This morning as the Giant Yorkie took a wee walk, I decided to take some photos of my yard. I am not sure why because it is the most boring, uneventful area I have ever seen — this part is sans foxes. The grass isn’t dead — yet —and the bushes have managed to hang on through the miserable hell that was summer in Texas. The clover, however, has quit blooming as has the verbena growing wild by the back fence. It is still there but not blooming as profusely as it was in the heat. Go figure.
We are not gardeners. I never professed to be. When I was a kid I was allergic to so much that I just had to stay in so I never cultivated an interest AND I am still allergic. In our former home we had a LOT of landscaping done (here we measure that in $$$ amount) and it proved to be a real chore because we had some sort of a vine with 2” long thorns on it that just wouldn’t go away no matter what we did. My husband even injected it with roundup and it came back prettier than ever. So, anyway, when we moved here we decided we wouldn’t do that. We have kept the flower beds that were existing except for one. We have kept it to grass and shrubs and stuff like the clover that comes back on it’s own. It is over half an acre and that is as much mowing as my husband can handle.
So, my yard is never going to look like the gardens I see here but it is lovely in it’s own prairie like way.
Moving on, I think I mentioned that I have a very dark and dismal stairwell that is just icky. It isn’t dirty and it isn’t scary it is just straight up, steep, characterless and BEIGE. So, I decided to frame my cross stitch projects that have been languishing in a box for absolutely years and hang them in this stairwell to add some sort of interest — even if people say “what was she thinking!” Well, that is what I was thinking.
I have chosen to do them in bamboo hoops with no finish on them, hang them on cord from cute little push pins. I have done a few, I have a few more to do and I added a couple of other things that were already framed differently.
So, here is the work in progress —
Yes, I know there are two photos of the same thing, I tried to get a better angle on the second one because I was standing on the second step. If I stood right in front of it there was no way I could take the photo. So, yes, anyway, I have about six more to do but I need to return some of the hoops I bought for smaller ones and buy some more felt for backing.
I guess I could take close up photos of each one so you could tell what they are. Maybe tomorrow.
So, that is what I have been doing this morning. I really like the little pushpins I got off Amazon. They are different shapes and different colors even though they are finished in a natural way. Hopefully this will brighten up that space or at least make it less boring. We will see how many get knocked off the wall!
Happy Friday, all!
2 comments:
Who cares what anyone else thinks of your finished projects in hoops hanging in the stairwell. If you like it that's what counts. I don't see anything wrong with how they're hung...they brighten up the otherwise empty wall.
Not feeling my best today. The heat continues and now the air quality is very poor so I feel sort of sluggish. Which I hate.
Hi Granny! I hope you are feeling better today. The heat is so hard and when the air quality gets bad, as it does often here, it just makes it worse. Hopefully autumn will get here soon. Yes, the thing about the stairwell is — nobody goes up there but me and my husband and the Bean. I have done cross stitch for years and I love doing it but it seems sad to just chuck all that hard work in a box so this sort of solves that problem and if I get tired of it I can just pull them off the wall and they won’t be hard to store. And it does brighten up the area — if I will quit stitching stuff in muted tones!
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