This years side Garden

I had to escape from all of this pollen. It just

about killed me. I am up now because today

I came back from the camper. All rested and

I enjoyed the haunts of the thrift stores while

I was there. Surely if I were here I would be

down in the bed. But low and behold my

eyes are burning even as I type this. So I

do not know if I will be going to bed or

not. That is the question! I dislike showing

you my trash cans but what else can I do.

Be sure to look at all of

that yellow green pollen that is

on the lid of the green trash can. The pollen

was horrible this year! It is all over my

front porch and chairs. At the beginning

of Spring it was all over the cars.

My hubby took these pics of my back

side yard. Did you

get the pollen bad this year?

Enjoy the pics!

 A better close-up of my Baby Banks. It is huge and

I just love looking at it through my windows.  I love

how it grows wild and covers my hydrangea bushes.

Just double click and look at the pollen on the trash

can. My hubby cleaned off the blue one because

she was just emptied.

 Do you see some of the purple Wisteria starting

to bloom. The purple and yellow are so pretty

when they bloom almost together. There is always

something blooming in my yard. It is a joy to

watch it from the windows in the Spring.

 The Wisteria is growing in another spot along the

fence as well. I hope in a few years that this area is

full of purple, yellow and blue among the other colors

of the lillies. And just maybe all of that will help

with the growing of that scrawny rose bush that

is located in the corner. I have not

had much luck growing that one.

 I do not know the name of this plant. It was planted

last year in the summer.But it is growing good. My

lillies are getting bigger. Lillies love my yard. I do

not know how it happens but my lilly's grow bigger

and bigger every year! They must love the soil.

Have a great day and thank you for visiting me!

Hopblogger



My New Quilting Box

FIRST - I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME
ALL OF MY NEW FOLLOWERS TO
MY BLOG. I HOPE THAT IT INSPIRES

YOU IN ALL OF YOUR CREATIVITY!

A couple of weeks ago I made over a

baby box. I could have decorated the box

with sewing supplies.

However I wanted something different.

My butterflies came

from the scrapbooking supplies at

the craft store. They were a thick

cardboard. And they stuck to the box

really well.

I also desired that the box be simple.

The box was just the right sizse to hold all of

my quilting supplies.

As you can see the first drawer holds my

rotary cutters with their blades.

 The second drawer holds needles, thimbles along

with other small stuff. I found out in Germany in the 1980's

that the best thimble was one with a magnet

on top. I want to buy a couple more of these

thimbles in case I loose this one. Have you

tried one of these type of thimbles? If you get

one of these - you will love it.

I was thinking about

placing cork on the inside of the box lid so I could

pin up some pics. As of yet I am not quilting

any quilts so that will be something that I

do later.

 The bottom drawer holds my large safety pins.

I put these safety pins in zip lock bags. Believe

me I have plenty more safety pins that are

currently being used. I am so glad that this

drawer will hold 3 or 4 more bags of safety pins.

The little black tin box holds my quilt pins. The

little brown egg that you see is a scented acorn.

It smells like vanilla.

I am so glad that this box holds everything. Maybe

you could use a box like this to hold your

cross stitch supplies. Ummm I think I need

another baby box!

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Take care & visit me again!

Many hugs and kisses to you all.

Hopblogger





LIEBSTER AWARD

I was very surprised when
Faith of 'Faithfully Stitching' told me
that she gave me the Liebster Award.

She was so kind.

Thank you very much Faith. Her link is here:

http://faithnchls.blogspot.com/

This award

is given to a blogger with less than 200 followers.

It is a german word that holds many

meanings such as favorite,

dearest or beloved.

There are 5 rules

1. Post the Award on your blog.

2. Link back to the blog that gave you

the award.

3. Reveal 5 things that no one knows about you.

4. Give the award to 5 other bloggers.

5. Leave them a comment telling them you

gave them the award.

The 5 things that noone knows about me are:

1. I am a celiac. I am highly allergic to wheat, corn.

along with trees and Kentucky Blue Grass which

is located all over North Carolina. This puts me down

in the bed for 2 seasons out of the year. Shots and

pills are useless to me. My name should be
Mrs. Rip Van Winkle!

2. This year I have been married for 38 years to the

same wonderful man whom I love dearly. In fact I

have lived longer with him than I ever lived with

my parents.

3. I was married, graduated from high school and

had my first child all in the same year.

4. My sewing room is totally, utterly, terribly, horribly disorganized.

I can never keep it clean or straight for long. And

if I put things away most likely it will be another

year when I clean - before I can find it again.

5. I was born around Atlantic Beach and I have

never been able to swim.

Now it is time to tell you the following blogs

whom I will give the Liebster Award to. I am

sure that you will like them all as well as I do.

1. Marlene of Poppy Patchwork.

http://poppypatchwork.blogspot.com/

2. Trixie of Fair city of Portland Oregon. I

find her blog amusing.

http://heardinmycab.blogspot.com/

3. Rita E of http://stitchdays.blogspot.com/

4. Vicky's blog of http://kiwicraftydoglover.blogspot.com/

5. Lastly Kat of Flopsy Kitten Stitchin. Her blog is

http://kat-gillespie.blogspot.com/

Now I am almost finished. All that is left is to leave

them a nice comment telling them that I have

nominated them for the Liebster Award.

Many stitching hugs and kisses to you all,

Hopblogger

WELCOME

I would like to take a moment to welcome all of my

new followers. However some of your blogs

are not being shown. Send me an email

and let me know where I can find you!

Many stitching hugs and kisses to you all,

Hopblogger

RENEW and REFRESH an old Baby Box

Have you still got your child's old

baby box. Are you hesitant about throwing

it away. Well dont do that. Refresh that old box

and use it for something else.

This is actually a very nice box that I picked up

at the thrift store. Yes it was a little dirty

but all n all - it was not bad. The box was

sturdy with no tears on it. I love boxes!

 You can see the dirtiness of the tabs that open the

box as well as some of the dirt on the inside.

Something red was in one of sides. You can still

see it.

 The bow was dirty but that is easy to replace.

Read those sweet words that surround the photo

of Pooh bear. We have to hide those words.

 Pretty butterflies are all over the box including

the bottom.

 Well here goes - this is what I did. I cleaned up

all of the inside slots in both drawers. Here you

see me cleaning up the red spot. I do not know

what was in this drawer but it cleaned up okay.

 Time to change that ribbon. I used the same kind of

white ribbon that was on the box. So glad that I had

some of it already left over from prior projects.

The old ribbon pulled out and with a safety pin I

pulled the new ribbon thru and tied it in a bow.

 I used a flowered scrapbooking paper that had

many of the colors of the butterflies that were on

the outside of the box. Flowers and Butterflies

coordinate.

 After I finished the bow then I cut out a

pattern for the scrapbook paper. All I did was take

a piece of computer paper and lay it on top. Then

with my fingernail I pushed the paper all around the

edges creating a pattern. I removed the paper and

cut out paper pattern. Then I traced around it on

the scrapbooking paper. The flower design is not

even glued in - I just placed it in the indented area.

This spot is also great to put a loved ones photo.

This would personalize the box and look great!

But I did not have that kind of a use for this box.

 The inside looks good with scrapbook paper. I

did not glue it down either in case later I want to

change it. The flowers look great with the blue green

checks.

 The scrapbook paper I already had, but I had to

buy the butterflies at the craft store. I looked

for flowers but I could not find anything that I

liked. These are butterfly stickers. They are

made from cardboard.

 I positioned the 2 large butterflies to hide the

words Baby. Then I used 2 smaller flowers to

also hide the words baby. The cardboard stickers

also had button pieces. So I placed 2 of those

button stickers on top. They adhered very well.

 This is what onse side of the box looks like.

 This is the other side of the box.

 I removed those old pull tabs that opened the drawers.

See how grimy they are. They got thrown away.

 This is how I replaced them. I used white ribbon

and threaded it thru one of the cardboard stickers.

The older tabs when removed left holes. So I threaded

the ribbon thru those holes to the inside of the

drawer.

 Here you can see where I knotted it really good.

Afterwards I trimmed up the ribbon.

 Now the box looks really good. Time to see what

I want to stuff in it.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my new box.

Next week I will show you what I used it for.

Thanks for visiting me!

Many hugs and kisses to you all.

Hopblogger