Mary Margaret's progress

I haven't posted an update on Mary Margaret in a very long time, she's the Sunday SAL I have with Kati.  Not as much progress as I would like, Kati is cruising on this one....but she's still coming along.  I love stitching her! 

I am going to start the Hummingbird & Fushcia that I'm stitching for Laura.  But I had to change out the fabric and the floss.  I just didn't like the feel of any of the stuff that came with the kit.  But now I'm happy with everything and I'm going to start :)

Here's a pic of Lulu that I took while I was taking a pic of MM....she doesn't look impressed that I was paying more attention to the fabric than to her!  LOL

Welcome 2012!

This is a wonderful way to start the new year.  Lazed in bed most of the morning with my wonderful husband, Lulu curled up at our feet, and watching movies.  I love my life!

Last night was a wonderful night of food, dancing and good company. My bum knee kept me off the dance floor more than I would have liked, but that's ok, it was nice to get out and spend time with friends...and SEE friends that I have seen in ages!!!  :)

So I played with the Picasa program a little bit and build a collage of all my finishes for 2011.  Quite a collection, not nearly as much as I would have liked to stitch,  but still lots.

Stitching goals for 2012...
finish CHS - Mary Margaret (SAL with Kati)
Start CHS - Suzanne (SAL with Kati)
LK's 6 fat snowmen (this will be a SAL with Kati and Veronica and whoever else wants to join us)
Prairie Schoolers - 12 days of Christmas
1 ornament a month
Hummingbirds and Fuchsias (this is actually a piece that Lulu's breeder asked if I would stitch for her, as this kit was given to her and she doesn't cross stitch b ut she really loved it, and I told her that I would be happy to stitch it up for her)
CHS - Fredrick and Fredrika
and tons and tons of other ones as well.  It's hard to say what designs will come and grab me by the ankles kicking and screaming.

Personal goals....
Lose weight!
Spend one stitching day a month with Kati & Edit :)
Continue to live in bliss with my gorgeous, amazing husband.
Learn to cook new things.

Happy New Year!

Hope all of you have a safe and wonderful New Year's eve!  Thank you all so much for a wonderful 2011, and here's to an even better 2012!

We're heading out to the Hungarian Club tonight, for dinner and dancing and ringing in the New Year with good friends.  It's going to be a great night :)

Last 2011 Ort report

Just a quickie as we're getting ready for our Christmas Eve festivities.  Family is coming over for shrimp.  It's become a bit of a tradition with our family.  Hubby makes to die for shrimp....so he's got 5 pounds of it to prepare.  I just sit back and enjoy.   My day will come tomorrow.

In the mean time here is the last ort jar of the year. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!!

It's Christmas time!

And I'm all ready!  I didn't think that I would be able to pull it together this year.  We had a wonderful time in Ottawa.  We had out appointment on Friday morning and were basically finished in an hour, then we had the rest of the weekend to explore.  I took lots of pics that I have to sort thru and then I will post some pics.  The only sad part was that I didn't even think of getting in touch with Dani and we could have arranged to have a lunch of something.  boo hoo!!!  Dani...Next time!

Got home from Ottawa...worked two days...and then came down with the flu!!  Yep full blown flu.  I thought it was just a cold.  I took Wednesday off because I felt like crap quite frankly, and still not feeling great got dressed and went to work.  One look at me, the Doc pulled me into an exam room, and I was diagnosed with flu.  Was told to go home, with an rx for Tamiflu and antibiotics and lots of liquids.  Temp that morning 103.3! 

I just watched the calender as the days ticked away and nothing was done.  The only thing...thank goodness...was that my shopping was done, and I had my village up before I left for Ottawa.  But I got it done.  Got the main tree up and trimmed.  Then pulled out the stitching tree and got that one all done up.  And then the new small one with the smalls and our family name ornaments on it.  I didn't bring up even a quarter of my Christmas stuff to put out this year.  My energy level is still a little under par, but I did get some nice pieces out, so I'm happy with how the house looks. :)

The trim and the ornies...

 The Main tree....our live Fraser Fir...it's glorious!

 The village...better known as "Barbi-ville"

 The nativity that my hubby surprised me with...gorgeous!

 My Stitching Tree!!!!!

 The stockings were hung...along with my reindeer collection.

 The smalls tree.

 the next two pics are actually close ups of the ornies the I stitched with I was 12 years old.  The drumming teddy and the candycane teddy...the were needlepoint kits that my mom got for me one year...after that...all bets were off.  I still treasure these. (as I treasure all my pieces)  but these ones were the first :)

 The view from my desk

I'm still alive!

...but barely!  I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off.  Trying to get everything sorted at work, and then here in the house.  Getting ready for Christmas.  I have my village up, but nothing else. 

Tomorrow....leaving on a jet plane to go to Ottawa!

I'm excited about it but then again it feels like it's bad timing.  But oh well. 

So as far as stitching goes.  I haven't done much of it at all.  Mary Margaret has a head now, I was hoiping to post a pic of her, but I just don't have the time at the moment.  I will when we get home on Sunday. 

PROMISE!!

Thank you ...and good night!

I DID IT!!!  I blogged every day for 1 whole month.  Now you all know how truly boring I really am!
But it was good.  There were days it was a struggle and I hated posting without pictures but it couldn't always be helped.

Thank you for bearing with me.  I promise I won't put you all thru that again...until perhaps next November.

The movie last night was really good. I'm going to go see it again I think, Breaking Dawn 1 really was beautifully done. I highly recommended it.

I have the beginnings of my village started today.  The houses are all in place and lit up, tomorrow I will be placing the trees and the people and the various activities that take place in Barbi-Town.  Yep..I'm the mayor, I can call it whatever I want.   LOL

Early Post

Off for an early dinner and a movie with the girls tonight, so I don't know what time I'm going to be home.  Only one more day of NaBloPoMo left and I don't want to miss tonight, just in case.

Everyone Have a Great Day!

Living in rubble!

I was going to scan my progress on Mary Margaret tonight so that you can see how little I actually got done yesterday, but my scanner is under a pile of fabric and trimmings right now, so I think that it's best to leave that alone at the moment.  It's very strategically piled but in such a fashion that if I move even one stitch of it it will all cascade to the floor.  So I'm thinking better of it.

Then I went to take a picture of it so that I can post it, and just as my camera turned on it turned right back off again saying "low battery" so I can't do that either. 

Oh well, it's not meant to be.  I would say that I will post it tomorrow, but I'm going out with the girls tomorrow and I don't know when I'll be home.   But eventually Mary Margaret will get posted.

Promise. :)

About last night...

So I did no cross stitching yesterday, because I was planning on doing some finishing of ornies.  Well I did get them all cut and pinned and ready for finishing, so I am part way there.  Hubby came home and we cuddled on the couch and watched movies. Which was sooo nice.  So during the week I'll get them done.

The ornies:

The fabric

All that left now is the stuffing. :)

Happy dance

Finally finished this piece. I LOVED working on this.  The hidden images emerged as it was being stitched because you couldn't see them in the chart.  I was actually telling Dani that I think that I might even stitch this again one day on black but reverse the direction and have them both on the same wall.  I think that would look amazing.

McDonald's Maple Leaf by Lynne Nicoletti stitched on 28 ct White Jobalen

Thank you again Dani for letting my borrow your chart! :)

Went and did a little bit of shopping today.  Went to Peir 1 and bought a few new ornies for the formal tree.  Oh they have such beautiful ornaments there!  The colours are stunning.  I got some fun pieces...plus I got my gift for the secret Santa at work from there as well. 

Right now I'm pinning ornies to backings and getting ready to hoping run them thru the sewing machine tonight.  I just want them all done by next weekend.  So even if I don't get all of them done tonight, I'll still have the rest of the week. :)



New Moon TUSAL

My November ort report is as follows.  Lots of ornies....beautiful autumn colours from MacDonald's Maple Leaf....some darker threads from Mary Margaret.  Lovely combinations of colours. For those that haven't yet and would like to join the TUSAL you can find the link on my sidebar and go visit Daffy-Cat's site to sign up.  Show off your ort's fellow stitcher's...it's just another way of showing off our progress :)

I'm going to stitch until I get a happy dance on Maple leaf tonight and there's a freebie or two that I would like to stitch up for ornies.  And then I have to gather and sort and organize the finishing that I have to do with the ornies that I've stitched not just this year...but (shamefully bows her head) last year as well!!  EEK!!  So tomorrow there will be NO cross stitching...only finishing! 

This is the last hunting weekend of the season!  And then I get my hubby back!  I can hardly wait to spend a full weekend with him!  We have actually planned a little romantic getaway to Ottawa.  Both out of necessity and out of pleasure.  We have to go to the embassy to renew his Hungarian passport, it's that time again.  But this is the first time that we've actually had to go to the embassy.  We've always been able to just get it done here locally at the Consulate, but rules changed this year and it has to be done there.  Which is ok...cause this way we are making an extended weekend of it.  Flying out on a Thursday and coming home on a Sunday.  We were going to wait with it but then we thought that if we wanted to go to Mexico in February we wanted to make sure that we had all our documents set before we make plans for that.  I think it will be wonderful.  We've never been to Ottawa, and I'm sure that it's lovely....even though it's really late fall/early winter. 

So much to do before Christmas and it already feels like the weekends are wasting away, and I have nothing done!!!! 

Quickie

Got caught up in watching the National Dog show that I PVR'd this afternoon with hubby, and now we're off to bed.

Bigger post tomorrow!

Writer's block

No idea what to talk about tonight, I haven't stitched, I haven't taken any pictures, I haven't really done anything today accept work, and read blogs and looked at online stitching shops, adding to my ever growing wish list.  Might even take the plunge and order some stuff this weekend.  We'll see.  Kati has given me the itch as she fell off her wagon and went stitchy shopping!  Now I want to too!  LOL 

This blogging everyday is HARD!  If you count it up, I'll have blogged more this whole month than I have the whole YEAR!