May first, already? Goodness, I've been gone from this little place for a long time. Surely wasn't intentional but life has been busy and full! Each May, my children have enjoyed delivering homemade goodies to our neighbors, no matter where we lived. Some years it would be cookies, others handpicked flowers or weedy flowers in homemade paper baskets. This year they made these adorable seed pot baskets filled with either Dove chocolates or a bird sitting on little eggs. Our neighbors thought they were cute and enjoyed their homemade goodies. Here's a link to the directions:
Peat Pot Baskets
Remember, I've been working on UFO's? Well, here's a huge one that I finally finished! This piece is called The Marriage of Minds by The Drawn Thread. I started this project over ten years ago and hoped to complete it by our 20th wedding anniversary. Well, we celebrated our 30th anniversary this past August. It was a little overdue! But I did finish it, so that's a plus, right?
It's now on my living room wall and I couldn't be happier with it! There are a lot of specialty stitches in it and it was a fun project.
The wording is from Shakespeare.
I picked up in the winter right where you see, "It is an ever..." and finished it up last month. We were all sick for a good part of the winter this year so I spent a lot of time on the couch stitching.
On the original pattern, the wording at the end reads, Twenty tempestuous years. I don't think our thirty years have really been tempestuous, even though we have had our share of ups and downs. More fitting for us, I thought, was Thirty fruitful years! With seven kiddoes I thought that fit us better!
