A mouse in the house

We seem to have a mouse in the house and she has taken up residence in the basket of hearts! Can you see her nestled in amongst the hearts (she's lavender with grey ears)? Little dog thinks she'd like to play with it.

Le petit sac (the little bag)

This is my latest finish, a little bag (le petit sac). It would make a great gift bag and done up in appropriate colours would make a cute Easter bag. I found the pattern here on a French blog. If you'd like the pattern, open her blog and on the right hand side look for "catégories" and under that title you will find "mes tutorials" - Geneviève will email it to you. She speaks English. She also has photos of several bags that others have made .... oh my, there are some beauties.
Geneviève's photos in her tutorial (a PDF) are so good that you can likely understand what to do without translation. I chose to make this one using metric measurements just for the challenge.

If this is old age ....

Today I received my first Old Age pension cheque from the Government - thank you.  It seems odd because I don't feel old and when I look in the mirror I see a young chick.....until I put on my glasses ;).  If this is old age then I'm all for it.

For the birds

This fine fellow , a pine grosbeak, along with many others have been regular visitors at our feeders. The feeders are at the edge of the deck that is outside the kitchen window. When I took this pic he was waiting on the line whilst his lady dined. The ladies are not as pretty but their song is delightful. They and the flock of red polls that are also regulars at the feeders seem to get along very well. They are all very entertaining and certainly warm our hearts watching and listening to them.

I've got hearts

I've been filling a basket with hearts, which will be our February décor. All of these are handmade by myself. If you look closely you will see a fabric tulip amongst them along with one gaudy bright heart. I hadn't realized that I had so many and, in fact, I still have a few others that could be added but that entailed getting a bigger basket.  Besides, it's nice to have a few hanging up here and there throughout the house. 

I've stitched these since Christmas and they are now awaiting finishing.  I haven't decided on how to finish the "Christmas Wishes" ... any suggestions?  Sunbonnet Sue is destined to become a mug rug.  

Snappy bag

This morning I made a snappy bag from here.  The tutorial was easy to follow and was printable, which was a bonus.  It's one of those bags that you  squeeze the top to open .... used to be very popular years ago.