A Touch Of Enchantment

Again, not a very wordy blog entry, its been a busy week, this evening was spent at the dojang teaching so another long day out of the house.

I got to work on Enchnatment of Winter quite a bit this past weekend and here's where its at before the weekend starts.

Retro PhotoHunt -- Again

Last night was a busy night, we were having our Live & Silent Auction to raise funds for the school we'll be building in 2012 in the slums of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  I'll be going back again this upcoming February taking another group of students on their Dominican Experience, a third world experience.  The night was very successful, but I don't have a final number yet on exactly how much we'll be getting towards the project as we did this event in conjunction with another school.  Fingers crossed they'll be breaking ground on the school in January and I'll have some pictures for you when I come back from the trip at the end of February.

Since last night was a busy and late night I have no awesome stitching to share with you, so yet another PhotoHunt!  The theme on February 20, 2010 was "Cuddly".  Coincidentally this picture is from this past year's Dominican Experience.

This is one of my fellow coordinators during our last night in the DR.  The last nigh we always have party with all the students, and the families they stay with, it includes food, music, and dancing a Dominican national pastime!  It goes late into the night and the little girl of the family we stay with, Karmely fell asleep snuggled up with my fellow coordinator!  I look forward to seeing Karmely and her family again in February!

Retro PhotoHunt

The theme on  February 13, 2010 was "broken".  Funny this theme recently came up this year!  Hmmm some repetition there.

This picture was taken just a few weeks ago when my Taekwon-Do instructor was testing for his 7th Degree Black Belt, to become a Master.  Here he is breaking 4 boards with a sidekick.  If you have sharp enough eyes you can find me in there amongst the holders!

Last One! Six out of Six Done!

Wow did these ever work up quickly, especially between things like work, Taekwon-Do, going to the gym and so on.  I had one mitten stitched up at the end of the summer but stitched the last five in about 10 days!  I started the first of this batch of 5 on November 8th.  I really love how these turned out on 40ct linen.  I've enjoyed the 40 ct so much that my good-sized SAL will be on it starting January 1st.

Red Mitten Collection I - Alphabet Mitten

c2008 JBW Designs

Stitched over two on 40ct linen with one strand of DMC 115

So here's my latest, and last mitten finish!  I actually finished it up Saturday morning but I need to spread out my blog entries for NaBloPoMo!

What's next on the stitching agenda?  Well with the fall being a bit of a cluster, I didn't get my Dad's birthday present done in time.  Yup his birthday was this past Monday and Enchantment of Winter was not finished nor was it framed!  So back to the big purple egg for this stitcher!

Five Down... One To Go

I'm still motoring away on my JBW ornaments!  I've been enjoying working on these, even though they are on 40 ct and they work up so quickly!

Red Mitten Collection I - Happy Holidays Mitten

c2008 JBW

Stitched on 40ct linen over two with one strand of DMC 115

This one was very cute I love how the mitten is made up of "holiday" words!

Now onto the last one!

PhotoHunt - Wet/Rain

Its Saturday and it means PhotoHunt Day!  This week's theme is Wet/Rain

I took this picture in February of this past year after arriving in the Dominican Republic.  We ran into a little sun shower on the way from the airport in LaRomana, driving to San Pedro de Macoris.  Raindrops on the windshield of the bus.

Tired...

I'm just too tired to blog or blog creatively tonight. I'm hitting the hay I'll give you a real post tomorrow!