A Little Stitching on the Last Day of the Year

 Gentle Friends, I thought I'd post the last time this year a little stitching... I'm enjoying the Thin Man Film marathon today on TCM with William Powell and Myrna Loy!!  Here's a snap of a return WIP...

... after I finished up Christmastide I went back and picked up "Little Birds" and have finished up the flowers along the left side border and started work on the alphabets along the top inside of the border.  It's really wrinkled, sorry about that but I had just popped it out of the old Q Snaps for the snaperoo.

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There you go sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again. Stay Safe!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar 

A Last Christmas Post

 Gentle Friends, our Christmas around here was so nice...with Most Holy Redeemer opening up Christmas Eve (20%) occupancy...and even with that there were only about 30 people scattered about the sanctuary, the choir was all 6 feet distancing in the choir loft...it was a lovely service.

Christmas Day dawned bright and sunny and we started getting ready for our Christmas Lunch with our "Bubble" friends only...we started off the afternoon with...a couple of hot hors-d'oeuvres...I made bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with camembert and a baked brie covered in cranberry relish with that we had to have libations so...

...I made a pitcher of Scarlette O'Hara's and Teresa made Blue Hawaii's... 

... before we sat down I took this snap of the table... we had prime rib, sauteed string beans with almonds, Gratin Dauphinoise (fancy scalloped potatoes)  dinner rolls ... and the Christmas Cake this year was...

... a cranberry/walnut cake with cream cheese icing flavored with orange zest...with Kir Royale!  It was a fun dinner and we all had a really wonderful day and evening.

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There you go sports fans.  On the stitching front, since I finished up my Christmas stitch I really didn't want to start something until the New Year so I pulled out BBD sampler "Little Birds."  I'll get a post of that up when a get a bit more stitched, I've been super lazy the last day or so and not done much stitching at all so there's not much change.  Thanks again for stopping by do stop again!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good deeds!

edgar

A very Merry Christmas!!!

Gentle Friends, as the year winds down we look forward to next year and better times.

 Thank you dear friends for always stopping by with a kind word!

Merry Christmas!!!

edgar

A Christmas Stitching Finish

Gentle Freinds, I was bound, damned, and determined to get this sucker finished before Christmas... and I achieved my goal!! I finished this up yesterday...

"Christmastide at Holly House" - The Scarlett House - 10/31 - 12/22

40 ct "Fawn" LL - Using the called for silks, except I used "Icing" Belle Soie for the snowflakes.

The changes I made as I stitched along were few, I left off the single stitch for the deer's eyes, I added a white cornice to the roofline and crowns to the chimneys, left off the line of white that was on top of the chimneys,... was that supposed to be snow??? I wonder?? I also filled the windows with NPI 998, I liked the dark grey better than more brown as was called for.  Other than that it's pretty much as charted.  A fun piece to work on, I do love Tanya's charts and the stuff she does!! 

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There you go sports fans.  Thanks for stopping by do stop again.  Stay Safe!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Nightmare

Gentle Friends, we were at Walgreens yesterday looking for a string of light... I know we're nuts...  and of course, there were only the scraps of seasonal things left in the aisle, no lights BTW, and I found this really great thing... a little sign for the Season...

... I haven't bought any "new" decorations for a long time, excluding live pine, boxwood, and cedar, but this little sign HAD to come home with me!  I love the film and think YES it is a Christmas film, and it is also a Hollwe'en film... it spans the seasons!!  The little goblin Hallowe'en lantern sits out all year but at Christmas, he gets a little pine.

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There you go sports fans, thanks again for stopping by do stop again. Stay Safe!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar

Another Little Film....

 Gentle Friends here's another one... get the tissue ready...

... a little more kindness never hurts...  Stay Safe dear friends!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Winter

 Gentle Friends, it's the first day of winter and I had to post some Vivaldi...

... "L'Inverno" from The Four Seasons...conducted by Seji Ozawa and performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.... the film was shot in Brookline Massachusetts in 2010. 

I lifted this from YouTube.... enjoy!

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Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar