Presents and updates

This wonderful piece of machine embroidery was sent to me by my sweet friend in Sweden, Johanna. She writes three blogs. One is about her embroidery, which a lot of is done by hand.  One blog is about Sweden and the third one is about her friends.  It is hard to believe they still have a lot of snow there. Spring is springing here finally.

For my birthday in February, I received these wonderful presents. Jo made the cute mouse pincushion. Karen knows I love Flamingo's, so she machine embroidered this cute pillow for me, and Marilyn made this quilt police pincushion.

My friend Jan gave me this wonderful bag of vintage yo yos.  There were finished one, which Charlies is counting for me, and fabric already cut and ready to make into more yo yos.  I love it.  This is a great take along project.   

From my quilting friend in France, I received this adorable fabric basket. (Just noticed, Charlies is checking this out too.)

Along with the basket came this plastic hexagons, to aid my progress in my  quest to make them.  There is a bag of goodies to much on, and this cute tray. I love trays, as they come in handy when I am stitching or crafting in the evening.

I made these two zipper pouches on Monday that I am giving to friends.

I know I have not written anything since Amy Bradley was here the end of March.  I so loved her class. I  still need to work on my project from her workshop.
Easter weekend I came down with something. Friday night I was up sick all night.  Saturday morning I finally fell asleep.  Whatever it was wore my out. I slept for the rest of the weekend. Easter Sunday, my husband made dinner.  I had shopped and planned to make a special dinner.  He made a bare bones meal, so he and Andy could eat. Ron  had baked the ham, and made scalloped potatoes and a vegetable.  I slept through it all.  By Monday I was trying chicken noodle soup.  I have still been feeling dumpy and not eating much.  (I guess this is the start of a diet?)

I have been sort of keeping busy. I have gotten a couple of quilt bound.  They have been sitting with the machine part done for many months. Now finally the hand part is done.
Time to get that energy back.  Spring seems to be here. We had the windows open the other day. It was so nice to have some fresh air in the house.  Some crocus, and miniature iris and daffodils have started to bloom.

In my efforts to reduce the clutter in our house, I have been cleaning out some closets and rearranging  them.  Now I have a big pile of things to donate. We have even worked on the garage.  Our house does not have a basement. I still have not decided if this is a good thing.  We have a crawl space. Unfortunately one half of it has a lot of things stored there.  It too is getting cleaned out.

I am keeping busy.  I am working on my Pom Poms for the next blog hop. Also, busy organizing "It's for the Birds", blog hop.  We will be traveling to Buffalo, New York, next week for the memorial service for Ron's step-dad's wife Betty.  She was a wonderful sweet lady. We are driving so have things to get ready for that.

Have a great rest of the week. Keep sewing!
Mary