Smell the flowers...

Wow, i can hardly beleive i am giving time to post a message in my blog. As i mentioned in a previous post, i am a very lazy and poor blogger. Although i wish i was as good as all those great blogs i love to visit. I do hope that once i move to my future house ( one day ) i will have my own little studio, i will be spending more time creating and filling my etsy shop and maybe take more time to blog. Blogging is a fun thing to do of course. I just feel sometimes i don't have much to say. Ok, enough justification for my laziness, i came here specifically to show you that pillow i made for my hubby. I am not entirely satisfied with the ended result, but hubby seemed quite pleased. And he even liked the discloths ! He offered me the crochet one my friend did for him ( I think he found it a little bit too girly with the frill border ) and i must admit it really washes the dishes well. The cloth is thick, spongy and soft. I think i am hooked, i will have to knit more for myself. The peonies are just barely starting to flower and i beleive they will be gorgeous ! I love peonies ! I have many plants troughtout my flower beds. Yesterday, the sky was clouding over and i could hear the thunder roar. A storm was building up. I ran to the chicken coop to get them inside and i almost stopped as i passed by the peonies. The smell was so intoxicatingly intense. I ran back inside, grabbed the scissors, ran back outside to try and cut a few flowers before the storm breaks out.I made a lovely bouquet to put on the kitchen table. Oh, how wonderfully sweet is the smell of peonies. I wish they would flower all summer long...Well, i wish summer would last longer too...Take the time to smell the flowers...

Summer days

Summer days are finally here and it feels so good. Yesterday the weather was just perfect and i was driving home with the window down. I was feeling completely happy just by feeling the warmness of the wind and the sweet smell of the fresh cut grass. I live in the countryside and the scenery here never stops to fascinate me. We decided to sell the house because we feel the urge to live in an even more remote area. I want to wake up every morning and see beautiful rolling hills, not collected trash in our neighbour's yard. I am not a hermit, of course, i do enjoy being with people. But i do need my peace and tranquility. My little neighborhood used to be a quiet and pretty place to live in. Unfortunately, over the past years, new people came and things changed. They don't really care for pretty flower beds and cleanliness. Moving away was a hard and painful decision, because i have so many beautiful memories of my life there with my family. But 2 of my daughters left the nest and i feel i am ready for a new beginning.

Sunday is father's day and i decided to offer my little boy hubby a box filled with little surprises. One of them being knitted dishcloth. ( What ?! ) Yep ! He's been asking for some handmades to use at the sailboat. We have a 36 feet Pearson Ketch ( very pretty and comfy ) and we like spending weekends there sailing at the lake and relaxing. Anyway, speaking of knitted dishcloth, i do hope he likes them. The girls at work thought it was a pretty funny gift to offer to a man, but in the end, one even offered to crochet an extra dishcloth for him. I have another one on the needles that is almost finished, so he will have four pretty dishcloths. Spoiled hubby ! I am also working on a decorative pillow ( for the sailboat of course ) and will post some more pictures later for everybody to see. So many things i have been working on this past spring. From knitted socks, to pretty coasters, to sewing lovely dolls, aprons, totes and pincushions. I will try and post all these pretty things i have been working on as soon as possible. In the meantime, i better get on with my day. I have a long list of chores waiting to be done. And that includes cutting the grass. Yuk !

See ya !

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