Today Is!

“Picture this: it’s mid-July, the sun shines and you rest on a hammock, completely relaxed. This is the essence of Hammock Day.

Today’s reason to celebrate reminds us to slow down, breathe easy and enjoy these beautiful summer months. Though its exact origins are unknown, it is said that hammocks originated hundreds of years ago in South America. Allegedly, the journals of Christopher Columbus provide the first documentation of the hammock. However, some sources attribute this invention to the Ancient Greeks. One thing is for sure—hammocks have always been symbols of leisure.

Today, take a few minutes to sit back and unwind on a hammock. Don’t have one? No problem! Just grab some sturdy fabric and rope—you can make yourself one in no time. Happy Hammock Day!”

This wonderful canvas is a Sandra Gilmore canvas and it is really a picture of leisure!

I knew if I looked enough in my Mutts collection… I would find Mooch in a hammock!

But for me there is not much relaxing… I have one little canvas of my set left to stitch for the magazine deadline. Today is a busy day so no stitching for me till Wednesday when I will make a date with the stitchy chair and a baseball game or 2.

 

and until next time…keep on stitching

 

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About Vicky

Needlepoint, morning noon and evening! what could be better than this? I work on the computer in the daylight hours editing stitch guides and drawing stitches that you will see in the next Needlepoint Now for your stitching pleasure! In between this, there is time for taking pictures of my stitching adventures, Facebook and writing stitch guides for canvas that I am stitching for Needle Deeva, Maggie, Ruth Schmuff and others. Mostly needlepoint you ask? well we will talk about my cats Sylvester and AlleyCat, better known as "the brat". Of course I can't forget Felix who was the love of my life for over 14 years. He broke my heart as he departed for the Rainbow Bridge last year. Oh did I mention baseball?

4 thoughts on “Today Is!

  1. I will stitch but not in my hammock (and I do have two: family hammocks from South America…big, over-sized too cool!) but not today. Humidity is high as well as the temperatures…so I’ll just stitch inside with my air.
    Good luck on the magazine deadline.

  2. Vicky, thanks for the story of the hammocks! There is nothing like laying in a hammock…Well, I won’t be in a hammock today but hopefully will be in my stitching chair for a few hours. I think Sylvester is pretending the chair is a mini hammock! Good luck on your deadline and your stitching later in the week.

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