March Odds and Ends

For March Madness I started the girl bunny last week. It is by The Sweetheart Tree. The companion piece I started this week. Hopefully I can get this done before Easter.


Last week we finished putting in our garden. Ric made the grow boxes and we picked up the soil and starts on Saturday when we took Kristen her boxes. We will add more as $ allows and see how these do for this season. I am hoping that we get lots of tomatoes, beans, and cucumbers along with other vegetables we planted.


Last week we waited in line to get our book signed by Marissa's former boss and hopefully the next POTUS. We even got to meet Spenser who Marissa worked with in Boston and some of her politcal friends. We enjoyed visiting with Governor Mitt Romney and having him sign his book and pictures. (Some of the pictures were blurry)

I thought I would catch up on my activities before March ends. The rest of the story on the Pinewood Derby. Will's car was not the slowest. At the beginning we thought it would be. Will had been prepped by his parents to be a good sport if he lost. He was doing pretty good. After several races he wasn't very happy that he wasn't winning and then his Den Mother told him there was a special prize of twizzlers for the car that didn't win a race. Now he was cheering to lose. At the race off he started to win and that spoiled the chance for the bag of twizzlers. Well grandpa bought him a bag of twizzlers and we celebrated the night with ice cream.

The Eagle Has Landed

I finished my eagle yesterday (March 14th)in plenty of time before Joseph's Court of Honor. I really enjoyed this project and will probably do it again if the need arises. I started it on January 28th. The chart is "Standing Proud" by Benjamin D. Evans
Now to go through my WIP basket for another project to finish or do I start something new to celebrate spring and the nice weather we are having. Come back to see what I am working on during March Madness.

Values

This came up on Facebook this morning. Alan Osmond posted this on his site in regards to losing a family member. I liked this message. A good question for me to ponder. Where do I spend my time and what do I value.

REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF VALUES

To realize the VALUE of a sister/brother,
Ask someone who doesn’t have one.
To realize the VALUE of ten years,
Ask a divorced couple.
To realize the VALUE of four years,
Ask a graduate.
To realize the VALUE of one year,
Ask a student who has failed a
final exam.
To realize the VALUE of nine months,
Ask a Mother who has given birth
to a still born.
To realize the VALUE of one month,
Ask a Mother who has given birth to a
premature baby.
To realize the VALUE of one week,
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the VALUE of one minute,
Ask a person who has missed the
train, bus or plane.
To realize the VALUE of one second,
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
TIME waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you can share
it with someone special.
To realize the VALUE of a friend or family
Member,
LOSE ONE.

February Finishes and March Madness

I made this for a little girl who was baptized on Saturday. Even though it was a quick stitch I had to do some frogging because I didn't have spell check until DH looked at it in the nick of time.


Saturday we celebrated Sevrine's 5th birthday. The cousins loved playing together and we love seeing all the grandkids. Payton needed a timeout so he put himself in the corner for it.


Ric was asked by William if he could help him with his pinewood derby car. Ric spent the day with him on design and carving the shape of the car. It turned out really nice and now we will see if it is fast on Wednesday. More pictures later when we attend the race.

This is a Lizzy Kate design that I made for a special friend that is moving to Florida. Thankfully she has a blog so I can stay in touch with her and see her sweet family.


February brought a Baby Shower, Birthdays, Lunch with friends and favors for VT. It seems I am on the home stretch for the eagle and will post later this week when I am done.

Making Headway

I have been a little slow at updating this blog. My DH has had computer problems and that meant he needed mine. His came back today and now I can get back to my routine.


This is the progress for the last 10 days of my Eagle. I have the blocks of color for the flag and some backstitching. This has been such a fun project. This might sound a little weird but I even dream about stitching this and can't wait to work on it each day.






Monday I celebrated my birthday. My grand daughter came home last night with a card and a little bear. She insisted on the card even when Colleen tried to steer her to another one. She was so proud to pick out this birthday cake for me. She got the Grand right. She really liked the cake and candles. LOL
We also had a storm blow through today and I caught this full rainbow looking north off our balcony. The rainbow was so bright even though the picture doesn't show it.



Last week was the Westminster Dog show and it reminded me that it was this program that led us to picking our dogs. Border Terriers are the smallest breed in North America and we fell in love with these dogs after we visited a local dog show. Kelvin got Sassy from a breeder in Chino Valley. We liked Sassy so much that we got Marissa her dog about a year later. This is Marissa's dog, Rusty. He is 13 years old and getting a bit slow. He looks so nice with his coat stripped.

Ravelympics

Now that the 2010 Olympics has started I can start the February Lady Sweater. (The pattern can be found on Ravelry.) The challenge is to knit something start to finish during the Winter Games. I have several WIP's to work on too but will see how this project will come together. It took me a while to work the button hole and hopefully the lace part of the sweater will be easy. This will be a fun couple of weeks to follow the Games and get a sweater done too. Go Team USA!

Framed and Eagle Progress

I had this Lizzy Kate piece done and finally framed it for Marissa. She is in her new apartment and this would be a little reminder of how special she is to me. (I already made this for Kristen and Colleen but hadn't done one for Marissa.) Now I can add this to the box with the rest of her birthday surprises.



I decided that cross stitching is a lot like working a jig saw puzzle. The picture comes into focus piece by piece just as you work stitch by stitch. This is the week's progress on my eagle. I love seeing the eagle take shape the more I work on it.