Projects, blooms, embroidery

Good morning Folks,

Thank you for visiting my little blog once again. 

First of all I want to send you to a blog post about a pair of wonderful, heavy, huge, flower pots we got on this day May 1st in 2005. May Day Flower Pot Rescue.

Yesterday we had a T-storm with LOTS of heavy rain which lasted quite awhile, and little thunder and lightening, for which I was thankful. More is expected off and on for today through Friday.  The rain is great for everything, although I did have to hurry outside yesterday morning to bring in partially dried laundry to drape around inside to finish drying.

I mowed yesterday morning because I knew rain was coming, I also moved some bins of straps, and rods off the back shed’s stoop, left over from working on the caravan. Eventually I’ll get things straightened up and put away.  One day at a time.

Then I started working on a garden area that really doesn’t have a name yet.  It’s between the secret garden and the northwest back yard. The caravan is to the north of this space, workshop to the south west.

See the stump that the staghorn fern is sitting on?  That’s from part of the Melaleuca tree that came down in Hurricanes Francis, Jeanne and Wilma.  We saved this part because it was artistic and because of the hole it had in it.

This area is the ‘before’ picture.

After

The birdbath filled up from all the rain.  I believe we got around 3-4 inches and the road flooded out front, but the water went down once the rains let up.

Now here’s our screened rooms ‘Cat-rium’, roof. Dang raccoons have been playing up there and on the house roof a lot more since DH vacated these premises for heavenly ones. They have been pulling out the spline, and in other areas their weight is pulling the screening loose.  My BIL is coming over this evening after work, to see what we need, and we’ll go to HD for supplies, then he’s going to do the work. I am so thankful for his help.  I love the framework of this roof that DH designed and made, using found materials.

Orchids from a friend about 10 years ago that just keeps on blooming.  I love it.  You can see orange reed orchids in the background.

While I was hanging up laundry yesterday morning I smelled something sweet and turned towards the hedge and there was a passion flower vine bloom. Aaaahhhh.

Below are pictures of the two unkn roses that I got at the plant sale Sunday. Neither has a strong rose scent, just faintly, but they are beauties, and for $5 each, I can’t really complain.

This is Granada that I bought from SAM’s a couple of months back.

This is ‘Paul McCartney’ that I bought at the plant sale Sunday. This scent is a heavenly deep rose scent.  Just wonderful and the blooms are beautiful and huge.

I have been making more little journals. The one on the left you’ve seen before, it was my first one.  The one in the middle has uplifting Bible verses that I printed out and glued to the pages.  The one to the right will also get Bible verses once I get more ink for my printer. I need to do that soon. These are 5 inches by 3 1/2 inches and have 80 pages. I’ve got seven more little journals to make covers for.

Monday I went to Walmart to use up some gift cards that still had a little money left on them.  I bought three spools of 5/8 ribbon for making ribbon roses and a cheapie watch. Here is my first ribbon rose. I look forward to getting more ribbon, smaller and larger as well as this size and in different colors.  I want to learn how to do ribbon embroidery too.  Mark would like what I am doing. He always loved it when I was in here creating and humming away to music as I worked.

Now, here’s what I surrounded this first rose with, a smaller ribbon rose, a couple of lace flowers, and embroidered flowers and leaves.  I love it.

Here it is sewn to the front of another journal. This one will be empty so that one can write down things they are thankful for.  I’m not quite finished with it, but just about.

This is morning sun shining through the kitchen door.  I just love the lace shadows on the floor. 

This morning I was barely awake and ended up sobbing while standing in the kitchen because I didn’t really get to tell Mark goodbye. He went into the MRI and at the end of the time suffered cardiac arrest.

Although, I thought after the sobbing had subsided, it’s not goodbye, it’s until we meet again. We did do a lot of talking especially near the end of those four months when he was so ill, about the possibility of his dying.  He was ready to go, I said I will let you go, but I won’t like it. I don’t like it. I miss him every single day. But, he is no longer in pain, everything is perfect and he is with our Great God, King of the Universe, Lord and Saviour, Jesus.  That is so worth celebrating.

I am learning to live a different life, trusting in God daily and an enjoying learning new things and carrying on with projects.  Each day is a gift.

I am thankful for our little haven here, thankful for help from others, thankful for all of you.

Now I’m off to fix a sandwich, then make some cookies for my BIL and his wife.  I’m planning on fixing Blue Cheese stuffed burgers for supper if he doesn’t have plans already. We’ll see.

FlowerLady