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Thank you for stopping by so I can say hello on Mother's Day! Today I hope you find yourself enjoying an exceptionally loving day with your children and/or with with your own mother. You deserve it! I wanted to share my bouquet with you, it is filled with fragrance- roses, carnations and stock interspersed with lovely pink hydrangea. Thank you DD, you are beautiful!
I've been away for a while visiting Washington State and Oregon with my husband. The Pacific Northwest is a beautiful part of the country and I hope to visit often as there are so many amazing things to see and experience. I rented a car with plans to tool around antique malls and needlepoint shops while my husband was working but unfortunately the first 10 days I was under the weather with some bug I undoubtedly picked up on the airplane. Bummer. I wasn't able to get as much stitching done as I had hoped. Traveling by plane doesn't allow to bring a lot along, but I did get got some areas done on my White Santa Nutcracker and will post this soon. Actually I have nearly completed it and am beginning the tedious turkey work and then on to background.
Our daughter arrived for a visit last weekend as a special treat for my Mother's Day. We ended up exploring the countryside alongside the Columbia River while driving to Portland, OR. The backdrop of a snow covered Mt. Hood was gorgeous and unrivaled! Pendleton, OR is nearby too and we must have seen literally hundreds of sheep, all ages, sizes, sheared, unsheared. Lovely creatures to see on the green hillsides.
We feasted on Dungeness crab and even had sturgeon fish and chips. There were numerous antique malls along the way and we tried to visit them all. However, the highlight of the trip was a few hours south of Portland in Eugene. I had always heard about Mindy's Needlepoint Factory but never dreamed I'd get there but my enabling family was bound and determined to treat me to a day at Mindy's....who am I to disappoint? OMG it was amazing. Read about it in my next post.
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