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.

Happy new year!

I didn't even get a chance to say Merry Christmas, before it's time to say Happy New Year! 

December went by in a blur, between the shopping and the baking and the cooking and the friends and the family and the parties...and lots and lots of puppy cuddles, it all went by in the blink of an eye.  But we had a wonderful holiday!  And Lulu being the perfect lady that she is....didn't even lick a needle of the trees!  She had no intention of doing any of it!  I LOVE HER!!  And she got a couple of things under the tree this year as well.  Some toys, some treats, and a Christmas scarf.  Isn't she lovely?

Got some stitching done! Thank you Sharon for designing us Mistletoe Reindeer! I know I'm a pain. LOL But sooooo worth it in the end (for me anyway...hehehe) So here's a bundle of ornaments that I completed cross stitching.

 Dove - Dimensions - Holiday Elegance

 Mistletoe Reindeer - DaffyCat Designs

 Snowman #7 - Ursala Michael

Snowman #9 - Ursala Michael



Not sure what my focus is going to be in stitching this coming year, but I do know that there's going to be plenty of it.  Ornaments, a few BAP's, SAL's.  Don't know what my month to month is going to be.  I was going to try and do Christmas at Hawk Run's Hallow.  and I still might I just have to get us the courage to do so.  :)



Long time!

Argh!  It's been a long time I know.  I try and I think about it lots...posting that is...but when I sit down all I find I want to do is read all of your's instead of updating mine.  All of your's are so much more interesting. 

I've been doing some stitching some that I can show you and one that I can't share yet, but hopefully at the beginning of the week my exchange partner will receive her ornament and I'll post that.  I received mine from Annette and it's beautiful...both of them actually, another one of her hobbies is crocheting....so she was generous enough to send me one of those for my tree as well.  Which I will happily hang on my tree :)  Thank you Annette!

My Sundays have been full of family and christmas shopping, so I haven't put a stitch at all into Molly since my last update!  Sorry Kati!!  I'm going to snuggle under a warm blankie tomorrow in my stitchy chair and work on Molly all day...hopefully....I do have to go grocery shopping though first.  LOL

I got some ornaments finished.  Let me first say I love Sharon at DaffyCat  :) And I love her designs, so I had to stitch up Believe that she offered up as a freebie on her blog.  So thank you Sharon...I love it....hmmmm do you hear the pitter pat of reindeer on your rooftop yet??  LOL

Believe - DaffyCat Designs - Stitched on Miracle Mint 28 ct lugana

Then there's this one from Fresh Threads Studio from the JCS 2010 ornie issue.  A little funky one to go with the one that I stitched from the preview issue.  LOVE IT!

Christmas Candy Sock hop - Fresh Threads Studio - Miracle Mint 28 ct lugana

So winter has arrived here in Calgary, Cold and Snowy.  UCK!  But Lulu is loving it.  It was cute, she was afraid of it the first morning we opened the door for her to go outside, she wouldn't go. So Hubby/dad had to get dressed at 5:45 am and go out into the backyard with her to show her that it was ok.  LOL I got it all on video...and it's priceless.

November already

Wasn't it just September?  October went by so fast I didn't even notice it. 

Haven't had a lot of time to stitch in the last couple of weeks.  I've been busy playing, teaching, fawning over and loving our new baby.  Lulu's growing so fast it's as if every morning she's changed, or grown or has become smarter and prettier.  LOL  Yep....I'm a mom!  We are sooo lucky with her.  She's a good pup.

Got some stitching done on Sunday though, worked on Molly.  I skipped last weekend, so I had a bit of time this weekend, I love working on her and it's hard to put her away for the week.  But that's ok, it gives me something to look forward to when Sunday comes along.  Can I just say that I love the face of this cat! 

I also finished stitching an ornament. I LOVE this.  It's from the JCS ornie preview issue, it's called Cool Christmas and it's by Fresh Threads Studio.  There's another one that I want to work on from the ornie issue by the same designer.  I have it all kitted up I just have to get to it.  Although I am doing a Canadian ornie exchange that I have to work on and get done this week as well.  So we'll see how much I get done on that before I do another project for my selfish self.

The weather here has been amazing!  It doesn't feel like November at all.  Not good for my hunting members of the family, they like at least a trace of snow to do some tracking while they are hunting, but it's not going to happen anytime this week at least.  So we'll see.  Hubby will be going away for a week this month sometime, he normally does it at the beginning of the month, but with the weather he's thinking that he might wait until the end of the month.  Either way works for me....give me plenty of stitching time. 

Lovely Fall

We are having such a lovely fall.  The leaves are turning colours.  A lot of the time they freeze and all fall off at once, or else it's too cold outside to enjoy the changing of the colour gaurd.  But this year the weather has been beautiful.  Wonderful sunny days, a little on the cool side some days but that's ok, that's how it's supposed to be  :)  I took pictures of some of the last remaining flowers that are blooming and this lone daisy struck me as being so beautiful.  I had to take a picture of it...I think he loves me  :) 

I got lots of stitching done on Sunday.  Hubby had to wake up at 5:30 and go to work, I got up with him...and once he left, instead of going to bed, I did my stroll thru your blogs, and then sat down and stitched.  It feels like I got lots done on it anyway....and really there is, it's just a block of colour...so it doesn't look like much progress.

I'm almost done another ornament I didn't get it finished for this post, so hopefully I'll be posting again tomorrow with a finish.  wooo hooo

Here's my TUSAL.  A few days late, but that's become the norm with me.  The ornaments added a little bit more colour to the jar this time around.

Love is.....

.....a little 5 week old puppy named Lulu!  My gosh!!!!  She leaves me speechless  :)

But I will try to carry on.  LOL

I managed to get lots of stitching done Molly, it just doesn't look like a lot again!  Blocks of colours are time consuming and so are lines of borders, and that's basically what got done on Sunday.  But that's ok..each "x" is a step closer to being finished.  I love her still.

I got a couple of happy dances done too.  Some ornaments that I love!  Loved stitching these ones and I managed to fulfill one of my reindeer a month ornies too.  :)   I have more ornaments lined up so that's what I'll be working on during the week. 

I have a hooky day from work today, my furnace is getting cleaned so I took the day to be home.  I figure their done in a couple of hours and then the rest of the day is mine for stitching.

I'm gonna be a mom again!!!

....of a new furbaby!  It's been a long time since Missy and we're finally ready for our next one.  She's a brand new baby Shiba Inu....we've already named her Lulu and she's 4 weeks old.  She'll be able to come home when she's 7 weeks.  So my baby is coming home on Oct 15th.  And we're so excited.  We go out to the the kennel where she was born every Saturday to see her, give her a cuddle, and see how much she's grown.  She has already stolen our hearts and we already know that she's going to be soooo spoiled!  LOL  Oh my gosh I can hardly wait until (1) Saturday and (2) for her to come HOME!!!

I've got some happy news on the stitching front.  I finished The Song They Sang, and I love it.  It's the second addition to add te the sampler wall I want to create one day.  I have to get a puppy one that I know Diane has done from LHN. I will have to whip out the c/c and have a look around to order it.  hehehe! Isn't it amazing that us stitcher's can always find an occasion or something to stitch about/for.  LOL

I didn't get a chance to work on Molly last weekend, that's why there was no update.  But this weekend I got to spend some time with her and this is how far I got.  She's coming along.  I just love working on her.  So that bodes well for the other three that Kati and I will be stitching on our Sunday SAL. 

I'm going to focus on doing some ornaments, I haven't really stitched any over the summer.  Mostly because we weren't home a lot of the time and I had other things that I wanted to work on more.  I've actually found a couple or three reindeer that I am going to stitch, so as much as I said I was going to give up on them, I have found some refreshing pieces to move me along with my reindeer commitment to myself  :)  Plus I would like to do a couple of things that are quick finishes. I'm in need of some immediate gratification.  We all know how that is when we start working on big pieces, and it seems to take forever, it would be nice to have a finish now and then.  So that's what I will fulfill with my ornaments.  :)

Thanks so much for the compliments on my figurine.  She's porcelain, and she's actually made in Hungary, we went to the factory where they are made in Hollohaza and she's called Seamstress.  I love her.  I picked up another couple of pieces while I was there as well to add to my collection that I already have that my mom and my aunt's started me on.  I love them all.  And I always get excited when there are new pieces. :)

Molly, Birds & TUSAL

Lots to share today....well maybe not that much, but everything seems like an effort this week.  I have a COLD!!  And it's one of those ones that is achey, sneezing, stuffy-head, cough...so you CAN'T rest colds.  Mind you Nyquil does seem to do the trick, but it's not going away.  Boy have you ever tried Nyquil? Sleep like a baby!!!  I'm going to miss it when my cold's gone.  LOL

So I got a little bit of stitching time last week during the week but not as much as I would have liked.  There always seemed to be something that had to be done in the evening so I really didn't get a chance to work on The Song They Sang until Saturday...so here's my meezly progress on that.

And then there's Molly.  Got lots done on her, or at least it felt like I stitched lots.  Do you ever get that?  You feel like you've got lots of stitching done and when you look at it at the end of the day, there doesn't look like there's much progress, and yet you know you've been working at it for hours.  Well that's kind of what it was like this Sunday on Molly. 

Then I have my TUSAL update.  That little stitching girl next to the jar is one of the porcelain treasures that I picked up from my trip to Hungary.  I saw her and fell in love....and had to have her, so fitting, don't you think?

I received the JCS Christmas ornament issue in the mail today!  YEAH!!!!  So I'm going to sit down now with a nice steaming cup of tea with honey, and I'm going to browse thru it for the 1st of what will surely be 50 times.  LOL

We're home!

We've actually been home for a week now, and I'm back to work, but still after more than 3 weeks away and almost a month away from work, it feels like we just got home. 

We had a wonderful trip.  Visited family and friends and walked the banks of the Danube at night and stopping at streetside cafe's drinking espresso and partaking in delectable pastries.  OH MY!  It was so romantic!  I recommend everyone do it at least once.

But everything is back to normal, and we're back in routine.  I was kind of missing the routine, I am a creature of habit so it's good to be back and doing what needs to be done.

I have gotten back into stitching as well, I didn't get a chance at all to stitch while we were away, believe me I did pack a project to take with me but it didn't even make it out of the case, so it will be one of my next projects.   I got a lot of time on Sunday to stitch on Molly.  I was still sort of adjusting to the time change again, and woke up early in the morning, put on some coffee and took her out to work on.  And this is the result of my Sunday stitch. 

I also got to work on The Song they Sang.  I'm feeling a happy dance coming on with this one soon, maybe even this week.  We'll see how it goes, I love working on it so that makes it go by quickly.

I have totally lost count on how many ornies I have to stitch and what I've stitched.  So I'll see.  I've kind of lost the flavor of the reindeer a month yen.. I might just wing it and just stitch what hits me as being fun to stitch.  The reindeer were starting to become a chore, so I think I'm going to switch it up.

And how was everyone's August?