Sad News

 Honey BBQ chicken

 Cheesy breaded chicken breast I made for the first time. Baked in the oven. It was super juice:-)

 

 Here is a ladybug I stitched from the DMC mentors kit. I plan to make a cute ornament out of it to demonstrate what it can be turned into. Here is what the mentors kit comes like. The front has a very nice identification pin. Inside are six kits to teach people how to stitch and a booklet with more patterns.

The sad news today is that yesterday morning my biological sisters husband killed himself in front of her. He had been ill and depressed and afraid he had cancer and he watched his sister suffer and die from it this year. He didn't want his wife to have to do that. He also had just gotten out of the hospital after having double pneumonia and previously last year open heart surgery. She is just heartbroken and very traumatized. Please pray for her. For those who Don't know I am adopted. She wasn't so lucky and was severely abused as a child. She's a survivor though. I Dont know her well but I do love her. Please pray for her to at some point see that God loves her despite what has happened. He never chose any of this for her life. The consequence of us having choice to make decisions  is that often times we make wrong ones. Some say suicide is an unforgivable sin. I say there is no sin too great for Christ to forgive, less the cross be pointless. The brain is an organ just like any other and sometimes it just fails. He was on a lot of medication too. Pray for healing for this family, its seen too much pain in this lifetime.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 Here is my latest design finished. I still need to finish it off. It will be an ornament done flat or as a pin keep. I got it from the blog Happiness is cross stitching.

 This is a wip kit I have had for awhile and started a few years ago. I have made some progress on it. Sure is a beautiful wolf. I hope to finish her this month.

 Sorry for the side photo. Not sure what happened. This is from Jerimiah Junctions magazine Cross County Stitching. I plan to finish this on a eooden box top. I will have more info on ,y designs next time.....

 Jim and I went to half price books today . we each had a half off coupon. I was blessed to find some very nice patterns.

 This book has some great stuff in it. I have a lot of Helems books. Each gift has a small cross stitch motif on them.

 I just love this little guy.

 I really like LHN patterns. This will be a nice quick stitch.

 Isn't she cute ...I have another one of these during a different season.

 I can hardly wait to start sewing me some of these. The apron on the front reminds me of a denim jacket my ,mom dressed up with rose appliques. Wish I still had that coat. It was really cool. Anyhoo...there are some French country aprons I can't wait to make. They have pretty ruffles on them.

 This is my second favorite chart I found on sale. I love their designs .:-)

 And here is my favorite acquisition ......Rosewood Manor "Watch Over Me" Karen Kluba is the nicest person and such an amazing designer. All of her charts are based on quilts.

Jim thank you for spoiling me rotten. You treat me like a princess. I love you with all my heart. And thank you God for blessing me with a love of needlework  and an amazingly awesome husband.:-)

My half off coupon went to purchase a $42 paper/fabric cutter by Fiskars and it was half off that  because everything is at least half off original price there..hence the name....that brought it to $21 then half off with my coupon... We paid $10 and some change.

Victorian motto giveaway

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 I received this lovely SB from Mellisa Cahill last week. Sorry for not getting it posted right away. I have been quite ill with kidney stones which in turn flared up my Multiple Sclerosis. Its absolutely beautiful Melissa. I just love it and it really put a smile on my face when I've been feeling so poorly. The back fabric is very nice and my favorite is the delicate cream braid around the ornament and little green velvet bow. Thank you so much.

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My Sweet Valentine

 Jim surprised me yesterday with these goodies. He also bought me a DVD with 10 movies on it but I already had it so he is going to exchange it for one we Dont have. The chocolates are made by a Christian company and in the white vellum on the box it has 1Corinthians 13:4. Inside are melt away chocolates half are dark and half milk chocolate....yummy:-) 

 Here is the card I made him for Valentines Day. He said he really loved it. It really blessed him. It was a kit that came from Shari and I still owe her a mug rug. Thank you Shari. I really am sorry I haven't gotten it to you. I promise I will this week plus some extras:-) 

And here is Jim's sweet smile after I gave it to him. I stitched on it all day and night.:-


1 Corinthians 13

The Way of Love

13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Travel down memory lane

 Thought you would all get a kick out of seeing what I looked like 15 yes ago. This was 9-6-97

 Dont you love this one. I love the way it looks with the bridesmaids flowers on my trai .

 Here we are lighting the unity candle. I can honestly say that day was the happiest in my life.:-)

Here is my best friend and sister in law , Pam. I had pastoral classes to go to that weekend in PA. So we drove down together. We really had a very nice time.

 This is back in 97-98 in Michigan on Lake Huron. Isn't the cabin Pam and I stayed at cute:-)

 It was a little drizzly that weekend but it was so very lovely. We even got to have a nice cozy fire.

 Here I am in Grand Rapids, MI at a flute conference. My favorite flutist, Paula Robinson gave master classes there. It was so exciting getting to meet her.

 There was a store by the cabin that we stayed in who always put out this life size Alf. So we thought we'd be cute and gibe him a kiss:-)

Oh Pam's too shy I guess she'll just hold hands with the old Alfmeister:-) 

Giveaway

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Semis on Parade

My sister sent me these pictures. These are paint job on a flat semi. The illusions are amazing. I just am blown away by how cool these look. I Dont usually post about non stitching stuff but I just had to. Aren't these amazing! What is your favorite?

 This is one of my favorite ones. It looks like the beer bottle is sticking out and its going to whop the car in the next lane. He he he:-) ,

 Who's driving this truck anyways?

Here is my favorite. How did they  get that stuff to stay up there?

Stitching with the Flu

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Blog hop #15
Well when I get sick usually I Dont get a lot of stitching done. Out really depends based on how sick I am. If its just a head cold I might snuggle up in a blanket and stitch all day. But if its the nasty flu or pneumonia all I do is sleep so I can get better. And one thing I almost always do when sick is go through my old stitching magazines and Google and dream about what to stitch next. Thanks for stopping by this blog hop:-)

A scarf and a Ram.

 I finally finished the scarf I was making Jim. Its extra wide so it can double over or stay single .

 Here it is keeping his little head warm. Isn't he handsome.

 This needlepoint project I think is from the 80's. What I would like to do is stitch it with all those pretty specialized stitches instead of just continental but I Dont know how how to do it. I've seen some lovely needlepoint stuff lately. I have it easy with cross stitch. Everything is already designed I just have to follow the directions. Could someone who is good at needlepoint help me do this please:-)