Updates!

 Hi friends! I am still here! Just forgetful when it comes to posting on the blog.

This is a little birthday gift I made and gave to our friend Carol last month. 

I took this motif from Joy & Good Cheer by Brenda Gervais.❄️⛄⛄❄️Carol loves blue and snowmen. I stitched it with most of the called for DMC, two over two, on 35ct lambswool linen and finished in a two inch hoop.

💘February Cubby Shelf Display💘 Almost all of these are stitched over one.

💌💕February Corner Shelf💕💌

This is a heart I made many years ago. It shows our Mabel🐩 and Henry🐩 My friend Kirsten designed this pattern to look just like Mabel and Henry. 😍 This is very special to me.

This is the back of the red heart you see hanging above the little stuffed Henry. I made up several of these hearts and gave them to the senior friends that Henry and I visited in the local nursing home years ago. Henry is not able to visit people any more. He is too nervous now, and shakes terribly. That is okay. He made many, many people happy for years. They loved him. This heart was Jim's. When we went to visit Jim the last time, we found out he had passed. I asked if I could have his heart back. It was right there, hanging on his doorknob. That was the very, very hard part of visiting the old folks. The passing. You grow to love them and they love you. 😢

Even though you can see I have a VERY FULL Valentine's display, I have stitched another one. I can't help myself. I stitched Blackbird Design's Pledge of Affection. I just need to finish it into a pillow. That will wait a bit though. I am currently stitching Tetelestai by Quaint Rose Needlearts. I am not stitching it all in red though. I am stitching it over one on 32ct sand linen. 

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God  Philippians 4:6

I gave Flossie a haircut ✂️ almost two weeks ago. Madeleine is in Hawaii, so it was just Flossie and me. Flossie has a "thing" about her front legs. So she tucked and hid them for quite a while, but I got them done in the end.🙃

You may have noticed over the almost two years that we have had Flossie her dramatic color change. For my non-poodle-owning friends, when a poodle puppy is a solid, many variables can affect what will become the adult coat. When a pup keeps the same color coat, this is known as "holding". However, many poodles 'clear'. To clear means when the coat fades or lightens to another color. A lightening of the coat does not necessarily occur evenly all over the coat, rather poodle color will often hold more on the dog's ears and the thicker guard hairs.

You can definitely see from Flossie's puppy picture the day she came home she was a red, little puppy! Her head is so pale now. Almost as apricot/blonde as Henry's! And her beautiful red ears are lightening. She has a different shade/tone than Henry. This is why I have not stitched her portrait yet. Her true colors have not yet developed!

A week ago I gave Little Henry his haircut.✂️🐩 I took this photo so you could see Flossie and Henry together for size reference. Flossie is a big girl. Henry is a frail, little, old man, at 15 years old and 5 pounds.

Madeleine is doing well in Hawaii. Her job is not hard and she is enjoying it. She has a lot of reading for school, as you would kind of think so for a Library Science Masters. She has three feral cats that hang out in her tiny, little yard. The island has a feral cat problem. I guess all of Hawaii's islands do. And there are feral roosters running around the island also. Not around her neighborhood, but she can hear them in the predawn hours. She had to get used to that! She has lizards in her backyard trees. 

I am so glad you stopped by today my friend. I hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you for taking time to say hi. 

Stitching and praying,

Vickie

Henry only has one tooth, but he still will grab a bone sometimes and gum it for a while.