Great finishes by stitchers. So, so interesting about the Tarantula Hawk. I never heard of it. Thanks for sharing As always, silly puppies! I always enjoy the videos. Marilyn
A wrap-around porch is definitely my dream home feature!! I would also love to have a garden someday, and a composter. I also love laundry shoots, and fortunately we already have that ;) happy birthday! Currently stitching a little sampler while I watch.
Happy belated Birthday!! I hope the cake and ice cream were wonderful as they usually are. Rich chocolate cake with vanilla cream cheese/butter frosting is my favorite. I am hoping to build a home in the next few years. It will be right behind my Parent’s home. My dream feature will be a back yard with porch that meets their backyard for easy visiting and the transference of cookies, cakes, pies and lots of dinners. It will be fun to trade meals and goodies. Of course lots of laughter.
The party (and desserts) were lovely! I love that you are setting up a family compound with your parents - and hopefully you'll have the yard of your dreams with them! I have a close friend that I'd love to do that with as well. ❤️
Happy, Happy Birthday! You're looking Fabulous for 21!! I'd love a porch as well, but my wish is for a designated sewing/ craft space with lots of storage to get organized & visit easily with all my supplies, & a comfy spot to stitch. Have a delicious day!
Hi there Happy Birthday! I would love a huge kitchen with a big island and a place for a huge table as the family is growing. That sampler is a dandy one. Enjoy your day🎂
Happy birthday! When we built our home we added a floor level mop sink in the garage. We use it for washing the dog. The idea came from our daughter when she was in 5th grade - the kids had to invent something. She came up with the "Dog Washer 2000", which looked more like a car wash. haha We had two dogs at the time who were always in the mud!
I've never stitched a sampler before, this piece looks so sweet. Thank you for the disturbing information on the tarantula Hawk. What the female does to that spider is nightmare fuel. You are awesome! Happy birthday!🎉
Thank you for the video. My dream home is one that has room for all of my crafts and end products and yet can house easily family members that come to live with us and, of course, your porch and shady veranda. I didn't know I had dreams until you asked. Have a wonderful birthday and a very good cake. I would love to do a sampler of yours at some time if I win over the bad eye sight.❤
That would absolutely be a dream, wouldn't it? I'd love to have space for family to come and visit and stay without feeling cramped. Maybe someday we'll both get there, right? ❤️
Happy Birthday!!! Wish I lived closer because I like cake too! I'd love to have a sewing/craft room that I could spread projects out to work on. It's a dream room for sure. Have a great celebration!
I wish you could have come - we had SO much cake! And I share your dream of a craft room with tables for spreading things out. As it is, I mostly take over other tables in the house periodically. 🤣❤️
Jeannine!!! Birthday greetings from Dallas! Many many happy returns!! Hope all is well in Nevada! It’s actually getting a little cooler here in Big D. And by cooler I mean in the high 80s/low 90s. Which I will take!! I’m envious of your trip to Portland and look forward to your recap of the retreat!! I’m really enjoying the insect/animal sections of your videos. I don’t think I would want to run into a tarantula hawk! LOL!!! Birthday hugs!!!! ❤️🎂🎉🥰. Sampler.
Thank you so much! We are fully into perfect fall weather (although coming from Big D it would probably feel terribly dry 🤣) but it's lovely. It's my favorite time of year, hands down (apart from those tarantula hawks...) ❤️
Happy birthday! My husband's was yesterday and we too enjoy ice cream cake! The only kind of cake I like, haha. Thanks so much for showing my pollinator finish! It's so different seeing your own work highlighted. It's a good feeling! My house wish list items would be a soaking tub (haha) and a dedicated library!! I also would love to have a "patio" area or something screened in (the mosquitoes don't leave me alone haha).
Happy belated birthday! Ice cream cake is wonderful, and we're lucky to have our birthdays in the warmer weather when ice cream sounds extra good. And thank you so much for sending in your finish for me to share. ❤️
I would have a huge country kitchen and a screened in back porch. I already have a sewing room, but it could always be bigger! 😂 I hope you are having a great birthday weekend. Rye intently watching TV made me laugh.
May I say, "Eww!" And now that I got that out of the way, thank you, again, for educating me on something I knew nothing about. That is a B.I.G. wasp! *shivers* ~ I like the willow tree on the sampler you showed.
I have happy memeories of porch sitting with my parents at their home. I especially loved sitting out watching summer thunderstorms. I will miss PNWSS this year due to schedule conflict but will get there one day. Beth's sampler is pretty.
Happy birthday 🎉🎉 loved all the finishes as usual. I’d like a house by the sea or in the mountains far from crowded places and people with a sewing room, no stairs and lots of light. Thanks for all you do, Steph xx
Happy Birthday!!! I always love a good sampler pattern. I found the process of laying her egg very creepy more than scary - but nature is full of so much that is unusual and strange! Enjoy your trip to Oregon. And my dream house will have a cozy, organized stitchy craft room with a wall of shelves for books and whatnot, a comfy chair, a TV for lots of Floss Tube and a gorgeous view of mountains, the ocean or whatever is in the vicinity!
Creepy is probably a better word (although there's not much point judging nature, is there?) Please invite me to your dream house stitchy room - it sounds like paradise! 🤣❤️
First off, Happy Birth, celebrate YOU day! Great hair, my dear. My choice for a great house addition would be an English cooker, much like an Aga. Dream!
Happy Birthday, Jeanine! We actually recently moved from a large home that we retired to, into a condo with a wrap around balcony and a glorious view of the Cascade Mountains. We also are on a canyon's edge with a stream below. Yes, it's our idea of the perfect front porch! Happy hunting for yours one day! Hugs, Candace
That sounds absolutely amazing! A view is on my wish list as well, but I'm not in any hurry to actually do the work of packing up and moving right now. 🤣❤️
Happy Birthday! 🎉 I love front porches, but would adore having a screened-in back porch, as well as more wall space for art and needlework (such as the HS sampler). Alas, I'm at the downsizing age so it will probably remain a dream. Confession: I had a suspicion where the description of the tarantula hawk was going (parasite?), got squeamish, and skipped ahead! I'm such a weenie!
My dream house would be one floor living...no stairs😅. The older I get, the more I realize the need to eliminate stairs for safety reasons. A walk-in shower and a big old front porch with a swing would be great, as would central air conditioning. Wow...my list is growing there! Hope you enjoy your birthday party and your trip to Portland! Sampler
Oh yes! We'd love to go to one level as well (although perhaps a second story for additional family members). My knees are getting old, and some of the dogs struggle with the stairs as well. Here's keeping fingers crossed we can both get some things on our wish list. ❤️
Hope you had a wonderful birthday, enjoyed lots of cake and got to stitch on a sampler or ornament just for you! We're currently undergoing extensive building work so all I long for is a functioning sink, some windows with glass in them and NO builders. Hopefully one day my dream will come true... !! Happy stitching and belated birthday wishes, Kim ❤
Oh my, living during renovations is no fun at all! I'll be keeping everything crossed that you get a functioning kitchen (without contractors) very soon. ❤️
Happy birthday! Give Portland a hug for me. Loved living in Oregon. We had a front porch on our 1907 home. It was delightful to use. We also had a small patio that was vine covered overhead with beloved garden adjacent. That was real favorite - was very Mediterranean-ish - and I would have that again for sure. Glad I had a chance to have it once. Blonde does become you.
Living in my dream house now that my husband bought without me seeing it during covid 2020 - job move of 400 miles. The ONLY thing it is missing is a fireplace. He did a fantastic job finding this home. Sampler
That's impressive - he did very well indeed! We've bought out last two homes from a distance (without touring them first) so if we move again I really want to visit first. 🤣❤️
I'm so sorry I didn't get to stay longer! I was waiting patiently until after lunch (and the presentations) so I wouldn't be disruptive. But then my aunt called (I'd been visiting them right before I came to Portland) and let me know that they all had Covid. Sigh. So I had to isolate instead of seeing everyone. 😭😭😭
My dream home would have a "hobby room" with floor to ceiling windows facing southwest for lots of light/sunshine. The room would be lined with built in bookcases and drawers for my various stashes of different hobbies, as well as wall space to hang my finished pieces, including a sampler or two. I would have the perfect stitching chair by the windows. I hope I never run into one of those wasps ...
Happy Birthday 🥳 also happy sampler September!!! I had no idea you had your own flosstube! This is brilliant 🩵 I am so happy to have found your channel as I have many of your patterns in my stash waiting for their turn to be stitched! I love love love all your patterns . 🩵
Jeanine, I absolutely LOVE your world around tidbits! I find them fascinating, especially since I live so far away and our wildlife in the Niagara Peninsula is so vastly different! You can keep the tarantula hawks! And any tarantulas for that matter! 😜 I myself have a front porch (not covered) but I sit out there and stitch or read quite often as weather permits! What I ‘would’ like is a she-shed in my yard that I could turn into a craft room! Sigh! Unfortunately, I do not have a space (yet) to set out and leave my crafts. I live in a 170 year old farmhouse that has a basement which cannot be finished properly and used as a living space due to dampness. And as a mom I am not ready to convert my university-aged children’s rooms just yet. 😢 They do live here when not at school, so they may frown upon that anyway!😂 Have a wonderful week, and a wonderful birthday! Celebrate well!🎉 Sampler. Samplers. Sampler
Oh, I can only imagine! I've never been to the Niagara Peninsula, but I'd love to go someday. I think it's one of those things that can only really be appreciated in person. And I applaud your restraint with regard to your children's rooms - I hope they find their own places (very close by, perhaps) so you can move in without regrets! 🤣❤️
My birthday was the 5th. Hubs took me to AZ and to the Attic. I picked up a sampler as well as your pollinator chart. I quickly kitted both up. Super excited to start. Happy birthday!
Sending hugs & wishes for a very delightful birthday doing all that you love, enjoy❣️🤗🍰🍨 we have a lovely home had my own craft room til my husband’s job became permanent work from home so you guessed it …so that would be my want to have a lovely space for stitching/sewing…love to work on a Sampler especially in September so many choices… Have a wonderful time with your company celebrating you…Cheers 🎂
Happy Birthday to a fellow September baby! Mine occurs further along in the month so why not celebrate the whole month!! I really don't stitch samplers but the one that you just showed for a giveaway looks very appealing to me. So, sampler September might be a good luck month for me. I grew up with a porch and swing and I swear the swing got me through the rough teen years. So ideally, a covered porch and swing would be on my perfect home.
Happy Birthday September baby! And I totally agree - you deserve the full birthday month. What a great memory of your porch swing. I know it was tough times, but having a safe place to go and process must have been very helpful. ❤️❤️
Happy Birthday! Mine was 2 weeks ago and I'm still looking for reasons to celebrate -- so keep the cheer going!! Hooray! If I had a dream house I would love to have a GIGANTIC pantry - like more of a small room vs. a closet. My pantry now is dinky and gets on my n.e.r.v.e.s. (sigh) I love Sampler September!
Yes - I could use far more storage space in the pantry than in my closet. I've co-opted the dining room closet but it means everything it squirreled away in different places. But happy belated birthday, and perhaps this upcoming year will bring you the gift that keeps on giving - STORAGE! 🤣❤️
Happy Birthday 🎉 🥳🎂 Hope you have a grand weekend ! My dream home would be self-cleaning😁 . Wish there was such a thing😅. Maybe at least I’ll get a Roomba🤣. I have some big black wasps that come around, but no orange wings. They are horribly scary though. More investigation required🔍. Happy travels xx
Happy birthday to you!!! I want my house to have a giant sewing room with tons of storage, room for sewing machines, domestic and industrial, a sitting nook for cross stitch and knitting, and space for my friends to come and retreat. Not asking much, am I? I am stitching all sorts of things for Sampler September , but not all samplers. Too many goodies out there to touch and make progress on!!
Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful visit to Portland. Drunken wasps in nectar? I was thinking that I’m glad they’re not around my area and then I heard you say that roadrunners will eat them. I will be on the lookout 😊 for wasps. We’ve lived in our home for 32 years. It’s home and I don’t really want to change a thing. I guess I’m either lucky or lacking in imagination or some combination thereof.
Oh how fun that you have roadrunners! I've always thought they were amazing (the cartoons got me). And congratulations on having a home you love! As much as I'd love to have some "dream home" features I am in no hurry to pack everything up again. 🤣❤️
Interesting fact I heard, is that nine-banded armadillo is making its way into Iowa. I have seen them south of KC but I’ve not spotted any in Iowa myself. Sampler
Wow, the Tarantula Hawk! Too bad it doesn't use Black Widows or Brown Recluses for baby food. Where did you post your sneak peek for the Jingle Ball? Hope you had a wonderful Birthday! What flavor cake did you have? (I like ice cream cake-yum!) My dream house would come with little elves that clean everything and put everything back in its place while I sleep. The Scenic Sampler has been on my list for quite a while! I love the way she handled the flying birds. :) Have a great couple of weeks and a great time in the Portland area. ❤
I haven't posted any sneak peeks yet, but Steph has put one on the JB instagram. And I think the full details are going on the JB website in about a week, if that helps. The birthday party was absolutely lovely - we had carrot cake and berry pie (and ice cream, of course). And if you find out where to hire those elves please let me know! 🤣❤️
Love that wasp- so cool! As a slowpoke stitcher the large sampler is not for me. I’m currently stitching several small/minis samples to do my own ‘sampler small wall’ 😅
Happy Birthday! Safe travels to Portland!!❤❤
Sampler. Happy Birthday. Have fun at your retreat.
You’re going to have a great birthday! 🎂
You get to go to Acorn and Threads!!! Wow!!!
I love the scenic sampler!!!
Happy birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 ❤ yummy cake 😊 beautiful samplers
Happy Birthday! 🎂🍨 I hope you have a wonderful trip to Acorns and Threads.
Happy birthday weekend to you!!! 🎂🍨
The dog days of summer. Lazing in the grass.
A robot that will clean all the house so that I can stitch all the sampler. Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! Enjoyed your video and the dive into pollinators. I love to stitch a Sampler at any given time 😊
A very Happy Birthday to you!
Great finishes by stitchers.
So, so interesting about the Tarantula Hawk.
I never heard of it. Thanks for sharing
As always, silly puppies!
I always enjoy the videos.
Marilyn
They are extra silly, aren't they! ❤️
I just started stitching Night Walks Down yesterday so it was great to see a finished piece. I love Sampler September too!
Oh I'm so glad you like Night Walked Down! That was one of the designs I was most nervous about when it was released. 😳❤️
Happy birthday. That sampler looks amazing.
A wrap-around porch is definitely my dream home feature!! I would also love to have a garden someday, and a composter. I also love laundry shoots, and fortunately we already have that ;) happy birthday! Currently stitching a little sampler while I watch.
Here's hoping we both get our big porch some day! ❤️
Happy belated Birthday!! I hope the cake and ice cream were wonderful as they usually are. Rich chocolate cake with vanilla cream cheese/butter frosting is my favorite. I am hoping to build a home in the next few years. It will be right behind my Parent’s home. My dream feature will be a back yard with porch that meets their backyard for easy visiting and the transference of cookies, cakes, pies and lots of dinners. It will be fun to trade meals and goodies. Of course lots of laughter.
The party (and desserts) were lovely! I love that you are setting up a family compound with your parents - and hopefully you'll have the yard of your dreams with them! I have a close friend that I'd love to do that with as well. ❤️
Happy, Happy Birthday! You're looking Fabulous for 21!! I'd love a porch as well, but my wish is for a designated sewing/ craft space with lots of storage to get organized & visit easily with all my supplies, & a comfy spot to stitch. Have a delicious day!
🤣🤣🤣 Good to know I'm not showing my age! 🤣❤️
Hi there Happy Birthday! I would love a huge kitchen with a big island and a place for a huge table as the family is growing. That sampler is a dandy one. Enjoy your day🎂
Oh wouldn't that be lovely? We have a very narrow kitchen at the moment and having more than one person in there at a time is challenging. 🤣❤️
Hooray! Happy birthday, sampler September , and a stitching retreat all in one month…lucky girl!
Happy birthday! When we built our home we added a floor level mop sink in the garage. We use it for washing the dog. The idea came from our daughter when she was in 5th grade - the kids had to invent something. She came up with the "Dog Washer 2000", which looked more like a car wash. haha We had two dogs at the time who were always in the mud!
Oh that's a wonderful idea! I'm putting that on the list. Even being able to wash the dogs without lifting them over the tub edge would be lovely. 🤣❤️
I've never stitched a sampler before, this piece looks so sweet. Thank you for the disturbing information on the tarantula Hawk. What the female does to that spider is nightmare fuel. You are awesome! Happy birthday!🎉
It really is nightmare fuel, I agree. Gives me shivers just thinking about it! ❤️
Happy Birthday, Jeannine 🎉 wish you a Happy New Year. I hope it will be wonderful.
Thank you so much, Geertje!❤️
HB2U! HB2U! I hope you have a great celebration! That wasp was scary! Sampler 🎉
Thank you for the video. My dream home is one that has room for all of my crafts and end products and yet can house easily family members that come to live with us and, of course, your porch and shady veranda. I didn't know I had dreams until you asked. Have a wonderful birthday and a very good cake. I would love to do a sampler of yours at some time if I win over the bad eye sight.❤
That would absolutely be a dream, wouldn't it? I'd love to have space for family to come and visit and stay without feeling cramped. Maybe someday we'll both get there, right? ❤️
Happy Birthday weekend! I would love my own stitchy/crafty space in my dream home. Love the front porch idea for sampler stitching😊
Happy Birthday!!! Wish I lived closer because I like cake too!
I'd love to have a sewing/craft room that I could spread projects out to work on. It's a dream room for sure.
Have a great celebration!
I wish you could have come - we had SO much cake! And I share your dream of a craft room with tables for spreading things out. As it is, I mostly take over other tables in the house periodically. 🤣❤️
I have never stitched a sampler! I know, it's crazy. Happiest Brithday 🎉🤩!! The spotlight stitchers are spectacular today!
Jeannine!!! Birthday greetings from Dallas! Many many happy returns!! Hope all is well in Nevada! It’s actually getting a little cooler here in Big D. And by cooler I mean in the high 80s/low 90s. Which I will take!! I’m envious of your trip to Portland and look forward to your recap of the retreat!! I’m really enjoying the insect/animal sections of your videos. I don’t think I would want to run into a tarantula hawk! LOL!!! Birthday hugs!!!! ❤️🎂🎉🥰. Sampler.
Thank you so much! We are fully into perfect fall weather (although coming from Big D it would probably feel terribly dry 🤣) but it's lovely. It's my favorite time of year, hands down (apart from those tarantula hawks...) ❤️
Best wishes for a wonderful birthday! Always love seeing the pupper antics. 😊❤️
Happy birthday! My husband's was yesterday and we too enjoy ice cream cake! The only kind of cake I like, haha.
Thanks so much for showing my pollinator finish! It's so different seeing your own work highlighted. It's a good feeling!
My house wish list items would be a soaking tub (haha) and a dedicated library!! I also would love to have a "patio" area or something screened in (the mosquitoes don't leave me alone haha).
Happy belated birthday! Ice cream cake is wonderful, and we're lucky to have our birthdays in the warmer weather when ice cream sounds extra good. And thank you so much for sending in your finish for me to share. ❤️
I would have a huge country kitchen and a screened in back porch. I already have a sewing room, but it could always be bigger! 😂 I hope you are having a great birthday weekend. Rye intently watching TV made me laugh.
Oh yes, a screened in porch would be bliss! And Rye was having a ball watching her own self as a puppy. 🤣❤️
Puppis are too cute
Happy Birthday! I enjoyed your latest information on the wasp you found in your garden -- fascinating for sure.
May I say, "Eww!" And now that I got that out of the way, thank you, again, for educating me on something I knew nothing about. That is a B.I.G. wasp! *shivers* ~ I like the willow tree on the sampler you showed.
I had pretty much the same reaction - lots of shivers, lots of fascination, not sure how I feel about the whole thing. 😳🤣❤️
❤❤❤ every time I see your video up, it’s a instant smile ! I love your look today! You are glowing Jeannine
I have happy memeories of porch sitting with my parents at their home. I especially loved sitting out watching summer thunderstorms. I will miss PNWSS this year due to schedule conflict but will get there one day. Beth's sampler is pretty.
Happy birthday 🎉🎉 loved all the finishes as usual. I’d like a house by the sea or in the mountains far from crowded places and people with a sewing room, no stairs and lots of light. Thanks for all you do, Steph xx
That sounds like heaven to me as well! ❤️
Happy Birthday!!! I always love a good sampler pattern. I found the process of laying her egg very creepy more than scary - but nature is full of so much that is unusual and strange! Enjoy your trip to Oregon. And my dream house will have a cozy, organized stitchy craft room with a wall of shelves for books and whatnot, a comfy chair, a TV for lots of Floss Tube and a gorgeous view of mountains, the ocean or whatever is in the vicinity!
Creepy is probably a better word (although there's not much point judging nature, is there?) Please invite me to your dream house stitchy room - it sounds like paradise! 🤣❤️
Happy birthday!
Sampler
That Sampler is beautiful! Happy Wonderful Birthday to You! Enjoy your day and happy stitching! 🎂💐🌺🌷😊
Hope you had a wonderful birthday!! The tarantula hawk sounds terrifying but also cool to see!
First off, Happy Birth, celebrate YOU day! Great hair, my dear. My choice for a great house addition would be an English cooker, much like an Aga. Dream!
Ooh, I've heard of those but never any details. Does it stay on all the time? What do you like about them? ❤️
Very, very Happy Birthday! May your day be filled with sweets, sweethearts & stitching a sampler!
My dream house would have hidden rooms and passageways! Sampler. Thank you for the pollinator education!!
That would be so fun! Of course, I'd need lots of lighting and no cobwebs in those passages... 🤣❤️
Happy birthday! Sampler. Oh just one thing... In my dream house I would like to have an amazing view to surrounding nature.
Happy birthday 🎊🎉🎂🎁 and many more have a wonderful day!
I hope you had an absolutely fabulous birthday!!
Happy Birthday, Jeanine! We actually recently moved from a large home that we retired to, into a condo with a wrap around balcony and a glorious view of the Cascade Mountains. We also are on a canyon's edge with a stream below. Yes, it's our idea of the perfect front porch! Happy hunting for yours one day! Hugs, Candace
That sounds absolutely amazing! A view is on my wish list as well, but I'm not in any hurry to actually do the work of packing up and moving right now. 🤣❤️
Happy Birthday! 🎉
I love front porches, but would adore having a screened-in back porch, as well as more wall space for art and needlework (such as the HS sampler). Alas, I'm at the downsizing age so it will probably remain a dream.
Confession: I had a suspicion where the description of the tarantula hawk was going (parasite?), got squeamish, and skipped ahead! I'm such a weenie!
Don't feel bad.. I did that too, then went back when I saw how short the video was.
I kept going outside to watch that super-wasp, then getting freaked out and going inside, then going back outside to watch it... 🤣❤️
Happy birthday. Enjoy your visit to Portland. I would love to experience the scenic sampler.
My dream house would be one floor living...no stairs😅. The older I get, the more I realize the need to eliminate stairs for safety reasons. A walk-in shower and a big old front porch with a swing would be great, as would central air conditioning. Wow...my list is growing there! Hope you enjoy your birthday party and your trip to Portland! Sampler
Oh yes! We'd love to go to one level as well (although perhaps a second story for additional family members). My knees are getting old, and some of the dogs struggle with the stairs as well. Here's keeping fingers crossed we can both get some things on our wish list. ❤️
Hope you had a wonderful birthday, enjoyed lots of cake and got to stitch on a sampler or ornament just for you!
We're currently undergoing extensive building work so all I long for is a functioning sink, some windows with glass in them and NO builders. Hopefully one day my dream will come true... !! Happy stitching and belated birthday wishes, Kim ❤
Oh my, living during renovations is no fun at all! I'll be keeping everything crossed that you get a functioning kitchen (without contractors) very soon. ❤️
Happy birthday! Give Portland a hug for me. Loved living in Oregon. We had a front porch on our 1907 home. It was delightful to use. We also had a small patio that was vine covered overhead with beloved garden adjacent. That was real favorite - was very Mediterranean-ish - and I would have that again for sure. Glad I had a chance to have it once. Blonde does become you.
It was absolutely lovely to be back in the PNW. Even my husband says he could see himself living there again. Sigh - maybe someday. 🤣❤️
Happy Happy Birthday and wishing you many more!
Love me a good sampler!
Happy birthday!! Hope your day is filled with joy! Stitch a sampler or two!
Happy Birthday wishes to you, stitching a sampler on the porch sounds idyllic to me 😊
Happy Birthday!!🎉🎊🎁🎂🎈 You
Happy Birthday! Have a great party!
Happy Belated Birthday! 🎉🎉🎉
Living in my dream house now that my husband bought without me seeing it during covid 2020 - job move of 400 miles. The ONLY thing it is missing is a fireplace. He did a fantastic job finding this home.
Sampler
That's impressive - he did very well indeed! We've bought out last two homes from a distance (without touring them first) so if we move again I really want to visit first. 🤣❤️
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, Jeannine. I loved learning about the tarantula hawk! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much! It was a lovely party, and all I needed for the next decade. 🤣❤️
Happy Birthday weekend!
Happy birthday to you. 🎂🎊🎉🍭🍬🎈🎁 Hope you have a wonderful day. Love to stitch a sampler. Hugs to the puppies🧵✂️🪡🧵
Happy birthday 🥳 hope it’s been amazing 🎉
Hope you had a great birthday. Was wonderful seeing you at PNWSS
I'm so sorry I didn't get to stay longer! I was waiting patiently until after lunch (and the presentations) so I wouldn't be disruptive. But then my aunt called (I'd been visiting them right before I came to Portland) and let me know that they all had Covid. Sigh. So I had to isolate instead of seeing everyone. 😭😭😭
Interesting. Happy birthday! I would like a house with a bright sewing, stitching room.
Great video!! Sampler
My dream home would include a wrap around porch with a sunroom for all my plants and stitching. I have never stitched a sampler.
Absolutely! A lovely, bright sunroom would be perfect for stitching. ❤️
I hope you have a wonderful birthday!
Happy Birthday!
I hope you have a very Happy Birthday
Many happy returns 🎉🎂🍰🎁🎈💐❤️ LOTR (Lord of the Rings) is a favourite of mine too!
My dream home would have a "hobby room" with floor to ceiling windows facing southwest for lots of light/sunshine. The room would be lined with built in bookcases and drawers for my various stashes of different hobbies, as well as wall space to hang my finished pieces, including a sampler or two. I would have the perfect stitching chair by the windows. I hope I never run into one of those wasps ...
That sounds like an absolutely wonderful space. I'd pay to go spend time in a room like that! 🤣❤️
Happy Birthday! 🎉🎉 hope your cake turned out well 😊 I am back to sampler September stitching 😊
Happy Birthday 🥳 also happy sampler September!!! I had no idea you had your own flosstube! This is brilliant 🩵 I am so happy to have found your channel as I have many of your patterns in my stash waiting for their turn to be stitched! I love love love all your patterns . 🩵
Thank you so much for joining me! ❤️
Jeanine, I absolutely LOVE your world around tidbits! I find them fascinating, especially since I live so far away and our wildlife in the Niagara Peninsula is so vastly different! You can keep the tarantula hawks! And any tarantulas for that matter! 😜 I myself have a front porch (not covered) but I sit out there and stitch or read quite often as weather permits! What I ‘would’ like is a she-shed in my yard that I could turn into a craft room! Sigh! Unfortunately, I do not have a space (yet) to set out and leave my crafts. I live in a 170 year old farmhouse that has a basement which cannot be finished properly and used as a living space due to dampness. And as a mom I am not ready to convert my university-aged children’s rooms just yet. 😢 They do live here when not at school, so they may frown upon that anyway!😂
Have a wonderful week, and a wonderful birthday! Celebrate well!🎉
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Oh, I can only imagine! I've never been to the Niagara Peninsula, but I'd love to go someday. I think it's one of those things that can only really be appreciated in person. And I applaud your restraint with regard to your children's rooms - I hope they find their own places (very close by, perhaps) so you can move in without regrets! 🤣❤️
Yes front porch is a must. I like a scenic vista too. I am starting my first sampler, called pastel petite sampler this month.
Happy birthday!!
I'm really enjoying sampler September. Your nature talks are always interesting. I've never seen the tarantula hawk before.
Thank you so much! ❤️
My birthday was the 5th. Hubs took me to AZ and to the Attic. I picked up a sampler as well as your pollinator chart. I quickly kitted both up. Super excited to start. Happy birthday!
Oh what a wonderful trip! The Attic is such a fun shop to visit. ❤️
Lovely work!! I need to do a sampler, but I don’t have any patterns without specialty stitches. In praise of pollinators is just gorgeous!!😊
Thank you so much! ❤️
In my dream home is a big chef's kitchen
happy birthdat
Sending hugs & wishes for a very delightful birthday doing all that you love, enjoy❣️🤗🍰🍨 we have a lovely home had my own craft room til my husband’s job became permanent work from home so you guessed it …so that would be my want to have a lovely space for stitching/sewing…love to work on a Sampler especially in September so many choices…
Have a wonderful time with your company celebrating you…Cheers 🎂
I feel your craft room loss! Hopefully you can get a space again soon. ❤️
Happy birthday!! September also brings the GBBO at the end of the month 😂 Enjoy that cake!!! Hope it’s a Paul recipe!!
It's not a Paul recipe, and I'm afraid I'd never get a handshake from him. 😂 But I'm so excited for a new season!
Happy Birthday to a fellow September baby! Mine occurs further along in the month so why not celebrate the whole month!! I really don't stitch samplers but the one that you just showed for a giveaway looks very appealing to me. So, sampler September might be a good luck month for me. I grew up with a porch and swing and I swear the swing got me through the rough teen years. So ideally, a covered porch and swing would be on my perfect home.
Happy Birthday September baby! And I totally agree - you deserve the full birthday month. What a great memory of your porch swing. I know it was tough times, but having a safe place to go and process must have been very helpful. ❤️❤️
Hope you enjoyed your very special day! I would love to have a 3 season room as part of my home. Sampler
Doesn't that sound wonderful? Being able to enjoy the "outdoors" without getting too cold or hot sounds lovely. ❤️
Happy Birthday! Mine was 2 weeks ago and I'm still looking for reasons to celebrate -- so keep the cheer going!! Hooray! If I had a dream house I would love to have a GIGANTIC pantry - like more of a small room vs. a closet. My pantry now is dinky and gets on my n.e.r.v.e.s. (sigh) I love Sampler September!
Yes - I could use far more storage space in the pantry than in my closet. I've co-opted the dining room closet but it means everything it squirreled away in different places. But happy belated birthday, and perhaps this upcoming year will bring you the gift that keeps on giving - STORAGE! 🤣❤️
Happy Birthday 🎉 🥳🎂 Hope you have a grand weekend ! My dream home would be self-cleaning😁 . Wish there was such a thing😅. Maybe at least I’ll get a Roomba🤣. I have some big black wasps that come around, but no orange wings. They are horribly scary though. More investigation required🔍. Happy travels xx
Oh wouldn't a self-cleaning house be lovely? Whenever they invent that I'll be first in line with you. 🤣❤️
Happy birthday to you!!!
I want my house to have a giant sewing room with tons of storage, room for sewing machines, domestic and industrial, a sitting nook for cross stitch and knitting, and space for my friends to come and retreat. Not asking much, am I?
I am stitching all sorts of things for Sampler September , but not all samplers. Too many goodies out there to touch and make progress on!!
It sounds wonderful! A nice big project room, with room for visitors - that would be perfect. ❤️
Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful visit to Portland. Drunken wasps in nectar? I was thinking that I’m glad they’re not around my area and then I heard you say that roadrunners will eat them. I will be on the lookout 😊 for wasps. We’ve lived in our home for 32 years. It’s home and I don’t really want to change a thing. I guess I’m either lucky or lacking in imagination or some combination thereof.
Oh how fun that you have roadrunners! I've always thought they were amazing (the cartoons got me). And congratulations on having a home you love! As much as I'd love to have some "dream home" features I am in no hurry to pack everything up again. 🤣❤️
🎈🎈HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎈🎈 Don't laugh but in my dream house I would have a private bathroom directly attached to my bedroom. ☺
I would never laugh at that - it's a lovely setup! ❤️
Interesting fact I heard, is that nine-banded armadillo is making its way into Iowa. I have seen them south of KC but I’ve not spotted any in Iowa myself. Sampler
I love to do a sampler.
Would love to stitch a pretty sampler
Wow, the Tarantula Hawk! Too bad it doesn't use Black Widows or Brown Recluses for baby food.
Where did you post your sneak peek for the Jingle Ball? Hope you had a wonderful Birthday! What flavor cake did you have? (I like ice cream cake-yum!)
My dream house would come with little elves that clean everything and put everything back in its place while I sleep.
The Scenic Sampler has been on my list for quite a while! I love the way she handled the flying birds. :) Have a great couple of weeks and a great time in the Portland area. ❤
I haven't posted any sneak peeks yet, but Steph has put one on the JB instagram. And I think the full details are going on the JB website in about a week, if that helps. The birthday party was absolutely lovely - we had carrot cake and berry pie (and ice cream, of course). And if you find out where to hire those elves please let me know! 🤣❤️
Love that wasp- so cool! As a slowpoke stitcher the large sampler is not for me. I’m currently stitching several small/minis samples to do my own ‘sampler small wall’ 😅
I love the idea of a "small sampler wall" - I'm a very slow stitcher myself so that has great appeal! ❤️
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Happy Birthday!! I love the sampler. I to love big covered porches
Happy Birthday!