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. :)



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!

SAL Sunday

No progress pic of MM yet, because I still have a couple of hours left to stitch on her.  I don't have much progress so far, being distracted by some chatting (you know who you are!) and then hubby came home from his hunting trip.  So with that and supper and getting ready for the week ahead, the time just got away from me as far as stitching goes.  But I'm not giving up yet.  I will have some progress to post tomorrow :)
Here's a new scan of Maple Leaf....still stitched another hour or so after I posted last night's pic.  So here it is.  The colours in my ort jar are so pretty right now with all the fall coloured threads. :)

Maple leaf progress

Spent a whole lot of my day today on the computer and then had company, so didn't have too much time to stitch during the day today, therefore I put my ornaments on hold.  I kept my maple leaf in the qsnaps and worked on that tonight...but I'm not sure when the daily cut off is on blogger, so I didn't want to post any later, in case I missed today's deadline for posting.  So here I am...still want to stitch for another couple of hours tonight.  But so far so good....

...I'm watching The Devil Wears Prada, one of my fav girl movies, and then after that Confessions of a Shoploholic is on...so I may watch that and stitch into that as well.  We'll see. 

Tomorrow Mary Margaret's up again. wooo hoooo!  Monday I'll throw an ornie in the mix. :)

All the pretty colors...

I did some stitching last night while hubby watched the hockey game...which was a disaster for our team...so we only watched part of it, so I didn't get as much done as I wanted to...but still enough to make a post for my second November post.  hehehe  I'm hoping to get more stitching tonight. Adding some yellow to the mix tonight. 

I love this project!

A start, A finish and A sweater

So had a great week of stitching.  Lots going on on the home front too.  Bought new bedroom furniture, so that means that cleaning out the old furniture, cleaning the nooks and crannies and places that you don't normally clean until the room is empty or furniture is moved.  So there was dusting and vacuuming and carpet cleaning going on.  EEK!  Lot's of decluttering too.  Deciding what to keep out and what to put away and get rid off.  But it will all be good...soon...I hope! 

But in the mean time I did get an ornie finished. One of my favorites from the JCS ornie issue this year.  You can't tell from the scan but the red and the silver dots are shiny with Kreinek thread, and it's soooo pretty in person.

Christmas Tree Cat by Brittercup Designs from JCS 2011 Ornie Issue

I also started a new project...thanks to Dani for letting me borrow this, as I searched high and low for this chart and it turns out it was OOP...Dani has it beautifully pictured in her banner on her blog.  It's MacDonald's Maple Leaf and the colours are amazing on this project!!!  I love how it's coming along, and can't wait to get at it again.

Then on Sunday is our SAL with Kati!  Very excited about Mary Margaret!  And I finished her sweater so on to other things next Sunday.  (Oh Ick!  I didn't see that streak from the scan!!! too lazy to rescan)

Tomorrow is the start of the Christmas Ornament Challenge that Becky has started.  So all the ornaments that I stitch from now until December 31st are going to be posted there as well.  I'm happy about that :)  I love my ornies!!!!