Monday Montage- Shades of the Season

This month's colors are brown and wood.

A true prim lover has to has some sort of wood in their decor.

Mine is no exception.

Antique Printer Letterpress

Circa 1930's Man's Straw Hat complete with a Brown Silk Band.

Apple Butter Paddle

Wood Staley's Pure Food Starch

(this is used for pancake mix and popcorn)

Bail Handled Pantry Box

(great place to hide my chocolate)

psst..don't tell Bob. LOL

Late 1800's Brown/ Cream Checked Ladies Jacket

Early Iridescent Brown and Stoneware Pitcher

Early Flour Measure with Butter Paddle in Front

My Newest Wood Box

This is a real big one and has a hinged lid.

(not sure what I am going to put in this box yet)

Ding Ding

A Light Bulb just came on...

It may be big enough to put my Christmas china in...

Guess I will will have to see if it does.

That completes another Montage.

PS. Bob and I will be leaving Thursday

for our annual trip to Springfield, OH.

That means another Friday without fun facts.

I apologize ahead of time...sorry :-(

After spending time in Ohio,

we will be heading into Kentucky.

We will not be back home until Sunday or Monday....

Depends on if we fill up the van,

and how far our money goes. LOL

I don't have to be back to work until after Labor Day,

so once we get home,

we will re-stock the store

then spend time in our yard...

weeding and planting.

Let me retract that statement...I will be weeding and planting...not Bob.

Will try to take pics of our journey.

Spring Blessings to All

Janice



Happy Mom's Day

Whether you nurtured a child

or lovingly cared for your favorite pet.

Sending out all the mother's out there

this bouquet of roses.

You deserve it!

As this stitched picture says ~

What Is Home Without Mother.

Happy Mother's Day Everyone!

Blessings to all

Janice



Gramma YOU Are A Bad Blogger

But Mikayla it was your birthday yesterday.

Gramma did not have enough time to post

Friday Fun Facts.

Because it was your

Big

5th

Birthday

We all took a short trip to Harsen's Island for dinner.

This is one of many islands near us

but the only one that is accessible to cars.

The car ferry is about a five minute ride from the mainland.

We are in the middle of the North Channel.

Looking back at the mainland (as we call it here)

I took this picture from the island overlooking the North Channel.

Looking above the car mirror on the right is Russell Island.

The residents use golf carts to get around. 

On the left is the mainland.

At the North end of Russell Island is where the North Channel

meets the Shipping Channel.

Not sure if you can see the river in between the mainland & island.

Walpole Island wraps behind Russell Island.

Looking at the far left above my mirror is a glimpse of Walpole in the distance.

This is the view of the Shipping Channel at the restaurant we were at last night.

Across the channel is Walpole Island.

This is the same island that is across from our house on the river.

(very big island)

The Canadian residents of this island are from the First Indian Nation.

The grand kids were able to see a freighter

And a tug pushing a barge.

We had a nice evening outside on the island.

Mikayla wanted pizza for her birthday and a Shirley Temple kiddie drink.

Michael had the same thing.

Bob and I shared a pitcher of beer with pizza.

Michele (daughter) had a few Long Island Ice Teas with her pizza.

(we were her designated driver...those drinks can kill ya) LOL 

Blessings from the island

Janice

Mini Sampler Progress

Before I started stitching,

I wanted to age my linen.

Pam from

Ourpioneerhomestead.blogspot.com

gave a wonderful tutorial on aging fabric.

Check out her blog if you would like to learn how.

I decided to age mine using walnut ink.

What do you think?
I am using 32 ct linen.

Threads are stitched 1 over 2,

which means I am using one strand of floss

and skipping a hole.

(I made a bowl full of strawberries like this above)

Will share in another post...

As you can see this will be a strawberry sampler.

The pattern is from Betty

Primitivebettysblogspot.com

As you can see from Betty's wonderful pillow
that I changed up the color a little bit.
I am still using the red and green,
however I decided to add two shades of purple
into the mix.

There is a method to my madness...

Will show you why I choose these colors later on.

What do you think of my work in progress?

Strawberry Blessings to all!
Janice

Monday Montage

Today's word for the day.

SUPER

Can you see this Super freighter?

I caught this 1000 footer as the sun was coming up on Friday morning.

Once it passed in front of me, I was unable to get the entire ship in view.

Front end.

Back end.

The name of this ship was American Integrity.

Can you say Super?

Lastly the Super moon.

The picture does not do it justice.

I woke up around 1:30 in the morning and took this.

It was very large and bright to say the least.

Did anyone else see the SUPER MOON?

Spring Blessings to all

Janice

Fun Facts

Sorry for the delay on Friday Fun Facts...

My 8 yr old grandson was given the principal award at school.

So we had to celebrate!

Way to go Michael.

We are so proud of you!

Ok, here the facts for this week.

1. Staying awake for 17 hours straight has the same effect on your body

as drinking two glasses of wine.

(not a wine drinker, so if anyone wants to test this theory,

 please do and let me know)

2. Sheep have an amazing retaining ability.

They can remember faces of humans and other sheep for many years.

(great uncle Billy raised sheep and I have to agree with that one)

3. 43% of models in the professional modeling business suffer from cocaine addiction.

(that is another sad statistic)

4. Being in love for just one year, helps in improving memory,

and improves the entire nervous system.

(now that is a good one)

5. At any point in a day, 18 million goods are up for sale on Ebay.

(go ahead and count those for me is you want)

6. In the 1920's popcorn was banned from movie theaters

 because it was considered too noisy.

(really? I can think of many other things

that should be banned from theaters now.)


That does it for another week of facts.
Sorry I was late...

Have to open the store now.
Spring Blessings to all
Janice

Having A Flashback

Back in the 80's...1980's that is.

Even though I love the 1880's.

I was crazy into cross stitch.

It seemed I had more time to dabble in it than now.

I have always held a special place for bunnies in my decor.

This framed piece resides on the side of our fireplace.

H= Carrots

A= Celery and a Beet

R= Asparagus

E= Onions

Next the plastic canvas craze came out.

Do any of you remember working on those projects...

Having plastic pieces in your chair or couch and the floor.

What a flashback that is.

Magnets, tissue covers, Christmas ornaments...wow!

Ok..I have now slapped myself back into reality. LOL

This framed piece is actually one of those plastic canvas projects.

(Sorry for the pic...many background images)

I created this using 10 hole plastic canvas with 2 ply yarn.

This hangs by our front door.

Which brings me to this.

I am going to attempt to work on another cross stitch piece.

A small one to start.

Using 32 ct linen and these colors.

Any clues as to what I might be making?

Spring Blessings to all

Janice