Retirement Party

Here is my weekly CHS stocking post late again. Does anyone have information on the scissors? I paid $5 for them at the flea market. I thought think they are very interesting. They have the center cut out and the ornate rollers on them.
The rollers do not adjust the scissors so I wonder if they are just for decoration purposes, but if you know something about them I would be interested to know. They are marked Howard Cutlery Company, Germany. I also started Esther Yeakel, but not enough to show any real progress.

I traded some of my cherries for raspberries. I can't wait to make a cobbler. Now if I could just trade cherries for cross stitch supplies, that would be awesome! lol!

Friday brought lots of changes to my world. The lady that does payroll at my office resigned. She had a chance to advance to a new position. Although, I will miss her dearly, I am happy for her. She is such a hard worker and made the work place a fun atmosphere with her sense of humor.

On Saturday, the school corporation hosted a retirement party for Mr. Pride and his lovely wife Sara. Mr. Pride has served as superintendent for fifteen years at my school corporation. I have a lot of history with Mr. Pride. We have gone through two embezzlement cases, an IRS audit, not to mention all of the other regulation changes. I wish them both well on their new journeys.

My new boss will start on Wednesday. I am hoping for a smooth transition but with two key people leaving at the same time, I can't help but to feel a little stressed. I will be doing Mendy's job until they find someone else, hopefully it won't take too long.

I have a little teaser for the next post. It has to do with the movie Public Enemies about John Dillinger. I have some family history that involves him. No, we are not related but my aunt was working in one of the banks he robbed. More to come. Until, next time Happy Stitching!

CHS Stocking

I am posting my progress as promised. This is where I finished on Thursday, I have now completed page one. Woohoo! Now on to page two. Hopefully I can have this finished by the end of summer, that is my plan.


Here are a couple of flea market finds that I purchased over the weekend. At this particular flea market, you never know what you are going to find. There can be snakes, a man was walking around with it on his shoulders then there can be antiques. You just never know. It starts at daylight or before and it over usually by 10:30am depending on the crowd. I purchased an old hand turned crock and 3 hooked wool rugs and 2 wool seatcovers for less than $25. I also bought a glass frog to put my scissors in and a pair of scissors marked Howard Cutlery Company Germany.
Until Thursday, happy stitching!

Dutch Strawberries

I do have a finish TGH Dutch Strawberries on 40ct. Creme Brulee and NPI. I forgot to take a picture of my stocking. I will do that tomorrow. A lot going on here this week. It is cherry season in Indiana and I have three trees. My girls threaten to cut them down every year. Last year we picked and put away over 20 gallons. I kinda feel like the hen in story who will help me make the bread because no one likes to pick cherries but they don't have any problem eating the pies or jam. I don't mind picking, it is the pitting I don't like. I happened to find this handy dandy gizmo at the hardware store. Now it goes a lot faster with it. It can pit as faster as you can work the plunger.

We also had a bad storm roll through here Friday night. My patio furniture ended up in the side yard while I took cover in the basement. My neighbor had a huge tree blow over by the strong winds. DH had an outside fire going on and I heard the wind pick up and decided to look out. On the other side of the house I saw hot ashes in the air. Not good! I am not sure which would have been worse the house burning down or a tornado. Luckily, neither happened.

While I was out taking pictures of the damage. Tuffy thought he would visit the geese. Funny thing, they don't like Tuffy. He wanted them to come out and play duck, duck, goose and they were not up for games. In fact, I am pretty sure they would like to have held him under the water with all the hissing they were doing.

I promise to post an update on my stocking but until next time, Happy Stitching!

Mermaid Bird Bath

Not to much to report this week. I did finish Love Letters. It is such a sweet design.
Here is my weekly CHS stocking SAL update.
This is a picture of sweet Sidney. She is my 5 years old pomeranian and my protector. She has a great personality. You can tell it was a hot and humid day here with her tongue hanging out.

I heart the Home Goods Store. They have such cool things. Over the weekend, I found this Mermaid birdbath that I had to have. My dh is a masonry contractor, in the background, you see an old black hodcarrier. He thought it was the perfect place to set my birdhouse. Wasn't exactly what I was going for but it will work for now.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving comments. Until next time, happy stitching!

1800 Love Letters

I started a new design this week. The Primitive Needle's 1800 Love Letters. I am using 36ct. PTP Heritage and recommended threads. I think it is a very cute design and appropriate for my anniversary. George & I will be married 28 years this Saturday.



Now for my weekly CHS Progress.

Thank you for your prayers for George. George's MRI results showed he had a stroke 20 years ago but not on race day. Thank goodness. All of George's other tests came back negative. The doctor thinks George was drugged. He drank from an open container from the people sitting behind him, then twenty minutes later he was slurring his words and collapsed. You can't trust anyone these days. He is doing fine and back to work. I wanted to thank you for thinking of us. It could have been a lot worse.

Until next time, Keep stitching!