PhotoHunt - Creative

This week's PhotoHunt theme is "Creative"

I shot this photo back at the end of March when my friend Tracey and I were wandering around the country side checking out antique/junk/shops in our area.  I thought this was a creative display of all kinds of padlocks and how they've changed over time.

Finished finished!

 Eat, Sleep, Stitch

Cherrywood Designs

my personal motto!

Somehow on Monday I was motivated to do a little finishing... I mean a little.  These two pieces had been all sewn up for weeks now, all I needed to do was stuff them and sew them up!  How lazy have I been????  So Monday I pulled them out and just got them done!

Gone Fishing

Jane Grenoff

a little something for Todd, the fisherman in my life!

IHSW Review

Hunter was enjoying the beautiful evening tonight

 

I'm a little behind in my IHSW report which was this past weekend.  It was a long weekend, I was off Saturday-Monday.  Which allowed for a lot of stitching time!

I didn't hermit too much, once again as I had stitching friends over Friday-Sunday.  My main focus this past weekend was to finish up an exchange piece, which I did Sunday morning.  Of course I can't share it with you just yet.  Sadly no pictures of this HD just yet.

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Stitched on: 28ct Antique Green Jazlyn

Stitched with: DMC 75

Sunday afternoon I started working on my ornament for the month of May.  I really should of posted my progress of this piece on Monday night, which by that time I was just over 1/2 way stitched up.  But, I didn't I kept stitching away and look, its now a HD!  Sadly I have no information for this piece as its a printout from a few years ago with no information on it.

Letter D

Rosewood Manor

Stitched on: 14ct Aida

Stitched with: DMC

I have a second HD to share with you, this I stitched up tonight.  Its an initial block, for the friendship quilt I'm having put together.  I found out the other day we needed one more stitched block so an initial block it is.

I took a few other great pictures on the weekend I wanted to share with you.

 Ferns almost all unfurled!

Dwarf Irises have bloomed

 

 Bleeding hearts

Caught this bumble bee in action

Victoria Day Weekend TUSAL

I'm a day late in posting my TUSAL, not only has it been the monthly TUSAL this weekend but its also the IHSW weekend, well its a long weekend here in Canada (Victoria Day... thanks Queen Victoria I love celebrating your b-day!) so I'll post my IHSW progress tomorrow since I still have stitching time left!

So first to the important stuff!  The TUSAL!  We've had a glorious and hot weekend here so my ort jar (vase) and I ventured into the great outdoors for this month's photo shoot.

Every year for Victoria Day I'm very lucky and treated to fireworks in the little village I live in... and they happen to set them off in the farmer's field behind my house!  So I can go out on the back deck (well not much of one really) and enjoy them in my pj's!  This year I dug out my tripod and DSLR and played with leaving the lens open to catch multiple firwork bursts in one shot.  Here's a few of the fun shots I got... if you're my friend on FB you can go see them all there!

PhotoHunt - Magical

This week's PhotoHunt theme is "Magical"

This was the magical sunset I got to witness as we arrived in the Dominican Republic in February of this year.

PhotoHunt - Scoop

This week's PhotoHunt theme is "Scoop"

I took this picture in February of this year at a sugar refinery in Consuelo, Dominican Republic.  This big piece of machinery scoops up the raw sugar cane and dumps it into the opening in the ground which moves the cane into the refinery to be turned into sugar.

May WIPocalypse

This last Saturday was the full moon, a super moon!  Holy cow was it birght!  I spent some time stitching with Tracey in the evening and as I drove home the moon was so bright I almost wanted to pull my sun visor down on my car!

I was just plain lazy on Sunday, taught Taekwon-Do Monday night and had my big award Tuesday night!  Its been busy.  But I've finally had the time to sit down and share my report with you.

In the last month I've not stitched as much as I liked and usually do, its been a combination of busy/lazy and tired!  Here are my WIPs to date:

 The Accolade

 Seasonal Mandalas - Spring

Snow White (crappy picture, whites blown out)

Since last month I've alos managed to finish :

 Beading and dreamcatcher on Earthdancer

Seasonal Mandalas - Winter