Stitcher's Place update #6

Labour Day Monday I sat and stitched most of the afternoon and evening.  I even started backstitching.

Stitcher's Place update #5

Sunday I worked on Stitcher's Place by Tiny Modernist.  Here is my progress even with the frogs visiting.

Stitcher's Place update # 4

Tonight I worked on Stitcher's Place by Tiny Modernist.  I stitched the blue shutters on the right side of the store and the brown roof.

Snowman Wisdom update #9

Tuesday night is Stitcher's Club at my LNS (Stitcher's Place).  I didn't get alot of stitching done ... more shopping and talking.  I bought the new Just Nan charts - Witchy Pumpkin Cottage (cube), Witchy's Sister Mouse and some 28ct Mushroom evenweave for the mouse.

Here is the little progress I made on Snowman Wisdom, 5 white snowflakes and started the tree.

September Goals 2015

I still don't know where summer went, it seems to fly by faster each year.  I took a long needed break from blogging, and cross stitching.  Hopefully my stitching mojo has returned for awhile I have lots of things I'd like to accomplish before the year is over.

September Goals

Work on Tiny Modernist - Stitcher's Place SAL (photo taken this morning).

Work on Snowman Wisdom by Sue Hillis (first half is done - photo was taken on April 22).

I will start out small, let's see how much I get stitched this month.

Summer Exchange 2015

Tonight was our Summer Exchange at my LNS (Stitcher's Place).  There were 6 participants.   I made a Summer Welcome pillow / pincushion for Heather.

Heather got my name and gave me a beautiful Just Nan Summer Humbug.

Building a Garden Shed

Sorry it has been awhile since I blogged.  July was busy with outdoor projects (the painted chairs) and the beginning of August was building a garden shed.  The kit was bought from Costco and was extremely simple to build.  The hard work was building the base and drainage area to sit it on.

We bought 25 bags (28L each) of dirt to level the ground because our yard slopes.

This is the drainage area 22 bags (30L each) of 3/4' rocks.  We brought about 4 bags to the backyard at a time with the wheel barrow.

This photo shows the black floor of the shed sitting on top of the wooden base which is sitting on top of the drainage area. 

Then we built the shed.  It is a small shed (3 1/2'D x 7'W x 100"H), but it is perfect for storing garden tools and the lawnmower.

Dave & I have been on vacation since 5pm on August 7th.  We invited my mother-in-law to visit us for from New Brunswick.   This week we made mustard pickles (18 jars) and mustard beans (7 1/2 jars) which was Dave's grandmother's recipe.