Good Monday Morning!

     It's a mild one here in this part of North Carolina.  I always enjoy my neighborhood early morning.  It's quiet and the birds are at the feeder.  Too early in the year for the deer to be in the woods behind our house, but soon we'll be seeing, not many, but a couple or three deer eating at the young and tender spring growth.  They never stay too long but we're always happy when we're blessed with their appearance for a few minutes.
     Our son, Skeet, is down from NH, and he and Guy, our younger son, have put in the windows in my she shed.  I should be getting so much more  natural light when enjoying the shed now.  Next step with the shed though, is to insulate and put the walls up.  A picture of it now, and come spring, in front of this window will be lots of native flowers for the Monarch's and bees.  So right now, it looks very bare.  I have six windows all together now.

I have a little more stitching done on "Spring Renewal" and I'm finally really enjoying the stitch.  It's still a lot of very few stitches with many colors resulting in lots of threading the needle over and over again.  The colors are beautiful though, and now I can see the beginnings of the little village in the piece.

I also put in the designed box of this past week in on the 52 Week SAL.  So it's coming along as well and while waiting for the next block, I may start the outlining in black between each of the blocks I have now.  Some pretty borders out there by the ladies who are doing this SAL, and I haven't decided yet on any one in particular.

     Now! The last freebie I posted was indeed a design by Durene Jones.  I contacted her, to make sure that it was okay that I did post it, and she was kind enough to tell me that it was fine.  Any of her free designs can be posted in the future, which I may occasionally do, but for now, I would like to direct you all to a couple of sites where you can see all her beautiful charts.  Many are free, but she also has many for sale at very reasonable prices.  I really like her use of colors.  So please drop over and see her and her work at  here or at her Etsy shop.  "Durene Jones Etsy Shop".  Here below are the two charts I've ordered from her.  I love them both so much!

I was very surprised  a couple of days ago.  A very sweet friend of ours, Jeanne, crocheted a top for me that I just love! She knows how much I love greens of all shades, so chose the variegated green yarn.  She does beautiful work, and thank you again Jeanne.  I'll have Bill take a picture of me wearing this and will post it here again sometime soon.

          I'll be busy over the next couple of days.  I've neglected the book we're reading from our local library club, so need to finish it.  "The Orphan Train" is really an easy read, but like any other book.....it won't read itself to me! So I may not be back for a day or two.

     Until I am indeed back with another post, please be safe and well.  Look around you so you can once again, "feel the colors".  Love you all.