Mack's Heart

Mack designed a heart block that incorporated both a heart and arteries as well as valentine-type hearts. I created a fabric background and then added the pieces to create his picture.

Thanks Mack! Family

How does the garden grow and other thoughts

Our garden is planted for the upcoming season. I tweak a bit now and then as I squeeze in a few more plants, or realize that those seeds didn't germinate (lettuce). I have more flowers in there than the past, in hopes of having some color during the peak hot season when nothing else produces. I do have lots of volunteer tomatoes and a pumpkin volunteer that came up because I used the compost from our bin for the first time this year. We are still harvesting radishes and carrots that wintered over, yummy.

I"m sure I will have to thin the marigolds and probably the basil... I might have the heart to do that.

We were sitting out on the lanai working on taxes today and had two parrots come to feed at our bird feeder. They are regulars there and must be very light birds as they don't seem to trigger the spin mechanism on the Yankee Flipper we have to deter the squirrels. Quaker parrots are really beautiful green with black heads.

My surgery sight continues to progress. I have a small bit of swelling left in the area, and it is red/bruised/scar, but I am please with my progress. Fresh Pineapple! Yes, my surgeon recommended it as there is something in it that inhibits bruising and promotes healing. They recommend eating it three days out from surgery. I ate it 5 days out and then every day for the first 10 days after. I stopped every day and went to every other as it started to effect my taste. Arnica Montana was also recommended for the first three days.

I am sending my final batch of beaded hearts to Jeannette tomorrow. I managed to do quite a few more post surgery as my vision started to clear. I'll post the photos of this weekend's work tomorrow.

My honey's Heart

Here is Kirk's heart stitched in one drop peyote. He chose distinctive colors for absolute changes in heart.

Thanks Kirk! Family and Live & Learn

Heart from Ben

Here is Ben's design using Live and Learn 2008 colors. This was done with silver lined purple beads and clear gold-tint beads with silver block letters. I have to say it was the hardest one I have done in terms of leaving spaces open for the letters to sit in. I ended up filling the space with another color and short thread, and then pulling them out. I think I am just not that linear a thinker, LOL.

Thanks Ben! Live and Learn Unschoolers

Celtic heart from Jen

In keeping with simpler projects, I had found this celtic heart at Hobby Lobby and had it in my stash. Vision is clearing and so I did a simple pink beaded ribbon design in size 11 delica to add color (it's pink which doesn't really show in the photo).

Thanks Jen. Live and Learn

Acey's heart

For this design I found these great millefore heart beads at a local bead store. Perfect for the simple classic design of variation of color.

Thanks Acey, family.

Amanda's heart

Back to beading, albeit bigger beads or simpler designs for now. These are size 8 seed beads so I could see the holes even though they were blurry. The design is an emoticon symbol.

Thanks Amanda, family.