SBQ : February 26th

Yay! Snow Day! I tried to go to work this morning, but as soon as my car got out of the garage I started spinning my tires, going sideways and almost got stuck in the snow. So back into the garage my car went, made my phone calls to work , and got back into my jammies! I'm getting caught up on the world that is Blogging, then I'm going to model stitch my heart out to season 1 of House. I should finish Model #3 minus the missing thread today.

To entertain you with something stitchy, here's last week's SBQ :

Q: What is your cross stitch weakness? (i.e., What do you have to havewhen you see it, even if you are supposed to be on the Wagon?)

A : I have no definate to die for weakness when it comes to stash. Sometimes I just want something so badly I have to have it and I break down to get it! I have to say this probably applies mostly to charts. Charts can go out of print right??? At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Photo (SLR) : Abandoned farm house. I just love how the light shines through the front door.

March Goals & 3.5 Lbs and 3 DAYS!

February Goal Review
Finish Mini Cottages 5 - YES
Finish border on Moonlight Guardian - YES
Work on Paradigm Lost - YES
Work on Tour - YES
Get caught up on L*K's Double Flips - YES
Stitch one ornament - YES

March Goals

Finish models # 4&5 for A Needle Pulling Thread

Stitch Neighbourhood RR

Stitch model #6

I'm keeping things very simple this month! I've got a whole bunch of deadline stitching! Models 4&5 are due April 1st and so is the RR. Tonight I finally got in a descent stretch of stitching, something I haven't done in about a week. I'm nearing the end of Model #4, just the border, the backstitch, and I wasn't sent one fibre needed and I don't have it in my stash. I'm hoping it'll be sent soon so I can count this one as completed. Until it arrives I'll just move onto Model #5.

This last week I took a HUGE step, well at least one for me! Last Tuesday I joined Weight Watchers... I've always been "fluffy" even when I was quite active at Taekwon-Do. Now I don't even have that to maintain my weight. Slowly over the last 9 months the weight has been creeping on. For me this was a huge step to admit that yes I'm overweight and I can't do it on my own. Tonight I weighed in for the second time... I've dropped 3.5 lbs in my first week! Yay! In my first week on WW my biggest challenge has been social situations when there are goodies sitting out to help yourself to. I'm just relieved I lost weight in my first week, imagine how disappointing it would of been if I hadn't? My next step will be to start a little activity and see how my foot holds up, until the snow is gone cycling isn't an option so I'm going to attempt to start praying to the treadmill gods again and see if my foot behaves!

Oh and the 3 days... that's how many working days there are until March Break starts! Tomorrow at work there was a lot of talk about another snow day (we had one on Monday, freezing rain), a big system is coming in courtesy of Tennessee (its all your fault Claire!), with snow and ice pellets. I do have to try to get into work on Snow Days, we don't close the schools here in Ontario (otherwise the school would loose a day of funding from the provincial government... we can't let that happen!). Its not very often that I don't make it in on bad weather days, we're supposed to try to go to our location, if not, the nearest school (which in my case its my school). However if we feel it is too dangerous to be on the roads we're not to risk our lives. In the last six years that's only happened once and that was this last December when I couldn't even get my car out of the garage without spinning my tires.

Photo (SLR) : This is exactly how I feel when I hear there's more snow coming (Ann's dog Patti)

Great Day, Great Friends!

Well I didn't really get much/any stitching done today! But it was great to see friends!

Beatrice showed up with the biggest working copy EVER! LOL she told the copy shop guy to blow it up a little LOL!

Rebbecca showed up with her little boy Caleb... so cute! We entertained him with potato chips!

Oh and I got some new stash!

Michael Powell's Mini Cottages 6

Bent Creek's Of my Love Be Sure

JBW's French Country Reindeer

Bent Creeks EduCATed and Lighthouse I got in an exchange with Kim

Its Been Days and Days!

Good evening blogger friends! Its been a few days hasn't it? I've been busy, and not so busy. I spend my Thursday evening stretching and putting together frames which I'll be happy to give back to my client tomorrow! Yay, and I'm sure she'll be thrilled to get the pieces back. I do have pictures, but they're on my camera and I can't be bothered to download them just yet.

Friday I was struck down by a pretty bad migraine, I woke up with it and when that happens you won't be seeing me at work! So I stayed home and was in bed a fair part of the day. I was finally feeling human today. Needless to say not much stitching has happened at all this week. I have made some progress on model # 3 (if you count the two I did back in January) and in all honesty I'm not enjoying it. If you ever hear anyone complaining about stitching white on white... believe me its not as nasty as black on black!

I'm looking forward to tomorrow, I'm heading out in the morning to visit some stitching friends! There's nothing like a day of stitching and visiting! Hopefully I'll be able to tell you that I've made great leaps and bounds on my model!

Photo (P&S) : More colourful flowers because we got yet more snow!

Stitching to Share!

Wow I've got stitching to share!

This year I joined the Stitching Blogger Birthday Club, and my partner's birthday was January 9th! So I have to say I was in a bit of a panic to get something made and sent out in time! Well I didn't get the parcel in the mail to arrive in time for her birthday, but that's because I wanted to make her something. I did get it in the mail on January 10th (the day after her b-day) and I was assured it would get to Venezuela in 4-6 days well it took more like 6 weeks! She finally got it today... the last week of February. Needless to say Nela is over the moon with what I sent her! There were also a bunch of extra goodies, but I didn't take a picture.




Tin Toppers - May An Iris for Karen
c2006 Samplers and Such
Stitched on 32ct Mushroom Lugana using DMC


I've not stitched much this week. I've been getting a framing job finished so I can deliver it to the customer on the weekend!

Photo Hunt #91 "Delicious"

What's more yummy than birthday cake??? Even better b-day cake with smarties on top and ice cream! This was my niece on her 7th birthday in December.





Well I did the practical thing tonight, and worked on my model! So I'll be boring you with old Photo Hunts (I'm wayyy behind) and old SBQ's I haven't answered until I can share some real stitching progress with you!



I got the next four words of the Lizzie*Kate Double Flips... too bad I don't have the time to stitch them up for you right now! But they'll be waiting!

Sorry blogger readers!

Yup, Its a Border!

Well, this weekend I really SHOULD of started one of the three models I've got to get done... two which are due April 1st (I thought it was one but after checking my correspondence its two)! Alas, I did not. I wanted to complete my February goals and I've just completed my last one. That was to finish the border on Moonlight Guardian (which I hadn't touched since the beginning of January).


So here's the completed border on Moonlight Guardian (Dragon Dreams)



When I did finish this I pulled out the first of three models for A Needle Pulling Thread and got a start on that. Now the question is... tomorrow do I put in some time on Tour Des Marques? Or do I focus on my model. What do you think?

Oh yeah! We did get our tickets for the Police! We're actually in the lower level (not the floor) at the opposite end of the rink from the stage.