I can stop paying for that. Will sell, give, throw, and pack away the rest. Some stuff I just can't seem to let go. My little garden is all bare now, and I'm tempted to go scratch around, but there are perennials I don't want to disturb, so that's a good reason to wait. It's wet now anyway. Busy weekend ahead, so will get to it now.

3-21-2011 ~ Soggy spring days

They make me sore in the joints. Well, something is, but I'm happy to have rain and not snow!! Our snow on the south side of the house is gone, and the river is rising. Our spring birds are here, robins, redwing blackbirds, great blue heron. Some odd ducks, like the wood ducks and canvasbacks are on the river occasionally, along with the Canada Geese and mallards. Those ducks have been here all winter.
Well, after a year we're going to go unload the storage unit, don't want to pay that anymore. Stuff it in the garage, re-stack and go thru it, sell what needs to go, and give other stuff away. Just can't keep it all and pay to store it. Losing money on that. It will mean lots of work, going thru all that stuff again. I think I have more wool there, want to make some more bunnies. Use it up, but then, I went and bought more coats. Couldn't pass them up at 33c. each. They are washed and dried, now to cut up and press. I like working with wool, but have a ton of cotton to deal with too.
Today is my dad's birthday, he'd be 102, but has been gone almost 30 years. He died in '81. Miss you, dad.