Well-Versed

For the Well-Versed baby...

They should start this child's college fund NOW!

gregarious -- sociable

loquacious -- talkative

jocular -- playful

Truck Monogram

You know you are a monogram/font addict when…...

 

You are standing in the pouring rain trying to get a photo

of the furnace guy's company truck monogram.

And Daryl, the furnace guy who is restoring hot water to the house after 5 days of

everyone turning blue in the shower, is looking at you as if you are a total loon!

Truck monogram ---cool!

Hot water restored -- priceless!

Placemat Monogram

Good Morning Stitchfork.

Your mission should you decide to accept it:

Design a placemat monogram

Goal and target:

Use the items in this basket... black & tan placemats, clear glass tableware, black tablecloth. Monogram initials J-C-L

So often when a monogram is stitched in the center of a placemat it becomes hidden except when clearing away the plates.

These plates are clear and will create a plate-glass window
view for the monogram.

J-C-L is seen before dinner, then slowly reappears through the meal as the diners enjoy the food.

 

Bonus views for the ‘clean-plate-club’

Another successful mission concluded.

….I added the striped table runner from my stash for the pictures.

Think I may have lost it to J-C-L….

Flowers from the Farm

Before the supressive heat/humidity of the day gets stirred up again, it's nice to enjoy a cup of tea outside.  And the day cannot start out grumpily with this fresh cut batch of flowers from a local farm. 

No grumpiness allowed here!

Crowned Monogram

When the Queen is happy, there is peace in the kingdom

It’s Good to be King

King of the Hill...Burger King ...King Crab...King Kong

King Richard...King Henry

Richard Henry...King of his Castle

                                       Just another day...sacking, pillaging and stitching

Stitchfork note -- This style monogram taken from artwork originally produced in Europe from the 1920s and 1930s, uses letters with shading details. The small ring-shaped detail creates a very classic look that is just as interesting white-on-white.

Queen Bee

Queen for a Day...Drama Queen ...Queen of Hearts...Her Majesty the Queen...Beauty Queen...

Queen Bee

It’s Good to be Queen—Grand High Poobah of Everything

Anyone who maintains their calm in the midst of all this confusion simply does not understand the situation

Pillow Monogram

Monograms -- not just for initials alone!

Location!  Location!  Location!

Talkin' Turkey

Out of the corner of my eye while brewing tea in the kitchen this morning I glimpsed something large, dark and hulking outside the screened room door. I did one of those cartoon-like double takes…..

 

Okay, remember everything I told you.

And on the count of three you jump and FLY!

 

On the count of two though, The Hound (aka Avalanche our big, yellow lab)

came barreling around the corner.

 

Flight lift off accomplished!

But The Hound scared the you-know-what out of those turkeys.

Outside to get the garden hose…………...