Caution---may cause puppy fever

Please click this link and look at this unique story. You will want to run out and get a puppy, believe me! I know I do.

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Oh my gosh, is that the cutest little thing you have ever seen? I'm watching it now while my Ren is yacking for his supper.

Well, back to unloading groceries. Fun, fun.........

Stitching Progress and Mail Goodies

Berry pick'n is over and the sun is setting in the North Georgia Mountains. Ren is heading on to his blanket for the evening. For me, I'm a night owl, so this is the best time of the day, from now until midnight!

I'm spending lots of time looking at my new goodies I got in the mail from The Sampler Girl! She had a summer sale recently and I couldn't resist it. Can't decide what to stitch next. It's almost like Christmas when patterns come in the mail :0

This is the Ohio Quilt Posey Pinkeep. I stitched one of the Ohio Quilt Poseys from one of the booklets this summer but I got this (with the summer sale of The Sampler Girl) and when I first saw it, I knew this was going to be one I wanted to stitch. Pretty colors. Plain and simple. I just pulled the colors from my stash tonight and substituted Pomegranate for the DMC rose color. There is a story of why I picked this one next that I will share with you when I complete it.

Here's a few others, along with one of the booklets that's always chock full of fun stitching patterns!

The Blue House Sampler is a really cool sampler verse. On her website she wrote this verse which appears on this sampler~~~~~ http://www.thesamplergirl.com/catalog.php?item=57

I live in a cottage and yonder it stands
And while I can work with my honest hands
I'm as happy as those with houses and lands
-sampler verse, 1811

Isn't that sweet?

And finally, this is my stitching progress I just pulled out of my stitching case. This is Jonah's Hornbook from The Sampler Girl's booklet. I tweaked the row I am on now because I had to make the circles symmetrical.....I know that's nuts, but that's the Virgo in me! Just a couple extra stitches......

I am on the last row of A-E-I-O-U and the whale. The blue color is so pretty! Went by a thrift shop to get the jute for the trim on the hornbook and then will put together (cross my fingers, hopefully) tomorrow night. I'm holding my breath that the design is not too big for the hornbook I have. But, I don't think so. I'm batting back and forth the idea of tea staining it. Why? I don't know. I have these flighty thoughts sometimes ;)

Take note of the scissors, these are called the Love scissors because the handles are like hearts. I really, really like them. I used them last night and today with much delight! They fit my fancy as there are alot of hearts in our house.

Ok, now I have enough patterns for about 3 lifetimes and I need to get busy stitching instead of blogging............I have enough now at least until the nursing home........LOL (honestly, this is a joke as I hope I never go to a nursing home) Anyway, hope you are having a stitchy cool summer evening tonight and

stay safe,

Jennifer

Blueberry Pickin'

Lawdy, lawdy! Look at how many blueberries the BodyGuard picked tonight!
I can see that I need to make a cobbler this weekend~~~~or maybe two!!!

My day......

My day,

• a stitchy lunch with Jonah the whale pattern.........got to the whale part, thank goodness! Color!
• heat, I mean, real heat of summer, depicted especially as I was rummaging through a thrift shop with no air conditioning at 5 pm today........Wow! It' hot! My feet are swollen.
• searching through thrift store for jute rope and saw lots of silver and old pictures, and old linens. Wondered what the family was like who shared these old placemats. The kitchen table used to be the social gathering..... use to be
• cows lounging in a pasture in green, green grass
• Ren eating bagels with honey nut cream cheese topping.
• my husband going blueberry pickin' with his basket. Does this mean he wants cobblers? You betcha!
• Pizza Hut
• cool air conditioning.....
• riding with "low fuel" on the car for longer than is comfortable!
• chatty friends
• rummaging through old books
• antihistamines
• no cooking.......too hot
• making Christmas plans
• yellow butterflies
• woo-hoo.......planning another week off
• gleaning through all my patterns in the mail!!!
• new scissors from The Sampler Girl
• weeds in the front yard
• roses
• the hazy mountains
• the smell of fresh cut grass
• summer dresses
  

Glitch in Blogger

There must be a glitch in the Blogger system tonight because I was trying to upload my progress pic for about 30minutes and it just wouldn't upload.
So, I will try again tomorrow. I'm nearly completed it. Stitched about 3 hours this evening.

Fun Day with Dot

Here is my friend, Dot. My best friend. She is the most spirited, positive person in the world. We went to the Chinese Restaurant for lunch and afterward took a stroll through a gift shop. I got a co-worker a birthday gift there.
Dot is the woman of wisdom. She is fun to be with, and makes me laugh and just have fun!
Dot has a been there, done that attitude with the experience behind it. Look at her with her matching flip flops and shirt! LOL

Her favorite phrase is "OH MY LANDS"
I feel its a blessing to have her as a friend.
I hope you all have that special friend who you can talk to, enjoy lunch with, and share life.
We have those heart to heart conversations that some folks are just not comfortable with.
She never had a daughter, has 2 sons and really thinks of me as a daughter. I need that and she needs that and so we have a good time together.

Progress on Jonah and a lazy morning

Woke this morning by the sound of the phone and that usually jars me tremendously with Brandon being in Afghanistan.

After I woke and said "hello" in a very sleepy voice, I heard my friend Dot, who is almost 76 years old and energetic as ever, proceed to tell me that she had been up since 7:30am and ordered dishes out of the Penney's catalog.......3 sets mind you........and planned our day today............our day........Bless her heart, she called me last night and found out today was my week day off and she has been thinking where we could go for lunch since then. She wouldn't tell me last night because she is a firm believer in not making plans! LOL


But I had an inkling she would call back today.


So, after she talked about all the restaurants we could go to in a 40 mile radius then I was happy she decided on a more local one, as commuting to work every day will bring out the homebody in anyone!

I'm up and perculating my coffee and guess what I see when I peep out the front porch window? Look at this sweet cat. I was surprised the pic took through the glass but it did. He is the sweet baby in the morning and the lion at night. LOL

Now, this is the dog's pallet we got for them a while back. Its a whopping 50 inches but Thomas laid claim to it and its been his ever since. This is one of his front porch spots and he will just swat at Raven and Ruby if they even think they can use it!



My breakfast of Blackberry Pomegranate yogurt, to tide me over until the big lunch in a couple of hours. This is the first time I tried this flavor and its pretty darn good, minus the seeds.

This is the best sight in the world when I wake up.

Hmmm, wish you were here and I would pour you a cup too.

Here is my progress on Jonah. I had to frog the W and do over again; otherwise I"m well into Part 2 and should be at the finish line soon. Can't wait to get to the blue whale!

Well, I better get up and Adam here and get ready for lunch. If I have just half the energy Dot has at 75 then I will be just fine! I'm sure she has some words of wisdom for me today.....we'll see. Will talk later!

Jennifer

I was in a good mood until.........

Well, everything was absolutely wonderful today, cleaning up and getting all the mountains of laundry done, as I had the day to myself.......or so I thought.......Ren reminded me gently that he was still here as he left poop on my freshly washed and dried heart rug........oh, and the face after I stepped into it would have been a little too much to put here..........LOL

Oh well, back to cleaning and laundry and running up and down 2 flights of stairs in the process! I'm reminded of a phrase on The Prairie Women's Blog........kinda funny..........she says "Don't hate, appreciate".

Sunday morning, the best

Sunday mornings are the best when I remembered the night before to make lunch in the slow cooker. This is a wee one. I love it just for the two of us, it's a perfect size. Problem is this........I slept late.....really late and so we will have pork chop stew instead.
I put in 3 really thick boneless pork chops and 1 whole sweet Vidalia onion, large size, some Lawreys seasoning salt and coarse black pepper.

And my coffee is ready now.........I think I will make it to the perculator!

And my final thoughts while I sip my coffee is........is Brandon safe right now? Is he terribly hot? Is he drinking enough water? Will he be ok today? and finally, Brandon, I love you.

What I'm Up to on Saturday

The day started out with going to get a hair trim and that always makes me feel better! Then I moseyed over to the quilt shop and looked around, wishing I could quilt.....LOL and drooling over all the new fabric and sewing machines they had there. I resisted a new Janome........


The kind lady at the quilt shop knows me by now and she said "honey, it's easy. Come here when we are having a beginners quilt class, which is soon, and I will show you how to get started." That's all she had to say to convince me that I absolutely need to get my table up downstairs and prepare for this quilt lesson! Now, who in the world will I give these projects too, I have no clue, but I will be learning hopefully and soon!


After that, I went over to several thrifts shops and then decided it was time to treat myself to a pedicure with a foot massage and reflexology. This is the best medicine you can buy! Promise! Take my word for it and get one this week. You simply must!

This week I added a little sign over my dining room area buffet and table. I absolutely love it! My pics are blurry but this gives you a general idea. Do you see the big picture on the right wall?


I thought I would show you this oil painting. We keep a light on it almost always as it has darkened a bit since........1882. Yes, this is a painting that we cherish alot from my hubby's Dutch family. His great, great aunt painted it. We always said that this was interesting because her initials are exactly like mine. The date is on it as well. There are some tiny flecks of paint that have come off over the years and we really need to have it restored a bit but haven't looked into that yet. When we bought our house, this spotlight was already in the corner and we knew right away that this was the perfect spot. We don't know the history of where she was when she painted this. Her name was Jentjkie Dalenberg, also called Jennie. We do know that Jennie never married and painted this in her younger years.

This is a closer view of the sign.

Oh, and I threw in a pic (although a bit yellowish) of my pink toes from my pedicure today!

Now look at this lovely treasure that came in the mail yesterday. Remember, back about 5 weeks ago I told you that I was getting Heart of America by Little House Needleworks? Although it took a while to get here, it's here finally and the colors are beautiful. 30 ct Creek Bed Brown linen and Crescent Colors threads.

The frame is so beautiful.

And not much stitching completed on Jonah here but last night at the stroke of midnight I got to here~~~~I will say that this is the stiffest linen I've ever stitched on. Seriously, I turned off the TV late last night and while I was stitching each thread, you could hear the needle squeek through the linen farely loud. It has alot of "drag" to me. I'm using a 26 John James needle so this should be adequate for 35 ct. But the linen is so stiff that I'm getting good tension even without a Qsnap.

I'm still playing with my fat quarters of oranges and tans. I'm imagining tonight what I will make with these. Not much pumpkin in my house but oh they are so early Fallish and pretty!

And as unhealthy as this is, couldn't resist these treats from Walmart today while grocery shopping..........got 3, and have 2 left......oops! Hubbie picked out the chocolate covered with sprinkles and I chose the chocolate covered with nuts.

Hope you had a great Saturday and found some fun things to do!