Update

Its been awhile since I've blogged. But I have been keeping myself busy. Haven't done much sewing lately, been busy with company. A friend told me that knitting caused early senility, so I'm trying not to do much of it.
Finished my pillowcase:Finished my daughter's purse:Angela and her husband Derek came for a visit:
We put in a new frig, just have to remodel the walls around it now:Are current project is a swing set for our grandson. How do you go from this:To this?We celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary:The garden this week:We have created a computer freak:TTFN

It's Spring !!

It's spring time. One week it was winter and the next spring.

This week I am working on several projects.
Here are some pillowcases I embroidered for Angela.
Here is the progress I have made on her purse.
The lining:Boy does the yard need a lot of work. Its a good thing I have lots of helpers.
View from the back deck:
Lilliacs:
Iris:
Peonies, maybe they will bloom in a week, usually the frost gets them first:
Wind Damage:
But there is always time to fly a kite.
TTFN

Short blog

Just a quick update so my daughter in Texas can have a look see.
Mostly embroidered this week. Will add pics when done.

Fun on the homestead:
A couple boxy bags from the tutorial here:
A few pics my son took at Oak Creek since the weather has been so nice:
A couple pics of my young sailor: (sorry Army guys)
That NAVY hat was my fathers from the early 1950's

Update

Update from Easter, this was the first year we colored eggs with Tristen. You can tell this task required all his concentration. For a boy with autism , who hates to get his hands dirty this was serious business. Here are a few pics:My Easter lily:
We took the bottom bunk out so that Tristen would have a spot for his computer:I had some time off from work and was a sewing fool. I made my grandson 7 pairs of PJ's. The matching slippers are from the tutorial at Stardust. I just enlarged the pattern until it fit his foot.
Here are 6 of them:I also made several tissue holders:
These were going to be origami purses, but when I got to this point I decided I liked them as cloth baskets. I used the pattern here at Quiltcetera:
I made a couple wallets from a tutorial over at that *darn* kat:And these little pyramid bags from Nicole M Design were so cute I had to make a couple:
Lastly, I got tired of the clutter in the bathroom, so my last project was a fabric cube, with instructions from the tutorial here:
I get a lot of my ideas from reading the Craft Gossip blog almost every day. I like doing these smaller. free projects for several reasons. They provide a break from the larger projects I am working on and they also use up a lot of the fabric scraps that I compulsively save. Such as this purse that I am making for my daughter Angela:
Whats happening in the garden:Flowering plum:
The daffodils are up:Those looks from my love:
TTFN