Here's my second finish on the Lizzie Kate Basket series.  Its such a fast stitching project.
My only concern are the 2 white flowers.  Can you see them there right there where the
2 single gold x's are.  I thought about backstitching them with a very soft grey but since
there aren't any backstitchess in the series I think I will actually pass.  I'm going to start the
thrird basket "Atumn" tonight.  The alphabet stitches fast along with the checkered bottom
border.  Would you like to see a picture of the 2 together?  It'll be the next photo.

Hooray I finally figured out a way to get The Scissor Scamper logo onto my facebook!  Not sure it will do me a whole lot of good but it makes me happy!  Grace if you happen to see this could you message me I have something to ask you!  I couldn't use the outlook expresss to email you.  Its not set up on my computer. 

Grace are those little polkadot scissors mint green or lime green?

Don't you just love old photos?  This is a picture of 2 of my cousins and myself.  I'm the little
blonde with her finger in her mouth.  My guess is that I am about 2 1/2 in this picture so that means it was taken in 1954 or early 1955.  It looks like a spring picture to me.  Possibly an Easter photo.

Early last month 2 of my cousins Cheryl (the little girl on the top of the photo) and her sister Lyleen along with their husbands brought their Mom, my Aunt Katie to be placed with her husband, my Uncle Bob at Ivy Lawn Cementery in Ventura, California.  We have several family members there including Vicky's parents (she's on the bottom right in the photo) along with my parents and now Uncle Bob and Aunt Katie are there together also.  Not such a happy post but it does get better.

Since they were coming out from the east coast my sister decided to try and find as many cousin on the west coast and get as many of us together as possible.  We've found lots of our cousins on Facebook and luckily the facebook cousins knew where the others were.  It turned out to be a great get together.  About half of us cousins showed up for dinner in Ventura.  Its been so long since most
of us have seen each other.  I'd have to say for me it was before we were half way through high school if not longer.  We always went to Grandma and Grandpa's on Sunday's after church so that is where we saw each other.  As some of my cousins got older they no longer wanted to go to grandma's on Sunday.  I've always wanted to be with my family.  I would go up to see my grandparents every Sunday even when I was old enough to stay home.  I continued going even as an adult.  Since our get together we are staying in contact much better.  My cousin Larry calls me every Sunday now.  He was always my favorite cousin along with his sister Diane.  We all blessed to have family.  I hope your family members are as special to you as mine are to me.  I love you cousins!

 If this isn't the coolest thing.  I just found a blog; Threads, Thoughts and Other Notions.  Her name is Veronica and she is a new member of Friendly Stitchers.  I've been thinking about starting this set of designs pretty soon anyway.  One of the requirements is you can only stitch on it on Mondays.  No start date or finish date!  What could be better than that?  I guess I better check and see if I have the required threads and a piece of fabric the size I need to stitch it on.  I already purchased the charts and have already downloaded the border design from Lizzie Kate's site.
I'm off to check out my supples.

Sandy

Oh forgot to mention that I signed up!

Today I finished my little Irish fellow.  I think he turned out pretty cute.  Now to decide if I really want to have him framed, do it myself or do something like a little pillow or some kind of a wall hanging.  Now back to Lizzie Kate and her 4 seasons basket charts.  Spring is finished and I have summer ready to go.  All threads are pulled, the fabric is on the scroll frame and tightened up.  I was having such a hard time trying to decide what to do between the designs.  When I picked it up this evening I realized I didn't need to do anything because each basket is sitting on a checkered cloth.  Boy did I over think that one!

Happy Stiching, Sandy

Isn't this a beautiful Camellia?  I took this picture when my sister and I were on our "sister vacation" last month.  On our
way home we stopped in Solvang for a couple of hours.  I took this picture and wanted to share it. It's one of the flowering bushes my Mom had under her kitchen window.  It reminded me of her so much.

She was also a beautiful woman.  She was a daughter, a sister to 7 siblings, a wife, a mother of 3, a grandmother to 6 and a great grandmother to 6, then a widow. And then a great great grandmother of 4.  She passed away when my first grandchild was about 10 days old.  I wanted nothing more than to have my Mom meet my first grandchild.  Sometimes you don't get what you want.  I still miss her so much.  One time she said to me "your Mom" is always your best friend".  That statement was the truest thing anyone could ever say to me.  I realized when she said it, that it was true.  One day not to long ago I told my sister what Mom had said to me and she didn't agree with it. She didn't think your Mom could be your best friend.  So aren't I the lucky one to have a Mom and a best friend and that she was the same person.  Maybe it was because I was the oldest girl or that I was the middle child.  I'll never know and I'll never have another best friend like her but I've have many that are close.

That reminds me of something else.  One day when I was visiting I went out on the back porch for some reason and I noticed that the downspout from the rain gutter was smoking.  The spout was right next to the Camellia bush.  It wasn't attached but leaning against the house.  So I called Mom and we took it out onto the driveway and banged it on the ground.  Guess what it was full of?  My Dad's smoldering cigarette butts.  It wasn't on fire but what a mess!  Oh the memories of our lives!

Have a great evening!

I thought I would add a little comment on my St. Patty's stitching.  I've had to frog several times.
I'm actually futher along than this but have had to STOP again.  I have the word March finished.
The chart called for black so I stitched it in black.  When I started stitching the dark green (DMC 500) you couldn't see the Black letters.   So I'm checking out the picture on the chart and I realize that even though the chart had listed DMC as a substitute for Weeks Dye Works that DMC 500 wasn't a good substitute.   So now I have to figure out what color to stitch the letters in.  So far I'm thinking about a color darker than his beard.  That just may be the one. 

Now my rant for the day.  I went to my local cross stitch shop in town today to buy some Crescent Colour Threads.  I have a short list of about 8 colors.  I looked online to see who carried that brand and they were listed.  They had it alright but it looks like they aren't going to carry it any longer. Not one of the colors that I needed.  All the drawers marked as Crecent Colour Works were empty. That is the second time that this has happened at my local shop.  Last time and it was only about 3 months ago I went in for 2 different pieces of fabric for a couple of projects.  One, a pumpkin that is stitched on a piece of fabric that was  violet.  I think the actual color was Wood Violet.  They had nothing in any stitch count, any fabric/aida that would work.  The other color I needed was a gingerbread color.  Same thing nothing that would work.  I am to the point that I just can not support my local needlework shop.  That is so sad.  They won't go out of business because they carry lots of yarns.

Hope everyone is having a great day and getting lots of stitching done!