Retired and Lovin' Life

 I'm just doing so many different things that a friend of mine asked, 'Shelly why aren't you blogging about all that you do?

So thanks to her I'm going to try my hand at it again and share with you all the things!

All of my sewing girls are grown up and living their own lives, happily, while I'm retired enjoying my grandkids and quilting and crosstitching mostly.

I am here at my summer home in the woods this weekend, building a quilt that I leave here for a project for me to do while I'm here. It's called Sew Scrappy Spools by Lori Holt. 

Each spool will have a different scrappy block in the middle of it.  This is my progress so far. Aren't they cute?

When I travel here to our summer home I do nothing but crosstitch in the car, so I'd like to show you what I stitched and my progress so far on it.

This is called Christmas Garden by Blackbird designs. Some of us crosstitchers do what's called jolly July and only stitch Christmas projects in the month of July. I am glad to be putting in a good amount of time stitching this so that I might get it done by this Christmas. There are plenty of mistakes in this but you'd never know what they are since you couldn't see them from a galloping horse....Hahahaha

I started another new book called All Things New by Laura Frantz, It has drawn me in Totally! 

I've also wasted lot's of my time here shopping on Temu, oh my was I hooked! I really love my project bags for crosstitch and their bling,

So I bought alot of charms and rings and cabochon making stuff. I hope I did the right thing! Have you ordered from them yet?

I hope you enjoyed my blog and anticipate seeing all of my projects and my progress on them, see you next time and Happy Stitching!