Good Morning Tuesday

   Good morning Friends,  

We have a warm up again for a few days before the temps drop again. Loving all the sunshine especially. We had a lot of rain a few days ago-so will be needing to get out the weed trimmer to begin cutting grass soon -ugh.

 I planted the bluebells the other day. The seller was very helpful and said he likes to plant the seeds in a Tupperware container so I had the perfect one. I keep this damp for 4-6 weeks and then place in the frig for another 4-6 weeks and then plant outdoors. This will put me into early June I think to plant outdoors.

  I bought garlic chives and regular chives seeds on Ebay I received the garlic chives in the mail yesterday-such a lovely card to protect the seeds in an envelope-I love it.

   I have almost completed the slow stitching for my second bag-working on the last two handles, and then I will stitch this to the lining and finish up.

  

  Oh and I follow Free the Ocean where they send me a new quiz every day. They raise money with this some how as well. I have been doing it for several years, don't always answer the quiz every day but today I hit 1000 and am now an Explorer  I was in the whale pods for a long time.  here is a link  I enjoy getting their email quiz each day as I am always learning something new. My percentage of correct answers is 53%  Which I find pretty good as I am guessing most of the time  Smiles

 Here is a copy of the page with the different levels

Sea Star

1-25

Seabird

26-75

Fish

76-150

Sea Turtle

151-250

Dolphin

251-350

Whale

351-500

Whale Pod

501-999

(every 100 pieces adds a new whale to your pod)

Explorer

1000 – 1249

Marine Biologist

1250 – 1500

Narwhal

1501 – 1800

Helping make the ocean more magical!

Have a good week everyone

Happy New Week-BlueBells and Slow Stitches

  Happy new week everyone and Happy St Patrick's Day if you celebrate. 

  We are back to warm weather today and tomorrow before the next big storm comes through with lower temperatures.  We are safe here at the lake but many areas in Missouri were hit hard with tornadoes and a foot deep of hail-wow that's a lot.  A couple cities were hit with major damages not all that far from us so am very thankful.  This same storm is on it's way to the east coast now so hoping all of you will be safe.

  This is the first year in over 40 years maybe close to 50 years when I think about it-that I didn't pick up a corn beef and cabbage to boil up. We love the meal and I always buy rye bread for my husband to make reuben sandwiches the next day.  When I went food shopping a couple weeks ago the stores had very small packages with a high price tags so I passed on it. I need to go food shopping this week so will see what is available.

  I have been buying a few flower seeds-will use them to fill up my big tubs mostly. Today I was looking at the perennial bluebells  I found these on Ebay  -- English bluebell seeds-hyacinthoides non scripta native englishe bluebell    Reading through the listings these are the more pure form of seed others are crossed with another seed.  One of those seeds you need to chill them first or they won't germinate.  Here are the photos from his site-   These need mostly sun and will fill an area so I like that-and Larry prefers I plant mostly perennials.

  Do you have these or have you grown them?? They look beautiful

Over the weekend I set up the water bottle "greenhouses" just a few so far. Larry loves snapdragons so I bought a package of those. I lost my bee balm plants so started those seeds and also blue salvia.

  I lost my echinacea plants too with that water issue from the well last year, so I also ordered those seeds-I find Ebay is a good source for seeds.

  I am making progress on my second slow stitch bag. I am almost finished with the last large piece on the one side of the bag and then just the handles to stitch-and I can work on putting another bag together. I am still enjoying this project very much. My stitches are not all even for sure but I am not going to concern myself with that.

I like how the stiches came out on the mimosa dyed yellow-click to enlarge for better viewing If you find them there are several square boxes within the stitches

Happy Monday and have a good week