Week 19 Nikki's Stocking for May 16th

I am going to be on time for this week's post.

Last week's goal was to finish the outline of 

 the hill the church sits on, and to fill in the year completed, my initials, and the Scripture reference. 

First I needed to check with Nikki about how she wanted the year written, as 2024 or just as 24. I showed her a picture of my oldest daughter's stocking, who has the same stocking, and I only used 95. 

I have no idea why I used two different colors for the lettering.

 I never noticed until now. 

Nikki decided on 2024.

All the lettering is completed. 

The next step is to fill in all the background. 

This is the lowest edge of the stocking. 

By Thursday evening I finished this much of the background. 

I am making progress. I should have it done by 

this Thursday the 23rd.

Thursday the 23rd is High School graduation for our youngest!!

Be Happy!

Week 18 Nikki's Stocking update for May 9th

I missed posting for last week. 

Better late than never.

My goal for the week was to finish the church 

and start the hill it sits on.

Here is the church before it is backstitched. Doesn't it look nice?

Now it is really finished and looks more complete. 

The next evening, on Thursday I had the hill started. 

I hit my goal.

Week 17 of Nikki's Stocking

I made some good progress this week. 

I am jumping around a bit. I wanted to get that church started. 

And believe me, when I say, I will be glad when it is finished. 

Working with almost the same shade of floss as 

the background is hard. 

Once the church is finished I will start on the bottom hill!

I worked on a few of the plants in the cornucopia.

 A close-up of the church. 

Be Happy!

April's Scrapbooking Pages

I waited until the very end of the month to do my scrapbooking 

pages for April because of my eye surgery.

Not because of my vision but because I can't bend over and since things fall on the floor or I have extra paper storage on the floor I didn't want to do it too early. 

As it was I dropped letter dies on the floor. Luckily my magnetic wand picked them up. My poor knees bark at me whenever I squat to pick something up. The picking-up tool helps with picking up some things but not for notebooks and pictures.  One is too heavy and the other is too flat and light. 

I did five pages one page short of my monthly goal, 

but since I am three pages ahead from other months 

I am still on track for my annual goal. 

All these pictures are from 2019, this is Samantha doing chalk drawing with two of our neighbor boys. 

Ages are almost 4 and 1.5 years old.

Samantha was 14.

Playing in the dark, we lost electricity twice in 2019. 

Here we are out to dinner at Native our favorite wing place. 

We were celebrating 7 years as a family. 

Left side page.

Right side page.

During fall break I took the girls to the Go Cart place.

Goal Chart

The poor lamb doesn't have a body.

I see the eye doctor on May 10th, I hope I can start bending over again. It is amazing how many times a day I stop myself from bending over. 

Be Happy