It is a gloomy Saturday but still a beautiful day.  We had a nice day traveling to Hartville to The Boston Road Collection to deliver Daniela the elephant and Foster the Giraffe to Brenda.  Her shop is filled with the most delightful things!  I had to buy an antique Victorian pitcher.  It is large and so beautiful!  Can't wait to fill it with roses or an arrangement of flowers.  I am working on the extra bedroom changing it into shabby Victorian.  I hope the bedspread arrives Monday.  I still have a couple things to paint white and antique them.  I also visited Helaine's in the Hartville Marketplace.  Helaine is the sweetest lady and we have a connection since we both sew seven days a week. It is always a treat to talk to her and I LOVE her curtains and beautiful Victorian furnishings.  We enjoyed the day out.  I hope everyone had a great weekend!

HAPPY FRIDAY

I finished Daniela and Delilah Sue for orders.  Today I have 4 more creations to cut out for orders!  I have been painting the barn, doors in the house and finished them yesterday!  Great to have those things crossed off my list.  Canned tomatoes with Fred's help.  This was another crazy busy week!  This weekend we are going to an antique show and I am ready to have some fun!

 

The end of July and a beautiful Monday morning!

Wow~!  What a beautiful morning.  God blesses us every day with his beauty.  Man is the one who messes it up!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful day.  I was busy watching the butterflys in my garden and they were busy too.  Wish I could have my sewing machine in my garden.  That would be a wonderful inspiring place to sew every day.  Even in the winter snow it would be beautiful!  The flowers are at their best right now and wonderful to look at!  Hope you enjoy them too.  I have two elephants finished and they are waiting for me to make them dresses today.  Off to the cutting board to cut out a zebra and giraffe this morning for orders.  Yesterday I painted three doors.  Today if I get a chance I will be painting the front of the barn.  It is always fun to paint and it gives me time to think when I am painting.  One day soon I have to finish the large painting I have been working on.  We have a new stray cat.  He has a beautiful face and tiny meow.  He has a tail that looks like a flag so I call him Flagtail.  He walks so very slowly and you have to keep an eye on him to make sure he is really moving but runs if he is frightened.  We have to laugh at him and always say out loud, "Slowly I walk...step by step!" I hope to fatten him up.  Off to feed the stray cats and have my morning laugh!

Good Friday Morning!

Friday after a day of storms yesterday!  We had no electricity for over 12 hours and it sure makes me thankful for electricity today!  Happy Friday!  Enjoy the weekend!

Three Mohair Zebras.

 

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Ermahgard, Dorothy and Zebedee are on their way to The Boston Road Collection!

The Mohair Bear Ora

Ora on eBay    Adopted

The Friends of Teddy On Line Show is taking place this weekend. The five creations I submitted are Ophelia, Tessa, Angelena, Buffy and Zebedee. www.teddiesworldwide.com

Another beautiful Saturday! Hot and humid but it is so nice. Summer is slipping by. I took the elephant Beulah to The Boston Road this morning and by the time I returned home Brenda called to say she was sold. Great! I am working on a bear and hope to have it finished soon so I can take it to The Boston Road Collection next week. She did say she has it sold too as soon as I bring it to her and wants two more critters... yesterday. I did tell Bailey that he might have to learn to sew. His little Yorkshire paws should be able to hold a needle. He can be my elf sewing in the middle of the night while his grammy sleeps instead of getting me up every couple of hours to go outside because of course he slept all day while grammy sewed. NEW RULE! If grammy doesn't sleep...Bailey doesn't sleep...
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The first day of the Friends Of Teddy On Line Show starts today at 4:00 pm!  www.teddiesworldwide.com  I cannot wait to see all the creations everyone came up with for the show.  I hope everyone is enjoying the summer and will have a nice weekend.  I have been busy sewing, cleaning, taking my mother shopping and to appointments and looking at condos.  Getting rid of things we don't need when I get a chance is at the top of my list.  I definitely need more time for that chore!  I finished Gavin and Zeon and they are on their way to Virginia.  Zeno will be on the way to California and his new mom Lucy.  Today I am finishing Beulah the elephant and she will be at The Boston Road Collection tomorrow.  The next bear is waiting to take her form from my hand stitching.  I hope to machine stitch her some time today.  I am NOT bored and that is a good thing.  I wouldn't be good at being bored.  I think I do CRAZY better!

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Wonderful Daisies Growing In The Yard!

Good Monday Morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed summer.  It has been HOT here in Ohio.  I love it and try to take it all in to think about during those cold winter days that will come in a few months.  It is great to remember the warmth from the sun when the snow is blowing.  I have been busy as everyone is these days.  I have 5 orders and creations all in various stages to be completed.  I hope to complete a few today!  The Friends of Teddy Bears show is this coming weekend and I am anxious for that!  My 5 are ready for the show.  If you haven't voted for your favorite of the preview this is the link: www.teddiesworldwide.com  Please vote.  Thank you.  Funny thing with all the heat and lack of rain three spots of daisies sprung up in the back yard.  I water my flower gardens and vegetable garden every day and some are not looking good.  I have had to dump several pots of flowers that I carefully fed and watered.  The sun is just too powerful for them and they dwindle in the heat.  Amazing to me to see wonderful daisies growing and beautiful in the middle of the burned out grass.  Sent from heaven to remind us that anything is possible!  I really need that right now and as I look at these little beauties every day God reminds me that no task is too big and he takes care of us every day.  He answers our prayers in His time and we must have patience.  He is always with us and guides us if we allow Him.  Have a great week!

Ophelia is one of my creations for the Friends of Teddy Online Show. 

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Good Morning from Ohio the end of June!  This is a view of my flower garden this morning.  The blue berries were looking so nice but the birds are eating them and the black berries.  I was definitely having dreams of black berry dumplings.  Our vegetable garden behind the scare crow is growing and I need to pull the beets and get them canned today.  Where did this month go?  We have had a beautiful spring and summer! This morning at 5 am I looked out to see not a cloud in the sky again.  A bit chilly for Bailey boy when he stepped outside but it was beautiful!  God truly blesses us every day.  I am busy finishing orders.  Now that we have our house for sale there is always that possibility that a call will come and someone wants to look so I cannot be my regular crazy messy where I pull out bins of materials to see what my creations will decide they want to wear.  I do want them to be happy with their attire and they always win.  Especially when I work for a day making a dress and they don't like it.  Oh then it is off to the drawing board again to use the material they decided on.  Bears can be tempermental!  We have had a good time looking at places we might want to live the last couple of weeks.  Some are a definite "NO" when we walk in the door and others I fall in love with.  Time will tell and as always God has to lead us where he wants us.  My decisions without His approval lead me into trouble. 

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY today!  I hope everyone is remembering their dad today, being with him or thinking sweet thoughts of him.  I had the best dad and I miss him every day.  I really miss cooking dinner for him every Sunday and getting a big hug and kiss from him when he walked in the door.  Last week was a good week with some highs and some lows.  House selling and house hunting is not always fun.  Thinking we found the perfect condo was wonderful only to find out Saturday someone else bought it before we could make an offer.  Sad...but God has other plans for us.  I know there is something even better he wants us to find.  He is the Master and if we let him lead us he will lead us in a better direction.  I finished up the bear Liberty and he is ready to list on eBay today.  He is one of my favorites and makes me smile when I look at him.  A bear should always make you smile.  Have a wonderful sweet day!       Liberty's eBay link    Adopted

Sherman the Mohair Clown Bear

Sherman is finished and will be on his way to The Boston Road Collection tomorrow. He will be having fun in the store waiting for his forever home.
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The shelf is finished.

I hope everyone is enjoying summer and the beautiful weather.  We have been busy and finished the shelf over the weekend and hung it Sunday.  I planned to paint another picture for that spot but the shelf looks good there.  It is always fun to switch to another hobby for a while and enjoy spending time with my great husband.  We are planning to change locations and if all goes well will be putting our house for sale in the weeks to come.  Now to look for a new place and clean out the things I have collected for so many years.  No time to dilly dally.  I have finished my entries for the bear show in July and started on a new bear for The Boston Road Collection.  Hope to finish him in a day or so and then finish an order.  Fred took me away over the weekend for a day at The Bluebird Farm  http://www.bluebird-farm.com/#.T8qABGopkvI.facebook in Carrollton, Ohio.  I always spend most of the time at the toy and bear museum after we have a delicious meal.  Wow!  I could stay there all day and look for hours.  What a wonderful place!  It truly inspires me!  We were not able to take a walk to the amphitheater because it had rained but it was a beautiful day and we needed a quiet day together.

The end of the month of May.

I hope everyone is enjoying the summer and having a good week!  It is always busy here and there are times AS I turn in a circle I see something in every direction to do.  My mother has been staying this week with a doctor appointment Tuesday.  I have orders and I have been working on the creations for the preview of the bear show in July.  I attempt to tackle 6 things at the same time and never accomplish anything.  I finally got all the flower gardens cleaned up and they are looking great.   I cleaned the house this morning and then went outside to sand the shelf Fred and I made last night.  I would like to give it a coat of paint some time today and then finish it tomorrow.  I saw the design in a magazine and decided we needed to make another shelf.  I really want to make another large cupboard like the one we made to store my material in.      I Love that cupboard!  Then there is another potting table I have planned to make and haven't.  Love the one we made a couple years ago out of cedar.  It is fun to make tables, cupboards, shelves and things I come up with and Fred and I have a lot of fun making things together.  I design, draw and make the scroll cuts with the scroll saw.  He runs the big table saw to cut the boards to length.  He is mostly my brain!  I am so blessed to have him in my life.  He is always willing to help me even after an extremely hot day working his little behind off at work.  God truly blessed me that day at work when I looked up to see his smiling face looking at me.  He loves like no one else!  I work to make his life happier and he flashes me that wonderful smile that melts my heart. 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day.  I enjoyed the day and the cards and flowers from my husband, sweet sons and friends.  Tobias sent me a beautiful bouquet of tulips.  Thank you Justin, Tobias and Blake for being wonderful sons!  They are always the best sons anyone could have!  Love you guys!

Ramona The Mohair Elephant

Ramona was fun to make from mohair for an order. 

  Has everyone been busy this week? It has been a busy week for me. I hope everyone is enjoying the first week of May. My sweet husband sent me flowers for our anniversary in my favorite colors, red and purple. He has always been so thoughtful for 22 years now! Happy Anniversary Mr. P. You are my one in a million dream come true!