Merry Monday and Another Cross Stitch FFO

 Hi Everyone! Why is today Merry Monday?

 1.) Yesterday, I spotted the first robin of the season!

2.) This morning I got my first shot of the covid vaccine!!!!!!!!! O Happy Day!!!!

3.) I finished a cross stitch FFO for St. Patrick's Day!!! The chart is "Lucky Love," and it is available from Primrose Cottage Stitches on Etsy.

This music box colleen I have had since I was a little girl. The sheep was purchased on a trip to Ireland with members of my camera club a few years back. Funny story . . .  Half the bus was filled with eager photographers. Each day folks would yell out, "Sheep on the left" or "Sheep on the right" and cameras would begin firing. Finally after a few days of this, our bus driver/ tour guide asked, "My God, people, haven't you ever seen sheep before??? Don't they have sheep in America??? We assured him that we had indeed seen sheep before but not in quite this number. I checked and found a statistic that said as of December 2019, there were 3.8 million sheep in Ireland.  

Here is my favorite sheep photo from that trip in September 2016. Isn't he a handsome fellow? (Please  click on it to enlarge it, and you will see that he is giving us the eye.) This photo was taken on our way up to the Slieve League Cliffs. The Slieve League Cliffs are on the south west side of County Donegal. The cliffs are three times higher than the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.

I also finished another St. Patrick's Day cross stitch piece which I am finishing into a small pillow. 

4.) My cousin Linda's latest book was launched yesterday.  I am including info here in hopes that my readers might be willing to help her out. Linda is a speech pathologist and co-owner of  Peer Projects Therapy from the Heart. Co-Regulation Handbook : Creating Competent Authentic Roles for Kids with Social Learning Differences, So We All Stay Positively Connected Through the Ups and Downs of Learning is the title of her latest book. It will be FREE  to download today, March 8 and tomorrow March 9. Would you please consider downloading the ebook from Amazon HERE.  It will help in her placement on the Amazon site. Please pass this info on to anyone else who might be interested in this subject. I appreciate it, and I know my cousin will, too!

Thank you so much for considering this. I could not be prouder of all that Linda has accomplished and how many children she has helped through the years. 

5.) Are you looking for something light and pleasant to read? I just finished Marie Bostwick's latest novel, The Restoration of Celia Fairchild.  You won't find a deep examination of the human condition, but you will spend time with characters that you will like.

Stay safe, have hope, the vaccines are coming, and spring is on its way.