Back from vacation

I had a great time in Canada and have lots to tell you so I will take a few days to share. Tonight I will show you all my stitching I did.
Finished a Crazy January Challenge - JCS Halloween 2010 - By the Full Moon- Ink Circles

Then I pulled out HAED Rapunzel and stitched a few hundred stitches.

Then Sunday I pulled out LK Halloween Rules

I left my house on the 20th and it took me 5 1/2 hours to get to Gail's house. She lives in Metcalf, Ontario, Canada.  I drove by myself and didn't run into any problems.
Was glad to see Gail. Walked in to see her dog and cat. I won over the cat real quick ha ha. His name is Jake and he is a gorgeous cat

This is Gail and her dog Hanna

She is a sweet dog.
We went out for dinner at a local diner. Then went back to her house and I went online, and played Sims 3.

Sunday we went out for brunch at a racetrack/casino. It was really good. We went back to her house and I went through her mags and leaflets. I have a lot more than she does but she has a nice collection. It was a relaxing day.

Monday we went for breakfast at the Ikea store. We don't have one by me so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to shop at one. Yes, I did spend some money but not a lot. I bought 2 throw pillows for my couch, a really pretty lamp, some bag clamps, and a salad spinner.
Then I went through some more of her mags. Fell in love with the mags called Cross Stitch Card Shop and we did end up finding one in the book store so I now own one.

I will continue more of my vacation tomorrow. We went to Ottawa and I saw the Parliament Building and we went on a river cruise. So I will post more pics. I took a ton of pics the whole week.

Night all,
Shelleen

I am on vacation

I am in Ottawa, Canada , for a week and will post when I can. Have a great week everyone! I am staying at a stitching friend's house. No DHs or kids and hopefully a lot of stitching.

Another finish!

When I got home from work I decided to sit and stitch a couple of hours so I pulled out Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy;s Shamrock Paw. It was a January Crazy Challenge and also a UFO since I started it in January and haven't touched it since. Then after dinner I pulled it back out and finished it.

I watched:
Live with Regis and Kelly
General Hospital
Charmed
Pretty Little Liars
The Nine Lives of Chloe King

I pulled out what I want to stitch on tomorrow and it is another January Crazy Challenge/UFO It is a Halloween piece and I will be stitching on it through Saturday, if I finish it then I will have 1 more Crazy January Challenge to finish so they will be done by the end of the year, which was the challenge.

Thanks for all the comments, I sooo appreciate them,
Shelleen

I have been stitching

I just haven't been posting. Stress and taking time off from online to stitch more.
I stitched all last week on HAED QS Fragile Heart and have quite a bit done.

Tonight I pulled out a Crazy January Challenge piece and finished it. Stitchy Kitty Easter Egg Paw fob.

 Stitchy Kitty Easter Egg Paw fob

28 ct light green

1/13/11 - 8/8/11

I also watched a bit of TV tonight.

General Hospital

last night's episode of True Blood 

movie- The Last Song, forgot it was based from a Nicholas Spark's book and didn't have the kleenex ready.

Sorry I haven't been reading your blogs. I am taking this month off from blog reading and doing other things online so that I can spend some more time stitching. I had told myself in May, when the TV season ended that I would watch at least 5 movies a week and listen to 1 audiobook a week. Well nada, it hasn't happened so I am TRYING to do that this month and maybe parts of September, til the new season starts. So I am not ignoring you at all and if you read my blog and leave comments it does mean the world to me and puts a smile on my face, but you don't have to.

I have had a lot of stress the last 2 weeks and I go on vacation on the 20th to Canada, to stay at a stitching friend's house. She doesn't have kids or a husband so a week of uninterrupted stitching. I can not wait!!!

Christmas Angel

This is a UFO from an older The Cross Stitcher magazine and is a pattern by Joan Elliott. I have decided to stitch on this for the week of the 25th instead of ornaments. I have soo many ornaments that need to be put into ornaments that I decided to take a break from them. This is what I have done so far

Justin stopped over to visit for a while. Fixed dinner for us. After he left, Allie came over and Dylan, Allie, and I watched The Proposal and it was so good.
I also watched today's General Hospital.

Well I am hoping to stitch on more of this for the week.

Thanks for all the well wish for Dylan, we appreciate them. he is doing better.
Shelleen

Catching up

I have been stitching and had a pretty busy weekend.
Dylan came home Friday night and then spent the night at his girlfriend's house. Ended up getting bit by something. We were all at a Grad party and showed me his bit. Wasn't to bad but by Saturday night it was all swollen and red so we took him to the ER. They took lots of blood and hooked him up with saline and antibiotics. Told us he had blood poisoning. Late morning it got worse so we took him back to the ER. They drew more blood and informed us they didn't test the blood the night before. He does not have blood poisoning but an infection on the skin. Bunch of idiots. So they wouldn't allow him to drive for 6 hours, back to PA and he is to keep his leg elevated for a couple of days. So he couldn't go back to school this week. Today his leg looks pretty good and keeps taking his antibiotics and ibuprofen.

I did manage to get in some stitching time.
HAED Rapunzel

And yesterday I stitched on LK Halloween Rules

We found a car for Dylan. It is a '95 Riviera and is in really good shape. Not to bad on miles and Dylan knows the owner. He will have it on Friday.
I will post more tonight on what I am stitching on. UFO The Cross Stitcher - Joan Elliott Christmas Angel. I will stitch on this instead of Christmas ornaments, every month, until done. I have sooo many ornament stitched up that need to be made into ornaments and what a good way to commemorate Christmas every month plus finish a UFO :-)

Thank you everyone for all the comments you have been leaving, I appreciate it so much.
Shelleen

Somebody turn off the furnace!

Geesh, it is 10:30 at night and I still can't walk around in my house. I left the a/c family room to grab a snack, out to the kitchen, and started sweating as soon as I walked down the hall. I am not one to complain about the cold but just all the snow so I can gripe about this heat and humidity. The a/c still can't get this room below 77.

We weren't to busy at work and I got out a little early as the work was done. Had Weight Watchers tonight and lost 1.8 lbs. So it is the 1.2 that I had gained over the 4th of July and then another .6  I was hoping to lose at least 2 lbs but I am happy with this. I have 9 more lbs to lose by Labor Day, my personal goal.

Tonight I did put in another 100 stitches on Rapunzel. I wanted to give up so many times as it was just to hot to stitch and I was uncomfortable but I trudged on.

I watched:
Live with regis and Kelly
General Hospital
Supernatural season finale - finally!

Well I am going to go to bed and hopefully fall asleep. I have an a/c in the bedroom.

Thank you all for your comments, I appreciate them very much!
Shelleen

Rapunzel

let down your hair. Boy do I have a long ways to go on this, before you see any hair lol. There is so much confetti stitching that it seems I am not making any progress. But I finished 2 squares tonight.
Another hot and humid day today and we already have a heat advisory for tomorrow from noon to 7pm. So I will be watching movies and stitching all night.

Here is tonight's progress:
I watched : Live with Regis and Kelly
General Hospital
movie: No Strings Attached, which I loved.

That is my last Netflix movie. I have cancelled their service because now they want to charge me separately for getting DVDs and watching it on their website or through video systems. I know a lot of people are starting to unsubscribe from them. Besides I haven't been watching them much. I also have all the movie channels on Dish Network plus movies that I DVRd a while ago and movies that I downloaded online.

I want to thank you all for the comments, I appreciate them more than you can know.

{{{hugs}}}
Shelleen

HAED and Halloween

So where do I start since my last post. Thursday I got out of work at noon, went home to do some laundry and do things online before going to WW. BIG change of plans. Dylan called at 2:30 and said he was on his way home, from PA, and his car had smoke coming out of it. He was an hour from his apartment but was going to try and make it home. Not to long after that his car died, transmission went. We just put in almost 2 grand to keep this car running and with new struts. Hoping it would last him til December. No such luck. So I had to go and get him. 5 hours later and signing the title and giving the car to the tow truck company, because we had no way to get it back here, Dylan starts driving us here. We didn't get home til 3:30am Friday. No sleep. I called into work and explained the situation and needing to see if we could get a loan and I had things to do at the DMV. Anyways, no loans because Dylans school loans are in my name and Scott can't get a loan because he has his truck loan, Justin's car loan and cosigned for my car loan. So guess who has my car in PA? We are hoping something will come up in a week or 2 and we will be able to get him something.

Saturday was mine and Scott's 23rd anniversary and we didn't have money to go out. So I asked Scott to take me to a place I have been wanting to go to. The Rochester Public Market. OMG! I fell in love and spent and saved money on everything from produce to meat and seafood. I bought Scott a Delmonico steak, as he loves them. That was his anniversary gift from me.

Then we came home and we had to get ready to go and take care of his parents. Had a cookout and I made a fresh salad. Stitched on HAED Rapunzel

Sunday was hot and humid so I told Dylan if we are going to get groceries then lets leave early. So got that all done. He went and visited with some friends before going back to PA and was taking his girlfriend, with my car.

Sat in the A/C family room and pulled out my new Halloween Start called Lizzie Kate Halloween Rules. I love Lizzie Kate and can't wait to stitch on this again on Sunday.

I also have started a LK Halloween Rules Blog SAL. If you are interested please email me needeleratgmaildotcom

Today Justin informed me that he is moving back home this week. Well ok then, sooner than I thought but of course he is welcomed back home.
I stiched some more of HAED Rapunzel but the above pic also includes the little bit that I did.
Yesterday and tonight I got caught up on Live With Regis and Kelly, General Hospital and the last 3 episodes of Oprah. Plus last night I watched True Blood, and Falling Skies.

Well good night everyone, hope I didn't bore you to much. Will try to post more progress on Rapunzel, tomorrow.

2 finishes and a page 2 finish

I actually finished 2 things that were part of the Crazy january Challenge. I am now down to 4 January Challenges to finish. I am very pleased about that. Once they are done I will be rotating with the 5 HAEDs I have started. I have the next 6 HAEDs pulled out of my stash lol. 1 is a stocking for Justin. I also want to throw in a UFO til it is done. But right now I am concentrating on Fragile Heart and Rapunzel since they are 2011 SALs. I also will be starting the Lizzie Kate Halloween Rules Flip Its, on Sunday. Can't wait to start it.
Anyways, here are pics of what I did.

 JBW Designs - A Very Merry Autumn (chart is available)

28 ct lambswool, GAST

1/12/11 - 7/10/11

The Drawn Thread - It's Halloween (chart spoken for)

32 ct Belfast linen, DMC, kreinik, MH beads

1/10/11 - 7/10/11

I finished page 2 of Fragile Heart and have started page 3. As you can see there isn't much to page 3. I will stitch on this again tomorrow night and then back to Rapunzel. I have also decided how I want to finish Fragile Heart. I want to sew it on a black canvas tote bag. I am so in love with this piece and the colors :-)

I have also found that HAED QS(Quick Stitches) are alot more fun as there isn't quite as much confetti stitching and hence the title they really are quicker to stitch up. So if I am to do more HAED SALS it would be for QS.

Dylan will be coming home this weekend and taking his girlfriend back with him, for a week. He will bring her back next weekend.

Saturday will be mine and Scott's 23 Anniversary. I don't know where the time goes and we hit a bump a few years ago but came out stronger.

I am listening to Queen of the Night by J.A. Jance and am enjoying it. I also have started the book The Secret Life of Damien Spinelli. It is based on a character on General Hospital.

I have also been catching up on TV shows on the DVR and watched the series finale of Smallvile. So sad to see it end. I still have to watch the season finale of Supernatural and the last 3 days of the Oprah show. Tonight I watched Pretty Little Liars and The Nine Lives of Chloe King. They were on last night but I was watching Avatar with Allie (Dylan's girlfriend). We have decided to sit here and watch a movie once a week. 

The weather Monday and Tuesday was terribly hot and humid. Today was beautiful but they say it will be a hot and humid weekend.

Well I think I rambled on enough, goodnight,

Shelleen

Busy weekend!

This was a crazy weekend.
Dylan came home Friday so I got my car back, yippee!!
Saturday
Scott and I went to Shelbi's (Dylan's ex) Grad party. It was nice to see her and we are proud of her. I did very well there with my eating. Parties are for socializing and not the food.
Then we had Scott's 30th class reunion , that evening. Had a great time. Also did very well with my eating but I did have 2 drinks.

Sunday
We had Scott's best friend's son Grad Party. Saw a few people we haven't seen in a while. Ate healthy there as well.
Then we had Allie's (Dylan's girlfriend) Grad party. Well I didn't do to well there. I had 4 drinks and the meatballs and baked ziti were awesome. So I went for more. I didn't eat any junk food though and not any cake. So I may have gained a lb or 2 and will not get mad on Thursdays weigh in.

Today
I wanted a family day today with Scott and the boys and of course Allie. So I had pork going in the crockpot all night and we ate at 1 today. We had pulled pork sandwiches , potato salad and grilled zucchini. It was nice all being under the same roof again, even though it was only for a couple of hours.

When they all left ,and Scott went to bed, since he had to work tonight, I pulled out my laptop. Read emails, facebook, BBS and a few blogs.

Then I pulled out my stitching.  HAED QS Fragile Heart was calling my name. I will stitch on her for 2 weeks and then go back to Rapunzel. I watched 3 days worth of Live with Regis and Kelly and 3 episodes of General Hospital.

I forgot to tell you what else happened to me over the weekend. Friday night Allie dyed my hair. I wanted something different and most of you know I am blonde. I have been blonde since a child. My hair was getting darker in my 20s but I continued to keep it blonde. Well I had her dye it brown and then put blonde streaks through it. I LOVE it! Will have to get a pic taken and post it. It is a lot different than what I am used to.

Well thank you all for reading this. Hopefully I will have more progress pics tomorrow night :-)

Shelleen

Some progress pics

I am so far behind on reading every ones blogs. I thought once the kids were out of the house that I would have more time. Wrong! I have no idea what is eating up my time. I have been staying an hour later after work a couple times a week. Dylan has been coming home on the weekends, so that takes up my time. I haven't even had time to read my favorite BBs.
Anyways here is more progress on It's Halloween by The Drawn Thread.

This week I am stitching on HAED Rapunzel. I am not getting far on this as there is a ton of confetti stitching.

Last Thursday was weigh in at Weight Watchers and I lost 2 more lbs. I have 1.8 lbs to lose by July 4th for my short term goal and then will have a new goal.

This weekend will be rough though as we have 3 grad parties and Scott's 30th class reunion. I will do my very best to stay on track though. I don't want to gain anything back.

Good night,
Shelleen

A finish and a new start

 JCS 2004 Paw Printing - Penguin Hugs

28 ct Silkweaver , DMC, kreini, MH snowflakes

1/7/11-6/22/11

My June ornament is done. This is Penguin Hugs by Paw Printings. I started him in January as part of the Crazy January Challenge. Isn't he cute?

Then I started a new HAED SAL. Oh now stop groaning, you knew I had to join the new one. If they only had ugly ones this time then I wouldn't have joined. See it isn't my fault at all *G*

I only put in 100 stitches. I will alternate with this piece and Fragile Heart. Once Fragile Heart is done then I will move onto the first HAED I had started, Aurora's Garden. Hopefully I won't like any of the SALs next year lol.
While stitching I watched all this week's General Hospitals and finished listening to The Lovers by John Connolly. Although I liked the book, I don't understand why 2 beings were going after the main character. I either blocked out the part that explained it or it never did explain it enough for me to understand. Oh well.

Tomorrow I have calling hours to go to. My cousin-in-laws father died on Sunday after suffering from cancer all through his body. Please keep her and her family in your prayers as they go through this difficult time. He was a great man and always had a smile on his face.

Dylan's girlfriend, Allie, txt me today saying that she had an extra ticket for graduation and really wanted me to go. So of course I will go and am thrilled that she asked me. It is Sunday at 2. Her graduation party is July 3rd and I am looking forwards to that.

Thank you for reading and all the comments, I sure do appreciate them.

It's Halloween

Yes, that is what I stitched on for a short time tonight. I got another row finished on it.

It has been a crazy weekend. First off I will let you all know that I weighed in on Thursday, at Weight Watchers and lost 3.4 lbs, woohoo!

Friday I got out of work at noon because we weren't busy. Scott and I went to a parade that night and the carnival. Had a great time dancing for 2 hours straight lol. I sure did feel it on Saturday with my knees.

Saturday we looked at a few places for a car for Dylan. Some of these dealerships are a joke. Fixed dinner for the inlaws . I got a package from 123 stitch and it had more of the magnets I like for holding my patterns in place. I also bought a spool of eazy gridding thread. Got the first page, of the new HAED SAL, fabric gridded. I will start it this week.

Today Dylan, his girlfriend, and I went back to one of the car dealerships to talk to someone. Didn't care for that experience lol. Prices way to high. Then we went grocery shoppin. I just talked to him and he is back home, in PA. Car ran like a champ. We have decided to just get his car fixed for whatever needs to be done.

Tonight I watched a new summer show on TNT called Falling Skies. Pretty good. On the order of War of the Worlds. I also watched last Tuesdays Pretty Little Liars and the Nine Lives of Chloe King.

Well going to play a little bit of Sims2 before I go to bed.

Take care everyone and thanks for the comments,
Shelleen

another small section done

on HAED QS Fragile Heart. I was really hoping to have this page done by the time the new SAL started. The first page of the new one wasn't supposed to be emailed out til June 23rd but she emailed it out yesterday instead. So I think I will stick to the original plan of stitching the new one on June 23.
Anyways here is a little progress.

Tonight I watched some General Hospital and the season finale of Bones. I have 2 more season finales yet and the new season of Pretty Little Liars, that was on last night. Also the other new show last night was The Nine Lives of Chloe King. Hoping to watch some tomorrow night.

I started a new audiobook today. The Lovers by John Connolly. There is 5 CDs and I just started the 3rd CD and so far I am hooked. Anyone else read this book?

I want to thank all of you that read my blog and leave comments. I appreciate it so much.

some progress

Well I have been doing well on Weight Watchers. I am now doing the monthly pass which includes free etools and I joined a yahoo group, which I love. Last weigh in I had lost 2 lbs.I am doing much better with tracking.

I didn't stitch last week except for Monday. It was to hot even with the a/c on and some days we were really busy at work so I was to tired to stitch. But I did stitch on It's Halloween, yesterday.

Then tonight I pulled out HAED QS Fragile Heart.

Friday I finished the audiobook, Cross Fire by James Patterson.

Tonight's movie: Lifetime Nora Robert's Carnal Innocence. It was really good.

Exercise for the day: I did different walking and arm movements, like Leslie Sansone, while watching TV. Did that for 30 minutes :-)

Catching up

I have been a bad blogger, I know. Trying to do everything that I love after work while cleaning and getting other things done. It just doesn't always work.
Memorial weekend Scott, my sister, Dylan's girlfriend, and I, went and visited Dylan. We spent Saturday at King of Prussia Mall. That was a long day and a lot of walking. Sunday we went to Philly to Adventure Aquarium, which was a lot of fun.

I have been stitching a little bit.
 May 30th I finished May's ornament , that was also a Crazy January Challenge.

JCS 2003 With My Needle - A Needleworker's Pocket

I also have been stitchin on It's Halloween by The Drawn Thread. 

Half of it is done

Then I have stitched some more on HAED QS Fragile Heart.

The other day Justin called me. Seems he had decided to go for a run and fell on a sidewalk right on his knee. Ouch is right. He didn't have anything for first aid in his apartment so mom went to the rescue with bandades, gauze and tape. Mended him right up. I guess he does need me sometimes. 

Well that is it for now, I am going to try and make it a regular habit to blog again.

2 progress pics

I had a pretty busy weekend. Dylan came home late Thursday night/early Friday morning. I did manage to put in a few stitches on HAED QS Fragile Heart.

Saturday was quite busy. I had a BookCross meeting at lunch time. I always enjoy them. I gave away 2 books and came home with 1.
The reason that Dylan came home this weekend was for his girlfriend's senior prom. His roommate even came out for the prom. Allie(Dylan's girlfriend) had a friend without a date for the prom so Dylan's roommate went and he had a great time even though he didn't know one person there, except for Dylan.

                                                                     Allie, me and Dylan

Dylan's room mate Joe

                                                                Allie & Dylan
They had a great time.

Today the 4 of us went grocery shopping. What fun since my car doesn't have a big trunk and we went to 3 stores. Let's just say my 2 door car had groceries on top of Allie's and Joe's laps in the back seat lol.      
Dylan and Joe left here around 6:30 and should be back in PA around midnight.
This coming weekend will be busy as my sister, DH, Allie and I are going to visit Dylan and hopefully do some sightseeing in Philly.

So after they lefy I was able to sit and stitch tonight. I only stitched for 2 hours but it felt good and since it was Sunday, it was Halloween day. Here is It's Halloween by The Drawn Thread. I am so close to the edge of the fabric. I will have to finish it as a bellpull, when it is done and will have to stitch on extra fabric on the ends. I don't know happened when I measured since I check it so many times.

changing rotation a little

I have decided to keep stitching on HAED QS Fragile Heart. It is a SAL with the HAED Forums board and the 3rd page was sent out last month. I am on page 2 so I really want to finish this page and page 3 before the next page gets sent to me. HAED Forums has a new SAL starting the end of June and yes, you guessed it. Oh stop groaning because you all know that I am addicted to them, so I had to sign up. So anyways the new one is another Storykeep. Also I still need to finish SK Sunny. So my plan is to work on these 3 for the year. Plus Halloween on Sundays and a small ornament, not necessarily Christmas, on the last week of the month.
This is my progress tonight on Fragile Heart. I finished filling in the little bit of the forehead and the headbands heart.

I watched the movie The Hangover. I kept putting it off thinking I wouldn't like it but I laughed my ass off. It is crude and has a lot of swearing but so funny.
I also listened to some more of I, Alex Cross by James Patterson. I have 14 more chapters to go. This is the last week of season finales , except for next Monday is House's season finale.
My plan is to watch a movie every night and to listen to at least 1 hour of an audiobook, during all my shows hiatus.

Thanks for all the comments, you all are great friends.
Shelleen

Busy and was sick

I hadn't been on much last week as I was sick. Friday, after work, DH and I went to PA to give money to Dylan. His car needed work on it. On the way there we had no problems. We left Saturday afternoon, to come home and about 30 minutes to an hour we were watching another driver in the passing lane kept putting her brakes on. College age girl. Then she almost side swiped us. Well we were watching her and didn't notice the exit we were supposed to take lol. So we came across a sign that said last exit for Pennsylvania. Ok I don't remember that sign and no way are we near NY. We still have 3 hours to go. Next thing we notice the south bound traffic has a toll booth. I looked at DH and said we have never paid a toll going to Dylan's. Next sign says Welcome to New Jersey! We laughed so hard. It only took us 20 minutes out of our way so we were doing ok time wise. Got turned around and back to where we needed to be. We were home by 8:30pm. So I pulled out HAED QS Fragile Heart and stitched for an hour or 2. I won't be pulling this back out til June.

Yesterday I cleaned the house and did laundry. Went grocery shopping and then played Sims3 for awhile. Pulled out It's Halloween for a couple of hours and watched Season Finale of Desperate Housewives.

Thanks for reading and the comments,
Shelleen

Started a new blog

It is Weekend Stitch-A-Thon blog. Stitch Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and then post your progress by Monday night, if you are interested check it out !

Fragile Heart Progress

I stitched some more on her.

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day. Dylan took me out for breakfast and around noon , Justin txt me. I didn't do anything else as I am having sinus trouble and just resting.

Will be watching TV the rest of the day and stitching, unless I fall asleep for a nap. Have to do some laundry too.

Page 1 finished

of HAED QS Fragile Heart and then started page 2. There are 6 pages all together. But #3 and #6 are 1/4 pages.

HAED QS Fragile Heart

started January, 2011

25 ct, 1x1

For the past 3 nights I have also been watching movies:

Disney's Tangled - cute

Black Swan - Good

Skyline - combination of War of the Worlds meets Independence Day - enjoyed it, thinking there will be a part II

Life As We Know It - loved it

I edited my April goals and added my May goals. They are on my sidebar.

Thanks for all the comments. I appreciate them very much. I will be back to reading everyones blogs real soon.

(((hugs)))

Shelleen

finished Halloween Streamer and a WIP

Last night I did finish Little River Designs Halloween Streamer

and I pulled out The Drawn Thread's It's Halloween. Both of these pieces were from the Crazy January Challenge.

I watched movies also
The Blind Side was awesome!!!
Inglorious Basterds was good

This week I will be stitching on HAED QS Fragile Heart.

Thanks for all the comments, I appreciate them very much!
{{{hugs}}}
Shelleen

Productive week

I have wanted to post all week but everytime I came on here the internet would go out. The other night I had typed everything in and as I hit publish post the internet went out :-( . We have had storms all week. Looks like it will be a nice weekend though.
I finished a Crazy January Challenge

JCS 2002 ornament issue - The Sampler House- Symbolic "X"

32 ct dirty linen

NN Razzle Dazzle Red

1/5/11 - 4/26/11

Then I pulled out a Up For a Challenge piece - UFO, and finished it

Stitchy Kitty Heart Paw

28 ct cashel millenium blue

dmc, kreinik

5/21/10 - 4/28/11

So then I decided to pull out Little Rivers Design Halloween Streamer and TRY to make this a finish for the month. I don't think it will happen but I will come close.

Little River Designs - Halloween Streamer

28 ct tea Monaco

DMC

I finished the audiobook Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson and am now listening to I, Alex Cross.

I also am trying to watch a lot of movies:

Tron-Legacy (very good)

Burlesque - awesome

The Switch - funny

Eclipse - good

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part I - very good

I am hoping to stitch on Halloween Streamer all day and watch Elizabeth Taylor movies that I DVRd  a couple of weeks ago.

Thank you for the comments and reading my blogs.

(((hugs)))

Shelleen

a little of this and that

I haven't been posting like I want to.
Last weekend I went, with Dylan's girlfriend,  and visited Dylan in PA. He took me to Philly for a real Philly Cheesesteak. It was good and I fell in love with Philly. The buildings were gorgeous and drove by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which is huge!! I want to visit it next time and also want to go to the zoo. He took us to The King of Prussia Mall, which is huge and we only walked through a small part of it. I took my stitching with me and did get some stitching time in.
This past week I put in more stitches on HAED QS Fragile Heart

Dylan is home for 3 weeks and will be going with me to work as we need help and he needs money. Today we went grocery shopping, came home and cleaned a little. I finally got to stitch for about 2 hours tonight. I watched the movie Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carell, Funny movie. Then watched Desperate Housewives. I stitched on Halloween Streamer by Little River Designs.

Thank you for visiting and leaving comments. I appreciate them.

Shelleen

HAED Fragile Heart

I ended up stitching on this for a few hours tonight. While watching Desperate Housewives, Live with Regis and Kelly, and General Hospital.

I also stitched on it last night while watching the movie Leap Year. Great movie!

Thanks for all the comments and please come back again :-)
Shelleen

movies, TV and stitching

Yesterday was my birthday. I got a card and money from my in laws. Lots of facebook comments and a few txt messages. As for DH, well still nothing by bedtime. My own mom didn't remember to call me.
I fixed Mexican lasagna for my inlaws and boy was that good. I made it mild so it wouldn't bother them and it seemed to be a hit. I stitched for an hour on HAED QS Fragile Heart so I didn't take a pic.
Today I caught up on some laundry and watched all last week's episodes of Live with Regis and Kelly. I sure will miss it when Regis leaves. I have been a huge fan of his show around the time Kathie Lee had joined. When I went back to the work force in 2007 I had missed it. So when news of Regis leaving had hit the news, then I started DVRing it. Friday's episode was their 10th anniversary and showed all kinds of past episodes. Some I remembered and a few I had missed. But it left me with bittersweet tears. I know Kelly is staying on but it won't be the same without Regis. No telling how I will be on the last day he will be on.
So while watching them I pulled out Halloween Streamer by Little River. I then sat in my comfy chair and watched 2 movies , which I highly recommend. The first one was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The next movie was The Book of Eli. Both great movies.
Here is my progress on Halloween Streamer. I am hoping to finish it this month.

This week I will be stitching on HAED QS Fragile Heart.
I forgot to mention. When DH came home from work at 3, this afternoon, he had a birthday card and shrimp for me. I told him thank you and I appreciated it but yesterday was my birthday. He apologized. He knew it was my birthday and even told me Happy Birthday. But he said he didn't know what to get me. Well gee a card on my actual Birthday would have been nice.

Thanks for all of the comments, loved them all.
Shelleen

Finished Poof Hat

Left work at noon since we weren't busy today. Took a 2 hour nap. Deleted a lot of friends off of Facebook. I am no longer playing games and I had at least 200 people on there for games. Got rid of them all. Felt good but sad to lose a couple of them.

Sat down and watched all of this week's General Hospital episodes.
Pulled out Poof Hat and finished it. I promised this chart to someone but can't remember who. Please leave me a comment of you still want it. I am not sure how I want to finish this. Either frame it or make a pillow. The spider is done all in beads.

Poof Hat - Ursula Michael

28 ct Monaco, DMC, MH beads

1/8/11 - 4/1/11

Then I pulled out HAED QS Fragile Heart  and put in a few stitches. I will also work on this Saturday.

Thanks for all the comments,

Shelleen