Productive Weekend

Well as my blog title says, I had a productive weekend! A fair amount of Saturday was doing two framing jobs. Here they are :

When I wasn't busy framing on Satruday I was working on my Ivy (Holly & Ivy Ornaments) Ornament. I was able to pick up my ornament this morning and finish it in the early afternoon today (Sunday).

The Holly & The Ivy - Ivy Side

c2008 Dragon Dreams

Stitched on : 28ct Mushroom Jazlyn

Stitched with : DMC & Kreinik #4 Braid

When that was finished I saw this lovely ornament on Carol's blog and decided, this was going to be my next start. I even managed to finish it tonight! The "dots" inside the border of the ornament was charted to be a stitch, but I decided to use a bead instead to "jazz" it up a little.

The Red Noel Ornament

Maryse Dupont - Gift of Stitching November 2008

Stitched on : mystery 28ct evenweave

Stitched with : DMC 4210, Mill Hill 03003 Beads

I think I might now have enough ornaemnts for gifts this Christmas... tomorrow I'll make up my list and make sure!

Oh and there are days... I wish I was a cat! Hunter makes it look so easy.

An Ornament Progresses

There's not really much to say tonight, nothing exciting to tell you. So I'll just show you how I've come along with my ornament this evening.

All Scotched Out

Unfortunately no exciting finishes tonight! I came home after work with the start of a migraine so I put myself to bed for a few hours. I got up with enough time for a quick dinner and I went off to Taekwon-Do, it was a great class... sweated lots and loved it!

I managed to get in maybe about an hour's worth of stitching tonight, and conquered the scotch stitch on the Ivy half of my Holly & Ivy ornament. Now its onto lattice stitches ... all the way around, again.

50 Pounds! Its Official!!!!!

Oh Happy Day! Oh Happy Day!

I couldn't make it to my WW meeting tonight because I was going out to dinner with some of my co-workers and administration. Luckily for me, there's a Weight Watchers Center not too far from my place of work so I made a point to go weigh in before tonight's dinner. I was quite happy to be told that I had stayed the same this week! Yes, I managed to keep off each and every one of the five pounds I lost last week after having the flu! This makes it official, I've lost FIFTY POUNDS! Yeee hawwww!!! Now, only 22 lbs to go to goal!

Tonight when I got home, of course I stitched :-D When am I not stitching, besides being at work or sleeping? In all honesty I should of pulled out an ornament I started back in October, its the Ivy half of the Holly & Ivy ornament I stitched awhile ago. But I just didn't feel like facing all those scotch stitches (whose idea where they by the way... Teresa? Jennifer?). So I pulled out this cute little freebie off of the Dragon Dreams website newsletter!

2008 Candy Cane Dragonlet

c2008 Dragon Dreams

Stitched on 32 Platinum Lugana using DMC

December Goals

In a few short hours tonight I was able to finish off the last of the Damask ornaments! This one is a lovely heart.

Damask Ornament B

Cross Stitcher June 2007

Stitched with 1 strand Gloriana Cranberry

Stitched on 40ct Newcastle Linen

November Recap

Finish Margaret's Neighbourhood RR - Done
Stitch Fair & Square Round 10 - Done
Stitch Personal Ornament Exchange - Done
Stitch Smalls Exchange - Done
Stitch Blogiversary Gift - Done

December Goals

Stitch Ornaments

Stitch Stitching Bloggers Birthday Exchange Gift

Work on Paradigm Lost

Work on Blackstone Fantasy Garden

Sunday Stitching

I had a lovely weekend of stitching, when I know I should of been doing other things... like say cleaning the house, doing some exercise, you know mundane things like that. This afternoon I went into town and stitched with my friend Manon. We've not gotten together in a long time, so it was nice to settle in for an afternoon of stitching!

When I got there Manon had a lovely gift for me! This gorgeous red scarf! She knitted it just for me and I look forward to dressing up my favourite jeans and black top in the near future with this pretty!

Before heading out to stitch, I of course stitched a little bit at home. I started my next ornament on 40ct linen. This is my start on Damask Ornament B, this time in Gloriana Cranberry. It'll be gorgeous when finished. I didn't work on it at Manon's as I want to be settled in at home in my stitching chair under my Ott-Lite when working on something so small.

For the rest of the afternoon and into this evening I really enjoyed pulling out this gem, Blackstone Fantasy Garden from Ink Circles. I haven't touched this piece since September! I look forward to working on this piece again sometime!

More 40ct Madness

Now that I've done one ornament on 40ct linen, why not do more right? Today I spent the day working on two more ornaments in the Damask Ornaments series I started a short while ago. What have I learnt from today's stitching? Don't work on 40ct all day long. Boy my eyes are just done for tonight! I better get my beauty rest so that I can spend tomorrow afternoon stitching with my friend Manon!

Here's the results of today's madness!

Damask Ornament C
Cross Stitcher June 2007
Stitched with 1 strand Caron Waterlillies Midnight
Stitched on 40ct Newcastle Linen

Damask Ornament D
Cross Stitcher June 2007
Stitched with 1 strand Waterlillies Emerald
Stitched on 40ct Newcastle Linen