Red Birds Everywhere

 When my dad died my Aunt Kathy said he became a cardinal...the bird, not the religious figure. She says grandma and grandpa are also birds. So whenever I see a cardinal I say hello to dad. I see cardinals all over in our yard. I love it because they are such fun and showy birds.

I found the Red Bird pattern not long after dad died and decided it would be a nice project as a little rememberance. I'm not super sentimental, but hey I only got one dad and he was pretty good. Today I finished the project and added a button embellishment I found:

Hi dad.

I was planning on also fixing a project that Oreo the Destroyer (the tuxedo cat) decided to use for a stretch. I took it apart but realized I would likely need a little more thread for the repairs so decided to start a sister project to I could use the leftovers for the fix. So today I started Moonstruck:

Jon thinks this is the neatest thing because of the beads in it. He was thinking it was going to be slow stitching because of that. No, man, I'm a pro! :-D

Not much else going on here. Just the usual boring winter stuff: trying to get done with indoor projects, getting outside on warmer days, watching the dogs eat the cake I just baked...you know, the usual.

Time to get back to stitching!