Quote of the Week - HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter to my love!

As days turn into daze,

Perhaps the holiday will prove

Potent to your gaze.

Years pass like a blur, and yet

Eternity stands still,

Available in silhouette,

Seen by act of will.

This day may you be touched by grace,

Embraced by love, my passion moved,

Reborn to time and place.

My update...

I haven't been posting much as my projects are taking a little longer these days due to my obsession with Facebook. (Hey, might as well come clean!) I was also away this weekend and spent 4 days visiting with my daughter in Arizona.

I stitched some squares for my partner in the "Fair & Square" exchange and I will post pictures of them when they are in her hands. I've also been concentrating on my crocheting and still need to finish the blanket I started for my grandson who is due in late May. I did finish a lap blanket for a friend who will donate it to her church as part of a fund raiser. I hope it helps them out. My last crochet project was a pillow for a special gal who celebrated her birthday on March 23rd. She's a very big Oakland Raiders fan so it's done in black and silver and the number is of course her date of birth.

Quote of the Week

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

-- Abraham Lincoln

Happy birthday Mom!

Birthday wishes and tons of love for my mother who today turns 75.

Quote of the Week

"Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life it too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it."

-- Gloria Swanson

Weekly Update

I concentrated all my stitching efforts to finishing "He Is Risen" and put the last stitches in it last night while watching TV. I love how this piece turned out and look forward to framing it and hanging it with the rest of my LHN pieces.

He is Risen

by Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks

Just Cross Stitch, March/April 2010

Quote of the Week

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

-- Abraham Lincoln

P.S. Daylight Savings Time 2010 takes place this Sunday, March 14th.

Spring is in the air...

Okay maybe it's just wistful thinking considering how chilly it's out there tonight at 49 degrees. Perhaps my flowers and plants know something I don't cause they are starting to blossom and hence giving me hope that Spring is around the corner. I took these photos this weekend in our front yard. The bougainvillea and aloe vera are sprouting and our black lily actually had four blossoms this year. Our friend "Woody" wakes us up each morning.

Weekly Update

After finishing my model for LHN I was ready to tackle a new piece and chose to go with He is Risen featured in the March/April 2010 issue of the Just Cross Stitch magazine. This is my progress to date:

Sunshine Award

My friend Sherry of Cross Stitching Wiccan Blog gave me this little bit of sunshine. I was lucky enough to meet her a few years back at a stitching retreat in TX and we've bonded ever since. This award is presented to bloggers whose positiveness and creativity inspires others in the blog world. Thanks Sherry.

So what's next?

1. Place the award on your blog on within your post.

2. Pass the award on to 12 sunny bloggers.

3. Link to the nominees within your post.

4. Let them know they received this Award by commenting on their blog.

5. Share the link and love to the person from whom you received this award.

I pass this along to the following people:

Colleen Colleen's Cross Stitch...

Brenda Brenda Lou's Place

Tracy TDee's Cross Stitch

Julianne Julianne's Stitching Corner

Mary Kathryn eHandcrafts Stitching Room

Vonna The Twisted Stitcher

Su Contemplating my needle and thread

Siobhan Notes from Blue Hen Hollow

Renee Renee's Stitching

Nicole Nicole's Needlework

Sherry Blog It

Liz In My Element

Quote of the Week

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

-- Unknown