Really it is! I kid you not! Today is the national day to ride your bike to work day. These days I don’t have far enough to go to ride my bike to work, but I love the idea. It is a great way to exercise, diminish the traffic and a way to help the environment by decreasing the emissions.

This new canvas by Melissa Shirley, a Mary Lake Thompson design would be a great way for me to ride my bike to work! I asbsolutely love this and would like to put this on my must need to stitch in this lifetime list. Melissa has introduced 4 of these bicycles to her line, all of  which I could see myself stitching, but this one is my favorite! I think it is the watermelon with that little bird perched on top of it.

The weather has been picture perfect lately in America’s finest city. It has motivated me to spend my days doing some late spring cleaning. Well technically it is still spring, so I am not that late! but with so many college students graduating, I feel like it is really summer already.

My orchids are blooming up a storm and I still need to repot the succulents that I got the other day. They have overgrown the planter that they have been living in for the last few years, so I want to move them to something bigger and plant the smaller ones.

I am in countdown mode already for the Columbus Needlework Market which is just about a month away. I already rummaged through my stash looking for stretcher bars for my classes at market. Am I out of control or what?

I have been stitching the last few nights on my Sharon G’s Cat’s Night Out. This canvas does call for lots of beading too, which I have been enjoying. For me the beading is so relaxing as you don’t have to worry about counting, stripping and laying my threads!

AlleyCat has been quite the spoiled child the last few mornings. She has been sleeping in later than Sylvester & I, so that she is not making an appearance for her breakfast… so when she does decide to get up and stroll into the kitchen, she meows at the top of her lungs as if she is saying “feed me, feed me!” what’s a Mother to do? and until next time…keep on stitching