some silliness ...

A few of us helped a wonderful lady celebrate her 82nd birthday -  if I should be half as sharp as she is when I'm that age I'll consider myself very lucky.  Along with birthday cake, ice cream, pink champagne and party favours we had lots of fun.  There were lollipop flowers for everyone and a corsage for the birthday girl.  

The lollipop flowers are called daisy dum dums - I think dum dums are a lollipop which isn't available in our neck of the woods - actually I couldn't find lollipops of any kind in the stores - I checked them all and expected to at least find tootsie pops - fortunately a neighbour had some of these lollipops on hand and donated them to the cause.  ^^  Repeat Crafter Me is the designer of the daisy dum dums and the corsage is a design by Teri Crewes .

shoot for the moon,

even if you miss, you'll land among the stars 

the other one ...

This is the other one that I stitched for the card for a friend's  March birthday.  I'm pleased with how it turned out ...

I tore a piece of brown paper for the background and made the envelope from gift wrap.

always believe something wonderful

is about to happen 

bunny and daffodils ...

I stitched this one for a card for a friend's late March birthday - bunny and daffodils seemed appropriate.    No matter what I did it didn't look good as a card so I ended up stitching something else.  When I was sorting through my Spring and Easter pieces to display I realized that I could use more Spring ones and that's how/why this one ended up being finished this way.  Oddly enough I quite like it as a little pillow and yet it looked dreadful as a card - go figure.  ^^

There's been fabulously warm Spring weather this week - most of the snow has disappeared - I even heard a robin!  We've been taking advantage of it and spending a lot of time outdoors.

life is like a mirror -

smile at it and it smiles back at you 

fresh greens .....

These fresh greens are making us feel Spring-like ... am I beginning to sound desperate for Spring?  

 The top dish contains  beets, carrots, potato and daikon.

The bottom one has a Napa cabbage. 

there is always a reason to smile ...

find it!

 

warming up ...

Today the temperature actually reached +6C and there was sunshine - yeppers, water was running here and there and it was a beautiful day! 

I've been racking my brain trying to come up with something to share.  Do you really want to hear about doing my taxes or the friend who is ill in hospital or the weather that is slow to warm up or the raging cabin fever, etc.  I haven't been doing much needlework either - I did stitch one piece that was such a pretty design but I'm not pleased with how it turned out - completely my fault not the fault of the chart.  There, I did find something to talk about but there needs to be an accompanying photo - didn't take one of the delicious curried carrot soup that I made  nor of the yummy lemon butter or the English muffin bread. So how about the knitted square I made last month - I'm not a knitter although my mom taught me to knit at an early age  - and many years ago I knitted my toddler a fisherman knit pullover.  This square intrigued me and I wanted to see if I could do it - it's a better looking heart for real than it looks in the photo  - the best part is that I want to do more knitting now ...

having a soft heart in a cruel world

is courage, not weakness 

 

march ...

I am so ready for Spring this year - the months have gone by quickly but the winter weather has been with us for a long time.   So I decided to celebrate the arrival of meteorological Spring.  My thanks to Maja at The Snowflower Diaries for this beautiful design...

The plants are enjoying the warmer sun and longer days ...

happiness is not a destination - 

it is the journey