A bird in the cage...

Is all I managed to get done on Elizabeth.  I finished the bottom of the cage and then one of the birds.  I thought that I would be able to get both birds stitched but it didn't happen.  I find I'm doing lots of stitches, but the progress is slow on this one.  I love it though!  And I will definitely have two of Elizabeth's birds done next Sunday. :)

Here's a new update on Sockeye as well.  Coming along nicely if I do say so myself.  I love how this is shaping up too.  I've decided that I'm going to do the fish first and then work on the splash afterwards. It might prove to be a little tedious, but it should be ok. It's not going to fit on the scanner soon.  I've already lost the last few stitches on the bottom of the pic to the edge of the scanner bed so it will be photos soon.  Depending on how much I get done this week.  I might be able to squeeze it on for 1 more week.

I am sooooo jealous of all of your spring has spring pictures.  Here....it snowed...and it continues to snow, today, tomorrow, the day after.  Yep...happy Spring.  I'm going to have to find something springy to stitch.

Wild Child Elizabeth!

On your marks...get set...stitch!  And stitch I did! I stitched for hours but unfortunately it doesn't look like much.  It's incredibly deceptive, but there are a lot of stitches happening in Wild Child Elizabeth's birdcage!  And I loved every stitch of it.  I love starting new projects.  The untouched smoothness of the fabric stretched in the qsnaps.  Love love love it! So here we go, Kati and I are back to our Sunday SAL of the girls.  YEAH!!!

I also started and finished LHN's Cardinal Winter...which I affectionately call Tweet!  My stitching tree is going to love this at christmas time!  YEAH! again!  LOL

Cardinal Winter by LHN

This week I'll be working on Sockeye.  Hoping to get a good chunk of him done this week as well. 

The ORT report & Update

See I told you I would steal your title!  LOL  I love that!  And here's my ort jar with this last month's contribution.

Also here's an update on Sockeye.  I thought I would be finished the head of it this week, but I didn't get it done.  Oh well, it will be done for sure this coming week.  This weekend I'm working on LHN's Cardinal Winter, which I am finding I am calling Tweet in my head rather than the original title.

I did some stash shopping!!!  I couldn't help it!  I broke down!  Darn Nashville Market!  So I'm sure that the packages (yes plural) should be arriving in the mail this coming week as well.

I went and bought all the floss that I needed for Elizabeth, that Kati and I will be starting in our Sunday SAL, starting the 13th. I noticed that she uploaded the new pic on her sidebar so I snagged it for mine as well (Thanks K!)  I found the perfect frames for them at Michael's today too!  I was almost tempted to buy them so that I would have them but I maintain some self control and withheld!  Not without much contemplation first!

Happy Dance & Progress

My little valentine finish that I loved from the first time I saw it, and then I had to track down the chart, and I'm so glad that I have a stitching fairy god-sister that was able to help me with this one.  Isn't it pretty, I love this valentine freebie by Erica Michaels.  It's an oldie but a goodie.

Hugs and Kisses  by Erica Michaels stitched on 28 ct White Jobelan

Progress on Sockeye is coming along.  I'm actually love it at the moment, so I'm going to stitch thru this one this weekend and see how far I get.  However a feel a sinus/head cold coming on and I might not be able to see it by the time the weekend gets here...but I'm going to try. 

Hubby is leaving for a fishing derby this weekend.  Leaving tomorrow night and coming home on Sunday.  So I'll have lots of stitching time this weekend (if the sinus cold allows)  Stitching and the Oscars...and lots of great junk food.  That's what my weekend is going to consist of.  It's only Wednesday and I'm already looking forward to the weekend!  wooo hooo  Hopefully by the end of the weekend, my fish will have a head!

Good Golly, Missy Molly!

Molly - Carriage House Samplings - Stitched on 32 ct GoldSpinner

I couldn't wait to post her today.  She's finished.  Oh my gosh I LOVE HER!!  I put the final stitches into her at 10:47 pm last night.  The picture of course doesn't do it any justice, but it does show that she's finished.  I'm so glad that Kati and I are doing these girls!  So now until Kati finishes her's, I will work on ornies on Sundays :)  which is a good plan I think.

I've got another little finish but I haven't scanned it yet.  And I also want to post a progress of sockeye, but it's so perfectly in the q-snaps right now that I don't want to move it.  So I figure that I will stitch on it today and then scan them both in tomorrow for post.

I just couldn't wait to post Molly for 1 more day!  hehehehe



Molly update

I don't have anything else to show today either..I didn't work on sockeye at all last week, I was so busy last week that all I got done were the smalls, but I did get some sunday stitching done and worked on Molly.  I am so close to finishing her!  I'm so excited!  And Kati and I have decided that we are working on Elizabeth next!  She's the one with the wild hair, and I'm dying to get my needle working on it!

I've got my eye on some new charts too.  Eeekkk!!!  And I don't want to buy anything, but these ones are so calling my name.  I'm holding off so far, but I don't know how long I can last.

Tonight we're going out to dinner.....no special occasion, we just feel like going, so there won't be any stithcing going on tonight, but I'm hoping that tomorrow, I'll be home from work and then I'll just settle in and work on sockeye.  Plus there's another valentine freebie that I was able to track down that I want to do before the weekend is up as well.  It's an oldie but a goodie!

Shameless request!!

EDIT***  Apparently they only accept Canadian votes ***

Thanks for trying anyway :)

I just found out about a contest, that I've entered Lulu's photos.  But she needs votes and of course, I can't vote!  EEEKKKK!!!!  So I'm asking you all if you have a split second to vote to see if Miss Lulu if she has a shot.  I found out about the contest late :() So the other pups have a huge headstart on her. But it will be fun to see where she ends up.  The links are under her photos.  Vote for your favorite or vote for all of them.  but please vote! 

And Yes...that's why I named this post Shameless request....because I know that it is.

Thanks guys!!!

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Feb TUSAL & two smalls

This week has pretty much been a write off for any significant stitching.  I was out doing things Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and then Friday I was just so happy to sit that I didn't really want to pick up my sockeye.  So I flipped thru some of the freebies that I had and picked a couple of small projects to do. The one I was looking for I couldn't find but I like the ones that I did find. 

First is a little one called Basket of Hearts by Charland Designs, a 1999 design. I didn't do the border on it but I think it's cute and I'll probaby make it into a little fob.

Basket of Hearts - Charland Designs

Then to celebrate the year of the rabbit, I found this one Bunny Hop Scissor Fob by Brightneedle, also an older one from 2002.  But they were both nice little quick stitches.

Bunny Hop Scissors Fob - Brightneedle

Last but not least I took a shot for TUSAL. 

Hockey game on tonight so I'm hoping to get some good stitches into sockeye, since I haven't touched it at all this week.

Sockeye's got it's groove back!

So I put it out of my head that those 1/4 stitches and the black on black were going to kill me, and I just sat and started stitching.  And it all came together.  I love how this is going to look. The colours are amazing and it's really going to be a stunning piece when it's finished.  So I'm looking forward to this week of stitching.  I was planning on getting more done than I did last week because Hubby and Baby Bro were supposed to go ice fishing this weekend, but the weather turned bad on Friday. We had snow fall warnings and blowing snows on the highways, so they decided that they would go this coming weekend instead, as the weather is supposed to get better again.  So we'll see how things turn out there. So Hubby and I spent time together watching movies and cuddling all weekend.  It was nice.

Only got a couple of hours on in Molly on Sunday, but it's coming along. I'm already thinking of the next girl, and I'm kind of leaning towards Elizabeth, if Kati thinks that's ok.  What do you think Kati? Yes? I want to get at the wild hair.  LOL

New moon coming this week, so I have to get working on filling my ort jar!

I don't know why....

....but I love them.  I was looking for something quick to stitch to get my satisfaction fix...and I dug one of these little sheep out of the JCS ornie issue, and I loved it so much I had to find the other one as well.  So my little fat fingers stitched up Joy and Peace by Amy Bruecken Designs.  Aren't they cute?

Peace & Joy - Amy Bruecken Designs - JCS 2009 Preview & Ornie issue

And with that I am able to settle back into this sockeye that I'm stitching....on black...with 1/4 stitches...YEAH!  It's going to be gorgeous when it's done...but wooooo-weeeeee it's fun, fun fun to stitch!  Yup...it sure is...I love it...can't wait to sit down and stitch on it tonight...um-humm...oh Yeah...can't w-a-i-t!  (is anyone sensing the sarcasm here?)

I didn't have a lot of time to stitch on Sunday, but I did manage some time. Here's the progress on Molly.  Love stitching on her.  I'm already looking forward to the next one.

Updates

Didn't get a lot of stitching done last week.  It felt like I had it out a lot, but then when it came to actually putting in the stitches I got distracted, or it didn't look like much.  I did some black on black stitching on the sockeye, so maybe that's why it didn't feel like I got much done. Tonight I'll be sitting in front of the tv and stitching, so I'm hoping to get some progress done on it.   I also want to pick out something small to do (an ornie) so that I have at least something finished on the sidebar for 2011.  OOPS!  I didn't realize there was such a glare on the pic when I took it until I uploaded it from the camera, and I'm too lazy to do it again, so I'll take a better pic of it next week.

Sunday I worked on Molly again.  I see that Kati is making great progress with her's, so we are both back on track now and working towards the finish of this one and then onto the next on the the CHS girls!

Here's a new pic of Lulu, I snapped her while I had the camera out.  She is such an amazing creature! I can't even explain it!  LOL

The ABC's of Me.

A - Age: 44

B - Bed size: Queen
C - Chore you hate: dusting, ironing
D - Dog's name: Lulu
E - Essential start of the day item: glass of orange juice
F - Favorite color: Red
G - Gold or Silver: Both
H - Height: 5'3"

I - Instruments you play: Piano, Organ, Guitar, Saxaphone, Sing.
J - Job: Medical Clinic Administrator
K - Kids: See "D"
L - Living arrangements: Married, Mom lives with us too.

M - Music you love: Anything that I can sing along with that doesn't require that spitting noise (Rap)
N - Nicknames: Barbi
O - Overnight hospital stay at hospital: When I had my ankle pinned back together...then when I had the pins taken back out.
P - Pet Peeve: People that "ya-ya" me.
Q - Quote from a movie: "Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit." Eat, Pray, Love

R - Right handed or left: Right
S - Siblings: 1 brother....but several "sister friends" :)
T - Time you wake up: 5:45 am.
U - Underwear: yes...a whole drawer full.
V - Vegetable you dislike: brussel sprouts ...ACK!!!
W - Workout Style: Treadmill, stationery bike, walking Lulu
X - X-rays you've had: dental, ankle (both), sinuses, chest
Y - Yummy food you make: Lasagne.
Z - The best place to visit: Australia, Italy.


...and now you know my ABC's, won't you play along with me?

WIP's

I planned on posting more this year and I will, it's just that real life takes over sometimes and you can't.  Or you get lazy.  And it's a little bit of both for me at the moment.  Mom has the norovirus flu buggy thing and of course she's "dying" and how could I even think of going to work when she is laying in her deathbed, instead of holding vigil by her side.  It's ok though because she called me every 1/2 hour on my cell phone to tell me how sick she really was.  Oh yes...it has been a lovely week so far.  But thank goodness, she is on the mend now and is up and moving about the house, so all is well in the world again.  Now to avoid getting it myself, of heaven forbid, hubby gets it! NO NO NO! 

But in all of that I did manage to get a little bit of stitching done, not as much as I would have liked, but still some.  So here's my progress on Spirit of the Sockeye, and Molly. 

I'm hoping to be back tomorrow with the ABC's of me.  :))

Stitchy weekend

I actually got quite a bit of stitching time in this past weekend.  I got a really good start on a new project.  Spirit of the Sockeye by Stitching Studio.  I didn't realize how many 1/4 stitches there are on it...that's going to try my patience for sure, but I'll muddle thru.  When it gets to be too much then I will just pick something else up for a bit.  I have decided that I am going to start Christmas at Hawk's Run after all, so I just have to kit that up and start on that as well. 

I even had a good day working on Molly on Sunday, which I hadn't done at all in December, so it was great working on her again.  Kati, how are you doing on your's?

Here's my tusal for Jan 4th.  A couple of days late, but better than a month late!  LOL  I've joined the other stitchers over at DaffyCat's to show off your orts for the month.  I've decided to continue to add to my orts from last year on this one.  See if I can fill it to brimming. this year!  WOOO HOOOO

I still have my Christmas trees up!  They were just too pretty to take down this past weekend.  Saturday we'll make a day of it.  The weather is supposed to take a turn for the snowy on Friday, so it will be the perfect day to stay indoors.