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

Stitching Ornies.

It's hockey night on tv for me tonight so I'm stitching on an ornament.  More than half done, but still not finished.  So tomorrow I will have a scan of it. 

The plan this week is to work on ornaments.  Should be good.

ok.. so I know that we gained an hour with the time change...but am I the only one that is finding it even harder to get out of bed then it was last week? This morning I literally had to roll out of bed.  I was exhausted!

MM progress!

Well I know what I've got to do...I've got to stay off the computer on Sunday's on concentrate on stitching instead of playing Words with Friends for hours a day!  I obviously have an addictive personality!  LOL
But that's ok, cause I'm addicted to stitching as well.  I didn't get as much done on Mary as I wanted to, but I did get some of it done.

Next Sunday....no computer....and smokin' needles.... thank you very much!

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. :)

Busy stitching....

My project is so snuggly perfect in my qsnaps at the moment that I don't want to take it out to scan it.  Hubby took the camera with him on his weekend hunt, so I don't have a pic to take, so again, this is a post without a picture.  :(  But tomorrow I will definitely scan in the progress on my maple leaf and perhaps a finish of an ornament. I've got two that I would like to stitch up tomorrow.  (sounds a little optimistic, I know, but I'm going to try) 

I've been seeing all the lovely uploads at Becky's ornament challenge and I'm thinking that I am already falling behind.  They are all so beautiful though and I want to stitch all of those too.  Oh my...I really do get swayed by peer pressure. LOL

No stitching last night

Once I finished posting here last night, I did a little bit of surfing and taking my turn at my game obsessing on Facebook "Words with Friends"  I'm playing with 7 people and I love it.  It's not a big committment each day either, cause you play your word and wait for your partner to do theirs, and that be whether they are on next, or when they feel like it.  So it's great.  Perfect for me.  I did my surfing...looking at stitching sites, stitching blogs, making a list of everything that catches my eye. (my list is very long!!!) But when I do some stash shopping I always cross off a couple of items.  Enabler's...that's what you all are!  LOL

Then when I was done at the computer I sat down and pulled out all of my JCS Christmas Issues with a pad of stickie notes and marked off all the ornies that I would like to stitch out of those.   ummmm....I wonder how many trees I can fit in my house?  There are some that I have literally wanted to stitch for YEARS and never did...so I think that I might concentrate on those for a while...but then I also want to stitch all the LHN ornies...seeing as I have all of them....and then there's the ....... oh it's no use...there will always the something that I want to stitch and never get around too.  So we'll just all have to wait and see what hit's my fancy when I sit down for some ornie stitching again.  Which I think will be this weekend.  Snow is predicted for tonight and into tomorrow, which will mean the hubby is going out into the wild blue yonder to hunt.  He has his hobbies...I have mine!  LOL  It all even's out in the end.

I've got emails to catch up on too...so if you are waiting for one from me, I'll get to them this weekend.  :)

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!

Do I Dare take the Challenge?

I've never done it before and I don't know if I will be able to post every day in November....but I think I can give it a try...I just don't know if my life is interesting enough to talk about every day.  Mind you I have lots of pics that I can share thru the month.  Hey I haven't shown my Yellowstone pictures yet from August...(I just heard a whole choir of groans from you all! LOL)  I'm sure that I will think of something to write about. (or bitch about) I'll try it!

Today is All Saint's day....so to those of my loved ones (and yours) that have gone before us...you are remembered and loved forever!