Good Day / Bad Day

Monday, bah why are Mondays never awesome days?

Today I started out the day with a headache which by the afternoon moved onto the realm of migraine.  I didn't get to the gym because of this, I came home and went to bed for a few hours. 

On my way home, I picked up the mail and there was a lovely surprise from Edgar!  I had won his blogiversary draw and he sent me this WONDERFUL parcel!  He's stitched me this wonderful sheep pinkeep, which is perfectly finished.  There were also some fantastic goodies as well!  A postcard of San Francisco, some lovely inscents, ribbon, sheepie fabric (which Edgar backed the pinkeep with), and some delectable chocolates!  Edgar, how did you know I love that type of mint chocolate!!!  I have been very reserved (remember 3 lbs to go) and ate only 3, honestly I could of demolished the whole box!

After my nap I got up and felt well enough to go to TKD, we had a great, sweaty class!  I probably should of stayed home though... because on my way from the dojang to the house I hit a deer with my car!  In 18 years of driving I have never hit a deer!  Now don't go worrying or freaking out, I am fine, and by flashlight my car looks okay.  I didn't hit the deer full on I think I glanced its head with the edge of my front bumper (the deer is dead).  I did my best to avoid the deer but alas no luck, despite breaking and going into the other lane (there was no oncoming traffic).  I pulled over onto the shoulder, threw my four way flashers on and took a moment to collect myself.  I pulled out my trusty mag-lite out of my glove box and checked out my car.  There was no apparent damage to the front bumper, the headlights still work (though the passenger side one is pointing a little down and in), no flat tire, no leaking fluids.  So I drove back home.  Todd's going to take another look in the car in the light of day.

I think what frustrated me the most, is here I am on this country road in the dark.  There had been vehicles behind me in the distance and none of them stopped (not sure if they really noticed me hit the deer but they should of noticed the breaking and swerving and pulling over).  Also while I was pulled over with my four ways on and checking out the car with a flashlight a couple of more cars went by ... still no one stopped.  What has happened to human kindness?

Weekend Stitchy Update

I had a fantastic weekend!  How often do I say that, not that often (unless its an awesome stitchy weekend!).

Todd decided not to go fishing this weekend, and we actually spent it together (not something we do too often really he fishes, I stitch!).  We started out with taking in a matinee Saturday morning (I'm too cheap to pay full price for a movie), Iron Man 2 was not bad, but of course as usual the first movie is always the best.  We then took in a late lunch and enjoyed sitting on the patio of one of our favourite restaurant with fajitas.  Then that night we were back out, for my friend Jason's surprise Stag and Doe.  All and all a great day!

Today was a quiet day for us, I got to spend today stitching (which I didn't get a single stitch in yesterday), working away on Jason's wedding sampler.  I have now passed the 1/2 way mark on this.  Boy its stitching up so nicely and quickly!!!!  If all goes well, maybe I'll be dancing by the end of the weekend???

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The consensus was very strong so I guess my instincts were right, I went with Dried Thyme for my TKD buddy's wedding sampler.  I started the piece on Tuesday, and here's where I am at the end of the night Thursday (could of been further along if I hadn't crashed at 9PM last night).  I'm stitching this using the DMC substitutions instead of the hand dyed fibers and I'm really enjoying this piece!

Tuesday was weigh in day for me, as you know I'm battling to loose those extra pounds!  I dropped another pound this week!  That's 3lbs down and 3lbs to go.  My food choices have been really on track this week, well until today... we had a pizza lunch with my Dominican students to wrap up our year together.  I did adjust my eating accordingly today and since tonight's TKD class wasn't a tough workout I put in some extra time on the treadmill.  I've not gotten out for a single lunch time walk this week, the first half of the week's temperatures were scorching, and of course today's pizza lunch!  I'm hoping to at least get in a walk tomorrow.  Hopefully it'll be enough to see a bit of a loss at my next weigh in.

1/4 Of A Dragon

I kept to my goal this weekend and despite going out dancing last night I managed to finish 1/4 of Celestial Dragon.  Well its not treally 100% finished, there's a scale pattern to be done on the dragon in gold blending fillament, a netting to stitch in the backgrounda and beads to go on.  I'll be leaving all of that until the end.  (BTW I did fix the loop by the dragon's mouth/tongue!)

The consensus for the wedding sampler is Dried Thyme which was my instincts as well!  Tomorrow I'll make a working copy of the chart and get started.

May Ornament Happy Dance

I was a good girl, and stuck to my plan yesterday no matter how tempted I was to pick up Celestial Dragon I didn't and focused on my ornament.  Which I did finish and was able to give CD a little time before bed!

Not A Creature Was Stirring...

c2008 Casey Buonaugurio Designs

December 2008 Just Cross Stitch

Stitched on :32ct Belfast Mint Green

Stitched with : DMC cotton and Mill Hill Beads

I'm looking forward to backstitching this 1/4 of Celestial Dragon today!

Long Weekend Stitching, and Fabric Opinions Please!

Its the May 2-4 weekend as we Canadians call it, technically its Victoria Day Weekend, for some strange reason we get a long weekend to celebrate Queen Victoria's Birthday.  She's been dead a very long time now, but I'm not going to knock it!

So first I'm going to ask for your opinion, a good, long time TKD buddy of mine is getting married at the end of July and I finally got the wedding invite.  So its time to buckle down and stitch his wedding gift.  I've settled on Bent Creek's Wedding Row.  I really want to work from what stash I have so I've narrowed down my fabric choice to two, both from the Wichelt hand dyed Joblean line.  Let me know which you think looks better.

Dried Thyme - This is the one I'm leaning towards

Sandcastle

Not A Creature Was Stirring... JCS 2008 Ornament Issue

First up on the stitching agenda for the weekend is my ornament for the Month of May.  I'm working on this cute little guy.

I'm also hoping to finish off 1/4 of Celestial Dragon, I won't be stitching every single moment this weekend as I've got some things to do and go to but we'll see how far I get.

I'm In Love With Celestial Dragon!

Lately all I want to do is stitch, stitch, stitch!  Especially on Celestial Dragon, I am just so in love with this design!  The colours are fantastic and the pictures just don't show how shimmery this dragon is!

Also on Saturday Art Deco Spirits got some needle time.  While I was waiting for my Mum at the hairdressers I brought ADS with me and got quite a bit of it done.

Today was my weigh in day, and my hard work from last week has really paid off!  I'm down two pounds!  Yay!  Now to keep this same focus this week and hopefully I'll knock off those last 4 pounds in short order.