Little Bits of LOVE......

 

 

Today the weather is SNOWY ...

The house is WARM

After a couple of overnight stays,

The Grandchildren have all gone HOME

The house has sort of recovered...

 the Peace and Quiet is

WONDERFUL! 

                                                         

 

I'm Loving this stage of my life...

I've been married to the same man for 30+ years.

  I've raised 3 daughters and I think they have all turned out pretty well.

I have TWO great son-in- laws who now love my girls. 

I see little grandchildren just enough to love them

and have a special relationship with them.

We have sleepovers as needed.

I still get to hear little girls giggle.

I don't have to worry that someone

will starve if I don't feed them.

My husband can cook .

And the best part of this stage of my life..

my life has a little more space!

 

More

space for Sewing...

More

Space for a sewing room...

More

Space to buy fabric!

More

Space to be creative

More

Space for love,

More

Space for pretty things

More

Space to do as I please

and take care of me

because it makes me feel loved.

At 55 and on the downhill slope of life

I think that is ok :).

 

SO on that note let me share with you

More Space..... 

 

FEBRUARY

With Love.

 

 

 

 

Raw edge applique.

Trying something new love

 

Old plaid shirts.

Recycled love

 

Seems to be a little closer to being finished love.

 

My quilt back made for  Mr. January UFO.

which is being hand quilted at the moment.

It is a slow kind of love.

AKA

Old fashioned love

 

Meet Mr. January UFO top here

 

 

Fabric with the word.... SEW.

Needle holder made with a little girl.

 Learning to sew love.

 

see another picture here of the front of the needle holder

 

 

 

Hand quilting with Pearle Cotton.

Perfect for Olympic Love

because it take perseverance.

 

 

 

Stacked plates  with a candle burning.

 Calming Love

 

 

 

Love in the middle of winter.

Remembering Love

Raising the white flag...

Little  red chair dressed with White tulips

The best way to surrender to winter love.

 

Pretty has a place.

Vintage jars... Pinecones.. White pitchers

 table motivation for  

 clutter free LOVE.

 

 

Backyard Beauty

 

Winter has been long.

It seems to want to last forever.

Looking for reasons to remain calm.

This too shall pass.

  Telephoto lens LOVE. 

 

 

Love lasts forever.....

 winter melts to spring.

 

Welcome Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty  little Addilyn Grace

3 Years old

Perfect Love 

 

 

Clayton Paul

3 month old

Itty Bitty Love

 

Proud to be a big sister!

Protective love

 

 

 

Emerson Iona

7 years old

Sweet Love

 

Cousins  sharing together Love.

 

They are sweet treasures that I love.

 

Sleepover love.

 

 

Lunch with my sweet little Valentine.

Making it special with

Homemade Love

 

Cooking with a little LOVE.

Strawberry love smack dab in the middle.

 

 

Valentines Box love for a 1st Grade sweetie.

Her mom helped her make this. 

 Got to Love Creativity!

It lifts my spirit and brings smiles to my days.

 

 

Blessed by LOVE every day that I live.

 

Janita

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Romanticizing the Polar Vortex....

Just when you think you are done with cold...
         It's Back.

Here is how I deal with cold...... 

I put Quilts on every bed

I Dream about living someplace else

I thrift store shop and buy

 white dishes from France

I teach little girls how to sew

This is  needle holder.   There are needles

stored under the pink heart.

I live with Red.

I Love my Grandchildren!

I marvel at Miracles.

I wait patiently for perfect days

 to build a snowman 

I try to Keep a Happy Heart.

I do not like to be cold.

I fill cookie jars with

Hot Chocolate mix.

I Fluff my nest.

I take Pictures of snow.

I Look for beauty

 in the season to pass the time.

I sew for people I love

I sew for ME!

Meet Mr. UFO (unfinished object) for January.

I need to finish Him this week.

He has been Mr. UFO for way too long.

May your day be cozy.

janita

 

20 Little things I love about FALL

1. Spying Scarecrows everywhere.

 2. Hearing rustling leaves

blowing down the street.

3. Pumpkins on the porch.

4. APPLE CIDER

5. LOG CABIN  Blocks

creating Log Cabin Love.

                

                                          6. MUMS

& MORE MUMS

7. Everything SPICED with Cinnamon.

8. ORANGE is IN

and everyone is buying it!

Pumpkins all in a row at the Shaker Village

Harrodsburg, Kentucky

9. Pumpkin desserts

10. FOOTBALL

GO HAWKEYES

ELEVEN.........

Finding time for family 

and

 celebrating birthdays.

TWELVE... ACORNS

THIRTEEN.....

Pillows stitched with Pumpkins.

FOURTEEN.....

The Harvest season.

FIFTEEN......

Did I mention PUMPKINS????

The bigger the better !

We found this one in Tennesse!

SIX.... and soon to be a TEEN....

time flys you know..

Emerson turned SIX

started Kindergarten this fall

SEVENTEEN....

THERE IS ALWAYS A WELCOME 

No matter where you go.

(This was on a building in Charleston, South Carolina)

EIGHTEEN...

Making New Friends on a September day

in Beaufort, South Carolina.

( hello Lars and Kerstin)

NINETEEN...

LEAVES the color of GOLD

AND

TWENTY....

The Table Centerpiece changes!

Mrs. Butterworth, I knew you would come in handy some day!

You are a delight holding my cat tails : )

Count your BLESSINGS

name them one by one!

Count your many BLESSINGS

see what God has done!

WISHING YOU A BEAUTIFUL FALL DAY!

Janita

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