Easter Blessings ♱ 🐰

This year we decided to spend Easter with my parents, it was closer for Gman2 to get to from school and it has been quite a while since we spent it with them.

 What a nice surprise from Vickie, she sent my parents a lovely card for Easter! It looks good next to my stitchy bunny.

My Momma spent the morning in her chapel, such a beautiful alter.

Oh boy, Dad gave us hats to wear when we went to collect her. Even poor little Tenny!

A rare photo with my Dad.

Two out of three isn't too bad, but still missing Gman1. He spend Easter with his girl C and her family - we missed her too!

Dad got all fancy for us. Although Mom didn't eat with us, she's still eating her soft/pureed food, and it was more comfortable sitting in her chair in the next room.

Nathan was happy to be searching for his eggs later in the day.

Gman2 searching for his beer, he's happy too... sort of!

Nathan found an egg by Oma's window.

There's Momma/Oma watching from her room!

Taking a break, although he had another six pack to find.

DH before he left to go home, he had to work on Monday.

And on Monday, before Gman2 headed back to school.

Overall a very nice Easter and visit, tomorrow we head home. Nathan has off the rest of the week, I'm not sure what we're going to get up to yet.

Here's an oldie I made my parents, I ended up making one for me too since I liked it so much. I think I changed the colours a bit though.

I hope you all had a Blessed Easter, or maybe Passover?

Easter Exchange Fun 🎁

This year I participated in the Easter exchange with Needlecraft Haven for the first time, such fun! I brought the package with me to open on Sunday since we would be at my parents house.

I received my gift from Mary @Le Coeur Celtique, thank you so much! I tried one of the chocolates today, OMGoodness... it was raspberry chocolate and just melted in my mouth, so delicious!

How adorable it this?!❤ And I love the little bunny charm in the middle, so cute. This will look great on my Easter tree when we get home later this week.

This is what I put together for Clare @Aimetu's Stitching. I used an Easter pattern I already had, but never stitched, and only had to buy the "basket". I wasn't sure whether to stain or paint it, but Karen suggested painting it white.

The finished result, with most of the candy inside.

This is the photo Clare took after she received it. I forgot to take a picture of everything together before I sent it.

I'm already looking forward to participating in the next exchange, thanks for hosting this, Clare. And thanks again to you, Mary, for such sweet gifts.

Hopefully I'll have another Easter post tomorrow and then I need to respond to comments AND most important, catch up on my blog reading. I haven't even gotten to read the Easter blog hop posts yet!

Friday's Stitching Ground 🛋

This is not where I was supposed to be today, but here I am sipping my Tippy Cow and working on Gathering Honey. I'm doing some backstiching now so I won't have to do it all at the end like I usually do.

Originally, I was supposed to be celebrating Cori's 50th birthday by taking her away overnight to celebrate her special day. But unfortunately, she got sick and we had to cancel. At least where we were going to stay offered to have us come another night, so now we're trying to plan another weekend and it's not easy!
But I will have all her bday surprises ready for when we do figure out when we're going, I just hope it's soon.

Trying to be positive - at least when we go the next time, we'll have more time to spend there and hopefully the weather will be better!
I've been trying to make the best out of the worst lately - so far, so good.
Any positives going on with you?

Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop 🐇

Spring not only brings the PEEP show, but also Jo @Serendipitous Stitching's Easter blog hop! Start there if you haven't already to collect letters from other blogs to figure out the seasonal phrase.

I don't have anything new stitched for Easter this year, except an exchange piece that I can't show yet. So here's a few I've done in the past. I bought the big wooden rabbit at the church sale last summer, it was too cute to pass up!

And now the letter you've been waiting for...

Now hop on over to Books, Crafts, And Other Procrastinations to collect your next letter. 

Thanks Jo, for putting together the hop, it's always such fun!

It's a PEEP Show!🐥

It's spring and almost Easter, which means... PEEP Show time!

Nathan and I headed there after his half day of school today, the start of his Easter break.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Some sweet characters, I really love Dumbo!

Pretty peeps, raining peeps too.

Critters! The peacock and owls were really impressive.

Countdown to Easter

Only one dragon and he was tiny.

Upper right corner - Rainbow Peep Emoji, aka 💩, maybe eating too many peeps?!

So many sweet scenes.

Super Peep in action.

The bees were busy and Snoopy looks great.

Rubik cubes were popular!

The bride was beautiful and the Christmas tree was amazing!

Oh no, but the band played on.

OMGoodness, one of my favourites!

And this one is out of this world!

Happy Easter/Peepster! 🐰

I'm sure he was standing uphill from me, but I'm not sure about next year.

Friday's Stitching Ground... 🛋

I know, it's actually Saturday, but I did stitch on Friday evening.
I was cleaning most of the day, and got 14,956 steps on my Fitbit to prove it!

I had put this aside awhile ago, and when I started today, I remembered why I had put it aside - the darn frog was hiding! So I probably did more ripping than stitching, but it needed to be done.

I really should have fixed it before pushing it away, but I was so frustrated I didn't want to look at it anymore. Luckily it doesn't happen very often. How about you?

Sad News in Stitching Confirmed 😢

I "heard" about this sad rumour yesterday but couldn't find any truth to it, until today. 

If I remember correctly, I bought this with a gift card many moons ago. Best gift ever! 

This is one I made years ago when I joined a Margaret Sherry SAL... in 2011!

We were supposed to make three from this series, but this is as far as I got on the second one. I feel like I should finish it in her memory.

I'm thinking and praying for comfort for her family, who will miss her dearly, as we will in the stitching world. But how wonderful that her daughter will be continuing the company and will release her unpublished designs. I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Have you stitched any of her adorable patterns?

Friday's Stitching Ground 🛋

Today was a stay at home and do stuff around the house day. But at least DH was home for most of it and we had lunch together, which was nice.

So this evening, I'm still working on Flower Frenzy. I just have the border flowers to do, then I'm looking forward to getting back to Gathering Honey at least for a little while before something else has to be stitched!

Do you ever have something you HAVE to stitch on while all you want to do is stitch something else? I don't just mean this project, there have been others I've had to stitch and just wanted it to be done!

Scavenger Photo Hunt, March 📷

I'm joining in on Katie's I live, I love, I craft, I am me ... scavenger photo hunt this month, such fun!

The words for March are...

Ragged

The zombie apocalypse will do it to you every time!

My chosen sister, Cori, freaks out about loves zombies, so I surprised her a couple years ago at her Halloween party.

Wheel
The wheels on this wagon delivered many a goodie from the Tooth Fairy - it was my husband's when he was little and all three boys have used it. Here it is delivering money as an origami shirt.

Pot
Let's just say this is a holey pot! With Maximus checking out Ming inside.

 Flat
This is what happens to marshmallow Peeps when melted over the fire and made into a smore... absolutely delicious!

Swing
An oldie, but a goodie, my favourite swing with the Gmen in it.
Hard to believe they'll be 21 years old next week!

My own choice
Baseball ready, play ball!