Tip-toeing Through the Tulips

 Hi friends! Here is the finish I accomplished this week. 🌷Tip-toeing Through the Tulips by With Thy Needle & Thread 🌷 Shown on the backing fabric from my stash.💐 

I filled this little pillow with wood shavings and did not notice a few tiny shavings in the picture until after I posted it. 🙄 This was stitched two over two on 28ct Monaco in Glass Blue with the called for DMC.

I am now stitching the free Christmas Bells pattern by Primitive Hare. Have you stitched that one? I am almost done. I am waiting for little bells to come from Amazon for the finishing. This is going to be a pretty neat project for me. I can't wait to share it with you. 

I would like to offer this sweet angel chart in a giveaway. 

This chart was given to me by our friend Georgia to share. If you would like this chart, please be a sidebar follower of this blog, and please leave a comment on this post stating you would like this chart. I will draw a name on Friday February 4th. This giveaway is open to all of my followers around the world. 

📚This was my latest treadmill read🏃‍♀️. Julian Sanction drew upon firsthand accounts of the Belgica's voyage to the magnetic South Pole and exclusive access to the ship's logbook. In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache and his crew set sail for a three-year expedition to the icy continent of Antarctica. This is the chilling (HA!) TRUE survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for an entire sunless, Antarctic winter. If you like history, you will find this interesting. I certainly did. Afterwards I wanted to see more pictures. There are not many in this book. The ship's doctor published a book in 1900, called Through the First Antarctic Night. I will not be reading it, as it covers the same thing I just read, HOWEVER, it is available online FOR FREE under public domain. Just search the title if you are interested. I found it by accident actually! I looked through the entire book this morning. Notice I said looked. I did not read it, I looked at the dozens of fascinating pictures.❄️🐧

The family run bakery downstairs has shut it's doors and sold the building after 22 years at this location. We went to the closing party. It was bittersweet. Brian talked and talked with Nino, the Sicilian baker who began this business. I took turns talking with his four daughters who also worked here. We shall see what is to come. A delicatessen is going in next. The "problem" is that the owners are investors. It will no longer be run by a family. So few places are anymore, right? They have bought this building and business as an investment. Time will tell what that means for us up here. They told Nino and his family they will leave us and Tony our neighbor ( there are only two apartments up here) alone, since we are long term tenants. That does not mean they will leave the rent alone now does it?!

 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Romans 8: 26

I hope and pray you have a wonderful week my friends! I am so glad you continue to stop and visit with me.

Stitching and praying,

Vickie