Happy days are here again ......

WooHoo!  My wisteria has a baby!

It doesn't look like much but it'll grow.  The two rocks are where my old wisteria used to be before it fell over.  I've been checking this area once a week or so and the last time I saw this lovely little shoot growing.  So far it's the only one but that's all it takes.

I did cut small branches off the parent when I chopped it up and put them in water.  A couple actually bloomed on my windowsill.  They were sad little things but blooms none-the-less.  And they smelled heavenly!

One of the cuttings has a root and new growth -- it's going in a pot soon.  Others have growth and no roots -- they'll stay in the water for now -- you never know. 

I'm thrilled that one cutting actually is growing.  And doubly thrilled that the parental roots are still viable.  VBG ... it's the little things in life that make me smile.

Unfortunately, my boys aren't smiling right now.  They both got their summer cuts recently.  It's the first time for River but Stormy gets shaved down frequently.  And seeing how cute and cool River looks, this won't be his last hair cut.  As you can tell from their expressions, neither are very happy about getting their pictures taken.  LOL.

Between hair cuts, I have been stitching.  The first picture is the Marquoir Group Quakerchen.  It's almost finished.  I have one more part to stitch and it will be complete.

See the Star is coming along.  Unfortunately, I decided to do some major ripping Saturday evening.  By 3 am Sunday morning I had removed the offending area -- what a chore that was!

I finally decided that I didn't like the yellow overdyed thread .  There just was not enough contrast between the yellows and the tea stained fabric.  After finishing the similar area on the right in a nice brown thread, I made the painful decision to rip out the yellows.  Now I just need to replace that area with the same brown floss and the entire unpleasantness will be over.  Whew!

I stitched on the lovely Solo Brode SAL over the weekend also -- what can I say, Saturday was a dreary, rainy day, only good for stitching and doing laundry.  This is such a lovely piece.

And last but not least, I realized there were no recent puppy pics ..... shame on me!  Well here you go:

Isn't she getting big?  She's 4.5 months old now, teething and still cute as a button!  At this stage she looks to easily be a 13 incher.

Later ......

Life is getting back to normal ....

Thank goodness!

I've been stitching in my free time instead of going online.  Mostly I've been cross stitching .... nothing that requires much concentration because my brain is usually fried by the time I get home from work. 

See the Star is coming along nicely.  Though I did do a miscount  in the area to the left -- off by one thread!  DRAT!  It's only noticable in the overdyed yellow area, soooo, I think I'm gonna just cover the offending goof with a nice charm when it's finished.  No one will ever know .

I really like the violet-magenta color combination of the 2 unfinished motiffs.  Perhaps I need to do something with this color combo in the future?




Midnight Garden by Orna Willis is growing nicely.  This one is fun just playing with the thread colors.  My bullion knots are a bit lumpy -- I never made them with perle coton before -- and I've added a few more french knots than required.  I may even add a few more.  What can I say?  I love french knots.

I also love  the way the green overdyed thread positively **POPS** against the purple background.  It isn't that obvious in this pic but in real life, it screams. 

Cool!

Another fun color combo to play with in the future.



The next Marquior mystery sampler is coming along also.  In fact, I am current with it now.  WooHoo!  How cool is that? 


I have this one on rollers and need to get a picture of the entire thing.  Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.  Don't you just love the beautiful letters on this sampler?  I used to typeset at a printing company and learned to love fonts. 

When this is finished, I'm thinking it should be a bell pull hanging on my front door.  Maybe hang some little bells on the bottom so when the door opens, it'll chime??   



This next piece is a sweet little heart for Mother's Day.  I decided to do it all in white because my mom used to say - white goes with everything.  Only one more part and it will be finished.  I'm thinking it should become a little ornament.

As an aside, I stitched this next piece in 2008 in memory of my mom who died 10 years ago.  I adapted a small hardanger pattern I got at a garage sale (sorry to say I cannot remember the name of the designer or pattern, but it originally came with ceramic angel buttons.  I think all were broken except one.)  Anyway, I chose the colors because they remind me of mom:

Red was her most favorite color

White her second favorite

and Chocolate .... now that was her favorite-est ... YUM!

PUPPY UPDATE

Meadow is getting cuter every day

And last but not least ......

In Memory of my lovely Wisteria tree

I have no idea what happened but one day I looked out and it had fallen over.  Perhaps the wind  blew it down? or the roots rotted? or ?   I have no idea what actually happened but I'm going to miss my lovely little tree.  Hopefully some of the roots will come back to life and another one will grow.

Happy Spring to you!