Sewing Projects

This is the latest project I have been working on,
It is a pattern by Crab-apple Hills. It took me so long
I don't know if I am just really slow or if there was just
a lot of work in it.

It is a old post card. I loved it because the script reminded
me of my grand mothers handwriting. I like Crab-Apple Hill's
designs because she has so much hand work in her patterns.
I have always loved embroidery and I do red work and blue
work, but Meg offers so many other designs.

I wanted to do her Halloween quilt she is going to be offering
soon and I thought I needed to get my embroidery skills back
up to par.

This is the whole complete postcard. Her Halloween
quilt is so beautiful that it took my breath away when saw it
on her blog. You can see it here. It is way beyond my skill
level but I would like to try it anyway.

I don't know what my next project will be yet. I found a lovely
quilt shop today. The lady said she offers beginning quilting courses
and I think I might sign up just because I need some refresher courses.
I did ask her about rug hooking and she acted like I was a nutter.
California just isn't rug hooking country.

I had Emilie with me and the lady's son was working who was very cute and
Emilie said, maybe she would have to take up quilting soon. He was very
cute and very sweet. He acted like when Emilie walked in that we made his
day. It was cute.
Thank you for all of the very sweet birthday wishes. She said it has been the best
birthday ever so far.

I do love March! I need to find my kites.
~Kim~

You Can't Be Twenty!

This is my daughter Emilie. My daughters are 10 years
apart. 20 years ago, I was at my grand mothers house and
she said, "Kim when is that baby going to be born?" Her due
date wasn't until March 10th but I said, " Oh March 4th she is going
to March fourth. I laughed and then I woke up on the morning of March
4th in labor.

We had been having a drought and it lasted for 10 years. But on the day I was
in labor with her is rained all day. I listened to the rain on the roof and it
rained the entire month of March. The drought was over.

She is in the middle, she has two brothers older and two brothers younger.
She has always been such a girl, she liked Barbies, and dolls and she loved
jewelery and getting her nails painted.
When she was tiny and if she was being fussy, I could ask her if she wanted to
go shopping and I could put her in the stroller and we would go to the mall and
walk up and down and she would be the happiest baby ever. As a matter of fact
we are doing that for her birthday tomorrow.

When she was little she loved Roo, you know from Winnie-the-Pooh? We misplaced
Roo, I still to this day do not know what happened to him. I tore that house up and every
where I could think of and I never found him.
One day, I was doing laundry and she was about 3 she came in to where I was folding clothes
and she sat beside me and looked up and breathed a deep sigh, I asked her what
was the matter, and she said, " Oh, Mom, could you just take me to the Roo store and
drop me off?" Well, I dropped what I was doing and loaded all the kids in the car and took
her to the Disney store in the mall and she stood before millions of Roo's and looked at
each one and none of them were hers. We bought one that day, but she never really played
with him.

I am so thankful that 20 years ago, I was so blessed to have been given the joy of
having my daughter, and she still continues to bless me each and every day. She
talks to me, she listens to me. She is my coffee partner, she makes me laugh and
she grows flowers better than me. She is my daughter and now at twenty she is my friend.

I am a very, very blessed Mom.

Happy Birthday Emilie,

Love,
Mom

Ducks In The Swimming Pool

My chickens were going crazy this morning. I checked the
trees and the fences to see if Mr. Hawk was sitting
on the fence reading recipes out loud to my chickens.
No hawk. I finally gave it up and thought they were
having a Chicken Little Day and the sky must be falling.

I went in the kitchen to start laundry and to start making
my husband's lunch when I looked out and there was Mr.
and Mrs Mallard swimming around in the pool. Sorry, I
couldn't get a closer shot because they were already jumpy.

I ran upstairs to my daughters room, I said, " Hey, Em
there are ducks in the pool!! She said, oh good Mom."
I said don' you want to get up and see them?"
She said, "No Mom" while she rolled over and went back to sleep.

I ran back down stairs and my husband said they flew away. I wish they
would have stayed. I don't think though, the kids would be real wild about
swimming in the summer with a flock of duck swimming too.

It means spring is almost here, Mr. and Mrs Mallard were checking out
real estate.

I am reminded of this today. " You will show me the path of life; In
your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
(Psalm16 :11)

"Think of the most beautiful place you know on earth. Think of the most wonderful
day you have ever had. Think of the person who loves you more than anybody else
loves you. And then multiply that by a million, and maybe that's the tiniest hint of
what heaven will be like."
(Heaven, cassette.)
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared
for those who love him."
1 Corinthians 2:9)

I am so happy because of ducks in the pool and spring blooming and the ground
warming up. Just think how great everyday will be in heaven.

Have a great Thursday,
~Kim~

Lovely, Lovely March

Turning the calendar over to March, is I think one
filled with joy. Months have colors in my mind. February
no matter how hard I try, I always see as red and white.
March to me is purple and dark green, and pink and white.
It smells of orange blossoms and flower petals.

To get in my car, the asphalt will be littered with pear petals,
as if waiting for a bride to pass. The grass, has the smell
of dark green and the sun makes me want to lay down and
watch the big fluffy clouds drift by like huge ships in a ocean
of blue with the sails all unfurled. Racing to lands unknown.

March has become the month that hurts my heart a bit. My grandsons
will turn 4 and I want to grab the sand that is slipping through my fingers
at a even faster rate than it did my own children. My daughter will turn
twenty and life continues to change much faster than I want.

I am reminded that "The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting."
(Psalm 103:17)

I love the word everlasting, it always sounds like a candy to roll around on my tongue
to taste. I like Everlasting flowers for that reason.

When I was looking at Flea Market Style, they had a picture that I loved. As I stared at it
I saw that it was the rack from a water bath canner. Which I have so I made what I saw,
I thought you might like to see it too.

I only have 3 blue canning jars so I grabbed what I had and then
got some clear ones that have designs and filled them with
buttons,

and old wooden thread spools, and wooden apples
and I collect old marbles and thimbles, so I put those in
and I had some old wooden blocks. Then set it in the middle
of my old table. I like it very much.

I save my jars from spaghetti sauce, I don't buy it for the
way it tastes but for how the jar looks because I like fresh
flowers in canning jars as the best vase.

I just wanted to write a Welcome to March post. It made me happy
to know, that spring will be putting on her dress and dancing in the rain.
I love spring!

~Kim~