40!!!!!

Tonight, it finally happened, I have hit the 40 lbs lost mark! Actually just over 40 since I lost 1.5 lbs this week, yay! It only took 4 weeks longer than I thought. The body is just a funny thing, it never does what you expect.

I decided for tonight, to pull out Jeannette Douglas's Pomegranates and Pears for the evening. I do have another Neighbourhood Round Robin to get to, but it was too late in the evening to go rifling through charts, magazines, etc to pick a house. Perhaps tomorrow evening I'll get to that.

On the fundraising front I've now managed to raise $555.00 for the CIBC Run For the Cure.

Dance It!

The last couple of stitching days have been rather productive for me! Like I mentioned in my last post, I did finish my Dragon Dreams model on Sunday. I'll be able to share that one with you later in October.



On the other hand, last night and tonight I've finished two ornaments. I did start these earlier in the month, so don't go thinking these were fresh starts and that I have turbo-needles! I got these cute little Santa's out of a magazine at Ann's, the only problem is I didn't make a note of which magazine!

Li'l Santa Stick-Ups #1

Penny Duff

Stitched on : 32ct Platinum Lugana

Stitched with : DMC cotton

Li'l Santa Stick-Ups #2
Penny Duff
Stitched on : 32ct Platinum Lugana

Stitched with : DMC cotton

I haven't decided what project I'm going to tackle next, I'll think about that tomorrow when I get home from WW.

Fair & Square Round 9 Received & Photo Hunt # 129

Good morning, BBSW (Black Belt Stitching Wizard) readers! For some reason, I'm up and perky before 10 am on a Sunday! Actually I've been up since 7am which as my family and friends can attest to is very odd for me. So I've booted up the ole' computer, uploaded some pictures to share with you, and I've started the stretching on Kathy's wedding sampler that she wanted re-framed behind glass. Meanwhile Todd is being a real sweetie and making me breakfast.



First I'll start with something stitching related since this blog has been quite bereft of stitching content for about two weeks now! Mid-week I received my squares for round 9 of Fair and Square from Jane in the UK. They are going to make a fantastic addition to the quilt I'm going to make from them. Jane's squares will be going in the mail on Monday and hopefully they will make it quickly across the pond so I can share them with you. I quite like what I stitched up for her.



On the model stitching front, I'll be finishing up the Dragon Dreams model today! Yippeeee! I stayed up until after 1am stitching, and I could of stayed up longer but I decided I didn't want to waste a fair part of Sunday sleeping in. I'm down to the last cross stitching section, and one row of specialty stitches. When I'm done here online I'll be picking it back up.

This weeks Photo Hunt theme is "View" and I think I'm going to share with you one you've seen before... its my favourite view at a very good friend of mine's summer home. I often make it out there on average twice while she's in Canada and I get to enjoy this fantastic view of lake Ontario.



I've almost reached my fundraising goal for Run For The Cure, I'm sitting at 480.00 out of 500 raised. I have until Sunday morning on October 5th and I'm sure I'll reach it by then! Thank you to all of you out there in the blogger community who have made online donations (see the link below my profile in the sidebar if you're interested in donating).

Run For The Cure Update!!!

Ann was kind enough to let me know that she was having trouble with the link on my sidebar for my personal donation page for Run For the Cure (Breast Cancer Research). Silly blogger added in an extra http:// so I've managed to fix that.

You can also click HERE if you'd like to make an online donation to help me towards my goal!

To date I have managed to raise $340.00 for Breast Cancer Research (in person and online donations combined). I have increased my goal to $500 as I have until the morning of October 5th to continue to collect donations.

On to a stitching note, my model is progressing nicely... except for last night I was sooo tired I just went to bed and read Breaking Dawn for a couple of hours before giving in for the night.

Blogiversary Draw, Congratulations to...

Helen aka : stitchingranny of Stitchery Nook! Helen, please e-mail me at tkd_chick at hotmail dot com so I can get your snail mail info.

Unfortunately I'm model stitching at the moment and I just have no stitching to share with you!

Photo Hunt #128 "Road"

This week's Photo Hunt theme is "Road"

I took this shot on my trip to the Adirondacks with my in late July. We stayed just outside of a small town called Keene, right in the mountains. It was just gorgeous there! I could very easily go back.

Tonight we've had a little visitor, just hanging out on our sliding doors! Todd says he's a tree frog.

For those of you who are wondering who the winner is of my blogiversary draw I just wanted to let you know I'll be drawing the name tomorrow so stay tuned.

I want to say a big thank you to those of you who have been kind enough to support me in the Run For The Cure (raising funds for Breast Cancer research)! The run is on October 5th, and Todd has been a real sweetie he has registered to run too. He's decided just to pay the fee to participate, whereas to me this is an important cause (well any cancer research is) and I decided to try and raise the minimum $150 (this way the registration fee would be waived). I've been quite surprised by the generosity of those I have asked to donate, as of tonight I have raised $250 and I have upped my goal to $350. There's still time for me to fund raise so we'll see just how much I can gather in donations, as we know every penny counts!

If you are interested in making a donation it can be done online and the amount will go towards my fundraising totals click HERE. You can be from anywhere in the world to make a donation, if you don't live in Canada or the US just make sure your province/state is listed as N/A in the drop-down list. Thanks!

Fundraising for Breast Cancer Research

Some of my long -time readers may remember the breast cancer scare I had back in April of 2007. I am one of the lucky people the lump in my breast turned out not to be cancer. Since then I've wanted to be able to do something to help.

This year I'll be participating in CIBC's Run for the Cure on Sunday October 5th. I would like to raise a minimum of $150.00

Please feel free to sponsor me and make a donation. Click HERE to go to my personal fundraising page and make a donation online. Please let me know if the link doesn't work.

Thank you for your support and best wishes!