Nashville Stash and Eggie Goodness

Saturday, Christin, Tracey and I had a great little road trip down to Knowledge and Needles in Brighton!  It was great to take my car out for a good long run, and yes its still love at first sight!  All three of us were polite on Saturday and bought some lovely new stash at Ann's.

Here's my wee, but costly stash haul!  I wasn't crazy over the new designs that were released in Nashville, a lot of primitive stuff which isn't my tastes as you all know from this blog I don't go there with my stitching.  I bought 4 fat quarters the colours are: bedazzled blue, butterfly blue, raw linen, and taupe.  I also bought a handful of GAST Limited Edition colours, great for motifs and ornament-like stitching.  Oh and I couldn't resist the pink ribbon stork scissors since I fundraise for The Run For The Cure every year!

Stitching wise, Saturday was not as productive as I liked... you know driving and visiting friends and all that!  But here's my egg as of tonight!

I'm so happy its March!  My stressful period at work is OVER what a relief!  Spring is on its way (though the -17c temperature this morning didn't really give any indicators of spring), which means I look forward to starting road running again.  Spring Break is almost here!!!  I'm off as of 3:30 PM on Friday for a week!  In just over a week I'll be at another Timberhouse Retreat hosted by Knowledge and Needles, and of course my favourite part of the month... my birthday on the 27th!!!  No wonder I love March right?

February Review, March Goals, and Eggie Progress Too

I must of been so obsessed with car shopping in February because I just realized I never shared my February goals with you. So let's get all of this goal stuff out of the way!

February Goal Review
Work on Enchantment of Winter - yes
Work on The Accolade - a little, but yes
Stitch one ornamnet - yes

March Stitching Goals
FINISH Enchantment of Winter
Work on The Accolade
Stitch one ornamnet
Work on Winter Mandala

I'm looking forward to Saturday, Ann at Knowledge and Needles is having her Annual Nashville Open House. Christin, Tracey and I are going to take my new car out for a good long ride down to Brighton to check out the new goodies, and of course to see my stitching friends!! Maybe I'll see you there?

Of course you want to see the Eggie right? I've just got the golds left, the purple silk is all stitched up now! The end is in sight. Excuse the poor photo.

February TUSAL and Happy Dance!

I was away on the February 21st which was the official TUSAL date, but I don't like to be behind, here's the TUSAL for this month!

I did get a lot of stitching done one the plane, more so on the way home than the way down.  Why on the way home?  Well first we were delayed leaving La Romana our plane was 40 minutes late coming in.  Then once we were in the air we found out that our 3.5 hour flight was going to be about 4.5 as the US Military had closed down the airspace we would of normally travelled through for some sort of testing.  Sigh.  So I stitched my heart out!  When we arrived in Toronto, our plane we were supposed to get on was yet again late.  In the end we didn't get home until after 1:30am when we should of gotten back at 11:30 PM.  But I did stitch.

Snowman '10

c2010 Lizzie*Kate

Stitched on: 28ct Canada Goose by Sugar Maple Fabrics

Stitched with: Weeks Dye Works, Gentle Arts Sampler Threads, and DMC

With a little more time Saturday and today, I managed to finish the piece I took down with me to the Dominican Republic!

Honey, I'm Home!

Just a quick post to let you know I made it back safe, if not very late from this Year's Dominican Experience trip. I'll be sharing that with you in the near future.

I've also been told I missed the TUSAL I'll make sure to update you on that tomorrow!!

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Wheels and Wings!

Life has been very busy, thus the blogging has been well sparse.

I've given my old car to my Nephew, I'm now officially the best Aunt ever!

First of all, my car the "Blue Bomber" as it has been fondly called has been acting up a little bit... nothing serious but it was time for a change...

Yesterday I picked up my BRAND NEW 2012 Kia Rio 5!!!  I am so in love with my new car.  Isn't it cute???  I have new fangled things like Bluetooth, I can hook up my iPhone to the stereo, power windows, power locks, and keyless remote entry, air conditioning and oh the luxury... heated seats!!! 

Its a shame that I didn't have it a little sooner... because tomorrow I'm taking off for the Dominican Republic where yet again I'm taking a group of grade 11&12 students on a 3rd World Experience... this year 16 of them!  I'm just about packed!  I'll be back in a week.

Oh and here's a poor picture of my Eggie which has seen much love lately!  Sadly I ran out of purple silk, but its been ordered and I hope it'll be waiting for me when I get home!

See you soon!

February New Moon WIPocalypse

Yesterday was the official New Moon, which means its time for the WIPocalypse report!

My WIPs this month have been :


Enchantment of Winter

The Accolade

Photo Hunt, Crazy Finish & a Little Stash to Top it All Off!

I am a day late and a dollar short with this week's PhotoHunt!  The theme is "flat"

This photo was taken  in November of 2011 when my head instructor was testing for his Masters in Taekwon-Do.  During his self defense skit, he knocked my friend Jason "flat" on the floor.

I've not really had any time at all for stitching this week.  I spent Monday-Wednesday nights at the dojang, I also went to Weight Watchers (where I just can't get my act together, I gained 1.5 this week), Thursday I had a lovely visit with a friend and started a little shopping on the way home that night... which I will tell you about when I get my purchase (don't have it yet).  I was also back in at Taekwon-Do on Saturday (after wrapping up my shopping) to assist with the written and physical test for 3 black belt candidates.  Doesn't all of that make you feel as exhausted as I did by the time Friday night rolled around?

Polar Friends - Night

c2002 Stitcher's Habit

Stitched on 32ct Ocean Fantasy Linen from Silkweavers

Stitched with DMC, WDW and Kreinik braid & blending filament

Today I decided not to pull Enchantment of Winter out right away, I'm a little tired of it at the moment I think.  So instead I worked on one of my Crazy Challenge pieces which I managed to finish today!  So that's 3 Crazy Finishes down... 12 to go!

During December I participated in Becky's Ornament Challenge and I was the "International Winner"!  I won a $25 gift certificate to 123 Stitch, I finally received my purchases earlier this week!  I am now participating in the Winter Challenge and the above Happy Dance will sure fit the bill!

I was planning on sharing progress on EOW and Accolade with you but I just got the reminder that the full moon is on Tuesday which means I'll have a WIPocalypse update for you in a few short days!  So it can wait for now.