Monthly Archives: May 2016

Another Rainy Day and Week

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, to you all! Yes, the rain has started up again. And, it’s forecast through the weekend, maybe even longer. It’s all good; I am ready! Boy, this has been such a wet and cool spring! Yesterday was dreary, but no rain, so I was able to get some outdoor photos of our yard. I am so glad I took the time outside with my camera yesterday; it was probably my only chance!

This weekend the many crabapple trees on our property came into bloom. We have white and pink trees. The pink are a challenge to photograph on a darker day, but you can get an idea anyway. While taking these photos of our crabapple trees I was immersed in their scent which reminded me of my childhood as we always seemed to have crabapples trees growing in our yard.

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I took the photo below of our apple tree. It has very few blossoms on it, so I guess that means not too many apples this fall.

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Miss Feral Kitty is waiting patiently for me to finish with my photography, so I can go around front and feed her her breakfast. Notice the flick of her tail, so cute.

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This is last year’s nest that a mommy and daddy robin used to raise three babies.

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Okay, another mystery . . . anyone know what this shrub is called? These flowers are incredibly tiny, maybe 1/4″ or so. I cannot smell any scent from the flowers.

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Another shot to give you an idea at how forget-me-nots spread every year. Origninally, I had planted one packet. This is only one tiny area of them. Luckily, they are easy to pull.

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The latest news from my sewing room is that I did get Patience’s dress remade yesterday, and it is now perfect. Yay! I’ve been dyeing pieces of Lycra knit that will be used for tights, socks, and panties while writing this blog post, so now I’ll have four pieces of different pinky shades to choose from. It seems I use shades of pink or white more than any other color.

Bye for now! Wishing you all a great day!

Busy!

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Oh, my goodness, what a packed full weekend! When there is too much to write about, I don’t, sorry. I should have been posting all weekend . . . so very sorry to neglect you all.

I hope all of you moms that celebrate Mother’s Day had a wonderful day filled with happy times and maybe a little pampering. I started a load of laundry yesterday morning and the clothes magically got put away. My husband and daughter gifted me with a new Kindle and a bunch of red orange tulips. I’ve been wanting a Kindle for reading library books; I think I’ll really like it and use it all the time (that is when I’m not sewing, knitting, embroidering, or crocheting, etc.) LOL!

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I always get asked what I want to do on Mother’s Day. Every year my answer is something leisurely. Do you know what I said this year? Yard work! Yep, that’s how we spent a good portion of the day. Our messy garden beds were starting to weigh me down and now most of them are nice and clean. And, it was really nice spending time working hard with my daughter at my side. While my daughter and I worked around the front of the house, my husband was busy at the back and spent the entire day outside. I don’t know how he does that!

Afterwards, my daughter made me a late lunch complete with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream! That ice cream was well deserved, don’t you think?

This morning my hamstrings are quite sore and I have a bright red sunburned stripe where my back waistband didn’t quite meet the bottom of my t-shirt. Oops! Thank goodness for aloe gel.

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Here’s one of my three rose bushes. We had to scrape away millions of tiny seedlings growing around the rosebushes. (I don’t think I got them all either.) One of the rosebushes had so many tiny forget-me-nots growing around it; it looks like it has died. I saw a few green branches, so hopefully it will catch up to the other two.

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I have more outdoor photos to show you tomorrow.

Today I need to remake Patience’s dress. 😦 The bodice is too long for the sweater and just looks odd. I hate redoing things, but it has to be done. Better get to work . . .

I hope everyone’s week is starting off nicely. Bye for now!

Thank You & Something for Sugar

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First of all, thank you all for the love and support you showered me with yesterday. It’s amazing how uplifting you all are! I sit all alone and work in my studio day after day, but you all make me feel that I am not really working alone; I feel I am simply in my office which is located in a bigger building. So, thank you all so very, very much!

Today my Fairyland Pukipuki, Sugar, wants to show you her little something in blue. It is a tiny dress knit in a tonal baby alpaca/silk lace weight yarn. I love all of the subtle shades of blue, violet, and pink in this colorway. I’ve used it before here (Little Darlings), here (Amelia Thimble), and here (Amelia Thimble). Although I’ve used this yarn a few other times, this is the first dress I’ve made for Sugar with it. And sadly, it is no longer available, so when my one skein is gone… well, you know… 😦

“Garden of Blues” was finished before “My ‘Blue’-ming Garden” that I showed you yesterday, but Sugar would not agree to let me sell it until now. I told her that I have another dress for her that I am going to dye in a surprise shade of pink, so she relented.

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Sugar enjoyed our photo shoot in the garden very much. She loves how her dress coordinates with all of the flowers that are blooming now. Sugar was especially captivated by the lilac phlox.

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