Summertime!

Hello Stitching Friends!

I picked up four finishes from the framer yesterday.  I'm pretty happy with them!

I should have waited until morning to take better pictures, but then it wouldn't have gotten done.  I took the pictures with my iPad.  So, didn't do any editing.  Sorry.  

The summer seems to be moving along quickly.  Things have been extremely busy for me at work.  I had a large project come up that had a short time frame, but I may be nearing the end of it soon.  So, due to that, I have not had any ambition this week after getting home.  My brain has been fried!  Lol.

We travelled to Minnesota last weekend with our son and his fiancée to visit my sister and her family.  We had a great time as always.  So nice to get away!  I may have a new stitcher in the family... I taught our son's fiancé how to cross stitch last weekend.  We stopped in LaCrosse, Wisconsin on our drive North to visit Crosse Stitchery.  Well, while browsing, she expressed great interest in some charts, so we picked out a couple of easy ones, and  got her started.  She caught on pretty quick.  In fact when they came to visit today, she brought her stitching along so she could stitch with me!  She had made good progress, so I supplied her with fabric and floss to go along with her next project.  She seemed pretty happy about it!

I have been stitching on Liberty House.

It took forever to get the big red house stitched it seemed!  I am working on the eagle in the tree right now.  Hopefully I will have it done before too long.

These three new charts made their way home with me.  I do love patriotic pieces....maybe because my birthday is near the fourth....

We are having a family cookout tomorrow for our son in laws birthday.  I haven't planned the menu yet, luckily he likes about anything.  

The weather has been warm and very humid of late.  We are also still getting rain showers every few days.  I swear you can practically see the corn grow in the fields!  That's one thing that Illinois can do well....grow corn!  

We did manage to get the deck stained two weekends ago.  Harry also got to the groomers for his short 'summer do'. 

Well kids it's time to sign off.  I hope your summer is going well, and that you are finding time to do what you love best!  Happy stitching friends!