Baby's got a new "set" of shoes

Winter is on it's way and therefore every fashion foreward dog that lives in Calgary must have a fine pair...errr set of fur trimmed booties...don't you agree?  LOL  I wanted so badly to find pink ones for her, but there weren't any, so these will have to do until I find them.  I didn't get them though because I want to torture her in anyway...it's because with the cold and the ice and the salt and the gravel that they are going to spread on the roads and the sidewalks, it's not going to be good for her paws.  Now whether she's going to like them or not at first is another story all together...but she'll get used to them :)

My gosh they are sooo darn CUTE!

IHSW success

Well I think for my first time hermitting I think I faired pretty well.  My maple leaf I posted yesterday, and then I didn't get a chance to work on Mary Margaret as much as I wanted to, but there's always next Sunday.  I love working on her.  In fact I love both my projects that I'm working on at the moment.

Hubby came home with a sore throat today.  Not good!  So as per usual he had to be baby-ed tonight.  Didn't leave any time at all for stitching tonight.  So I'm hoping that tomorrow he'll feel better and I'll be able to finish up my maple leaf.

About to settle in...

for a night of stitching.

Spent a lovely morning and afternoon with hubby.  Went out for breakfast and then did a little Christmas shopping.  Almost finished now.  Only have to buy for the baby and the baby-daddy and then it's all done accept for the wrapping.  Which I love to do. 

I've started thinking about my christmas village and having to do the finishing on the ornaments that I've stitched through-out the year.  So I'm going to be doing those during the evenings I think this week and then major on Saturday.  So I might have to put the cross stitching aside on Saturday and get those done.  It'll be fun.  Put on some Christmas music or a couple of good girl movies and I'm off.   Did you know that the one radio station that I listen to at work has already started playing Christmas music all day, every day!  They started on Nov 15th.  Now I'm all for Christmas music...and yes I am listening to it...but doesn't that seem a tad early to you?  It's always been Dec 1st they start.  Oh well...it's up to them I guess.

Oh!  While we were out I also bought my New Year's Eve outfit!  We have made plans to go the Hungarian Cultural Centre and ring in the New Year with friends...and that includes my love Kati and her DH  and hopefully Edit and her's :)  It's going to be a magical night...I can feel it  :)

Look how much stitching I got done yesterday and Friday!  I think I did pretty well so far for my hermit weekend.  More to come with Mary Margaret, who poor thing hasn't had a stitch in her yet today...but I'm about to rectify that in about 15 minutes or so.

I think I might have a happy dance with this one this week.  Thanks again to Dani for letting me borrow the chart.  I love this!

Busy stitching...

Had a great day of stitching and hope to continue for another hour or so.  My hunting widow weekends are coming to an end, meaning that next weekend is going the last weekend of peaceful stitching.  But it will be nice to have me weekends back with hubby too.

Will post my progress of what I stitched today...tomorrow. :)  Tomorrow is Mary Margaret day!

Oh I did a little redecorating of my blog too.  I couldn't wait anymore to start decorating for Christmas and when I found this I had to use it. 

Hermitting!

It's this weekend!!  And I have already settled in and have stitched for a couple of hours.  I'm soooo happy.  My project is perfectly snug in my qsnaps at the moment and don't want to take them out...so I will take a scan of it at the end of the day tomorrow. 

It feels so good to stitch.  I miss it if I miss a couple of days.  I have been looking at all the wonderful stitched ornies in Becky's ornament challenge and can't help but thinking...."oh I want to do that one." "oh I must find that one and stitch it"  "Ohhhhh I love that one, I have to stitch that one"  It's an endless circle of wanting and wishing and enabling my friends...and I've always been sooooo bad at fighting peer pressure.  LOL

Another pic-less post!

EEK!  And another day without stitching...what is becoming of my world??  LOL  had company tonight which was nice but I don't know...there's something about having people over on weeknights that seems to throw the whole week off.  Or am I just that anti-social?

Tomorrow after work I'm going to Costco and I'm going to do my grocery shopping and then on Saturday when they are saying that it's going to be blistering cold here and hubby will be off hunting for the day, I may just build a nice fire in the fireplace (first of the year) and stitch and watch girl movies.  Or the shows that I've pvr'd and want to watch.

Nothing to show

This is really just a drive by posting tonight.  I didn't get any stitching done last night after I posted, I ended up cuddling with hubby on the couch and watched the game.  Which was really nice :)

Then tonight we went out to watch a ringette game that a friend of our's daughter was playing in and then we just sat around and visited for a couple of hours. 

Tomorrow perhaps some stitching, I'm looking forward to the weekend.

OH!  I almost forgot!  Don't forget to rush over to DaffyCat's blog and sign up for the 2012 TUSAL  She has her sign up sheet up for 2012.   I've changed to link on my icon on my sidebar as well so you can click on that anytime if you change your mind and want to join us later :)

Christmas Eve Flight

I've had this in my freebie folder for a couple of seasons now and I thought that I would pull it out and finally stitch it up.  I love it!  I found it when I was doing my year of the reindeer last year.  And I just never got around to it.  I sure am glad that I did it now. It's another little happy dance for me this year.
It's by Sampler Girl and you can find it here.

Christmas Eve Flight by Sampler Girl

I've got MacDonald's Maple Leaf all squared up in my qsnaps so I'm off to stitch for the last two periods of the hockey game.

Oh exciting news!  I've signed up for International Hermit and Stitch Weekend.  It's my first time and it sounds like fun.  You can click on the icon on my sidebar to find out more info and join! 

Progress

Woke up this morning with the plan of going to work and then coming home and finishing up my ornament and starting back on Maple Leaf, but instead...had a hectic day at work, so that by the time I came home I plopped down on my chair and didn't move! 

So I haven't picked up any stitching at all tonight.  I figure that's ok I got lots done last week. 

Here's the progress that I made on Mary Margaret, I was really hoping to finish up her skirt yesterday, but it wasn't meant to be.  Next Sunday for sure :)

No Camera

Well I wanted to take pictures of my new fabric for you all to see but I forget that hubby took the camera hunting with him.  So I'll have to wait for him to come home in order to show you what I got.

Did some stitching on MM today and still intend to continue stitching on her for the rest of the evening.  I worked on an ornie yesterday as well and have about 3/4 of it done, so I won't bore you with that either. 

I'll have some scans of progress tomorrow.  Just wanted to make sure that I got a post in for today.

Another ornie

I stitched this up yesterday while I was enjoying my day off.  Oh how I love long weekends.  This actually meant to be a gift tag of some sort I guess, but I have made it into an ornament (or I intend too anyway)  I just love it, I thought it was really pretty.  Found it in the Christmas Issue of Jill Oxton's Cross stitch and beading magazine.

Made it to the fabric store yesterday and got a few fabrics for finishing and found some small pompoms as well.  So I'm a happy girl.  I'll take some pics and post tomorrow.

I'm having a stitchy day with my SIL tomorrow, so that will be fun!

Lest We Forget

Thank you

Cookie for Santa

This little joy to stitch is from an old JCS Ornie issue (1999) to be precise.  I've already got the next one all kitted up and ready to stitch.  I'm having such fun!!

A Cookie for Santa by Hillside Samplings from 1999 JCS ornie issue

I'm hoping to go to the fabric shop and do some backing shopping for all the ornaments that I've stitched to finish them out and then I may even drag out the sewing machine to get started on them.  I really want to find those pom-pom type trimming that I see people using because I think that I've got a few that would be finished perfectly with that trim.  So that's my mission tomorrow.

It's a long weekend for me so I have 3 glorious days to spend fiddling with my ornaments. :)

Snow Hop

Hot off the q-snaps!  This is a design by Sharon of DaffyCat Designs. Her designs always make me smile.
It can be found here.  It will be the first instalment over at Becky's Christmas ornament challenge as well.

Snow Hop by DaffyCat Designs - stitched on 28 ct white lugana