It's Monday

Just dropping in to say hi and wish you all a happy week. It's sunny here today in Colorado, unlike yesterday's drizzly Easter Sunday. It was my husband's birthday and we planned a day at home having celebrated on Saturday with a day spent antiquing and dinner at a local Italian eatery. I was on the lookout for someones unappreciated and cast off needlepoint; always shocking to me when I find something in good shape and desirable. I only saw one thing worth considering, it was a rug approximately 3'x4' in size. Well executed in tent but framed! I felt it would have been better displayed as a rug as IMHO it was intended to be.

It was a depiction of a pair of King Charles Spaniels lying down cuddled. The background was pink, it had a nice border and the asking price was $500. No, I didn't consider it, for one thing besides it's price tag, the faces on the dogs were not executed very well. That is the kiss of death for me when considering buying anything that includes an animal face; it must have a realistic look or at least look endearing. Whereas these poor pooches had deer in headlamps expressions. But I embarked upon an Internet search to find this rug elsewhere to learn more about it. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't manufactured somewhere overseas because it looked like it was the work of a needlepointer. Anyway in my search I found this little website and thought you might enjoy bowsing around. No I meant to type bowsing. I am typing it in here because blogger doesn't seem to be accepting links today, so just in case here is the website: www.aileenannecollections.com/Decorative-Pillows_c_42.html



This week will be a busy one. I worked on my Rio Rincon companion piece exclusively but am no further along than I was in my previous post. I did a lot of frogging. And am now having a difficult time determining what this is supposed to be just above and centered over the words "what's this". I am perplexed by the somewhat rectangular/trapezoidal shape in the center there. I have the notion to just cover it up, but if you recognize what it's supposed to be I'll keep it in. Thanks in advance for your response.

In closing I wanted to let you know that I added a new section to my blog, located on the left entitled, "Enter at your own risk". It's a selection of tempting foodie blogs that I have found to be awesome, instructional and surf-worthy.

Take care and have a great week.