Snowbound

 I made this Raspberry Coffee Cake yesterday as I was housebound because of the weather. Don't ask me how much of it is left!! It's a really good cake!! We had a good old blizzard, I rather enjoyed it. I am not a Winter hater, I think I am always going to get so much done in the winter but it doesn't usually work out for me somehow.. In the Winter I don't have to worry about all the weeds, deadheading plants and flowers, getting the lawn mowed and generally just sprucing things up a bit..so I should be planted at my sewing machine and getting some projects finished, right?  Here are some pictures of the snow yesterday. It was actually very, very pretty.

This area is where I have my Fairy Garden, the fairies were so smart to go South for the winter..

Light pole and redbud tree in background and a dead plant hanging on the pole!!

Looking out my kitchen window, all the windows had droplets on them from the blowing snow..

The lilac hedge that runs along my driveway

 

 

 

 

The Blue Spruce tree in my neighbors yard..

The temp yesterday was right around 34 degrees until night time when it went down. And by mid-afternoon, most of the snow had thawed/fallen off of the trees and bushes and etc. I am going to the basement and sew today and I'll let you know what I accomplished... Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day...

Fairy Garden 2014

Here are a few early pictures of my Fairy Garden this year. I didn't get anything new but just arranged it differently from the previous garden. Joel, my grandson, helped me so I had good help in making it. Enjoy!!

I hope the fairies have had fun dancing this year. Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day.....

A Friend's House/Garden Tour-Part 4

We are in the sunroom now, this is a little Winter fairy garden, cute, huh??

Another fairy garden

Let's go outside, it's decorated too!!1

Even the bunny didn't escape..

Antique tools on the fence...

Santa better get the sleigh ready, instead of napping!!!

Come sit awhile, I hope you enjoyed the tours..leave me a comment if you did, thanks...

Want a Peek at My Fairy Garden?

I have waited all summer to get this Fairy Garden to come to life..First, I waited for the tree stump to get transformed into the Fairy House. It still isn't painted but that will come eventually.  And I am waiting for the window frames to get made and nailed on. Gotta have windows, right?   I waited to plant/make the garden until after the roof was made and installed as I was afraid the garden would get stepped on and messed up. And then it was soooo hot, that I knew it would be useless to plant or transplant the foliage, we have finally had some cooler weather...So last week a friend came over and "we" planted, designed and fussed around and the fairy garden came to a reality!! Yeah, I'm so happy!! I have been collecting little things for several months and have been gifted with a few of the items too. Once you start thinking about something like this, a person is always on the lookout for "stuff" to go in the garden. I finished it off with coco bean hull mulch, oh yummy, that smelled like chocolate for the first several days and then I put the rocks around the border. I had a few rocks but had to beg a few from a friend and she was gracious enough to let me have some of hers.  Aren't friends the greatest? I still have a few more things that I want to do but there is always next year, I hope. Sew until next time, I hope the fairies are dancing in our gardens and I hope everyone has a Stitches kind of day...

Notice the 3 gazing balls,birdhouse, birdbath and the big ceramic mushroom

My fairies enjoying their garden.

More mushrooms, the mill, covered bridge and the abalone shell pond

Overall picture

Little Basket's

I had been wanting to make a basket quilt for sometime and found this little basket pattern in a book

at the library. It was used in an Advent Calendar but I really liked it especially because of the rounded edges and attached handle. So I started making them and didn't know how many I would make, just kept making them until I felt like I might have enough for a small quilt. The blocks measure 4" finished so they are pretty small.  All of the fabrics are Civil War repo's but the background is something that I have had for "many" years.  Then I decided it needed something in the border so I drew out a little rabbit, similar to many that I found on the net. My original rabbit had 2 ears, and 4 legs but simplified it to include just one ear and 2 legs.  I'm hand quilting it  and enjoying that a lot. I will show it to you again when it finished, which could be several months as I want to keep this project something to just pick up and work on when I need it..  I'll be back soon with pictures of my Fairie Garden, it's so cute!!  I love it!!  Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day.    

Fairie Garden Progress?

This is not my Fairie Garden House, so don't get too excited...

My Fairie Garden progress is next to nothing..However, I did get the trunk cut down to the size that I think will work..The above picture is one that I took in someone else's yard. That's more or less what I want to do with my tree trunk. I did get it cut down, now I'm waiting for my guy to come and build my roof..he said he would be here last Monday or Tuesday but so far, I have not seen the white's of his eyes!!!  I guess I must call him again soon.

It was a big trunk..

Can you see the Fairie Garden House????  I hope you will in the near future, they say Patience is a Virtue, well, how am I doing?????

My Fairie Garden Future Home

I have been planning and looking for fairie garden "stuff" since last winter. I have been buying a few plants, and couple have been given to me and I want to get started!!! I've been nursing the plants along now for over 2 weeks and they need to be in the ground. But alas, I have a tree trunk that needs to be cut off and I can't seen to get anyone here to do it. I have contacted a tree cutter twice this spring and he has never shown up. What's a person to do??  The picture above is the  future home of the fairies, not very attractive, is it??

But I have already had a visitor..Remember my encounter with the tree frog last year? http://stitchesscrapsandtidbits.blogspot.com/2011/07/visitor-in-my-bedroom.html   He's back!! Well, of course, I'm not sure if it is the same one and I highly doubt it actually but whatever.....I heard him (I'll call him, a him since I don't know for sure) last week when I was working in the yard and then I found him on my rusty garden gate the other day. He looks so big in the first picture but you can see a small white blob in the photo below and that is the tree frog.  The black line on the tree is the cutting line guide for the tree cutter. ( I just saw him at a school event this afternoon and he said he would be here on Monday or Tuesday!!! And then I can get started on my Fairie Garden, I'll keep you posted)  Sew until next time, have a Stitches kind of day..