Swap Goodies -Thank you!

Good Morning!  

I have been pretty busy at the garden center and I need to thank these 2 fantastic ladies who I was in primitive swaps with!

Thank you Elie for these fantastic goodies!! I got a great candle wrap with yo you flowers SO CUTE!! and you see the little candle mat and coasters, they are garden themed!  Perfect!  and of course some flower sticky pads and bookmark!  Thank you so much -- you were very generous! I have put everything out and it looks great!!

This swap is from Cyndi - the box was full of goodies!  I love the Americana doily I have that in my entry way that is all done up in Patriotic stuff.   A very cute flag and of course I love the lady but and the stars OH MY  I LOVE IT ALL!!  Thank you -- and she knows I have a candle in every room so I love the star candle mat!  you did not put your email on the note so I am sending you thank you card via mail -- I apologize for not emailing you. 

Well that is about it for now - tomorrow  I will show you 2 more swap boxes I rec'd yesterday from Linda - thank you Linda - but I am running a bit late this morning

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

May Schnibbles

Good morning!

I love to make the Schnibble of  the month, but I only had 7 days off this month so time did not allow me to make the entire quilt, but I have a really nice candle mat ready to quilt -- I did enlarge the block a bit and I just love the Red White and Blue theme.

  

Can't wait to see what the new pattern for June is!  The garden center will be slowing down a bit in June so I will have more time to sew, out busiest month is always May.

I was off on Sunday and Monday of Memorial Day weekend, and  Dear Hubby and I went to New Glarus WI for a breakfast buffet at a Swiss/German restaurant, and  the entire town of New Glarus has painted cows around!  So fun!!  So here are some of the neat cows, I love this brown cow, did you know that brown cows are actaully Swiss cows.  

Here is one by where we parked,  love the spotted brown cow!
  

This cow was right in front of the restaurant - appropriately dressed in a Chef outfit!

This one was my favorite!  She was in front of the chocolate shop -- love her necklace of flowers and she had the sweetest face.

  

 After brunch we stopped at Patches and Petals  - it is one of the Quilt Samplers Top Ten this Spring, great shop I got a neat 30's pattern and some 30's fabric there -- you can never have enough 30's I say!

Then after that we went tubing on the Sugar River and that was a 4 hour trip, so relaxing and then ended up back home that night.  A really nice day.

Thanks for stopping by -- I gotta get ready for work!

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Good Morning
Here is my bunny adventure that happened Friday Morning:

Another morning with the bunnies -- this time 3 of them were in the window well -- I went into the laundry room and thought what is that in the window well -- you guessed it -- baby bunnies - 3 of them all huddled together, tried to bring them up with a snow shovel -- that was not working at all! Then I went and got a plastic crate with a lid and some gloves, go back into the basement -- and open the window and see one of the babies has a plastic bag wrapped around it's neck -- now I go get the scissors and cut the bag -- baby bunny is ok -- I put all 3 in the plastic crate and take them outside -- put them in the lawn - one hops away right away -- 2 just sit there, so I get a small bowl of water and some shredded carrots, 1 then hops away in about 15 minutes the other one - who had the bag around his neck is still sitting there by the carrots, I moved him into the shade on a nice soft towel and then right before I left for work I checked on him again and he was hopping around and getting back to normal.  When I came home they were all gone and all the carrots I shredded were gone too, so I know the last one left with a nice full tummy.  Here is the 3 of them in the crate I brought them upstairs in --- aren't they adorable!

 

Off to work today!

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

A day of Gardening

Good Morning!

Yesterday was my last day off til Sunday May 27th -- seems like forever til me next day off, so I had a list a mile long to complete -- I did not get it all done, but I got a lot done, so I very happy.  I have been collecting plants from various plant sales and from the garden center - so they were filling up our snowmobile trailer - first project get everything planted!  I planted some of Dear Hubby's tomato and pepper plants - I think we are up to about 35 tomato plants and 12 pepper plants -- then I planted the herbs in our planting box Dear Hubby made a few years ago, then to get the flowers planted - this took the most time.

Here is my Fresh Flower box I had gotten at a church garage sale -- it does look a bit sparse but those petunias will fill in nicely.
      

 

This was a big project, cleaning up the bird/butterfly garden, I had lots of weeds, so I tilled it and then planted some of my daisys that I started from seed this winter and a new butterfly bush along with some pansys that I moved from the front.  And a few impatiens in the bottom of the bird bath -- then went to the towns Free Mulch pile and brought some mulch  home and put that down.  Looks so much better and the birds are enjoying. 

I had already planted the flower boxes on our front porch and they are looking really nice, my front theme is Red White and Blue - I also painted my little tables for the front red and I have blue paint for some planters for the from (blue) but I did not get those done yesterday so I hope to get those planted either before or after work this week.

 

I did weed the side of the house and split up some coneflowers and of course had the dogs out with me, and they discovered a bunny nest -- I bunny did not survive but the other on is doing well and a full recovery is expected and after that little mis-hap the dogs went back inside "in jail" for an hour to think about their crime. 

Another exciting thing happened yesterday when we were outside we saw 2 eagles soaring overhead, it was just AWESOME!  My dad loved Eagles  - I really felt like he was right there next to me when they were flying over.  

Yes the snowmobile trailer is empty!  So a good day -- but still lots to do before Memorial day weekend.

I did step foot into my sewing room and looked around and planned to be up yesterday afternoon, but it never happened, I had to mow and trim the yard.  So I started working at 7:30 yesterday morning and was drying dished and putting them away at 8:45 PM last night -- glad to be able to go back to work today and rest up a bit!!!

Happy Stitches and Gardening!

Dorothy       

Doggie Garden Stone

Hello

How are you doing?   I have been so busy, as busy as a 1 arm paper hanger!  But things should quiet down a bit after Saturday -- tomorrow is my Garden Clubs Plant Sale and I was publicity chair person, so I have made flyers, signs,  put signs up last night only to find out that 1 of the signs is missing ...ARRGGG

I did go drop of my plants last night too and planted up a couple of planters downtown last night so I did not get a chance to blog.  I got to pick up my stepping stone we made in garden club last month..... here it is -- I just love it!!  It is a dog and 2 flowers -- I can't wait to put it down in the garden, but I am thinking this one might need to be in the front garden so I can see it every morning!    

I am excited because I am going to work 1/2 hour late and I will get to work the plant sale for 1 hour before work, so I am happy I get to do it for that long.  Then I will be working the rest of the weekend. 

Well off to make some flyers for garden club to give away -- at the sale tomorrow.

Happy Stitches!
Dorothy

Busy Day today

hello


What a busy day it was today, first thing this morning I was at Kendra's house from Stone House Primitives and we were going to create a couple of garden benches from old headboards.......

and at about 11 AM we had finished this! What a fun time we had.  She is going to paint it cream and green I think is what we were talking about.  She will either keep it or donate it to our Garden club sale this weekend.

  

I also wanted to make a bench, but I did not have the right kind of headboard, this is the headboard I had gotten  on one of my treasure hunts a couple of weeks ago  - but it had rounded edges and it also did not come with a footboard,  but no biggie I came home and painted it cream and have put it in my garden and I LOVE IT!!  Think I might need to make a sign for it or maybe a grapevine wreath -- I have a few ideas in the works.

 

 

I also planted up so pots that go in my creek side garden and just had a nice afternoon of planting and painting. 

 I did manage to go to town today and stop at the salvation army store and bought a grapevine wreath for 49 cents and the watermelon sign wich I am going to re-purpose  - just use the watermelon I think.  And the vines in the photo are some grapevines Kendra gave me to make a couple grapevine wreaths, I bought the one at salvation army --just in case mine doesn't turn out.

Now I am finishing dinner and then making cookies for the Fairy Garden Class I am teaching tomorrow at the Garden Center

Have a great night and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stitches
Dorothy 

More Planter Chairs

Hello

I have had the past 2 days off and yesterday I ran errands and went to GoodWill -- did not find much except for a brand new pair of Princess Reeboks size 10 for $4.99 --this is what I wear all the time, so CHA CHING I save some big dollars there.  Then I found another thrift shop up the road from GW and it was really upscale but I did find a cute cup and saucer for 50 cents that I made into a bird feeder.

Today was stay and home and get some more planter chairs done, and that is what I did -- well at least until 4 when I went to the local church garage sale that started at 4 today :)

Here are the 2 chairs I got done today, I just need to touch them up a bit in the morning and then I am taking to the garden center tomorrow.  I already sold 1 of my chairs there and I am hoping it will be a busy weekend, and maybe I can sell a chair or 2 more.        

I was going to make this an Americana chair but it just was not working out, so I added the flowers and dots and am pretty happy with it.

This chair I just love, it has red and yellow flowers and the stem ended up so cute curled up at the end. 

 

At the garage sale I picked up this cute planter for $4!  I think I might be able to make some of these - I think I will try next week when I am off, need to get some wood -- don't think I am going to keep it there, I am going to put in on the wicker table next to the wicker chair to the left of the door.  I will take a picture once I get it planted up and the wicker furniture needs a coat of paint this year and new seat cushions. 

I manged to keep really busy today  - it would have been my moms 91st birthday today, I went and put flowers on all the graves yesterday  - so I know she is smiling down.  Tough to believe she is gone 6 years at the end of next month  - Moms are such special people.  Happy Birthday Mom!

I hope you had a busy and productive day

Happy Stitches

Dorothy