31 Days of Creating 2021 - Day 26

 

Happy Tuesday!!! I love this quote!!!Another way some of us experience refreshment and joy is from engaging in thought-provoking conversations with others. 

I had three separate conversations today with precious friends of mine from all different walks of life. The common thread through all of them was the discussion of great ideas. 

We share ideas and discuss what we have been studying, learning, and how we are applying it in our daily lives. Talks with these friends keep me focused, strengthen my mind, and recharge me. 

Do you feel refreshed after having a good discussion with a friend? If so, make room for more of them sprinkled here and there in your days!   🙌🏻☎️💡

~ Cindy

Embroidery Projects.....

"trust in the Lord..."

Several years ago while visiting Pigeon Forge, TN (in the Smoky Mountains) I found a super fun and friendly pattern shop called The Pattern Hutch.  I fell in love with a lot of the patterns they carry.  One of the pattern companies was Mac-A-Doodles.  I have come to LOVE their embroidery patterns!!!  I love the sayings, the style, the simple stitches used, etc.  I love it all!!!  I am just finishing up my third embroidery design of theirs.  After you complete the embroidery you can purchase a nice wooden frame from them to fit your work perfectly.  I really like that!  And I need to order one since this piece is now finished.

"faith, hope, charity....but the greatest of these is charity"

I made this one a few years ago.  It currently hangs on our wall.   I purchased the frame and I really feel like it completes the embroidery.  I enjoy having positive words and scripture on my walls.  It helps to keep my mind meditating on hopeful and joyful thoughts throughout each day.

"...and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  Matthew 22:37"

This design hangs over our kitchen table and I enjoy looking at it every time we eat our meals!   I ordered this frame from the Mac-A-Doodles company as well.  I really like how easy it is to stitch these up and then pop them into the finished frame.  I don't have to worry about trying to find a perfect frame that fits.  I stitched all of these on muslin fabric backed with cotton quilt batting.  I put them in a simple embroidery hoop to stitch and then when finished it is super easy to frame them.  

I hope you all take some time to stitch and enjoy the simple things in life!!!  

xoxo,

Cindy

Happy Mother's Day......

(Ethan - in his sister's boots, playing in the sunshine)

A Mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what gets passed along to her children is something far more intimate and mysterious than anything contained therein. What gets passed along is her character, and it enters into her children as surely and as inexorably as water flows from a fuller vessel into a less full one.

--Laurence Shames--

Isn't this the truth?! Happy Mother's Day Friends!!! I hope your day is full of love!!!