a nice weekend

We have had beautiful weather and it is nice to have the windows open again and breathing in the fresh air. Nothing exciting this weekend here. I stitched, read and watched movies.
TV:
tonight's Desperate Housewives
DVR-
Ghost Whisperer 4/11
Medium 4/14
DVR:
August Rush- awesome movie but have kleenex ready
Across The Universe - watched about 15-20 minutes and did not care for it . I did like the music though :-)
The Seeker - enjoyed

Reading:
No Humans Involved - Kelley Armstrong - paranormal book and have enjoyed the other books in this series.

Stitching:
Finished KarenAZ's RR - Christmas Alphabet by Prairie Schooler and I stitched S and the K
I took M Designs Ornament class . at MB, in October and have pulled it out. Am working on a Christmas card that I started at the class. I will work on this kit of ornaments etc. on the weekends as part of the Cross Stitch Pals MB challenge . The card that I am doing is We Love The Winter Weather and will post a pic when I am done.

The kids go back to school tomorrow, after 2 weeks off. Which is a good thing because Dylan has had friends over almost every day and night since it started. Will be nice to have my house back :-) Work has been so slow and have only been getting in about 12 hours a week. Can't wait for this slow season to be over. it has been nice to get things done at home but bills don't get paid.

I have been playing 4 Sim City Deluxe Edition and having a blast building cities. Anyone else have this game?

No work today

My supervisor called and said not much to do today so I didn't have to go in. Caught up on some laundry and cleaned the living room.
I did finish the backstitching on the top left quarter of the stocking. I have decided to post a progress pic once a week. I started the bottom left quarter.
I also read quite a bit of Haunted by Kelley Armstrong.
As for watching TV. I watched general Hospital.
On The DVR I watched The Good Witch, which was a Hallmark movie. From Netflix I watched Evam Almighty, which I enjoyed more than Bruce Almighty.

Busy stitching away

I have been stitching quite a bit and watching TV. I started LK Spring Cottage Boxer and finished it tonight. Then I pulled out Fishing Santa Stocking and did some backstitching on this. I will continue to stitch on this most of the month.

While stitching for the past couple of days , I also watched quite a bit of TV.

Watched some of the NASCAR Race yesterday. Carl Edwards won and Scott won $60 at work on the race.

DVR:

Ghost Whisperer 4/4

General Hospital 4/4 , 4/7

Tin Man (SciFi)

Tonight I watched Medium

I also started reading Haunted by Kelley Armstrong.

The boys are on 2 weeks spring break so trying to keep them busy.

It's my birthday!

I had a really good day. Scott bought me a bottle of wine yesterday, but I have to wait til Saturday to open it as I am on meds for a sinus infection. Anyways he bought me the most beautiful card, that meant more to me than any gift. I stop at the local coffee shop every morning and this morning I got sung to and my coffee was free. The women at work treated me for lunch so we had chinese. I got home and my mom called me and my sister sent me a txt message :-)
So I sat and watched TV and stitched a little bit.
I watched:
TV- General Hospital
DVR - Smallville - 3/20 , 3/27
DVD - Enchanted

I stitched on LK Spring Cottage boxer, which is really cute.
I also started reading a book , Haunted by Kelley Armstrong

April Goals

Reading:
Kelley Armstrong - Haunted
- Broken
- No Humans Involved
Evelyn David - Murder off the Books
Carrie Vaughn - Kitty Goes To washington

Cross Stitching:
M Designs Halloween Fob -
2006 JCS Brittercup Britty Christmas Puppy -
LK Spring Boxer
2007 JCS Brittercup Poinsettia
work on Fishing Santa Stocking

Netflix movies: some are on long waiting lists
Enchanted
In The Land of Women
I Am Legend -
August Rush
Evan Almighty
Alvin & The Chipmunks
Atonement
Catch and Release
Nancy Drew
Tin Man Disc 1
Tin Man disc 2
No Country For Old Men
The Surfer King
The Insatiable
Lucky You
Children of Men
Dumb Luck

Some finishes

I have been stitching, reading and watching TV/Movies. In February I stitched M Designs Thanksgiving Fob. I also started M Designs Halloween Fob. Today i finished M Designs Halloween Fob.

My March ornament is 2006 JCS Brittercup Britty Christmas Puppy ornament. I finished him today.
I also stitched quite a bit on the Fishing Santa Stocking but I will add a pic later this week. I want to get some small finishes done first.

While stitching I watched a few TV shows and a movie:
DVR:
Medium - 3/10 , 3/17 , 3/24
Kyle XY - 3/17

VCR:
Lost - 3/20
Medium - 3/31

DVD:
I Am Legend

I also finished a book I was reading. Greywalker by Kat Richardson which was pretty good.

Crazy weather

yes, we got the snow, sleet and freezing rain. About a foot of snow fell. DHs truck has been in the shop so he has had to use my sports car. Well this morning he had to open up at the gas station. Takes our back road and gets stuck in a snow drift. Breaks my transmission line. he is so nervous he calls me from his cell phone. Asks me to call 911 to get him towed out. I told him to call 911 and he said that sin't the number to call with a cell phone. Fine, he is nervous, I will call. Soo what does 911 say to me, call your husband back and have him call 911 so we can trace him. Ok, so I did. $130 later for a tow truck and now he is using Justin's car.
Anyways I have stayed in the house, nice and warm and dry. stitching, watching TV and reading. I watched I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and thought it was very funny. Not at all what i thought it was about. Today is 30 Days of Night on DVD.
Justin had Alex over for the weekend and Dylan has Vanessa over. So i told them I am going to throw them all out in the snowbank LOL. Well Dylan and vanessa decided to grab their baseball gloves and play catch out there. Good luck on finding the ball out there LOL.

Books

I saw this on Nancy's blog and thought I would give it a try.


Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.)

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25 . Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner(Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone(Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary(Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane & Abel(Jeffrey Archer)
91. In the Skin of (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

January & February Finishes

I have been stitching a little bit this year and have a couple of finishes


This was my January ornament- JCS 2004 Brittercup Designs Noel Birdhouse

This is February's ornament - JCS 2005 Brittercup Designs Britty Christmas Kitty

I finished this over the weekend- M Designs Autumn Bag. it was a class that i took during the Pals Fall Fling

This was a kit from Mill Hill called Flying High. it was so much fun to stitch up.

SBQ of the week

After you stitch a pattern or kit, what do you do with it?

I try to give it away to someone. If no one wat=nts it thn I save it for PALS Fall Fling stash room or I throw it out.

Prayers Please

My friend's 23 year old son was in a serious car accident. He rolled his vehicle several times and was ejected from it. He has head trauma, fractured spinal cord. They put him in a medically induced coma for 4-6 weeks. Is in guarded condition but progressing. She works part time for Curves so no paid leave. Our Curves is taking donations to help her with gas, parking and food. She is not goiong to leave his side til he gets home. Any prayers would be helpful.

Changing Habits

I know we all go through changes with out tastes in cross stitching and every once a in a while we get rid of charts that we once liked and are no longer something that we want to stitch on. Well I am now going through that with books. I used to love V.C. Andrews and had read most of her series. So I am missing about 3 of her newer series and went to the library and got them all. I read one and started another and just can't get into these books anymore. it is always oh whoa is me, I am a rich person and girls and no good. So I am taking them all back to the library. Does anyone else go through this?

I stitched on a RR last weekend and now am stitching JCS 2005 Brittercup Designs britty Christmas Kitty. Very cute and a quick stitch. The only thing is while I was stitching the fabricseemes to be to small, that I cut. Lo and behold, read instructions. 1 strand over 1. Well DUH to me lol. So tore out what i had done and started over. Looks a lot better.

Reading: Laced - Carol Higgins Clark
Audio: The Woods - Harlan Coben
Stitching: JCS 2005 Brittercup Designs Britty Christmas Kitty
Netflix: Ultraviolet , The Brave One, I now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

winners and new giveaways 2/17/08

Amanda , I am still waiting to hear from you. You won Tara Road by Meave Binchy. Please email me with your address.

winner of Silver Needle's Surf Up is Sharon so please email me.

New Giveaways:
Silver Needle kit - Snazzy Apple
Book - Bleachers - John Grisham

Please email me with the kit or book in the subject line

Winners and new giveaways

I am still waiting to hear from Jessica for the Irish Blessings Kit. please email me with your address.

Last weeks winners are:
Tara Road - Maeve Binchy - Amanda
The Silver Needle - Peace On earth kit - Meari

Please email me with your address.

NEW Giveaways and remember to email me with the subject line book giveaway or cross stitch giveaway.
Book - Irish hearts - Nora Roberts
Cross stitch kit - The Silver Needle - Surf's Up

giveaway winners and new giveaways

The book Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie goes to....Mary
the kit A Little Irish Blessing goes to....Jessica
Congrats and email me with your addresses.

This weeks drawings are :
Book - Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Cross stitch kit- The Silver Needle - Peace on Earth

email me with what giveaway you want in the subject line. You can put your name in for both the book and the chart/kit.

I am here

I haven't been stitching as much as I should. I got playing Sims2 on the computer again and it is addictive. I did finish an exchange piece and need to mail that out. I have been reading a little bit as well.
My bad news is no car. My engine is shot and I have no more warranty on the car, it is a used '99 mercury Cougar. So we are getting a used engine but the labor will kill us. Although it is my neighbor's shop working on it and he has said if Scott does alot of the work then the labor won't be so bad. Scott does know how to do most of it so that will save us. But coming up with the money ahs to wait til taxes come in, that will be the end of February. meantime Scott has to take me to and from work.
I am so far behind on stitching. I have a few SALs that i wanted to do this month, with the Cross Stitch pals. I also have a RR to start and is supposed to be mailed Feb. 1. I don't know if that will happen for me.
I have all these packages here to mail out of books for the giveaways and a chart but no way to get there. i was supposed to go yesterday but Scott couldn't get me to the PO on time due to unfortunate events that came up for him. And no, I don't live in town to walk.
I finished reading Just Rewards by Barbara Taylor Bradford and is part of her Emma Harte series. I am now reading The Hard way by lee Child. I finished lsitening to Chill Factor by Sandra Brown and am now listening to Ricochet by Sandra Brown. Both are very good.
Well I need to go and get some laundry done and sit and do some serious stitching today. I had started Simply Winter by Waxing Moon, yesterday. it is part of a season SAL through the Cross Stitch pals. I plan on watching Failure To Launch and then listen to Ricochet, while I am stitching. Yesterday I watched Basic Instinct 2.

I will post later of the winners of this weeks book and chart giveaway and list the new giveaways.

This weeks winner and the new giveaways

This week's chart winner is Connie Irelan
this week's book giveaway is Serena

Congrats!!!

Now for the new book and chart giveaway:
Book - Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie
Cross stitch kit - The Silver Needle's A Little irish Blessing

email me with what you are putting your name in for, either chart giveaway or book giveaway. Winners please email me with your address

last week's winner and this week's give away

The winner of the book Worth The Risk by Jayne Ann Krentz is Serena. Please email me http://www.blogger.com/needeler@gmail.com with your address. Congrats!
No one signed up for the chart giveaway.



Remember to always include in your subject line book giveaway for the book and chart giveaway for the chart. email me with whatever one you want your name in for mailto:needeler@gmail.com

This weeks book:
Perfect partners - Jayne Ann Krentz

This weeks cross stitch chart:
A Year Full of Happy by Sam Sarah Design Studio

windy day!!

we had high winds today with gusts up to 75mph.Some lines were down and trees.

I got my car back today and it seems to be running like new. I didn't have to work today as it was a slow day so Scott finally took the tree out of the house and I vacuumed. What fun that is LOL. did some laundry and took a nap. I haven't been sleeping well all week for some reason.

I finished watching The Dresden Files on DVD and then found out that SciFi cancelled the show :-( I thought FOX was the one notorious for that. Medium started their 4th season on Monday night and it was good. I had 3 Netflix movies come in today: Transformers, Shrek the Third and Annapolis. I watched Transformers and gave it a rating of 5/5. great action packed and the graphics were awesome!!

I finished M designs Halloween Bag, It is similiar to a tuck pillow and there is another piece called Autumn that also goes in the bag. So you replace it with Halloween. Plus the kit came with 2 scissor fobs. 1 is for halloween and the other one , of course, is for Autumn. I will work on those as well.

I am reading Hidden moon by Lori Handeland and it is really good. I am about 3/4 done with it. it is a library book so no giveaway on that book. I am also listening to Chill Fatcor by Sandra Brown and am enjoying that as well.

stitching away

Friday at worked, I finished listening to Midnight In Death by J.D. Robb. it was very good. Last night I finished reading Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson. I am starting to read Hidden Moon by Lori Handeland and will start an audiobook by Sandra Brown. Not sure if it will ne Chill factor or Ricochet. I have them both to download in my Mp3 player.
I finished stitching Joy tree Ornament by M Designs

I am now stitching on Halloween bag from M Designs . I took the class in Myrtle Beach at the Cross Stitch Pals Fall Fling. The class was fun and I want to finish this bag. I will take a pic when i finish it. I then will stitch on the Autumn piece that goes with it and the 2 fobs. But I do have to stitch a fob for an exchange I am in and it needs to be mailed this week.

I watched season I of The Dresden Files. it is a SciFi series that i just found out about. I am not sure if it is a summer show or what. I read the book by Jim Butcher and was told that they made a series on TV based on his series of books. I loved the DVDs that i watched all weekend and will keep an eye out for the series on Scifi.

I have had a couple of bad days with my car. Why does everything have to be computerized and harder to figure out what is wrong with a car? I have had my car worked on but other codes keep popping up. I can't drive it or I will be in a car accident and I can't trade it in because I still have a 1 1/2 years left on payments. Besides I love my car. it is a '99 Mercury Cougar and it handles awesome!! I have a great stereo system in it as well. I am hoping once it is fixed this time that it will run like mint again.

Justin had Alex over for the weekend, which he is a great kid. Dylan spent Friday with Vanessa at a friend's house and then Vanessa showed up today , to hang out with me while Dylan was at work. She is the best thing to happen to him and he knows it lol.