Flea Market Tray & a little Stocking Progress

It's been some kind of week. We started it off with a funeral, and it was all downhill from there. My grandson Bryce had a fever all last weekend and then DD and the grand darlings were sick with a nasty stomach bug for a few days, and are just now starting to feel better. I've got another miserable head cold that feels like just a different version of what I've had since February and compounded by allergies now that spring has sprung.

Remember when I said I found just the right frame for my Flea Market Souvenir (Blackbird Designs) piece. Well here it is all put together. I had to really rehab this baby, but I could not be more happy with it. I used a dark teal suede mat that matches parts in all three sections of the piece (the urn, the windows of the house and the bird and flowers) . Tonight I pinned, cut, stretched and laced and once into the frame I glued dark green felt on the back and it's all ready to use. (The jeweled carriage you see on the tray was a Christmas gift that my husband picked up a couple years ago at the del Coronado Hotel while we were in San Diego. I used to let Bryce play with it, until I found out what it cost. EEK!).

Here's a couple more hours progress on Elisabeth's Stocking (Shepherd's Bush). I didn't get a chance to stitch on her everyday, so I did pretty good and would have done better, if I had all the fibers I need.

No progress was made on ATS this week. My mind just wasn't into it and I never seemed to sit still at home long enough to consider picking it up.