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Monday, October 11, 2010

After The Long Weekend

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving Weekend, and I hope my Canadian friends enjoyed their weekends too!

It started out with having dinner with my friends Bonnie and Blair at one of my favourite spots for Fish n'Chips in Eastern Ontario!  Bonnie and Blair went off to the Ottawa Senators home opener and stayed with us until Sunday morning.

Saturday morning I woke up to a bit of a shock at the scale!  I weighed myself to see if I should go to my WW meeting, I had lost 4lbs since Tuesday morning!  I did blog about it if you're interested.  Needless to say I rushed off to my WW meeting with Bonnie in tow to go weigh in for the month.  I am finally back to my goal weight!

That afternoon Bonnie and I got out and enjoyed the gorgeous fall day and went for a walk with our cameras.  Here are some of my shots from the walk.

The bikers were out enjoying the day!

The last of the sunflowers for the season

Milkweed pods splitting open and spreading its seeds

Cattle corn waiting to be harvested

The first Jack-O-Lantern for the season!

I have pretty much focused what stitching time I've had on Art Deco Spirits.  I finally finished up all the DMC on the Fire block and am now getting the metallics in.  Now that I can see the end of this block, I want to work on it more!  I've also made a small start on my October ornament, 'Tis Red from La-D-Da.

30 comments:

Cole said...

Great pics, I love the sunflowers! Happy Turkey weekend to you :)

Lillie said...

Congrads on your weight loss and thank you for sharing all those wonderful pics.

mbroider said...

Looks like lots of work on Art Deco between the last post and this!

And congratulations on your weight loss and being back to your 'goal weight'!!

Tama said...

Wow, it's odd but I like her even better seeing her actually stitched... She's pretty in the tiny Mira pics but she's even more beautiful in yours.

Lesleyanne said...

Congratulations on reaching your goal weight. Your pictures are great and lovely progress on Art Deco Spirits.

Erna said...

Congratulations with the weight goal!!!Well done Dani, and I love your autumn photos..
Hugs
Er

Christine said...

What lovely autumn photos! I can definitely see a face in the fire block now, she's looking good.
Congratulations on the weight loss

Lindsay said...

Congratulations for getting back to your goal weight. Love the sunflowers

jayne@~an eye for threads~ said...

Love the pictures. Hope your Thanksgiving was nice.
Be always in stitches.

Giovanna said...

Hey, you're almost done on that Spirit - great going!

Sadie said...

Stitching looks great as always Dani :-)
Very well done on getting back to your goal weight, that is brilliant!

Lynn said...

You're making great progress on Art Deco! I'm really enjoying this one.
I love your pics from your walk. It was a great weekend wasn't it?
Nice that Bonnie and Blair could share it with you.
Congrats on getting back to your goal weight.

Kathy A. said...

Way to go girl! Glad to hear you are back to goal weight. I know it has been a struggle but you have done it!
Love the pictures from your walk. Good examples of fall in the air.
Love Art Deco. Making great progress - please post it to the Mira Blog.

Bonnie Brown said...

Great pics from our walk!
I had a great weekend as well, and I think Blair did to.
Art Deco is coming along really well!
Can't wait to see you again this weekend :)

Carol said...

What lovely autumn images, Dani--thanks for sharing :)

You should be so proud of reaching your weight goal--way to go!!!

Your Art Deco Spirits is looking great, too--I can't imagine all of that solid stitching :)

Karen said...

Congrats on your weight loss and reaching goal again! You'll be done Art Deco in no time! Love your pics from your walk as well. :)

Bette said...

Congrats on getting back to goal weight. And the stitching is beautiful too.

Heidi said...

Congratulations on getting back to your goal weight!
Love your pictures! The sunflowers are beautiful!
Thanks for stopping by my blog again...I had some computer problems and then "real life" caught up with me, now I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things again. I will post some pictures soon, but I have to do some editing of some senior pictures and get that cd to a friend before I can do much for "fun" with pictures.
Hope you have a great day!

Julie said...

Art Deco is looking great.

Love the sunflower pic!

Bekca said...

Art Deco is looking so good and I love your other pics. Glad to hear you had such an enjoyable weekend :)

Rebel In Ontario said...

Congrats on getting back to goal! Glad you have a wonderful weekend with Bonnie, can't wait to see you this weekend at mine..

http://ingridsknitting.blogspot.be/ said...

Congrats on your weight loss Dani and Art Deco is really beautiful , your pictures are great ..... i love the sunflowers !!

Jodie said...

Congrats on hitting your goal weight, that's awesome!

This piece is coming together so nicely, I love seeing how far people come on big projects through pics, and I can't wait to see this one finished!

Sally said...

Fantastic photos and congratulations on reaching your goal weight!

EvalinaMaria said...

Congrats on a great progress on your WIP, reaching your weight goal and thank you for sharing lovely pictures.

Carolyn NC said...

Beautiful pictures! And congrats for getting back to your goal weight! Nice progress on stitching, too. :)

Aussie Stitcher said...

Well done on the weight loss. Sounds like you had lovely time with your friends. Love the photos.

Jo said...

Great progress Dani. Tis Red is on my list of ornies to stitch too...

Stephanie said...

Hey Dani! Beautiful work as always! So happy to have found your blog again after this long stitching hiatus I've been on :)

Cheers,
Steph

Charlene ♥ NC said...

Congrats on the 4lb drop! Yeah. Lovely sunflowers, and Happy Thanksgiving!