Posted in Gardening, tagged crocus, daffodils, flower, garden, spring, tulips on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Daffodils by my front doorstep…
Crocus flowers in bloom..
These are a few colorful flowers to grace my garden so far now that the weather is starting to warm up a bit. I don’t have many bulbs planted for my spring garden this year other than these varieties. The squirrels managed to find almost all my tulips and I just [...]
Posted in Gardening, Habitat for Humanity, tagged cross stitch, garden, needlework, sampler, spring on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Slowly, I have started to pick up leaves from my garden. Slow going around the tender shoots, but careful, happy work despite the cold wind still blowing. The daffodils are well on their way and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the small columbine clusters and black hollyhocks fared well over the winter. I started some [...]
Posted in Just for Fun, cross stitch designs, tagged crafts, cross stitch, embroidery, garden, spring on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I am a collector of bits and things that spark my imagination. In the Fall, I look for the small things from nature that might be of use later in a craft project to be worked on a winter’s day. Often on my walks, I will look for small items such as acorn caps. My lucky find [...]
Posted in Gardening, cross stitch designs, tagged cross stitch design, embroidery, garden, spring on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
They are a bit weatherworn, to be sure, but my garden gnomes are a bright reminder of Spring. I was greeted this morning with their smiles and sunny outlooks in the warm morning sunshine. Underneath the blanket of fallen leaves and snow, my daffodils have begun to sprout already in the warmth of this corner [...]
Posted in Gardening, cross stitch designs, tagged color, cross stitch design, DMC Color Variations, embroidery, garden, watercolor on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
A while ago, I received an assortment of the new DMC Color Variations embroidery floss colors. I put them aside for a bit in order to finish up other tasks, but finally found the time to put together a design using a few of them. I have had the most enjoyable week working with a selection of these threads [...]
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