Thank you for my Award❤

A big thank you to Teresa Kasner's Crochet for my Blogger award. It's so sweet and an honor as a new Blogger to boot! 

When receiving this you have to write 10 things about yourself. So here goes ☺

                                                                           

1. I have always loved dogs.....as a child I would check the want ads for puppies and call all long distance numbers to find out about them, until my parents gave in. It turned out to be a dachshund and she chewed a hole in my sweater on the way. (a two hour drive)

2. My favorite fountain drink as a child was and still is a root beer float with vanilla ice cream.

3. My favorite movie is Sound of Music.

3. My favorite fiction author right now is Jodi Picoult.

4. I love country music. Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift and Zac Brown Band just to name a few.

5. I have always loved sewing. My neighbor growing up is the person who taught me to make my own skirts and dresses in high school. She told my mother to take me to Grants store to let me get all my sewing supplies and box!

6. If I misplace something I go crazy until I find it.

7. I like to bake more then I like to cook.

8. I am left handed, so was my father and so is one of my daughters.

9. I really enjoy going to coffee shops with a girlfriend or two.

10. I'm a dental hygienist and a RN.

Well, that's my 10 things and it was fun.....hope you had fun too! Now I get to pass the Beautiful Blogger Award to a few deserving folks!! So I hand it over to:

Crochet with Raymond

Dutch Girl Diary

Silverpebble

Under the Tulip Tree


Thank you all for this opportunity!  Blessings to you this holiday season, xo Robin❤

Gloomy Day

Just me and Jack. I've been missing cos just not feeling well. Coughing all night, achy, and chest heavy......decided to give in and call it a lazy day of tea, TV, naps, and whatever I am able to do! It's hard to give in, BUT want to be well for Thanksgiving because I'm cooking!! So this is what it looks like. Can't see it but it's pouring.......

Just relaxing me and jack

I've got all the piece to one sweater done but now I have to sew it together....not my favorite part. Don't think I am up to it today, hopefully tomorrow or soon.

Not the best pic but you can get the idea. I hope they will like the style. I think I will pick out nice long sleeve tops for underneath. Then they will get the idea!

Well, friends thanks for popping in, sorry if it's not that exciting a post. I guess that expresses  how I feel. But I love you all for visiting and comments of course, if you like.

xo Robin❤

Such Fun ❤

I have had such fun with my recent project. I think it is because it is for Nannie's little angels, Little A and Little E. ( pictures of them on recent posts) I did my first counted x-stitch in years, I use to do this alot when my kids were little and when it was really quite popular. Like anything else, things come and go and then come back like it's something NEW! So let me show you these tops for the holidays, a pink and white turtleneck for each little one!

Ok, now upclose and personal, the 3 designs. (2 from the internet and the xmas tree x-stitch part from Helen Philipps.

Happy Cheery House for Little A

Gingerbread Man for Little E

And both girls get the Merry Christmas Button Tree

So what do you think? Do you think the little ones will like them? I hope so because Nannie sure loved making them!

Back to my knitting needles tomorrow. Hope everyone has a great rest of the day and as always thanks for visiting my nest! xo Robin❤

Splash of Color

Great idea from Silverpebble to each month have an entry blog, Splash of Color, to get us through the dark winter months. Great idea don't you think!!!  I think it's brilliant ★
Here is my attempt

Been working on some x-stitch on some tops for my granddaughters, for the winter months since they are turtleneck. My needle work of late has been slow but coming along, just too many projects going, just like all us yarny people! So here goes.
Oh, almost forgot my inspiration is from Helen Philipps's new book and blog!!!  helenphilipps.blogspot.com

MY SPLASH OF COLOR

The start of it all

And then

And continuing

Still a WiP

I will show finished project soon ❤

End with a splash, my granddaughters artwork!

Thank you for visiting, I just love when you visit my nest. It really thrills ME ❤ xo Robin

November 1st!

Can anyone believe it is already November. I find it utterly amazing and quite scary. Time is whipping by, but on the upside lots of happy holidays are around the corner, which means family, friends, food, drink and laughter.....so that sounds lovely.
We had our first snow flake on Halloween.....so outside yard is all winterized and ready for the first real snowfall. Here is what the 31st looked like.

Then all ready for Winter

Love these old snowshoes sooooooo nostalgic!

Can still enjoy the sunsets!

We travelled this weekend, so no new tiny animals, I hope soon! We drove up to Saratoga Springs, NY and oh, my it was so pretty. It's near Lake George and also has outlets. Lots of fun there. I love college towns, they are so invigorating! Love the energy and kids! I also live in a college town,  Dartmouth College. So I am surrounded by this all the time. Aren't I fortunate, I reminded myself all the time. I think it is important to be thankful for what you do have, not what you wish you had or want or miss. We moved up here and oh I missed my family so much it was painful, but now I still miss them but am also so thankful for what I have learned and how I have grown to make my life happy for my husband and visiting family. Here is a pretty picture from our hotel room in Saratoga.

I hope you can see the pine cones. I love them! The sky was ominous but see the blue.
One more.

I snuck another pic

I hope all my friends have a great week. Back to needling hope I have something to show you soon, until then Blessings to you all and enjoy your day!

Love, Robin and Jack

Visitor

Look who came to visit the nest!

I made Olie Owl yesterday and it was lots of fun and quick! Here's another picture-

I'm hoping to make a few more animals this weekend!  Hope everyone is doing well and have a wonderful weekend with all that you are up to!!
xo Robin❤

Back in my Nest

Hi Friends, 
Back from my Nannie and little girls week, oh we had so much fun! Nannie will need a few days to catch up, but my am I happy to have had this time with my little angels. They were so excited to see mommy and daddy!!!! 

Mommy, Abby, Daddy, and Elisabeth   We met them at the airport, it was soooo exciting!








Moving on now.............

Just a pic of my mantle and pumpkins....oh and I still have my flower garland up! Guess I should change that. At my food store today I picked up a cinnamon broom, it smells so good and looks festive. Here it is

Now, I'm having a little trouble getting focused and back to my WiP. I was going full speed but now that I got distracted I am not jumping right back in. Help! Does this ever happen to anyone else? I welcome any comments and motivational tricks. Thanks, and thanks for visiting.
xo Robin ❤

Hello again!

camping car

Just popping in to say hello. I am up to my eyeballs with my two lovely granddaughters for the week, while my daughter and son in-law are on a much needed vacation to Las Vegas. Oh my, how I have forgotten what 24/7 childcare is like. Even with the best of the best. I'm a Nannie don't forget, so we are bias! We have played outside and collected pretty leaves, played with the dog, walked the dog, taken pictures of the neighbors sheep, gone to the playground, made cookies, made a camping car out of a garment moving box in the basement, gone to the library, picked out a toy at our toy store, gone food shopping, gone to the local children's museum, colored in new coloring books, watched Mary Poppins a few times and oh so much more and it is only Tuesday night!!! But the piece de resist dons is the up and down at night after you have read books and books, given kisses and more kisses, lovingly tucked them in, to have one of them come down again and again for this and that and this and that! That's when I realize just how old and tired I am!!!! BUT I love them to bits and pieces soooooo it is all forgotten after a night's sleep and ready for good morning hugs in the morning, even if morning has now become 5:30 am.

We also went to a farm for the cornstalk maze.....really fun. "A" on poppy's shoulders.

Movie time! One relaxing, one up for fun and games.

Sisterly Love!

Me before the visit....don't look like that now!!!!!!

I will play with my yarn again............xoxo Robin ❤

Pretty in Red

So excited to be starting this sweater. I think it is so trendy, yet will be a go to sweater for my daughters. I think it will be able to be dressed up or down. Just the kind of clothing I like. 
So here is the beginning

Katia/Peru yarn-wool/poly/alpaca

This is what it will look like!
Isn't it lovely!?
One more picture

See my sheepy tape measure, the black sheep!


Well that's all for now. Hope everyone has a delightful day and thanks for visiting my Nest! And lets all be sooooo thankful that we are all so fortunate.....I am saying that because I have been watching the miners being pulled up from the collasped mine after 70 days.(in Chile) I can't even fathom that. Blessings to them all and their families.


xo, Robin ❤
And I really appreciate your comments and visits, many thanks.

I'm Celebrating!

Yes, I'm celebrating I finished my baby blankie. Now I have a gift ready for the right person!! Always a good feeling. Only the person it was for has long ago had the baby and I gave something else, oh well. 

So here it is.....

I did one row of SC in white and one row of picot stitch.

Here is one more picture....

It measures 32"x25", the perfect size for a port-a-crib or stroller or car seat. I used Plymouth Yarn Encore D.K., about 3 skeins of each color. The pattern came from Project Linus, Granny Ripple Afghan http://www.citiusa.com/grannyripple.html 

My new project will be a knitting one. My plan is to make 3 bulky cropped cardigans for 3 daughters for Christmas. They should work up quickly with size 11 needles and bulky yarn. I will put a picture up soon.

This past weekend was so spectacular! The colors and sunlight were just lovely. Here are a few pictures....

The Woodstock Inn, Woodstock, Vt.

Some of my last Cosmos. I love old-fashion flowers

And my old-fashion nasturtiums.

And one more of my favorite things....

I love chimes, such sweet music....all day long!

Thanks everyone for visiting and sharing in my excitement of finishing my blankie!

❤ Robin

Crispy Fall!

Great fall weekend here in Vermont. On Sunday went on 1 walk and 1 hike.....my yellow lab "Jack" never ever gets tired. I do though! Here are a few pictures from the morning 2 mile walk.

Can you see anything?

                                                            
                                                                       Now can you?

                                                          A sweet birdie nest, so well made!



Then we continued and enjoyed the scenery.

                                           Can you see the morning fog? A very crisp day.
                                           Great apple eating and cider weather!

Next I went to King Arthur Flour Bakery, up here in the Valley. It is a yummy place and has every baking supply and kitcheny type pan, utensil, towel etc.
Here's a sampling:

                                                              
                                                                    Yummy Oatmeal Bread

Home again for my 2 mile hike with Jack!

                                                       Notice the collar, it's hunting season.

                                              Last picture from on top of the fire tower.


Hope I didn't bore you too much. It's just all so beautiful.So you may be wondering, where are all the crocheting and knitting projects?  I'm working on the baby blanket and hope to show it finished soon, remember this one.




Well, thanks so much for visiting my nest, I so appreciate your company.
Hugs, Robin