Autumn has arrived!

My favorite season is here! I just love this time of year. The cool crisp air, the smell of goodies baking in the oven, seeing all the pumkins around town... Oh just to take it all in!

I have already baked an apple pie....

And oh! It is soooo delicious!! But I need to stop eating so much of the goodies and start working out on my treadmill... I will be starting today as it just arrived . No more walking outside worrying about stray dogs and weather! I have no excuses now!

I have been stitching more on my Harriet Elizabeth Coe by Brenda Gervais.. Here is where I am at..

I am absolutely in love with this piece!! I truly love sitting with my tea and stitching every chance I get on this design. Sooo enjoyable!

With the Fall upon us now a new member has entered our family. I had a choice of colors and that was quite a difficult decision .. I chose black. Although I liked the cinnamon red, I felt safe going with a color that would blend with any decor changes I made in my kitchen. Here she is!

A new professional series 6 qt kitchen aide stand mixer. These are by far the greatest mixers to work with. (In my opinion) I had a smaller version in white that was 24 years old and just now part of a knob broke off (just a little plastic piece)... But it was still running after 24 years!! They are pretty much workhorses. They may seem expensive but when they last that many years, well, you surely are getting your money's worth.

I had some visitors in our yard recently. Praying mantis! Interesting little bugs... Or should I say big bugs!

We celebrated our daughters 19th birthday! Our daughter is such a blessing to us.

Wishing you all a wonderful Fall Season! Happy Baking!

Louise

Stitching Finishes hooray!

Been busy working on some small pieces. I was thumbing through an old magazine of Just Cross Stitch issue May/June 1986 and came across this lovely design called "The Sewing Sampler" by Margaret & Margaret Inc.

I just knew I had to stitch it when I saw a verse taken from the bible, Ecclesiastes 3:7

I stitched this piece on 32 count linen with Anchor threads

I truly enjoyed working on this piece and there is another design called "The Needles Prayse" in this same issue that I would love to stitch also. 

Here is the picture of Needle's Prayse to be found in this issue... Love, love, LOVE it! I love Samplers! I think I have gone Sampler mad! :P

I am so glad someone gifted me with all these old magazines, they are a treasure trove filled with old sampler designs!

I have also finished another piece titled "The Sampler House" by Brenda Gervais.

Have I told you how much I love her designs? Well I do!! I have quite a few of her designs on my wish list. Such a talented designer! 

Here is my finished piece, stitched on 28 count Evenweave with DMC and Anchor threads:

I was gifted with a cute Heinzit chart with charms from my sweet stitching friend Teal. How appropriate! Here is my finished piece for my son. Stitched on

28 count Evenweave with DMC

I added the stitched anchors because the chart didn't have any. Love the way this came out! Will proudly display it in my Sons room. ❤️⚓️

Thank you Teal!

I did some baking of Irish Soda Bread yesterday. The house smelled so yummie as the bread was quite yummie too!

I must make the traditional corned beef and cabbage for Saint Patricks Day..although I am not Irish, my husband is :)

Any reason to bake and I'm in!!

I made four nice sized loaves. I use the same recipe every year and it never fails me. It is so delicious!

You can find the recipe on my recipe blog. Just look on the right side of my blog and click the link with the picture of the little girl for the recipe blog.

I hope you have an enjoyable weekend. We are supposed to have wonderful weather today.

Blessings to you,

Louise xx

The Sampler House

I have started stitching The Sampler House by Brenda Gervais

Love, love, love this design so far!

I am stitching this on 32 count even weave with DMC threads. Picking colors of my choosing. I have really fallen in love with Brenda's designs! I want to keep stitching them :)

Here is my progress so far:

Oh! I just love this design! I want to keep stitching and don't want to stop. I know I want to frame this one too, along with my Paper Snowflake finish. I will have to take a shopping trip one day soon to pick out special frames.

More updates soon...

❤️Louise