Liz update

Wow I had to do a round about way of making a post today.  Blogger is having a bit of a fart these last couple of weeks!  But that's ok, I got here! wooo hoooo   HELLOOOOOO Blogger friends!  Nice to see you!  LOL   Well I hope that everyone had a good week.  I am 7 pounds lighter thanks to 3 days of an incessant stomach bug that found me sitting on the toilet and patting instead of wiping by the 2nd day...ouch!  Mind you as lovely as that 7 pounds is, I know that in a matter of a couple of days it will be right back on.  ARGH!  and then I've decided that I have to do something about it for real, and get me fat butt in gear and start walking and treadmilling and biking and swimming and all that other fun stuff I like to avoid.  ICK!  Oh well.

So I worked a little on sockey but it's so perfectly tensioned in the qsnaps that I don't want to take it out at the moment, so I will update it next week instead of this week. 

I did work on Liz on Sunday for our SAL with Kati. It's funny how a chart tends to take you in a certain direction, and for some reason this on is having me finish the bottom first.  I just kept right on going with it.  So I let it take me where it wanted, then I'll work up the side.  I think I'm actually going to save her for last and stitch Elizabeth in once everything else is done.  Keeps it interesting right to the very end.  But then again we'll see.

So we're very excited on the home front, we have booked our campsite for the 1st weekend of June!  YEAH!  First camping trip of the year.  Hopefully we'll have good weather for it.  I hate to book so far in advance and then find out that it's going to by rainy and crappy all weekend, but I am crossing my fingers that it will be good.  My brother bought a trailer this past month so they'll be joining us too, it's his birhtday weekend that weekend, so it should be a good time.  I LOVE CAMPFIRES!  And just sitting by the water and watching the world go by!  With stitching and a good book close by. 

This weekend we're going to see Cavalia!  Another exciting event that we have been waiting for and it's finally here.  So I'm excited about that.  It looks like an amazing show! 

2 finishes and a SAL

Finally got a chance to stitch on Liz our SAL with Kati this weekend.  I haven't had a lot of time on Sunday's...they are turning into family days, this weekend though My SIL brought her stitching as well, so I was able to get some time in  :)  Slow going, but it's getting there. Plus it didn't help that I had to frog the S and re-stitch it, because I was off by 1/2 a thread! GRRRR  but at least it wasn't the whole of the letter.

I also had a couple of small finishes.  Some instant gratification pieces, I like to call them. So these will go on my stitching tree this year.  I have to get back to my Sockeye, which I have placed back in the Q-snaps today, don't think I'll get to it until Wednesday though, cause tonight I don't feel much like stitching, and tomorrow it's a night out with the girls.  So Wednesday it is.  I am hoping for a happy dance on Sockeye in the next couple of weeks, if all goes as planned, but then we all know what the best laid plans are...

Joy to the world - LHN

Joyful Night - Shepard's bush - 1998 JCS Ornie issue

I took some time this weekend to organized and re-sort my floss!  EEKKK  that took 3 1/2 hours!  All my little projects and big projects the same, all the floss just went into this bit melting pot of floss in an X-large Ziploc bag...so much so that when I needed to pull floss, I knew I had it, but it was easier to buy a skein than to go ahead and dig thru the bag!  Shameful!  So I sorted those and put them all back into the proper floss-bags and everything is nice and easy to find....until the next time. LOL

Ort report & Sweet Jaxon

Well you know that I couldn't let the vision of the tissue box go without adding one of my own.  So this isn't necessarily the most favorite box I've ever had, but it's the one that I am presently using and is on my desk.  So there you have it.

Then I have to share a picture of the sweetest, newest member of our family.  Jaxon Alexander   I could watch him sleep for hours :))))

Mojo's back!

All it took was a little something fresh.  So I picked up and stitched CHS's Wash Day.  I fell in love with this chart when I saw it from the Nashville releases and order it right away.  So now I can happily put it in my pile of samplers that I am fixing to find a wall for some day.

Wash day by CHS - Stitched on 28 ct Fairy Dust lugana

Poor Elizabeth didn't get any stitches put in her yesterday.  We had the new baby over, and family and a bbq.  It was full of activity, and it's hard to concentrate on anything else when there's a newborn in the house for the first time.  It's amazing how a whole group of people can sit around and marvel at a sleeping child for hours, but that's exactly what we did.  And I wouldn't have traded it for anything.  We were a little worried about how Lulu would handle it, but she was as much of a lady as she always was, and after a few minutes of nervous jealousy, she settled down and knew that little Jaxon was a member of family and all was well.  She cried when he cried!  LOL  So cute!

So Elizabeth will have to wait until next weekend, but with it being Mother's day, I don't know how much will be done on her next Sunday either.  But we'll see how the day progresses.

This is my favorite picture of the official wedding pictures....

Election day today here in Canada....hope you all voted!

Anyone seen my mojo?

...'cause I seem to have misplaced it.    No stitching at all last week at all.  Accept for a little bit of work on Elizabeth  LAST WEEK!  Which I didn't post, so I'm posting it now.  It doesn't look like much but if you look real close you can see that the word "birds" is stitched out and I've started on some of the grassy knoll.

How was everyone's Easter?  Ours was lovely.  We actually had deep fried turkey this year.  It was scumptious! We had never done it before so we did have a wonderful ham as backup.  I'm not much of a turkey fan, but this was certainly de-lish!

Hubby has gone out of town to work this week.  Leaving at 4 this morning. So I'm thinking I'm going to have lots of time to stitch this week.  I think I just have to settle into my chair with my stitching in lap and something good on tv and my mojo will find me again.

Here's hoping!!!

LIzzie update

I don't have too much to show you, other than the stitching that I did on Sunday.  With the weather and temps changing and going up and down, my headache's have been on and off.  I can't hardly wait until Spring has actually settled, and then summer....ahhhhh.... how I love summer.  I am already daydreaming about going camping by the lake!  I say this as they are forecasting mixed rain and snow for tomorrow and the day after.  But summer will eventually come I know it will.  So there was no stitching on anything other than Elizabeth on Sunday, (my SAL with Kati) but I got quite a bit done. 

So tonight, the only plans I have are to sit and stitch.

Over at Cross stitch and Cupcakes, she's having an amazingly generous giveway, you have to go check it out!

A bird in the hand....

I have been without a computer for 8 solid days!!!  I know that doesn't sound like a long time, but it is when you are one of those people that like to have their morning coffee with their emails, and browsing the stitching world, to see what's new with everyone.  And see what everyone can entice you into stitching.  Which Kati, by the way, has me salivating over her little bird on an egg.  Carol had it on her blog a little while ago too.  I have to get my hands on it.  :)  So yes now I am back, and I am 8 days behind on my blog reading!  EEKKK  I need a whole weekend to catch up and that's just what I am going to do.  Mind you I would have had plenty of time to do that this past weekend.  We had a snowstorm and well...the pic speaks for itself for a lovely April 2nd day.  It was funny actually, the forecasters on all the radio and news stations, were repeating that it wasn't an April fool's joke, when they were forecasting the weather for the weekend, that we were in for at least 20 cm of snow the following day.  I guess we were all hoping that it would be a joke, but it wasn't

I stitched on Elizabeth.  I didn't take a scan of it last Sunday cause I didn't have the computer, and I didn't even think to take of a picture of it last week, but here it is as of Sunday night for our Sunday SAL with Kati. Yes that bird is sitting in Liz's ghostly hand.

Sockeye is coming along, I am almost finished with the fish itself, and then I'll be working on the splash.  I think I'm going to start a small project though tonight, and have a little quick finish. then I'll start on the splash when that's done....I need a little happy dance.

Ort Report....

.....self explanitory.  LOL

And just to end the day....a pic of Lulu!  My gorgeous baby girl.  She's going in to have her spaying next Friday!

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.

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