Rabbits & Hooking

I wanted to share a couple of snaps with you 

of the new plantings I put in over the weekend ~

I stepped out onto the front porch and immediately felt like I was being watched!

(more than the usual donkey, sheep, chicken, peacock & kitten brigade watching my every move)

so I kind of just stood there for a moment to try to figure out 'who' it was….

Oh! 

well….hello!

tiny rabbit

 I walked closer and closer to him (her?)

and he didn't quiver a bit….

sweet baby!

 I love them ~

especially when they're still young like this one…

BUT

can you see the young tomato plant right next to him?

yup….he was making a snack of the tender leaves.

so I gently shooed-him away

and off he hopped into the woods ~

I thanked him for his visit and for the photo-op,

then kindly asked him not to eat my plants!

love his fur

 So this is where I planted ~

...inside our farmhouse-fence:

hard to see, but there is a yellow rose bush, verbena, sandwort, mum, jasmine vine & daisy

 on the corner is a little plot where my beloved Black Suzy (cat) is interred ~

the urn is there for her, the little weeping angel statue was a gift in memory of Buddy…

along the fence is that little tomato, basil, petunias, a fig tree & lilac bush
in Suzy's urn is sweet annie that grows wild here at the farm now, since I planted SO much of it ~
it pops up literally anywhere it wants to!
(but I love volunteers)

...and along the front porch:

(please excuse that chipping paint)

spent daffodils, nandina bush, hosta, and a potted red geranium now resides in one of my cauldrons ~
the plant stand it's on was a gift from my sister Louisea ~

here is the little rock garden up by the donkeys ~

this is where I planted english lavender, coreopsis, shasta daisy, oregano, pineapple sage, asiatic lily, nandina,
azalea, snow drift, and daffodils ~

last Saturday,

Joan, Patty & Kate came in for a while to hook on their WIP's

I love when we can get-together, even if it was just a small clutch of us this time :)

hi girls!!

Kate is new to the area ~ but not new to hooking!

she is a real sweetie & I LOVE her laugh!!!

hope she comes back and that I didn't scare her off with my antics!

(fingers crossed here)

Kate's busy hands were a blur!!!

I took a snap of Patty's crow rug that she's working on ~ 

BUT ~ it came out so blurry I couldn't share it here.

Hoping Patty wil bring it next time so I can get a better snap of it for you!

I'll be processing orders/shipping today ~

those of you who had PRE-ordered my new Summer at NFF book should have yours by now

and I'm hoping you are all enjoying it :)

©Hookinpunch Frame orders are being filled in the order of their purchase too.

AND

for all of the NEW members of the

 Little Stitches Handwork Club

- a BIG welcome & THANK YOU to you all!!!!

...have a *SPARKLING* day my friends!

* Blessed be *

 Lori