Pink Saturday

Here we are again, where did the week go. I haven't had time to visit your blogs this week as I was helping out at an office. I enjoyed my week helping out.

Beverly is our wonderful host once again hope you take some time to visit her site and check out all the bloggers that are participating this week.

My first photo is a little gift I bought today to send to my hubby's aunt in England I know she will enjoy it. The other photo is not really pink but thought you might like to see this little parakeet that came to visit our bird feeder last Saturday. Tried to get the Cardinal that was with him but just got his tail so he was too fast for me.

Hope you all have a wonderful Pink Saturday.

Pink Saturday

I missed a couple of Pink Saturday's but thought I would join Beverly our wonderful host and all the great blog participants. Please visit as many as you can to see all the wonderful displays.
I thought I would show you a photo of a painting that my youngest daughter painted. I had a hard time taking a clear photo of this as it is in a frame with glass in front. The background is printed paper. I think she did an amazing job. She is a very talented young lady. We are very proud of her. Her main craft of choice just now is Scrap booking and has made some amazing Memory Albums. Enjoy your Pink Saturday and thanks for stopping by.

A Nice Surprise

Well it has been a few days since my last post. We have been busy getting ready to have a bathroom installed in our basement. In order to do that I had to empty two closets OMG what to do with all that stuff LOL. I had to get rid of some clothes that I have been hanging on to and I really tried to be ruthless. I got rid of 9 large bags of clothes. I still have too much stuff then yesterday had to move a bookcase and it is filled with my Threads magazines and quilt books and magazines. I have a pile of magazines to take to the Guild next meeting.

Last week my youngest daughter who is still at home with us came down with Strep throat and was pretty sick, so took care of her poor girl could not get out of bed hardly all week. She is better now and went back to work yesterday. When she came home with a beautiful bouquet of flowers for me for taking such good care of her, what a nice surprise she is so sweet.

I am also adding a photo of our hostas in our garden such a beautiful colour this year. Then a photo of a mail box that my daughter painted for us, there are several different boards that fit into the front slot, one for each season that she has painted and I just love it. I picked up a couple pairs of these red mittens for two of my daughters who will be going to Europe with my grandson to play hockey thought that they could show off our Canadian Flag while they are there. Have a wonderful day now I have to get back to my paper piecing.

Tea Things Tuesday

Kim is our host once again this week, check out all the participants on her blog.

I would like to show you my Tea night light that I have in my kitchen for quite a while. Also a little sewing machine Teapot, and my apron that I just had to have when we went to Harrods in London England it is made of oil cloth and has teacups all over it. I also have this little frame with a photo of me serving at a Tea party that I planned for several volunteers where I worked.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful day.

Life is so very precious

Thought I would pop in to let you know how very thankful we were this Thanksgiving. Our daughter was in a horrible car accident and thankfully she will be fine. Lots of bruising and soreness, good thing she had side air bags, her car was totalled but that can be replaced. She will have lots of physio, but in a few months she will be fine.

I decided the other day to put aside my Orange Peel paper piecing and quilt a lap quilt top that I had put together a while ago with scraps from another lap quilt. It is made of flannel and it is time to have a cozy lap quilt around for the winter. I embroidered the large pink squares on my embroidery machine and then did cross hatch in the smaller squares. I also quilted a small Advent wall hanging for a friend just stitched around the trains, she has to add the buttons for the wheels. The train cars are pocket for candy etc. I think she did an awesome job on this wall hanging.

Tea Things Tuesday

Kim is our host today for Tea Things Tuesday visit her and check out all the participants.
I would like to show you my Teapot lamp that my friend gave me several years ago I just love it. It sits on a little shelf in our kitchen. I love anything tea.

Pink Saturday

Here it is again Beverly is our delightful host check out her site to see all the participants.

I found three more items around the house that I would like to share with you. The first is a little heart shaped musical jewellery box that I have had for several years. You can see a pink necklace that I keep in this box that a friend made for me. I also would like to share with you a little bookmark that was my grandmothers, she had it in her prayer book. Hope you all have a wonderful Pink Saturday.

Indian Orange Peel Arcs

I have been working on and off on my Indian Orange Peel quilt. I thought I had finished making the arcs I had 60 done whew. My friend who is making this quilt to, reminded me that the pattern said 120 arcs. Oh my goodness, so I got all the pieces out and made more. I now have 90 made and only 30 to go and that is just one part of this totally paper pieced quilt.

Like everyone I am always working on several project at a time.

Tea Things Tuesday

Kim is our host again today for out tea things Tuesday, please stop over and check out the participants.

As some of you know we have had some friends stay with us from the UK. While they were here, they bought me a teapot at one of the little shops in Niagara on the Lake. It is just beautiful and I thought you would like to see it. It is made by Franz I had not seen any of these teapots or their gorgeous china pieces before. It is called Bamboo Songbird.

Pink Saturday

Well it is nice to be back in blogging land, as some of you know we have had out of town guests for the past week and we have been doing all the tourist outings. We had a great time, at Niagara Falls, Niagara on the Lake, Downtown Toronto, St Jacobs, etc. Here are a few photos not all pink but did frame them for you in pink. The first one is of a tea set I saw in a one of several boutiques we popped into. Another is of an Amish wagon that came down the road in St. Jacobs a beautiful gal got out of the wagon and went into a bakery everyone was taking her photo, I didn't think it was quite appropriate, however we went into the bakery to check out the cakes etc and while we were in there the young Amish gal passed me and I said to her do you ever get tired of people taking your photo she gave me a big shy smile.
The other photo I have today is one I took while we were in the Maple Syrup Museum they are several maple syrup jugs I thought it was a wonderful collection.
Be sure to stop by Beverly's to see the many other blogs that are participating today. Hope you have a wonderful Pink day and thanks for stopping by.

Pink Saturday

I didn't think I would be able to participate in Beverly's Pink Saturday this week but here I am. We have house guests and took a trip to Niagara Falls today and had a great day. Here are a few photos for you to enjoy. One of the falls and two of some pink we saw at one of the shops.

Tea Things Tuesday

I had a bit of time so decided to join in on Tea Things Tuesday with Kim as a host. While I was cleaning I had to wash all my nick knacks on the kitchen shelf. I thought I would make a photo collage with all the little tea things that were on the shelf. It is amazing how many tea things I have LOL these are only a few of them.
Enjoy.

Pin Cushion Plant

I have spent the last few days getting some very needed cleaning out of stuff LOL. My grandson had a hockey tournament this weekend and everyone went and I wanted to stay home and get lots done. I feel like I am almost ready for my out of town guests to arrive. The come on Thursday so I will be ready for sure, and feel so good about the clean out of kitchen cupboards, all the vanities and the basement. Whew feels great.
We are going to add a new bathroom in our basement next month and we ordered all the supplies and while we were at Home Depot I found this incredible little plant called the Pin Cushion Plant it is very tiny. The pot is only about 2", it was a little difficult getting a clear photo. The greenhouse name of the plant is Nertera and has very tiny orange balls the size of a large pin head. I had to have it of course.

Pink Saturday September 19th

Beverly is our wonderful host once again please drop by her place and check out all the wonderful participants. I would like to feature Tina it was my first time visiting and I truly enjoyed her blog so pop over and say hello.


Today I would like to show your a couple of pieces of my Royal Winton the dish on the left has little holes on the top I think for spoons although I do not have them and it has a little pedestal. The three pieces on the right are all separate I love the little spoon shovel.

More Journals

Here are a few more journals, now I have to clean my Sewing Studio again. LOL By the way my family thinks I am crazy calling my little room a Sewing Studio. I have gotten carried away with making these journals. They are sure fun to make but I have to get ready for out of town company coming next week to stay with us for a week so have to get organized. The first photo is the fronts and the last is the backs. Hope you like these there will probably be more in my future.
PS Forgot to say, these are a great way to play with built in stitches on our machines.

Pink Saturday September 12th

Beverly is our host once again, so pop over to check out all the participants in this weeks Pink Saturday.

I have been having fun making journals, using the mountain of scraps that I have. Although I have made 5 in the last couple of days my scraps seem to be like the loaves and fishes. One of the journals I madeis for my daughter, it has an embroidered patch on it of our dear family dog who passed away about 4 years ago. He was her pal. I had a photo of him and used my embroidery software to create the stitches to stitch it out on my embroidery machine. Hope you all have a wonderful Pink Saturday.

Scraps and Journals

I spent yesterday trying to get my sewing studio :) tidy, dusted and vacuumed. All done and looked great. I was checking out some blogs after I finished and came across Jill's blog and she was making journals from scraps. So because I still have a bin of scraps, a huge bin I might add I figured that it would be fun to try some. I know I should be working on my Orange Peel quilt but it will get done one of these days. Jill gave a link to a tutorial for the Journal. I managed to find some blocks that I had embroidered in my scrap bin. So far I made two Journals, actually they were fun to do and I think well I know I will make more. They said that these are addictive and well I agree. LOL.

Labour Day and a Labour of Love

On Saturday I was going through my sewing scraps and came across some diamond scraps, from several diamond quilts I had made. These were inspired from one of Kaffe Fassett's books. I remember thinking they would be nice place mats. Well I had so many that I thought a lap quilt would be good so I placed them on the floor to see what it would look like and here is what I came up with. It is 48" X 78" I had 2 diamonds left over.

Pink Saturday

Here it is again, where did that week go, where did the summer go?? I made another mosaic they are addicting LOL. I put a few photos together, two plates you see were my grandmothers. I always loved them, she had them displayed in her kitchen nook on a plate rail. There are eight of the one with the green border. They were hand painted in Germany. The other plate is one of her cake plates. One of the flower photos a pink Hydrangea from our garden. There is also a photo of little pink bag, and a ceramic, tea party that reminds me of our quilt group. LOL The last photo is of a quilt top that I made, some of the blocks are embroidered. I have to get busy and quilt it soon just needs to be sandwiched.

Beverly
is our host once again for our Pink Saturday. Stop by her blog and check out all the participants.

My First Photo Mosaic

I have been admiring the photo mosaics that a lot of bloggers have been displaying and I loved them. I finally had a bit of time to play and it is really a fun thing to play with. I downloaded Picasso 3 and just started clicking LOL. That is what I usually do. Here are some photos of my DH and I most are very very old photos that I found on some slides and had them put on a cd. Boy where did those years go??

Aren't These The Cutest

The other day I was talking to my friend Judi and was thinking about the kids going back to school and thought it would be a good idea for the kids to have a hand sanitizer in a little pouch to clip on their schoolbags. Since the flu season is a little more scary this year. I wrote Reen at embroiderygarden.com and asked her is she could do one up. She wrote me back and said that Carol at http://moosebstitchin.net/newest_design_sets.htm had them so I decided to purchase the design and made a couple up today. I think they would be great for our handbags too. These are for the 2oz bottles I have to get some at the drugstore. The one I have here is a little small. I think I had better get busy for my grand kids. Hopefully they will be kewl enough for the teenagers LOL.

Pink Saturday

Beverly once again is our host for Pink Saturday. Today I would like to show you a photo of a jacket I made a couple of years ago, I did the embroidery on the pattern pieces before I put it together. The other photo is of a lap quilt I made using embroidery designs I bought at Embroidery Library of gerbera daisies. It was fun to make. Hope you enjoy visiting the other participants and have a wonderful Pink Saturday.

Finished A Robe

I had some fleece and had the pattern to make a long robe for the winter that is on its way. I decided to just get it cut up and embroidered and stitched. Whew all finished. Happy to have some more of my stash used up. I did the embroidery on the pieces before I put it together. Another job done.

GIVEAWAY WINNER

Today is the day to choose the winner for my giveaway the winner is bluebird
Thanks so much for participating in my giveaway, as soon as you contact me I will post your gift.

A Day Out With The Girls

Today was one of our little quilt groups member's birthday Gladys it is her 89th birthday and she does not look a day over 60. We decided to take her out for her day to a little tea shop in Waterdown, Ontario. It is called Tea At The Whitehouse we had a wonderful lunch but we were missing one of our dear members Jeannie she had another appointment today, we missed her. While we were out we stopped at a quilt shop The Quilters' Dream, then we stopped at a couple of gift shops before we had lunch. On the way home I wanted to stop at a little shop called The Little Craft Shop and when we walked in I saw a cedar chest that I fell in love with. Not sure my DH would even want to spend the money on it let alone want me to bring another thing into this house LOL. Well he said if you want it I will go get it and off he and my son went to pick it up. How wonderful is that. So I think I got a present on Gladys's birthday.

Gift From Our Daughter

Yesterday, our youngest daughter Veronica got home from a scrapbooking weekend. I had found some slides that my Mom had taken of me and my hubby a few months before we were married.(47 years ago) I took them and had them put on a cd, she took the photos and played with them in Photo Shop and then presented us with these pages she worked on at her class on the weekend. They are so amazing she did such a fantastic job. Well I am her Mom so I know they are amazing go check out her blog and see them I just know you will think they are wonderful too. Thanks Veronica you are the best.

Pink Saturday August 21st

Here we are again wow I was scurrying around my photos to find some pink for today's post and you will not believe what I found yes a photo of me 23 years ago. This was taken the day of my oldest daughters' wedding. I made my outfit, wedding gown and two brides maids dresses and the flower girls' dress. Boy where did those years go. I also found a photo of a wall hanging quilt I made using some of the laces from my daughters' wedding gown. This pattern was called The Federation quilt and there are so many different sewing and applique techniques in this quilt. The last photo is a little pink bag I made for my youngest daughter a few years ago.

Have a great day and don't forget to stop by our host Beverly to see all the links for all the Pink Saturday participants.


Don't forget to scroll down and enter my giveaway.

My Perfume Bottle and Some Pouches

About six months ago my perfume bottle that my sister had bought me 47 years ago for a wedding gift, fell off the dresser and the top broke in several pieces. I was so upset because I had treasured it for ever. I put all the pieces in a box and put it away. Yesterday I was thinking of all the altered bottles I have seen on several wonderful blogs and decided to drag it out. I tried to glue it with crazy glue but there were so many bits missing as when it fell part of it shattered. I decided to get my glue gun out and glue it as best I could and then I added some beads and voila it looks pretty good I think.
I also have been making little pouches, some are for hot chocolate, some for coffee and some for tea you can also use them for sugar substitute. I hope you like them.

Don't forget to scroll down and enter my giveaway.

I Have Been Awarded

The Bella Sinclair Award
I was delighted this morning to see that my friend Gypsy sent this award to me and I would like to pass it on to some very inspiring and creative bloggers that I have come across.
I am honoured to give this award to
Peg
Queenie
Sandi
Claudia
and Kaaren
Ladies, I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did, and want you to know how much I enjoy reading your blog. I each day get inspiration reading your post in Blogland. Rceiving comments is most enjoyable just to be in touch with everyone.
May you all now pass this along to five fellow bloggers who you feel offer friendship, sisterhood, sharing and caring. And may you have a wonderful day!

My 100th Post Giveaway

Well today is the day. I am delighted to have my first giveaway for my 100th post. This will run till August 27th so for the next 10 days, leave a comment on this post ONLY and add a link on your blog to have a chance to win, and if you are a follow you will have a second chance. Lets have fun. The tea cozy and tea pouch was made by me.

Altered Bottle

Today I was checking out some Shabby sites boy there are some wonderful ones out there. I came across some altered glitzy bottles. Hmmmm I thought I have an old perfume bottle that was my grandmothers and I had some rhinestones and some lace and here is what I came up with. The lid is on a little hinge and is sterling. Now I am not much of an artist but this was fun and I didn't even need glue LOL. Hope you like it. Tomorrow will be my 100th post and will have a giveaway stay tuned.

PINK SATURDAY

This week I want to show you a quilt that I started I would say maybe 6 years ago. It is called Fandango, the top went together in a few days. Then I decided that I was going to hand quilt it. I started and at the time I thought I can do this one block a week. LOL Well I really do not like to hand quilt so I have put it away and take it out now and then to do a few stitches. I think I had better get to it and finish it LOL.

I also would like to show your a little Cowgirl wall hanging I made and donated to a fundraiser for my grandson's hockey team last year. This was a fun little project to do and added lots of embellishments.

This Pink Flower is from my Hoya plant that a friend gave me years ago.

Stay tuned for my 100th post giveaway...this week..
Beverly
is the host of Pink Saturday, make sure you check out all the other participants.

My Nine Patch Top Finished

Well it is almost finished just needs to be quilted, not sure when I will get around to do that have a few others waiting for me to load on my B Line frame. This measures 82" X 90". Really too small for my king bed but will be nice on a queen or double. This was supposed to be done by July but am a little late finishing it. It was also supposed to made a dent in my scraps LOL but I think they multiplied. LOL.

I do have to get back to my Orange Peel Quilt thought I needed 60 arcs but it is 120 that I need. Oh well it is fun to paper piece a little at a time.
Now I do have to make something for my 100th post giveaway before I do anything.

Presentation of My Sea Glass

While at a quilting friends last week, we all marveled at the hosts hurricane with seashells it was really beautiful. I had been looking for some kind of vessel to display my sea glass that I have collected over the last 40 odd years. We lived on Staten Island a while ago and we had wonderful neighbours our children grew up together. They introduced us to the Jersey Shore and we rented a place there several years while we lived there and had wonderful times on the beach collecting sea glass together. We moved back to Canada in 1980 and we lost touch for a few years but one day my friend called and said they had bought a house in Lavallette and invited us to come. We did and a couple of years we rented a house there too. They built a new home and retired there and have been inviting us every year to spend a couple of weeks with them, it is just awesome. Here is my new hurricane with all my sea glass, I did not put the brown glass in I just wanted the blue green white and aqua and some shells collected over the years. Hope you like it.

Collage For A Friend

One of my quilting friends loved my collage of my grandmother I did a while back and asked me if I would do one for her. She gave me a photo of her grandmother and I played with it in Photo Shop. She told me she was a teacher so I added that to the collage. I used canvas as the base then I took another piece of canvas and used my felting machine to punch in lots of different fabrics and lame. Then I used a piece of silk and fringed the edges and then printed the photo on fabric and printed it out. Stitched the photo on to the silk. Then I added the embellishments. I then added it to a large frame. It is hard to photograph the framed photo.

Pink Saturday August 8th

Do you believe it is already Pink Saturday again, where did the week go. Beverley is our host again this week please stop by and check out all the participants.

Thought I would show you a pink tee shirt I embellished with an applique that was given to me from a gal who had three boxes of samples that she wanted to get rid of.

Also a Carpet Bag that I made a few years ago. I belong to a small quilt group that meet every Thursday to stitch, have muffins for breakfast, then we have lunch drink wine and have a blast. We all made several of these Carpet Bags they were sure fun to make. Hope you have a great Pink Saturday.

My Grandson was 16 Yesterday

We have seven grandchildren and one of them turned 16 yesterday boy does time fly. Pop over to my daughter's blog Veronica to check out the photos of him. I think he is very handsome.

Teacup Tuesday August 4th

Teacup Tuesday hosted by Kim. Instead of showing one of my fancy cups today, I decided to show you a fun cup and one of my many teapots with the matching cream and sugar. I have several pieces in this set. I did collect bunnies for a while. LOL. Hope you like my display today.

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Well I Finally Did It

I have been procrastinating for a very long long time now. I bought a B Line frame for my Janome 1600P sewing machine so I could quilt my own quilts on a short arm and when I say short arm I mean short LOL. Oh well would love to have an 18" machine but I don't. I practiced free motion on it but I wanted to do a pantogram on it and I bought the design last October would you believe. I loaded the quilt last week and then I did the first row, thought how the heck do you do the second row. I read all kinds of notes on the net. I really didn't quite understand them and I thought to myself what the heck just do it. I did and I finished it yesterday and I am quite pleased with it. It is by no means perfect but it is done. Here are some photos.

PINK SATURDAY ONCE AGAIN

Beverley
is our host once again for our Pink Saturday, please check out her site to see all the participants.


Thought you would like to see this little card that I had received from a friend a few years ago (1999). The back of the card says "Children at the Park" Edward Henry Potthast American, 1857-1927 it was an oil on canvas 20 1/4" X 24" from a Private Collection. I loved the image so I saved it.



Here is another pink photo. These I picked from our garden I just love hydrangeas, they are one of my favourite flowers. Hope you all have a wonderful Pink Saturday, and thanks for stopping by.

A Collage of My Grandmother For My Sister

Today I decided to make my sister the collage using my grandmother's photo. She liked mine but wanted a smaller frame than the one I did. I had a recipe that my grandmother had written in her own handwriting for years ago with her initials on it. I scanned it and printed it on a card stock paper and used it as the background of the collage. You can't see the whole recipe but the title and her initials on the top. I added a piece of plaid tartan, that my sister sent me of our maiden family name. I hope she likes it, it is in the mail on the way to her home.

Tomorrow I had better get back to my nine patch quilt.

Giveaway at Heidi's and a Photo of my Grandfather

There is another givaway at Heidi's check her out and also don't forget the givaway from Gypsy


Here is a photo of my Grandfather taken in 1887 he is on the bottom row left third one in. If you would like to grab this photo for a collage be my guest. He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Hope you enjoy this photo.

Another Pink Saturday

Beverley is our host once again for our Pink Saturday, check out her blog for more entries to Pink Saturday.

Here are some photos of pink seaglass and another photo of my daughter taken 15 years ago at Lavallette NJ. I love this photo of her, and I added one of my shells from my collection. Hope you enjoy your visit please come again.

A Wonderful Giveaway

Hi everyone! There is a beautiful giveaway over at Gypsylulu's

Rush right over and add your name to the list. You will love that prize. If the link does not work click on the title.

Tea Cup Tuesday

Here it is Tea Cup Tuesday again, I decided to show you a teapot that I had as a little girl aged 5. Sad to say the spout is chipped and the lid to the pot is chipped. I also am showing you a couple of teacup teabag pouches that I made with my embroidery machine all done in the hoop. They are fun to make.

My Favourite Place To Be

We are home now from a wonderful time at the beach. Everything was perfect lots of sunshine, wine and friendship and lots of great meals. Now I look like an old leather shoe LOL. Here are a couple of photos for you to see. We saw dolphans, but funny thing could not find much seaglass this year just a couple of white pieces. Guess the world has gone plastic. We had wonderful walks along the boardwalk and I just love walking in the sand. I bought a great framed photo of a shell and in the mat these words were written. No author but just signed NBL Studio.

"The tide recedes, but leaves behind bright seashells on the sand. The sun goes down but gentle warmth still lingers on the land. The music stops, yet echoes on in sweet, soulful refrains. For every joy that passes, something beautiful remains."

Hi From Lavellette NJ

Just popped in to say hello to all. We are having a wonderful time here at my favourite place to be Lavellette New Jersey on the Beach. The weather is amazing. We are staying with our wonderful friends enjoying everyday. I will post some photos when we get back home. Hugs to all.