Christmas ornments 2010

Here are my Christmas ornaments for 2010, I stitched them all and my great friend Jayne put them all together for me. She is a real gem. My four Grandchildren get one each and I have little ones in the family that receive one each and of course my two stitching groups receive one. This year I actually kept three for myself. Sorry they are so late being posted but I work in retail and Christmas is always one big blurrrr for me. Anyway hope you enjoy my stitching ornaments, I sure had fun with them over the past few months.

~Happiest when stitching~

It's snowing!!!!

Hi everyone, It is snowing outside and I just love it. We have a few things planned today. Another birthday dinner for my hubby (how long will this go one?) His birthday was January 6th. It takes time when you work all week and friends are in town and out of town.
I have a favour blog stitching friends, I need more followers I am at 47 right now and I really would like a few more. Can you help????
I will not get time to stitch until Sunday, where I will make up for lost time, I hope.
Good news our great neighbour just finished shoveling my driveway and my walk way, God bless them they really take care of their older neighbours. I guess it is time to cook some ribs and maybe a cake to thank them again this winter.

~Happiest when stitching~

Brrrrr, it is really cold outside / -5 degrees Celcius

Hi everyone it is really cold here in Southern Ontario, it was a bit of a shock going out to the car this morning at 5:30. I was just glad it started and didn't give me any problems. Tomorrow it is suppose to get warmer and rain then turn to freezing rain. Right now I think I would like to live in Aruba. One of my blogging sisters has a cottage on the beach in Austrailia, please I want to live there too! But they are having their problems with all the flooding. I guess each country has there own difficulties. We should be happy with where we live.
Canada may be cold in the winter, cold I can deal with compared to floods, hurricanes and tornadoes.
Tonight my two oldest grandaughters are coming for a sleep over with their dog Copper. Dad is working night shift and their Mom is away for a couple of days working. So Gramps and I get to do some bonding. We love it when they are here, our house is pretty quiet but two teenagers crank it up a notch.
I had better sign off they will be arriving shortly and I am making a stir fry for dinner.
Maybe some stitching later.

~Happiest when stitching~

Hubby's birthday!

Today is my dear hubby's birthday, we have been married for 38 years. We will celebrate his big day on Saturday with friends and on Sunday with the family, but tonight we will have a quiet dinner just the two of us. He is 62 years young today.

Here is a photo of him this past October when we were in Maine!

Happy Birthday Steve!

~Happiest when stitching~

It's a New Year!

Well the new year has arrived and what did I get? I have a rotton cold. I have been sick for two days. I have dragged myself to work. I don't like being shunned, but it is our annual inventory and the office has to be in tip top shape. It would be nice if this big head of mine would clear so that I might be able to think. After work I come home and go to bed. I have just had my nap, hopefully I can enjoy the homemade chicken soup that my DH has made for me and I will try to stay up and enjoy his company for a few hours before I go back to sleep. What a life.
There will be no stitching tonight. Today we celebrate two of our Stitching Sisters birthdays. Happy Birthday Martina and Tammy, hope you have a wonderful day!
~Happiest when stitching~

Happy New Year

New Years Eve in New York city, I have always wanted to be in Times Square for all the festivities, but I guess it is just as well to watch from my living room. I wonder hoe many bathrooms are available to all those people. But it sure would be fun!

Happy New Year everyone, Christmas seemed to be over in a flash and now one more day and we will all be celebrating oue New Year! Our good friends Deb and Channing will be arriving about 3:00 tomorrow. They are bringing their dogs and they are staying the night. No worrying about driving home. We can go to bed whenever and can sleep in on Saturday. That works for me.

All the best to everyone, have a very nice New Years Eve.

~Happiest when stitching~

Where have 24 years gone?

Today I was leafing through some old photo albums and look what I found, a photo of our stitching group which is called The Stitching Sisters. Some I am sad to say are no longer with us. Some are 24 years older and I am happy to say are still stitching. Every year we take a photo at Christmas time and sometimes at other times of the year. We have gained some members and lost some. At the moment we have enough members that we moved our meetings from our homes to to recreation centre in town. We meet at the board room every other week.

                                     Stitching Sisters 1986

Front row Trish, Kerry, Janet, Vi, and Freda

Second row Ida, Sarah, Sarah's Dorothy, Marjorie, and Jayne

We have formed great friendships we have been through good times and bad times. We always come together in a crisis. We have learned to treat each other as true sisters.

Merry Christmas everyone!

~Happiest when stitching~

My Home Town!

Hi everyone, this time of year always takes me back to my home town, Magog, Quebec, Canada. My DH and I have been in Ontario for almost thirty years and we love living here. But Christmas time always makes us homesick. It would be so nice just one year to go back at at Christmas and be able to visit with relatives and to see all our very good friends that we have still living there, especially Brenda and Richard and Gerry and Lorraine. Maybe one day when DH and I are both retired we put that on our to do list. Working in retail I have never been able to have time off at Christmas. Magog is a small town it is a tourist town with lots of skiing and skidooing in the winter time and in the summer golfing, swimming, and horseback riding. For now I will enjoy my memories and hopefully in the spring I can go back hopefully taking my son-in-law Steven and my grandaughter Maddison. They have never been and it is time for them to make the trip.

 Mount Orford

 Lake Memphremagog

                                               A covered bridge in Fitch Bay, DH and I have our initials carved inside.
                When I was a teenager I road a horse through this bridge. We had a trail ride around
                                                                           the lake.
                                                        What a fun filled week that was!

                                                   A view of the lake looking towards Vermont

                                                               A map of my home turf

                                                    A view from the top of Mount Orford

                                         St. Benoit du Lac and in the backround Jay Peak

                        This is St. Luke's Anglican Church where DH and I were married 38 years ago.

A view of St. Benoit du Lac and JayPeak in the fall!

Hope everyone enjoys my photos. I am too tired to stitch, so I thought I would share my home town with you. Let me know what you think?

~Happiest when stitching~

I am back!

Hi everyone, I am finally back on line. Redecorating our computer room took  longer than expected and it is still not complete, but my grandparents roll top desk is partially together. The bottom half is supporting my computer the roll top is still on the floor. Hopefully it will get together this week end. It will depend on whether my DH works this week end or not. I work in retail so my life is pretty crazy these days too.
Can you believe I work in retail and I have only bought three presents? Am I crazy? I just can't seem to get in the mood for shopping this year. I am going to have to get myself in gear and get going soon or there are going to be some very unhappy children and grandchildren this year.

Tonight my dear grandson Benjamin has invited us to a Scout Christmas dinner. So DH and I will be off to see what goes on at a Scout dinner. Keep in mind I have two daughters so we have always been involved in Brownies and Girl Guides. I am sure Scouts will be pretty much the same.

My grandaughter Chloe is in The Air Cadets and we have a dinner coming up with her group at The Armories, that will be interesting as well. She just received her uniform and she looks very grown up in it.

I have missed everyone in my blogging community and I am so glad to be back.


~Happiest when stitching~

Computer will be turned off

Hi everyone, hope everyone  is having a quiet and stitching Sunday. We are emptying our computer room today and getting it ready for a new coat of paint, new baseboards and my Grandparent's antique roll top desk will finally be in it's new home. It has travelled a long way from Southern Quebec to Ottawa, Ontario and now to me in Southwestern Ontario. I wonder what my Grandparents would think to know how much that desk is still loved and so many fond memories of them sitting at it working away. I wish I had a photo of them with it. But I have it in my mind and that will have to surphise.
So anyway in a couple of hours my computer will be in pieces and in another room for at least a week so be patient everyone I will be back. I may drop in from a friend's computer mid week if I get a chance. See you all soon. Have a good week.
~Happiest when stitching~