One Year Closer to Retirement

 I am officially one year closer to retirement as it is my birthday and I am 62. I can hardly believe it.  It has been a busy day.  On the phone with family, and my son came over so I haven't gotten as much done as I would have liked too such  as fertilizing my flowers.  It was a very nice day.  

I finished Littlehouse Needleworks Farm House Christmas.  Other than the border kind of was annoying, just hard to see while stitching, this was a very fun stitch!  I am extremely happy with how it turned out.  

Nine parts, broken into parts of three.  

I even ironed it before I snapped the pics.  

I dyed the fabric myself. 

Don't remember the recipe but, I call it Portobello

It was my college girls weekend.

Jan brought a really great project for us to each work on

It is a 2'x2' wood board she primed and measured the squares.

A lot of work on her part.    

We had to  painted it.  

It turned out great!

I want to get a can of spray protectorant before hanging on the back yard shed.

While doing a little shopping, there aren't the shops in the small area that there use to be.  

The coffee shop/gift shop is still open and found an excellent replacement for my poor broken mug.

Coffee tastes pretty good in it.  

Mary Beth brought a cherry crumble.  

I had a jar of Trader Joe's Morello cherries,  

Got the recipe and made one when I got home....the following day.  

I have resumed working on HATS Martha Dawson 1837 and am nearly done with the border...

WAH WHO!

I have a few more motifs and then her name at the bottom.  

I am getting ready for the BBDSAL weekend that I'll start next weekend.  

I was quite happy to work on Martha.  

I'm going to start She Works with Willing Hands.  

I have the box.  

I ordered it after I got the book.  

Been trying to pick an alternative to Weeks Dolphin and Seraphim (?) Eucalyptus and going crazy ordering all kinds of weird fabric.  

Tin Roof is a little dark on the left but, a definate possibility.  

Gun Metal on the right is too dark.

One more color I didn't post is Bramble and that might be the winner.  

I have decided since I'm over 60, living in an area where the Covid rates are going up and only 52% of my fellow citizens are vaccinated, to resume wearing a mask when I am in doors.  

I so totally don't want to get Covid, I have a wedding to help plan with my daughter.

Walking through the grocery store and maybe three other people had masks on, that wasn't most likely the people who aren't vaccinated.  

I don't believe the unvaccinated are wearing masks as they should.  

Stay safe my friends and keep on stitching

Monica