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Oh dear, over half way through April already! Time, slow down! 

After days of rain, yesterday was a glorious sunny day and I spent time down by the pond watching the ducks float about. As usual they alarm very easily so this was taken from far away. I wonder if they could be the same ones we see there every year. I identified (with help from some of you) American Black Ducks for the first time visiting us last year. 

Every so often questions and comments come from readers that I think others would like to hear my response to.  That’s when I feature them on the blog.  This is one of those days. Today’s questions are all about cross stitch. Jane asked:“Hi Jo—so glad you had such a happy retreat! Can I ask for some help? After …

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 The storm is past and power has been restored for everyone. Then it was really cold like we had dialed back a season back to winter.  However today, spring hopes are revived as it is going up to 15C.  I did pick up my seed packets while out and about yesterday. I found out last year that these are classified seasonal and only available on the shelves for a brief time, so have to get them early. I bought more of the Zinnia packets because I had good luck growing those last year and they stayed in bloom so long ...

WOW…I have lots to share with you this week in the cross-stitch department. I was at the retreat last weekend and that gave me lots of stitching time. Oh, I wish I could accomplish so much every week. HA!! I’m thankful I get retreats…not only for the friends and fun but also for the stitching …

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Bliss…oh, bliss. I’m still so happy about my time away. Today’s post is about the cross stitch retreat I went to last week. It was held at the Stitchery Nook in Osage Iowa. I arrived at 9:30 am on Thursday. It’s the earliest you can arrive. People trickled in all day long…me, I wanted to …

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I have a cross-stitch finish to share with you. I finished my Forever Thine Strawberry. It is so incredibly cute…like cuteness overload. A blog reader sent the chart to me. THANKS!!! The piece is called Forever Thine and is by Erica Michaels. I loved stitching it but I’ll be honest, the finishing instructions were lacking. …

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 I get sad sometimes when I see how many folks have stopped blogging; several I had quite a nice email friendship with so I miss them. I guess Instagram is gradually getting more popular, but to me, it doesn't offer quite the same level of communication or connection. I'm going to carry on blogging for as long as I enjoy it. You, my blogging friends, have become an important part of my life!  And it is good for my brain too keeping up with all the little bits and pieces of writing a blog...the linking up, searching ...

I’m off at the cross stitch retreat but I took time before I left to write you a blog post about the latest stitch along. I hope you’ll join me. Okay friends…Are you ready for a BAP Stitch Along? If you are a cross stitcher and watch Flosstube you likely know that BAP (in the …

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I am having just a small update for you today. I wrote this post on Wednesday before I packed up and headed to the cross stitch retreat at the Stitchery Nook in Osage. I’ll be spending the weekend there having fun. I’m so excited. Over the weekend I did a bunch of finishing of projects …

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I know many of you are waiting for an update on what happened after my tumor marker results I told you about on Monday. If you missed that blog post, you can read it HERE. I’m running out the door to the cross stitch retreat and don’t have time to do a huge recap. You’ll …

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I got brave and finished my Red Pears from Annie Beez Folk Art. This was one of our stitch along projects from the Fall of 2023. I’ve been slow to finish them as like many of you, finishing something like this is a little intimidating. I have to say after finishing them, I’m a little …

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 I thought of some of my blogging friends on Sunday...those who spend time in arenas with the children involved in one sport or another. This is where I was this Sunday...the Kingston Invista Centre, watching Robbie with his team at the final tournament of the year. They'd won all their games right down to the very last one which they lost and there were tears. Life lessons of course, but much satisfaction that the boys had certainly come a long way skill wise. Overall, a wonderful season of hockey. 

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It was a slow week of stitching. I didn’t get as much done as usual. Two nights I only stitched for about 20 minutes. That is unusual for me. Here’s what I was up to. First off I picked up my Forever Thine Strawberry. A blog reader sent this chart to me. Thank you. I …

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I told you that I went to the Stitchery Nook a couple of weeks ago looking for all of the Needlework Market goodies. Admittedly, I bought a lot but that’s okay. I’ve been putting money aside for it…and to my shock, a couple of you sent gift cards and they were waiting for me there …

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A recap of some things here at the Wooden House I enjoyed this week...

I can always pick this one out of a scurry of squirrels because of its' outstanding tail! Learned a new word...scurry. No, not a spring animal which is LeeAnna's prompt this week but a regular year round visitor.

Here is a mug rug I just stitched for someone I love and am so grateful she is in my life.

Yahoo…It’s back and finished!! This is my Christmas Garden piece from Blackbird Designs. It is a Blackbird Design chart from the book Home for the Holidays. If you ever want to stitch this and are stitching on 40-count linen, you don’t need as much floss as the pattern calls for. I also want to note that …

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I got quite a bit of cross stitch done this week. I still haven’t been feeling the best. Food and my mouth plague me…the itching is still hard to deal with too but, it’s some better and I’m taking that as a win. I’ve been doing a little more couch sitting (cross stitching and watching …

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...came to a crashing halt! Literally. Let me explain. Remember how I was on a roll?  Catching up on on UFOs and working both forward and backwards on those blocks-of-the month? I even promised to spend National Quilting Day piecing those blocks that I was behind on and showing you the leader-ender blocks that are taking shape at the same time. Well, truth be told, that didn't happen. Last

...came to a crashing halt! Literally. Let me explain. Remember how I was on a roll?  Catching up on on UFOs and working both forward and backwards on those blocks-of-the month? I even promised to spend National Quilting Day piecing those blocks that I was behind on and showing you the leader-ender blocks that are taking shape at the same time. Well, truth be told, that didn't happen. Last

Our trails have dried up and there is no ice on the pond. The geese have been floating around on it.  MUCH earlier than usual and such a welcome sign of spring. LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color's prompt this week is if we have a favourite flower of spring. Truthfully any of the early blooming flowers are a welcome sight for me, I really can't pick just one. But I do especially love to see the Lilac tree bloom which is brief but showy. What about you?

Robbie spent part of his March break here with us ...