Ye Olde Book Shop. . .

Well, I missed my post by 2 minutes.

So, I won't get 31 posts in this month!

But then some of them weren't even read.

Here is my update on the Book Store.

I got a couple of books stitched.

They all have the gold in them

where the titles go.

I will do them last as soon as I

locate my gold of which I have many.

I never can remember where I put it.

It's like a block I can't remember ~ thus a

Block! Duh!

It's coming along and I didn't feel like

stitching today.

I didn't feel good when

I woke up but I did use the new vacuum

today anyway.

Quite nice actually!

A little

noisy but oh well at least it sucks!

I ate lunch and then took a nap.

Thanks for dropping by and seeing those few

books.

I think I should pile them up in one

window just like books are in ones

house.

God Bless your stitching fingers ~

Lenna

Heaven . . . is a Book Store

My only daughter, Heather, lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband, Darren.

She also has three of my grandchildren

Samuel, Olivia and Elisha.

She is also pregnant with their forth child due, in November.

She does believe that Heaven is a

"Book Store".

When I went to Cape Town to visit

we were shopping together at the mall.

I told her I would run into this shop and she said "I'll

be in the book store".

Actually I think she said ~ "Oh, take your time ~ I'll be in the book store!"

When I got finished I walked into the book store

and her eyes were glazed over

and I knew she had gone to that special place.

She has been this way ever since she was a small child.

The last day I was there we went to the tip of Africa,

to a row of little shops.

We went into the book store,

because I knew she would

really want to go there,

and it smelled old.

Like it had old books

inside and it did.

She was in Heaven!

It also had a wooden

box of old post card that looked too interesting.

If I get to go back I want to go get some of those cards!

There were also a lot of old

map type plates that someone had framed.

They need to come to America!

So today when this chart I had ordered

for her came I decided to work on it.

Yes, I put Kokeshi away cause Heather

is coming home in June.

It is a Country Cottage Needleworks and it is called

"The Book Store".

Heather moved into a new house and upstairs is a room, the study, that is for her books.

The computer is

also up there and she spends

all her free time reading of which she has very little.

I can still remember the magic

I felt when I learned to read. I remember

thinking ~

"Now I can read, anything I want".

Of course, I was only 5 but that didn't matter to me.

Dick and Jane were just too interesting!

I plan to get the frame shown in the picture

and have it for her to take home.

I hope she will like it.

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a look

in the book store windows.

I will have them done

tomorrow.

As always God Bless your stitching fingers ~

Lenna

Kokeshi biscornu . . .

Here is the progress on the cutest biscornu I have

ever stitched. She is just

so darn cute and I dearly

love her.

I have had a blast stitching on her and hope

to have it finished this

weekend.

I was planning to finally go see my oldest son who lives in Frisco, Tx. and

has two of the cutest kids, my darling grandchildren, but I can't leave my mom alone. My sister usually comes to stay with her but she was here last

weekend for Mother's Day. We were all going to lunch at a local place, my Mom's idea, but then as usual she didn't go. Big surprise.

I have been on vacation this week and strangely enough I have gotten very little stitching done. Let's just say it's been a week!

Thanks for coming by and checking out my sweet biscornu or not.

God Bless ~

Lenna

Kokeshi biscornu . . .

I fell in love with this pattern the

very first time I saw it months ago.

Then I forgot about it as soon

as I saw it.

I was looking

for Stitch or Die and

remembered it was

probably a Barbara Ana

Design so I looked there.

Lo and Behold Kokeshi

was the first one that came up.

She has such an

adorable face

and I have

wanted to stitch her from

the first time I saw her.

This is my progress so far.

I had to take her hair out

because I was one row off.

The bun would have been

in the wrong place.

It was sorta hard to stitch in the

Midas car repair while I

was waiting for them to

replace the starter.

I had to have AAA come out and

together Ben and I got the car

started so I could take it to them.

They got it replaced and then

I had to take the car to Kwicker Sticker

and have the inspection done.

If I had been thinking Midas could have

done it because they do inspections, too.

The nice man at KS replaced a bulb

in the left hand back light or

it would not have passed inspection ~ again.

Two years ago I had to replace the right

back light bulb.

It's too creepy when it does it again,

just a different light.

But Micheal got it done for me Thank God.

That is how I spent my day and I didn't

get much stitching done. It's amazing how

much stitching I don't get done on my vacation!!!

I guess I should find a permanent

home for the frog with maybe a bed.

He could eat meals with us as

long as he wears a top hat

and carries a cane.

Maybe he can do a dance!

I wouldn't be upset if he just

danced himself right out the door.

Would he be missed?

I doubt it!!!

Thanks for lending your support and

dropping by to see my work. Your comments

mean the world to me.

Take care and as always God Bless ~

Lenna

TUSAL . . .

This is the full jar sitting on top of the pile of shavings the

stump grinder left behind Monday.

I have four piles just like this one.

If I rake it all up

it will be gone, otherwise it will remain

just where it is now.

It was left for future planting.

This one is my TUSAL in the honeysuckle.

I emptied the jar and have already

put these threads into it for 5 months.

Unfortunately, the frog has spent

a lot of time at my house

disrupting my stitching.

These logs are what is left of the

three trees the electric

company in town cut down.

They also cut off half of another.

As usual, thanks for stopping by and looking.

God Bless ~

Lenna

Whee ~

I used Six Strand Sweets

to do this tall skinny snow

man.

In the pattern he has no arms but who has ever seen a snowman with no arms I ask you?

I think the arms make him look sassy what do you think?

Like he is standing there daring

the wind to blow him over

cause he is so skinny!

He reminds me of the snowman I made in

New York when I was visiting my boyfriend.

Yes, the same jerk who would not give me

the Seaside Sweethearts cross stitch I

did for him when we broke up.

Anyhoo ~ it had snowed the night I got there

so the next morning in the windy freezing cold I

went out to build this snowman.

The snow was the dry kind and it was

very hard to get it to stick together.

After it snowed that night it rained and so

a crust formed on top of the snow.

I used a snow shovel to break through

the crust and get the fresh snow.

I used the shovel to move the snow

where I was building the snowman.

Then I would

scoop up some in my hands and blow

my breath on it and then

begin building.

I could only make him tall and

skinny cause I couldn't make him fat at all

the snow was too powdery.

I worked on him for two and a half hours and had

three tiers ~ head, stomach, and bottom.

Not much in the way of definition just

straight up and down.

He had pine cones for eyes and buttons,

sticks

for arms, see?, a scarf and a pipe in his mouth.

He Was Sooooooo cute, if I do say so myself!

After I froze my #*& off my boyfriend would

not even go out and take a picture of

the snowman and me together.

He is a true jerk to this day!!!

I enjoyed the snowman the whole time

I was there!

I dearly love snowmen!

The only thread that was different

was the Sampler Thread

it was all the white.

I don't like the way it stitched up at all.

I have never had any trouble with

Sampler Thread before this project.

The color is called Chalk.

Not crazy about the fabric either it is

32ct.

Lambswool

and the weave seems to be very

tight.

The snowman will probably be part of an

exchange down the line.

Guess I had better go to bed.

I am on vacation

this week so I am doing some stitching.

But, I started a new book, trashy, romance,

historical novel and it is one

I don't want to put down.

It is that good!!!

Tomorrow I have to take my mom

to get her hair done.

She desperately needs a permanent.

She got a bath today and I washed her

hair and rolled it up.

Boy is it long!

So for one day she has nice hair until

tomorrow.

Then she will have really

nice hair!

I went and had my nails done today and decided

I would do a pedicure, also.

Now I have

Aqua

colored toe nails.

They are so pretty I

do like the color of the nail polish.

Take care all ~ and Happy Stitching.

God Bless your stitching fingers!!!

Lenna

Just talk . . .

Since my camera is not working at present

I will just talk. I had planned to show you

my finish on Time for God but the

fabric came out a teal color.

So I took pictures of another finish

I did today. A snowman but those

pictures, though it said they

were sent, are no where to be

found.

What to do?

I will take some more pictures

in better light and send them tomorrow.

Today the stump grinders came to the house

to grind down the stumps from the massive

cut down the other day.

TXU in Waco, Tx.

is building new huge towers to carry the

electric lines in Woodway.

So . . . they have to cut down certain trees

in the line of fire.

Our house had those trees.

So today they came back to finish the job.

It was surprising how quiet that machine was

at 9:00 this morning. It took until about

1:30 to finish.

The lady across the street

had 9 trees cut down.

Most of them were

huge trees about 20 to 30 inches in diameter

and 30 to 40 feet tall.

HUGE I say . . . huge!

It took this one man running the machine

hours to grind those stumps.

I can hardly wait for them to start the construction

of these huge towers to carry the wires.

It should be a real mess.

Take care all and God Bless your stitching fingers!!!

Lenna

Random Thoughts. . .

This is the progress I have made

Mother's Day on Random Thoughts!

I outlined the house, did the "E"

the small tree trunk, and the large

tree trunk.

Sorta hard to see in this small picture.

The "F", rabbit, and the big "G".

The empty space beside the "F" is

where a key charm is stitched.

Every space will be a speciality stitch later.

My bird still needs legs, the

tree trunks will get leaves later.

They are done in speciality stitches.

I talked to my daughter today, she lives in

South Africa and she is 3 months pregnant.

Though she doesn't feel very good yet,

she and her family are excited about

this 4th blessing in their lives.

I just pray all goes well because she has

miscarried twice in the last year.

So say a

prayer for her and her family

that all goes well.

I am just sorry that I won't be

able to see

this child until who knows when.

She had all of her other three in Frisco, Tx.

I went and stayed

two weeks with her and Darren

when she had Samuel and took care of them.

Thanks for taking a peek.

Appreciate it so much.

God Bless ~

Lenna