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I'd like to wish all my family, friends and blogging friends a very Merry Christmas! I hope the day is full of happiness and joy.Today has been a loooong day! Todd and I were up early with the birds, as I had a little last minute shopping to do and I wanted to get to the store not long after it opened (7am). I was able to get my last bits of food, gifts, and stocking stuffers. It was while we

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I haven't really sat down and stitched for awhile now! I had intended to stitch this past weekend, but it seems I spent more time napping. Catching up for all those lost zzzzz's over the last few months I suppose.Tonight I sat down (after a massage, some Christmas shopping, a nap, and my TKD class) and worked on Michael Powell's Mini Cottages 6 and here's where it stands.

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Tonight Christin and I went to our last concert for 2009, but don't you worry we've already got two concerts lined up in 2010! This concert was a great one to wrap up 2009, it was Three Days Grace and opening for them was Default and The Used. I had a great time tonight, and here are a few highlights.Default The base player for Default had great dreads!Default's Lead SingerThe Used, quite a heavy

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First of all thank you to a very kind Stitching Secret Santa out there who reads my blog! Today I got a wonderful surprise in my inbox! A $25 gift certificate for eHandcrafts Online! Wow I now get to do some online shopping and get some stitchy goodies, something I haven't done that often this year! This is the second Christmas in a row I've gotten this wonderful and generous surprise!I've gotten

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Sadie's exchange ornament finally made it here yesterday! It took over a month to get here from across the pond, but it was worth the wait! Saide stitched up this Prarie Schooler Santa up for me, she picked him because of his musical instruments and my love of concerts. Thanks Saide I love it!Tonight I finished off a few more ornaments that I'll be giving away tomorrow. I've not had the time to

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First of all, I received Heather's ornament for our personal exchange today! Its so pretty, I don't think I've ever seen the design.Tonight I finished stitching (and finished) my last (I promise its the last!) monogram!Red Threads Letter "S"c2002 Rosewood ManorStitched on : 28ct Ivory JubileeStitched with : DMC 115Then I put the cording on several more! I still have more ornament finishing to

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Yes, this post's title is a little strange isn't it? Last night Christin and I went to the National Arts Center to see Matthew Good, another Canadian band I quite enjoy, this is the third time I've seen him in concert. As usual I can't go to an event without running into someone I know and/or students from work. Of course I ran into a few students, LOL we were even sitting in the same row. Anyhow

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This year I paired up with two other bloggers for personal ornament exchanges. The first one has arrived at its new home! I stitched up this freebie for HeatherBeginner's White Work Ornaemnt - FreebiecTeresa WentzlerStitched on 30ct Macaroon Lakeside LinensStitched with DMC 5200We're expecting a huge snow storm to blow in during the wee hours of the night. It'll be interesting to see how long its

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I had a nice evening at home tonight after hitting the gym. It felt really odd not running off to Taekwon-Do tonight but on the other hand it was nice to get in a few hours of stitching! So here's where Mini Cottages 6 stands as of tonight. I keep meaning to share this! Late last week I got the cutest Christmas card from Judy with these beautiful hand dyed fibers! Thank you Judy!!! It was a

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Today was the Santa Clause parade in the town where I go to Taekwon-Do. It was a cool and mostly sunny day. I'll just let the pictures do the talking. Did you know that Santa has a 6th Degree Black Belt in Taekwon-Do?The whole parade gang! I'm hiding top back right. The kids were so well behaved and sang Christmas Carols the whole route!All smiles!Me and my buddy Kyler!I've worked a little bit

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I guess, I'll get to find out! Today my Mum and I spent a little (well a lot actually) Mother/Daughter girlie time at my hairdresser's today! Mum got a cut and colour, and I got highlights. I have complete trust and faith in my hairdresser, Azra! It always makes her day when I let her pick the style or colour! She wouldn't even tell me what colour she was putting in until it was said and done! I

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November ReviewStitch 1 Ornament - Yes!Work on Tour - Yes!December GoalsStitch 1 OrnamentFinish Mini Cottages 6Work on TourI kept my November goals very simple due to the fact that I had so many stressful things going on, and that certainly helped! I completed my goals, no problem. December's goals aren't too complicated either, but just for the sheer fact I want to finish Mini Cottages, get a

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Tonight I felt a little too battered and bruised to go into Taekwon-Do for class, also tired, and I had a migraine coming on. So it was nap time when I got home! I did also take advantage of the evening at home to stitch.This evening I decided to work on Michael Powell's Mini Cottages 6, I've stitched one Michael Powell a year for the last few years. Since tomorrow is December, I guess I'd better

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It was a long, grueling two hours today! Testing for black belts was myself (going for a 3rd Dan promotion) and Danielle (going for her 1st Degree Black Belt), so it was the test of the Danielles! Danielle is now 13 and she started Takewon-Do at age 8, and at that time while I was still teaching, she was actually one of my students. So, today I was so proud and happy to be standing next to her

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I had a relaxing, Taekwon-Do free day today! I finally got caught up on visiting back to all the bloggers who have left me comments over the last few months... yeah that was a big job! I napped, went out for dinner, and stitched!Today I managed to finish up the ornament I started earlier in the week.Christmas Heartsc1994 Just NanStitched on : 28ct Mystery FabricStitched with : DMC, blending

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Time for another Photo Hunt! Well what else can I share when I haven't been stitching much? I actually did stitch a little bit tonight. I started a little Just Nan Freebie Christmas Ornament. Maybe this will help me feel the Christmas spirit... I certainly haven't been feeling it lately! Of course its kinda been a little hard to focus on it with everything else going on.So onto the Photo Hunt

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Here's another Photo Hunt to entrain you! The theme this time is "Walking"So here I am performing Choong-Jang at the end of September for my 2nd Degree Interim test. This technique is at the end of the pattern its a right walking stance, high punch with an open fist. Most likely I'll be performing a pattern again this Sunday.Good news, I found out I got 9.75/10 on my written exam on Saturday!

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Tonight my Mum and I went to Star Wars in concert and had an absolute blast!!!! I think I secretly had this stupid grin the whole time the show was on, it was fantastic! I had to keep reminding myself that this was a live orchestra in front of us and not the soundtrack. They were absolutely flawless!Well things aren't going well in Weight Watchers world. This morning, when I stepped on the scale

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This is one of the many statutes at Montreal's Notre Dame Basilica, an absolutely stunning church, and worth the admission fee! I think this personifies protection perfectly.I'm still pretty sore today from this weekend's physical test, I went into TKD tonight to practice my self defence skit with Todd, Jason and Peter.

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Or what I'd like to call normal for my life! My evenings of furious studying between work and Taekwon-Do are over. On Saturday I did my written and physical tests for my 3rd degree black belt in Taekwon-Do. I just have one more portion left of the testing process, the technical test which is on November 29th. I don't have my marks back on my written test, but I know I didn't ace it! Right away

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This weekend is one of a select few weekends I look forward to every year! Its the Knowledge & Needles annual fall retreat at the Timberhouse in Brighton, Ontario. I was quite anxious to hit the road on Friday and get down to the B&B and see my friends! As usual we had a blast this weekend with friends, stitching, fun and too much food! Throughout Friday afternoon my stitching friends slowly

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Last month I won the giveaway at Mylene's blog, she sent me this GORGEOUS floss tag (my first). Its got a lovely black cat on it, reminds me of Hunter! As you can see from this picture I've already put the floss tag to good use!Can you believe, I've finished two more monograms (yup getting a little tired of these)? These are for the ladies at work this Christmas.Red Threads Letter "C"c2002

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My luck showed up yesterday afternoon, and some last minute tickets were released for last night's Metallica concert! When tickets first went on sale, Todd wasn't interested in going (we first saw them back in the late 90's) but then he heard Lamb of God was one of the opening act and he changed his mind! Of course by that time the show was sold out. This turned out to be a little bit of a early

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This is me last weekend... (with Judie)This is me this weekend... (not the best picture but you get the point) As usual Todd doesn't like it... he has something against short hair.

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Tuesday I decided to take the evening off from all my extra activities... no Weight Watchers, no Taekwon-Do, no Cardio TaeBox. I stayed home, took a nap, and worked on putting cord on all those little Monograms I had sewn together. I couldn't get them all done in one evening, but I manged to wrap everything up on Wednesday. So without further ado.... here's all 18 of my monograms of the "monogram

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