Honestly I Just Went In For Some White Floss

Well, ready or not, Christmas is coming.  I did the last of my shopping today for both gifts and food.  Boy what a full day it was!  I was up and running for about 10 hours today!  Now mind you there was a trip to the Chiropractor and the gym in there, a nice sit down lunch, and I counted in the time I spent making a huge double batch of chili for my family's annual Christmas Eve dinner.

Though I've been off of work this week, its been far from lazy stitchy days for this girl!  I vowed to spend these next two weeks taking care of myself.  I've been eating properly, and making the best choices the 3 times I've eaten out this week.  I have exercised every day even if I didn't want too.  All to try and keep away the extra couple of pounds we all put on at this time of year.  Let's just say I 'm trying to darnedest to break even this season.

I even finally put my tree up (yesterday)!  I'm very pleased with how all came together this year!  I also did everything all by myself, no getting Todd to move furniture (did that myself) or getting everything up from the basement.  As usual though I did have help of the 4-footed variety.

I have found time to stitch here and there.  I've actually been working on two projects this week.

Art Deco Spirits has of course been my main focus, I don't think I'll be able to finish this block as I had hoped this month.  For some reason the focus/drive isn't there for this project.  I don't know if its because I'm either stitching in white, or some shade of grey, or it could be the lack of complexity.  I always seem happiest when I'm working on something HARD!

The Accolade before I picked it back up this week

The Accolade as of this blog entry

The other project that has been getting some of my attention is The Accolade, this one is a BAP for sure!  Its about 12 pages and I'm not even 1/2 way through the first page.  I've changed my plan of attack on this piece, I've been focusing on grids of 10x10 stitches and its working really well.  I've been sitting down and getting my 10x10 section done before picking Art Deco Spirits up for the day/evening.

So the white floss thing, what's that all about you're wondering?  Well as part of today's gallivanting about the city Christin and I stopped in to check out the brand new Michale's in our end of town!  Yes I got my floss, but then I saw all this Christmas ribbon, braids and trims already marked down 60%.  We hadn't gone into the store with a hand basket but I made Christin go find one!  Boy did I load up!  Then I got a great surprise at the cash... an additional 20% off my entire purchase!  So these wonderful goodies were essentially 80% off!  What a bargain!  I'll have lots to choose from when onramentifying next year!  I now realize one of my spools of ribbon is missing in the above picture, it has cute Christmas Trees on it!

Oh yes, on the weekend, Hunter (of course) was being super cute!  We found him curled up between a quit and the comforter on the bed.  Poor guy must of been cold!