Mother's Day and the Bird Seed Thief!

I spent a wonderful time with my Mom and family this past weekend.  Altho it started quite early on Saturday (left the house at 7:30 for the 2 hour drive), we had a fun time at breakfast with her sorority group.  They always have a brunch get together and of the 11 members (this group has been together for over 50 years!), 6 were in attendance with female family members.  Mom was joined by 2 of my SILs, 3 granddaughters, me, and 21 month old Caleb.  We had an entire end of the table filled!  Good food and good conversation were a great way to start the weekend.  Mom & I did some shopping that afternoon before our feet gave out and then I treated her to supper before we settled in to watch an episode of Castle from last season and the movie "Shall We Dance".  Sunday morning was church and then my DB David and SIL Joy took Mom & I out to lunch.  I headed home after that and was quite ready to veg for the remainder of the day.  It was a great way to spend Mother's Day weekend!

For Mom's gift this year, I decided to use the small pendant form I had in my stash for her gift.  I found the perfect rose pattern that just fit the form to a "T".  She was thrilled with it and said her sorority group would be jealous because the yellow rose is their symbol.  My guess is that she'll wear it to the next meeting!  LOL  It's stitched on a 36ct linen scrap with DMC.


Before we headed out to shop on Saturday, I happened to see this bird seed thief busily chewing away.  I'm not certain, but he must practice yoga to be this flexible!  He was quite content there until I snapped a second picture and the flash scared him off.  I didn't mean to interupt his meal.  Most of the seed from the feeders was already on the ground - probably because of him!


I'm continuing to work on my crazy 15 pieces and will have an update for "The Bookshelf" soon.  I plan to pull out the "Teddy Bear and Friends" stocking to work on that some more this week.

Hope you are enjoying the week!  Thanks for stopping by.