Mother's Day Gift and Herons!

Thanks to all of you who said such nice things about my Mother's Day post.  I enjoyed making that sampler to honor Mom and Grandma. 
My DD,Mrs. Woolpets, made this amazing gift for me.  It is a Woolpets Heron.  One day she and I sat in our favorite coffee shop and saw at least 5 of them fishing in the water near by.  She decided to make me a Heron for Mother's Day.  It is beautiful and I love it.  It will be my summer header.  I have lots of cross stitch to share, but that will be in a later post.  Have a wonderful week!!

 Here is another view of my lovely gift!  This one caught a fish!!

 This one is still trying!

We live near this little town.  We went down to Keyport to take the photos for the header and I noticed that they had put this on all the light posts for summer.

Thanks for joining me!

Happy Mother's Day

I hope everyone out there is having a great day!  Of course, that includes all you Moms.  The Pastor included all kinds of women in her comments today.  Basically she included all those who take care of things.  I'm thinking of all the women who might not have children but care for them in many ways like teachers, day-care workers and the like.  I'm especially thinking of my DD and my DIL.  Laurie works with children in school and she had a home day care for many years.  Debbie is the Mom of my Grandson , Caleb , and she will be having our Granddaughter, Hannah, under fairly difficult conditions.  My hats off to them both! This post is also in loving memory of my Mom, Merna Kennedy Pike and my Grandmothers, Edith Rose Pike and Anna Lindquist  Kennedy.

 This is a BBD design I did a few years ago to honor Mom and her Mother.

 I put their birth dates under their names.

Both were born in Joliet, Illinois.  My DD and I were also born in Joliet.

 Edith Rose Pike, my Dad's Mom.

Anna Lindquist Kennedy,  Mom's Mom. I love and think about all of you today!

Thanks so much for joining me and have a wonderful week!

May! In Cross Stitch and in Bloom!

Wow! I so appreciate all the nice things you said about my pillows.  They were work but I am glad I finished them.  I am enjoying them everyday on the couch! You would not believe our weather!!!! This morning's paper said that the only city in the entire country as warm as we were yesterday was Phoenix- we were hotter(87 degrees) than Miami, Las Vegas, or Houston!! It was record breaking for this area. I did not especially like it! First, I moved here because it is a cool place-temp wise.  In addition, it is too early to be that hot.  Thank goodness, a marine layer moved in today and the temps are more to my liking.  I admit I'm strange, most people loved yesterday!  It did bring out many flowers. Whatever the temperatures in your neck of the woods , I hope they are mild and pleasant!

 May's Word Play.  I am skipping June as I have the PS June already finished and framed.

 These are delightful smelling flowers.

The crab apple ,"Golden Raindrops" came into full bloom in just two days!

 As  did the lilac!

I love this little iris.  The colors are wonderful!

The wisteria also made it in about two days!

Thanks so much for joining me.  I hope you all have a terrific week!

A Finish Finally!!!!

First, thank you so much for the very kind comments you made about the beach walk and the moon picture.  Your comments have given me the idea to do a post showing all my drift wood.  I need to get some of it back from my DD before I can do that.  I loaned her several pieces for some pictures she was taking.
Last summer, I showed some photos of a project I had started  several years ago.  I wanted to make pillows for my sofa using some of my cross stitch.  In the winter, I use barn red throws and pillows on the sofa.  It is such a nice warm color.  Well, now that Spring is here, I change the color to a nice cool blue.  That is the color I used for this project. As I have said before, finishing is not my strong suit.  Most of my stitching gets framed. Last week I became determined to finish these pillows!!! So after a few days, here is my result!

 The blues match better than they show in the photo.

 I love Quaker designs.

Notice the date!!! That's when I made the cross stitch part.  Am I not a great procrastinator???!!!!!! It only took 4 years!!!!!!

This is at the other end.  The pillows aren't perfect but they are done.  By the way, a store wanted $175 to make these pillows!!!!

I hope you are all having a good week and spring is showing up everywhere!!

A beach Walk and Some Cross stitch

First, I want to thank all of you for the nice comments about my Spring flowers and the sampler.  I'm always happy when others can enjoy the garden. It has been much warmer than usual so I'll probably have more things blooming soon.  Thanks to this weather, the SBA and I went for a 2 hour beach walk at our favorite beach.  It was wonderful, not even windy which is unusual for this spot.  We took lots of pictures and I hope you will enjoy them.  I have been busy with the cross stitch sampler, "This is the Day".  I'm enjoying the stitching very much. With all the bad stuff going on last week, I think I watched more news than usual and got quite a bit of stitching done! I hope it has been a great week for you!

 This is Mount Baker, one of our huge volcanic mountains in the Cascade Range.  It is like Mount Rainier in that it stands out much higher  than the mountains around it. It is usually not this clear.  This is about 60 or 70 miles away.

 I love all this driftwood.  I have lugged several pieces home!

 This piece was beautiful but a bit too heavy!!!!

 A close up of the above driftwood.

 The Cascades above Puget Sound.

 I saw this hole in a large piece of driftwood and thought it was the perfect frame for a picture.

 Progress on "This is the Day."

 I will finish the leaves tonight.  I changed the windows to a light color.  The dark brown was suggested.  I decided that this is a happy cheerful piece.  The house looked foreboding to me with dark windows.

I moon was so pretty last night.  The SBA and I just finished a class on digital photography so we were experimenting with settings.

Have a happy Friday and a great week end.  Thanks for joining me!

Spring Flowers and Cross Stitch

I am so happy that many of you enjoyed the pictures of Seattle.  They were taken from a part of Seattle that is called West Seattle.  That area is great because you look back on the city plus it has a long walkway along Puget Sound.
I am working hard on "This is the Day" and appreciate your comments about it.  I have a picture taken yesterday .  As of today , the tree is almost done. I really like working on samplers so I'm enjoying it very much.  Plus the way this week has gone, the message is very important to me.
For all my stitching friends, JJ's Collectibles is having a great sale with 20% off all orders.  I expect to do some damage over there later today!
Most of the photos in today's post are things that are blooming right now in my yard.  Everything is such a beautiful shade of green! We have rain today, but that just makes things greener.(A good attitude for someone living in the Pacific NW)! I hope the pretty flowers bring a smile to your face .

 This bush has an amazing smell.  I have cut the little bunches of flowers and brought them in the house.

  Thanks so much for joining me and I hope your week-end is filled with things that make you happy!

Stormy City and a Cross Stitch Update

Thank you all so much for the very nice comments on my April Word Play.  I have finished May but I don't have a picture.  I plan on taking a photo after it is pressed.  It is still a wrinkled mess. I am not sure if I will stitch the June Word Play.  I have the PS June finished so I might skip the June one at least for the time being. I am back to working on "This is the Day."
The SBA had a big birthday on Sat. so we went over to the city for dinner. We went to West Seattle.  The restaurant had an amazing view of the city. It was a very stormy day up here so it was a day to get some interesting pictures of Seattle.  I hope you enjoy them.

 Huge dark storm clouds over the Space Needle.

 The sun was very low and shown on the lower parts of the buildings .

 This is just before we started home. Things had quieted down.

The border is finished.  I am working on the alphabet. I am using antique ivory linen that dark area is just a shadow.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!