Snippets Of Spring

Here are my Spring displays for 2026.

***WARNING***

Lot's of pics.

Did you have a favorite?

In other news,

Its time now to drag out my patriotic decor.

I want to get a head start and enjoy our 

250th birthday of AMERICA.

Sunday's Mother's Day lunch was good.

I had BBQ beef brisket top with fried onions,

loaded baked potato and steamed green beans.

Mom had a crab cake with a baked potato

and steamed green beans.

We both had blueberry cheesecake for dessert.

Afterwards I went back home and stitched a bit.

It was nice just spending time alone.

Both my kids reached out to me

to wish me a happy Mother's Day.

I told them ahead of time I was going to

spend most of my day with my mom.

It does take me an hour to drive to her 

studio apartment one way.

Monday my brother, Bob and I met

my friend for lunch in my mom's town

to discuss the estate sale.

I am going to help her out 3 days a week.

Also Monday was my granddaughter's birthday.

Mikayla is now 19.

Michele, my daughter took her over to Canada

 for a few drinks...

because over there the drinking age is 19.

Cannot believe that sweet kid is already that old.

Tuesday we went to lunch with Mikayla,

 Michele and grandson Mikey for her birthday.

Mikey is still waiting to see the hand surgeon.

Afterwards Bob and I went to the meat market

to get our monthly meat to fill our freezer.

Wednesday we had Leaf Filter come in.

They installed gutter guards for us.

Bob will no longer need to clean gutters.

He is ecstatic.

Today I am just going to clean and do laundry.

Catch up on tv shows and watch some Flosstube videos

 while doing some stitching.

Not yet sure our plans for the weekend.

I know Bob will be working the store though.

Snippets Of Spring Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Sunday Spotlight

Happy Sunday my friends!

 

Look what Bob once again dragged in for us.

This old cabinet.

The right door would not stay closed.

Therefore I decided to place

my antique dough box in front of it. 

This dough box holds some Christmas decor.

Then it needed something else.

So I placed my cake crock to the left.

Crock jug in the middle and my

blue pantry box to the right.

For those who think they are seeing a ghost.

It's just lil ole me. :-)

but I do need to clean our tv screen now. LOL

Enjoying my sunny Sunday spotlight.

In other news,

I will be taking my mom out to lunch

 for Mother's Day today.

We received word from her doctor.

Her hemoglobin is back up to 9.2

so she has a reprieve of going back

for bloodwork for a month again.

I know she was happy to hear the news

from my brother the other day.

Yesterday a thunderstorm rolled in.

Lightning hit close to our house.

Tundra came running to where

I was stitching in my chair and he slid

between my legs head first under the chair.

He hates storms.

He remained there until the storm passed.

To all those mom's out there.

I hope you have a wonderful

MOTHER"S DAY!

Mother's Day Blessings To All!

Janice 

Whippy Wednesday On Thursday

Reposting because I think something happened.

 Progress for this past month

on my stitching.

Jeny Brimer first,

When you have finished one row and then

you get to to the final letters of the row

underneath...and realize you made a mistake.

Do you frog it out? 

Cut the floss out and re-stitch?

Or just move on?

Do you see my error?

I stitched the teal blue letter "W" wrong.

I am leaving it.

I dont' care.

Added in my grandfather's names/ dates.

Glad I decided to do this pattern for 

my grandfathers as there are lots of the browns and blues.

The motifs will have more color though.

Almost Finished with the letters now.

I do not understand any of these.

They must have had some meaning to 

Jeny though.

While most of the samplers I chose

for my heritage wall had alphabets included

in the patterns...

Jeny Briner does not have an entire alphabet.

Therefore I used my resource book for

 the perfect alphabet to add in my grandparents names.

I went to the alphabets and chose one that 

was seven stitches high like the others in the pattern.

This book also has various sized numbers and lots

of motifs. A great resource book for stitchers. 

Made more progress on Elizabeth Manners 1843.

Finished stitching the quote/ saying. 

Although you cannot tell from this pic,

am stitching this on 35 count Angel Hair linen,

which has a yellow tone to it.

Also I am loving the rich colors in this piece.

Progress on Faith 1831.

Finished the second swag plus 

the final half swag and border on the right.

Now I need Faith to finish the one over one

saying in the middle.

Either that or I just need to put my big girl panties

on and plug along.

I detest one over one can you tell?

Finally Floral Motif Sampler.

Managed to only get one more motif stitched.

Am loving this pattern though.

Hope to get more stitchy time on this one 

this month....then again I want to stitch

more patriotic...so who knows what will win out.

In other news,

my brother and I met my friend Monday

at my mom's house to discuss her doing

the estate sale for us.

She said it was a lot of stuff...but not the worst

house to set up for an estate sale.

I told her I could help her out 3 days a work...

so that made her feel better.

Bob got out our Blackstone grill and made

chicken kabobs also on Monday for us.

I made potato salad to go with on Sunday.

We had so much leftover we had kabobs for dinner

again on Tuesday and made a rice pilaf.

Also Tuesday, our friend Ed and doggie sitter

came by to see us and his granddog.

We affectionately call him Grandpa Ed.

He and his wife snowbird to Florida in the Winter.

He returned Sunday .

When Tundra saw him get out of his car

he started whining so loud and started

pawing the window.

When he approached the door, he was waiting

for him and was so excited.   

It was a wonderful reunion.

Tonight we are going on a buying pick for our store

 around dinner time.

I received a gift certificate to one of

our fav restaurants nearby, so that will be dinner.

An Italian restaurant....cannot wait.

Hope everyone is enjoying your week thus far.

May Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Whippy Wednesday

Reposting because I think something happened.

 Progress for this past month

on my stitching.

Jeny Brimer first,

When you have finished one row and then

you get to to the final letters of the row

underneath...and realize you made a mistake.

Do you frog it out? 

Cut the floss out and re-stitch?

Or just move on?

Do you see my error?

I stitched the teal blue letter "W" wrong.

I am leaving it.

I dont' care.

Added in my grandfather's names/ dates.

Glad I decided to do this pattern for 

my grandfathers as there are lots of the browns and blues.

The motifs will have more color though.

Almost Finished with the letters now.

I do not understand any of these.

They must have had some meaning to 

Jeny though.

While most of the samplers I chose

for my heritage wall had alphabets included

in the patterns...

Jeny Briner does not have an entire alphabet.

Therefore I used my resource book for

 the perfect alphabet to add in my grandparents names.

I went to the alphabets and chose one that 

was seven stitches high like the others in the pattern.

This book also has various sized numbers and lots

of motifs. A great resource book for stitchers. 

Made more progress on Elizabeth Manners 1843.

Finished stitching the quote/ saying. 

Although you cannot tell from this pic,

am stitching this on 35 count Angel Hair linen,

which has a yellow tone to it.

Also I am loving the rich colors in this piece.

Progress on Faith 1831.

Finished the second swag plus 

the final half swag and border on the right.

Now I need Faith to finish the one over one

saying in the middle.

Either that or I just need to put my big girl panties

on and plug along.

I detest one over one can you tell?

Finally Floral Motif Sampler.

Managed to only get one more motif stitched.

Am loving this pattern though.

Hope to get more stitchy time on this one 

this month....then again I want to stitch

more patriotic...so who knows what will win out.

In other news,

my brother and I met my friend Monday

at my mom's house to discuss her doing

the estate sale for us.

She said it was a lot of stuff...but not the worst

house to set up for an estate sale.

I told her I could help her out 3 days a work...

so that made her feel better.

Bob got out our Blackstone grill and made

chicken kabobs also on Monday for us.

I made potato salad to go with on Sunday.

We had so much leftover we had kabobs for dinner

again on Tuesday and made a rice pilaf.

Also Tuesday, our friend Ed and doggie sitter

came by to see us and his granddog.

We affectionately call him Grandpa Ed.

He and his wife snowbird to Florida in the Winter.

He returned Sunday .

When Tundra saw him get out of his car

he started whining so loud and started

pawing the wondow.

When he approached the door, he was waiting

for him and was so excited.   

It was a wonderful reunion.

Tonight we are going on a buying pick for our store

 around dinner time.

I received a gift certificate to one of

our fav restaurants nearby, so that will be dinner.

An Italian restaurant....cannot wait.

Hope everyone is enjoying your week thus far.

May Blessings To All!

Janice

Spring Mantles

 

These are my Spring mantles for 2026. 

Am trying to keep things more simple.

Our living room one.

We actually had a fire to curb the dampness

from the rainy day we had.

Next is our Keeping room mantle.

With textiles, bowls, document box and one bunny.

Plus my two canning crocks.

Finished the Spring Saltbox patterns

last year.

Had them framed and saved for this year.

Now working on the Summer ones.

Found me a German rabbit.

Ain't he cute!

Loving this other simple look.

In other news,

Took mom to get her weigh in and bloodwork 

done again the other day. She is losing weight again.

Went from 110.6 to 107.4.

Her doctor wants to see her every 2 weeks now.

Mom complained and I told her

"well if you keep eating sweets and no protein

then you will have to continue going every 2 weeks."

Not to mention your teeth are horrible now. 

She needs 2 teeth pilled and a partial

completed on 2 others.

After our 1 1/2 hour trip to the doctor,

I took her to lunch.

She ate walleye and fries with a dinner roll.

I had a 2 slices of personal deep dish 

pepperoni and ham pizza with a side salad.

Both were lunch specials.

I then had to go to our local cable company

to find out why my bill went up.

Was told in February when I signed up

for a new plan that I was locked in for 3 years.

The young lady told me it was because

the cable rates went up in January,

I again told her I signed up in February,

Then again she tells me the rate went up in January.

I politely said I understand what you are trying

to say, but January comes before February

and the rate hike would have already happened.

She had no answer then...she then

put my rate back down.

Once again we were under a freeze warning.

Wish Mother Nature would make up her mind.

It was another cold chilly day yesterday,

so I made a Mexican pork chili to warm us up.

Paired with a cold beer it was great I must say.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.

Hope in your neck of the woods the weather

is cooperating.

Will you be watching the Kentucky Derby?

I realize it is the longest running sport in Louisville.

I also realize it helps the town with all of the

festivities, food and fireworks.

However most of you know I am not a fan of it,

because about 10 minutes from me is a farm

that brings in horses from Kentucky for slaughter.

It's the ugly truth with horses that DONT win.

They are trucked in up here and sent to Canada.

Just remember not every horse is a winner.

Most owners wont keep them if they dont produce.

The sad truth about horse racing.

Spring Mantle Blessings To All!

Janice