Hi again Autumn, I’ve come back to read the rest of your post! 🙂 I hope that you are doing as well as possible health wise right now (since you said you haven’t been too good) and that you are coping ok. 🙂 And I also hope that your sister is recovering well. How is your grandfather doing?

I’m glad that this spring was cooler than usual, especially given how severe last year’s wildfires were there. I hope things are going ok this summer. We’re actually having a heatwave in the UK, but where I am is cooler due to being on the coast, which I’m grateful for!

Cross stitching sounds fun! I can imagine how devastating it must have been to lose all your previous work in the arson fire. There are some things that just can’t be replaced. Look forward to seeing your future creations on here. 🙂

I hope your little brother had a wonderful birthday. Happy Belated Birthday to you! ❤️ I hope that you had a great day and also would like to wish your husband a happy upcoming birthday. Looking forward to reading your recent birthday post. 🙂 Also, I think it’s cool that you were conceived on Hallowe’en!!

Thank you for the links you shared. The ones about threshold magic and self-care outside stood out to me. I agree with what you said about hope, I find it easier to be hopeful in the spring and summer (in summer especially).

Wishing you a lovely rest of July! 🙂

❤️ Zania

P.S. Bloglovin’ was down again the other day and still doesn’t appear to be working now. It is frustrating!

I loved the embroidery, both the free patterns (some of them so fun I wanted to embroider again) and the beautiful landscapes.

Hold on to your hope! I pray for you.
Wishing you the all the best. ♥

I’m so sorry to hear about your sister’s second bout with Covid and everything your grandfather has been through lately. I really hope he is well on the road to recovery and that he will continue to stay on it!

Isn’t is absolutely wonderful when creativity hits that way? <3 I really look forward to perusing the links on the fall sewing tutorials and the link about the different types of headstones sounds fascinating as well.

I will sign-up to your newsletter to keep up with you there too. 🙂 You should be able to click through to my blog The Seasonal Life from the link in this comment, otherwise I will leave the link for you in a comment. 🙂 Thank you for your recent visits to my blog! <3

I have to go now but I just thought I'd leave this comment here quickly. Look forward to coming back later and reading the rest of your Spring 2022 Edition. 🙂

Hope that your July has started off well. Happy Summer!

Zania ❤️

Hugely so! 😣 Especially since (for met at least) there is rarely any warning that they are coming and so you end up with varying degrees of feeling like the rug has suddenly been pulled out from under your feet on that front.

I am very sorry that Blogger is acting up as well. This site runs on WordPress (which, inexplicably, does not have their own equivalent to Blogger’s in-house list of blogs that one follows) so I have not come up against such issues. I hope that they haven’t been impacting you, dear Ann.

Thank you very much for your caring words regarding my health and that of my relatives. I (we) truly appreciate it. 💗

Many thanks as well for sharing your URL. Happily, after this many years, I know it by heart and will be adding it to whatever feed reader I hit upon as soon as I have got one up and running (again) for me. 😀

Tons of hugs & joyful July wishes,
🖤 Autumn

Thank you tremendously, Meg. How right you are regarding my grandparents and the greater sense of uncertainty that now fills their days.

Objectively, being in their early 80s, I am sure they are realistic about the duration of their futures, but still… that can’t make suddenly seeing your partner of over half a century fighting for their life in the face of two major strokes any easier (if anything, it may actually make it harder).

All things considered, my grandma is coping well. She has a stoic nature and I suspect she is leaning into that a good deal these days. I greatly worry about her all the same though and hope to no end that this doesn’t cause a ripple effect that brings about new health issues for her as well. 🙏

My heartfelt thanks again, sweet lady. 💗

Tons of hugs,
🖤 Autumn

Hello lovely Laura, thank you deeply for your caring, supportive comment – very much including your well wishes for my grandpa’s recovery.

I am delighted to report that he is already showing signs of improving and that he has been able to start PT already. Doing so this early on stands to make the chances of the best recovery possible all the more likely to happen.

Your poor friend! I am deeply sorry that they got hit with Covid twice as well. 😥 Fingers and toes beyond crossed that she does not experience any long-Covid issues. 🙏🙏🙏

We are opposites on the needlework front. Beyond some very basic stitches, I have never ventured down the embroidery front. Maybe if we lived close to each other, we could teach one another our respective needlework skills. 😀

IMO, for the most part, cross stitch is easier than embroidery, so if one already has experience with the latter, picking up CS may come quite naturally.

Thank you again, sweet soul. I have vowed to find a reliable new feed reader before July is over and will be adding your site to my reading list again the moment I’ve found my winner.

Oodles of hugs & the happiest of July wishes coming your way,
🖤 Autumn

Hello lovely Vicki, thank you very much for your caring, supportive comment – and for sharing that Feedly has been your go-to feed reader for a while now.

It is an excellent service for sure and one that is a very big contender for me. The number of blogs I follow far exceeds their free plan though, so I (we) would have to pay for one of the monthly services if I do opt to go down that path (were it free regardless of the number of sites one follows, I think I would have already settled on using it after what happened with BL).

I have vowed to select a reliable new feed reader before July is over and wouldn’t be surprised if Feedly wins out in the end.

Aww, thank you! I am keeping my fingers firmly crossed that this inexplicable surge of creativity holds out until at least well into the fall months as I would LOVE to have it help fuel my creative endeavours that season all the more. Time shall tell! 😀

Your kindness, care, and friendship are beautiful blessings, Vicki. Thank you deeply again for everything. 🙏🌹💗

Tons of hugs,
🖤 Autumn