12 / Year.....January

I am joining Barbara in her 12 / Year...2013 Monthly Photo Diary

hoping to capture some of the highlights of each month of the year!

Many colanders (and salad bowls) of garden salad greens...lettuce and spinach

A new mug and box of tea for the cold days and evenings

A St. Padre Pio 9-day novena and Christmas gift rosary chaplet for intentions that beg God's help

the last three delicious lemons off my backyard neighbor's tree...I hear my brother has a tree with more lemons than he can possibly eat ;)

A Veronica Romanesque cauliflower growing so beautifully in my dad's garden

Carrots from our own garden and so many more hopefully growing a little bigger

red leaf lettuce

newly planted leek seedlings...I like to call them "leeklings"

Gifts of floral initial handkerchiefs for two dear friends

The "E"

and the "T"

a waste canvas cross stitch linen hankie for me...stitched on a cold day while my little daycare boy napped

a completed baby boy bubble for Henry

and a pink bishop dress for his sweet little cousin, Adele

bishop neckline closeup...

Coming in February...more ironing board covers with the felt pad sewn inside...like the old days.

Family and friends started asking me for a new ironing board cover, so I've purchased supplies, started cutting out and sewing and will have them ready within a couple weeks...stay tuned!