IT'S BEEN A WHILE...QUITE A WHILE..

Good afternoon!!  Another gorgeous, snowy day here in south eastern Michigan...I love snow, especially when I don't have to get out in it!  We had about five inches dumped on us last night...all within a couple of hours.

Nothing much new here...just the same old "6 & 7" as my grandma used to say.  I thought I would share some of my grand daughter's artwork.  She's almost 7 and loves to paint.  She'll sketch out her design in pencil and then go to town on the water colors!  I thought they were really sweet and just wanted to share!

I've been doing a bit of rearranging in the house...purging once again.  I swear...I think this stuff reproduces!  My back porch is full of things to go to the Salvation Army...they ought to love me!  Every week they get a fresh load!

We bought an oil painting for over the mantle this past weekend....my husband, surprisingly fell in love with it...It's BIG..

The frame is a little fancy for me, but it fits in nicely with my other pieces of "eclectic-like" stuff. And at least I don't have to worry about anything else on that wall!

I've been doing a little stitching...I did finish a design by Brenda Gervais, "Faith of the Heart"..now to find a frame...and of course, I can't stitch anything without error..UGH!  I just left it!  The colors are beautiful.

I have been crocheting quite a bit this past month...I made myself a small afghan, just to cover my legs when stitching. It's just a granny square with shades of lavender.

Then I made my self a pair of fingerless gloves...I don't really know the point in them because your fingers still freeze!  

We made a trip to IKEA a couple of weeks ago and purchased another one of their peg boards.  They are so low on inventory..but I did manage to find one of the size I needed.  I hung up my hand dyed floss by company and in alphabetical order.  It's much easier to find the colors that I do NOT have...LOL!

And then there is this way of organizing...my friend Deb, was a cross stitcher way back when and this is how she organized her floss at the time...

I have never seen DMC braided before, but she had taken cross stitch classes in the 70's, and this is how she was taught to store her floss!  Can you imagine the time it took to do this?  You can see, that not all of the skeins were braided, but most of them that were in here binder were braided!! The number of the DMC color, are on those little tags stuck to the white mesh & the floss was attached with pins!  They looked beautiful, but I would hate to be the one to take threads out of those braids!

Well...that's it for now.  Take care...hope you all can get your vaccine soon, if you haven't already.  We're still waiting to hear about ours...nothing yet.  Have a great evening!