What I did on my long weekend ...

Last week I took a couple of extra days off work and made a nice long 4 day weekend for myself. With money being tight, our vacations this summer are just hanging out around home. I decided this long weekend was going to me all mine, well at least the days were all mine .. I still had the family around in the evenings .. damm lol

I spend my days reading (Dark Lover), cleaning and organizing my stitching room (why don't I put my threads away when I'm done with them??!!), finishing a couple of Christmas ornaments (yea I do finishing when I have to! lol) and stitching stitching stitching .. it was heaven!

I stitched on Earth Laughs .. omgosh I love how this is coming together .. makes me smile to see all the flowers ..

I worked on Coffin Buzz .. I had to frog the scroll at the bottom right. I hate frogging but frogging over one is just nasty! Unfortunately I didnt' frog this sooner and there is some discoloration .. I'm bummed, but almost done, so I'll finish it and hopefully it won't show up as much as it does now ...

And I finished up this Halloween cutie. This is Black Cat from BBD's Trix or Treat book. I stitched on some orange linen that I had coffee dyed and I used WDW Guacamole in place of WDW Caper. I really like how the green looks against the orange ..

I love productive but relaxed vacations .. don't you? lol I have another 4 day weekend coming up soon .. wonder what I'll get accomplished then?

Thanks everyone for dropping by for a visit, I love reading your comments.

Find your joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for days off ...

May I introduce to you .. Bella

I've been calling this coffee angel Bella after my favoriate Starbucks coffee, Bella Vista. This is my progress as of Wednesday night .. I'm really enjoying this design .. I wonder if it's because the fabric still smells strongly of coffee??!! lol

The two wips I have been working on a lot lately are mostly letters, which get a bit boring, so I thought I'd pull out another wip to work on for awhile .. lol .. more letters! but another design that I just love!

Last week our chocolate lab Chip cut one of his back paws pretty bad .. a few hours at the all night vet hospital, a few stitches and a drain and we got to bring him home. He's really doing ok, but you wouldn't know if from this picture .. he looks kinda pathetic doesn't he! The head cone is because he won't stop chewing off his bandage ... in fact today, with the head cone on, he still managed to do a good amount of chewing before my DH noticed. Gotta love dogs!

Have you see this new design from Homespun Elegance? Way too cute!

Thank you all for your lovely comments about our 34th wedding anniversary.

It's almost Friday! woo hoo! This weekend is busy with a bbq at my Dad's for 3 birthdays, 2 anniversarys and Father's Day .. then it's brunch with my father-in-law on Sunday. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

I hope you find your joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for coffee ...

Weekend and Wips ...

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was busy and productive and still had some time for stitching *smile* Friday night I went to dinner with 3 girlfriends and then back to Pat's house for dominos. Saturday was full of housework for me, DH worked on the deck, he's been rebuilding it and it's almost done! woo hoo :) Saturday night we rented Frost/Nixon. Have you seen it? It was much better than I expected. Frank Langella was incredible as Nixon .. the movie made me want to find the real interview and watch it. Sadly I don't remember seeing them when they were originally on. We definately have had some interesting years in US politics haven't we. Sunday was spent watching nascar, laundry and stitching.

I started another new project, one I bought when I was in Arizona last April. I'm really enjoying this piece. It is called Why Is It? by The Cross-Eyed Cricket. I don't remember the name of the fabric, but it's lovely to stitch on. I'm doing with 2 strands of Belle Soie over 2. I changed the colors from the original .. all the words are in Mahogany and the flowers/leaves will be in Butterscotch, Fern Frond and another color I've misplaced lol. Here's what I've done so far ...


and here's Coffin Buzz that I started last week. I'm stitching this 1 strand over 1 on coffee dyed fabric, that I think is 32 count ... I love how this is stitching up ... isn't the angel adorable .. just a sweet face :)

I've had a few stitchers interested in the Sisters of the Thread sampler ... either participating in an RR with me or stitching on mine for me. I'm really leaning towards starting an RR ... maybe in September. I'm going to order the chart and go from there ... more soon :)

Enjoy your week and I hope you find your joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for starts ...

Woo Hoo It's Friday!!!

and a whole lot cooler here in Washington. We had record breaking temperatures this week .. hit 99 in my town yesterday! We hardly every have high 90 weather here, especially in June, which is typically a very wet month. Finally cooling off today and through the weekend to a nice pleasant 75ish .. now hopefully my house will start to cool down .. we don't have central air :(

I don't have any stitching pictures to share, but I have been stitching. Have the Christmas ornaments I was behind with all stitched and ready to finish this weekend. Last night while watching the new season of Burn Notice and Royal Pains I started Coffin Buzz, a freebie by Plum Street Samplers. I'm stitching it on come coffee dyed (by me *smile*) evenweave with Belle Soie's Cinnamon Stick .. I'll post a picture over the weekend.

Have you seen this new design by The Primitive Needle called Sampler Sisters of the Thread? OMGosh I love it! Wouldn't it be a fun RR .. I could see stitching the top portion and then sending it off stitching friends to stitch the little motifs and the bottom and maybe switch up the "This work is mine" to say "This work is ours" and then everyone could sign it .. could be lots of fun!
http://witchstitches0.blogspot.com/


Hope June is starting out to be a good month for everyone! Thank you all for your lovely comments about my recent finishes, I really enjoy hearing from everyone :)

I hope you find your joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for cooler, but sunny days ...