Easter kitty

We weren't busy at work today. Had a little problem with online service going down but it wasn't down for long. 40 degrees cooler today than yesterday and so my sinuses are kicking in again.
Scott had to work tonight, Justin had to babysit and Dylan was at his girlfriend's house. So since tonight was, a StitchaThon with Stitching Sisters Yahoo group and Let's Stitch blog, I sat and stitched all evening. I started this new piece.

Stitchy Kitty Easter Kitty Moon
28 ct Millenium Blue Cashel Linen

while watching:
Bones
Ghost Whisperer
Medium
Smallville

I don't know if I will get much stitching time in tomorrow. I have plans with my mom. For my birthday she bought us tickets for Taste of Home Cooking at my kid's school. They have it all over at different schools every year. We tried to go last year and we sent in our money but it was already booked. So my mom sent away for the tickets early and is my birthday gift from my parents. Looks like it will be a lot of fun.

til next month

For HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep. This is how far I got today.

I got out of work early. Came home to do more organizing in the kitchen. Then cleaned out the cabinet in the bathroom. Cleaned off some of my computer desk.

Then I sat and stitched. Will pull it out next month.

TV shows watched:
General Hospital - wound floss on bobbins
Ghost Whisperer - 4/2
Smallville - 4/2
The Vampire Diaries - tonights
Supernatural - tonights

Tomorrow night I plan on stitching all night and starting Stitchy Kitty Easter Kitty Moon.

Busy wednesday

Today was my day off. My plans were to clean the kitchen, vacuum hall and bathroom. Catch up on laundry and read all blogs. I got most of the kitchen done. I didn't get to the vacuuming but I am caught up on laundry and blogs.
Then I sat down and stitched. HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep. I stitched a lot on this but it is all confetti stitching so very time consuming. I do have almost the one column finished.

While stitching I managed to watch a few DVRd shows:
General Hospital - 4/5, 4/6, todays
Lost - 3/30
Vampire Diaries - 4/1
Supernatural - 4/1

Tomorrow I have to work. Then I want to stitch quite a bit more on this piece.

more HAED progress

I accomplished a little bit on HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep. Yesterday I stitched on it while watching the 2 hours of 24. Then today while watching Monsters vs. Aliens (kids movie) and then Lost.
Yesterday I managed to workout with the Wii Fit plus. I could feel it when I was done. Tomorrow I think I will do the Sports Resorts. I have tomorrow off , for my day of the week to take off. I am hoping to finish the laundry and do some more cleaning. Plus organize more floss while watching some TV shows.

sunshine award

I received this Sunshine award from drae_dear and would like to thank her. I have seen this on a lot of blogs and so will not list my favorite blogs. This award goes out to all the amazing cross stitchers out there, whose blogs I read and try to leave comments on. Also for those of you who read my blog and may or may not leave comments.

a small finish and a wip

I finished EEK! from the LK Boo club flip its. It is now being turned into a RR. So now I have to figure out what I want to start next Sunday.

Then I pulled out HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep. Got a little done on her. I willw ork on her more this week.

Also catching up on TV shows.
I watched:
General Hospital 4/1, 4/2
Before They Were Famous
Medium 4/2
Supernatural 3/25

Tonight's episodes of LIFE.

started Spring Angel

Yesterday's plans were to stitch all day and catch up on laundry and DVrd shows til my hair appointment at 4:30. Scott decided to go grocery shopping so I was gone a couple of hours. Came home and stitched again and watched some more shows. Got my hair cut and eyebrows waxed. I feel human again. The last time I was there was in June. Can you believe it? Every time I have had money to go then someone here seems to need it more. So it was my birthday gift from Scott. Then we had a small cookout with Dylan and his girlfriend, Britt. Not sure if I told you that him and Shelbi broke up several months ago. They are still friends though. Then sat and stitched some more last night.

Anyways I started Joan Elliott's Spring Angel from The Cross Stitcher April 1997 issue. I got a small part of her wing worked on.

watched GH episodes: 3/24, 3/25, 3/26, 3/29, 3/30, 3/31

Today is stitching on LK Boo Flip Its, I am going to finish EEK and then send it onto a RR.

HAPPY EASTER everyone who celebrates it.

MARCH GOALS

MARCH GOALS
Stitch on:
Joan Elliott - Christmas Angel
HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep - yes
S is For Stitcher - yes
Mirabilia Winter Queen
TW The Storyteller - yes

Start:
Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Kitty Moon - started
JCS Ornament - LHN 2007 issue - started
Joan Elliott - Spring Angel

Books/Audiobooks - 4

organize floss - did some

I am a BAD blogger

I am still alive. Bet you were all wondering where I have been. Well not on here that is for sure :-) Not online hardly at all. I dropped all but one of my Yahoo groups. I haven't read blogs in weeks or the BBs. Just needed to take a breather but I am back. So wondering what I have been up to?
March 25 Justin turned 20 and I still am wondering how the hell that happened when March 27 Dylan turned 18 and will graduate in June. Ok deep breaths now. Those birthdays floored me. Justin is no longer a teenager and Dylan just keeps giving us grey hair :-) I never minded turning 40 and will be 45 tomorrow, that doesn't bother me but my own boys, wow!

March 19-21 I went to a Cross Stitch retreat in Syracuse NY. it was at a Ramada Inn and there was around 20 of us. The theme was Americana, She even sent us the fabric and floss we had to only use for making our name tags. Everything was Americana, napkins, patterns, candy and you name it.The price included all meals, all classes and our room. Nice rooms as well. They had a conference room set up for us all weekend to stitch all we wanted. We had to get our own meals on Friday night and then the activities started at 7pm. They had one bedroom set up as a small cross stitch store plus the owner of the store, who sponsored this retreat, had us shop at her shop on Saturday. Any ways Friday at 7PM we had a Two True class (exclusive design from Elizabeth design, who was there). I also rode with her to the retreat. She is such a nice woman.
Then Saturday morning we were up and early for the breakfast as class started at 9AM - 11:30 by Patti Connor of Samsarah Designs. I just loved her. She had a special pattern made up for us.
1-3pm was Schoolhouse Samplings class. We did Bluework, not fond of that, counted canvas work, Loved it!!, and hardanger, which was fun. Then we drove over to the Cross Stitch shop. I bought 2 pieces of canvas, 2 patterns and the floss , an Elizabeth Designs pattern and 3 cards of Wispers White thread. 7:30 pm was fun and games and stitching. I had a blast.
Sunday morning we had a punchneedle class by Karina Hittle of Artful Offerings. That was a fun class as well and her and her husband are the nicest people. Then we had a buffet lunch in the room and prizes. Check out was at 2. I definitely will go on this retreat again. No pics as I didn't see anyone take pics til the last hour for a group pic.
Anyways since all we did was sit and stitch for 3 days I got a little burned out and took a break from it. Plus I have had a post nasal drip going on which causes me to cough so I hadn't slept well for 2 weeks and was tired when i got home from work. Found a medicine that i like and that works so now I am rearing to go again. I did play a lot of Sims3 during this time. Found out it works on my laptop lol.
I have a RR to work on and get out in the mail. Then I need to stitch on HAED Mermaid of The Deep, start Joan Elliott's Spring Angel, for OOE BB, and start Stitchy Kitty Easter Kitty Moon. I also want to have this month for finishing some of the WIPs. So I need to go and update my monthly goal at the top.

A Blogger award

I received this award from Julie and we comment on each others blogs. Thanks for the award.

The rules for the award are simple:
1) Accept the award.
2) Thank the person who gave you the award
3) Add a link to the person who gave you the award.
4) Put the award on your blog.
5) Write 10 things about yourself others might not know about you.
6) Pass the award on to 10 others.

Now to tell you 10 things you might not know about me.

1. I played clarinet for 8 years in school, made All County Band 3 times and All state once.
2. My major in school was art, hence the cross stitching
3. I can wiggle my nose like a rabbit
4. I am afraid of heights
5. I am petrified of driving in the snow but yet I live in a snow belt area
6. I work in a forage lab where we test cow feed for dairy cows
7. I was born in Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina
8. I used to fall down the cement steps several times every summer- only 1 scar
9. I love to watch Clean House on Style channel
10. I love PC games- especially Sims 2

I pass this award onto:
1. AmySC
2. FayeRaye
3. CarolynNC
4. Suzie
5. drea_dear
6. Jackie
7. Michele
8. Linda K
9. Nicole
10. Coni

There are so many more blogs that I would love to give the award to.

This week's ramblings

My week was ok.
TUESDAY:
Movie night with my boys. We had pizza and watched 2012. I enjoyed the movie and couldn't stitch much as it kept you on the edge of the seat and you had to read a little bit when there were conversations in other languages. But there wasn't much of that.

WEDNESDAY:
I stitched on HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep. I also watched Lost and The Forgotten, that I had DVRd from Tuesday. Also listened to some of Heat Lightning by John Sandford.

THURSDAY:
was my day off from work. Did some laundry, went shopping with Justin. He wanted to get a new TV for his room. Watched 3 episodes of General Hospital while organizing my specialty threads. All the Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Arts Sampler Threads are done. I have to buy another photo box with indexed labels so i can do a Misc specialty thread box. Now back to the DMCs. I have more bobbins and had to buy another Jammer box. I watched Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. Pic below of my week's progress on HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep.
Tonight I will be stitching on Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Kitty Moon.
I am coming down with sinus problems so feel tired and I hope I don't fall asleep while stitching.
Tomorrow I have a bookcross meeting and am looking forwards to that.

HAED Monday

This week is HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep. I made pretty good progress on it.
When I got home I read emails and then pulled out specialty threads to get them organized while watching General Hospital.
Then I got caught up on all the blog reading and even left quite a few comments.
I had laundry going and listened to Heat Lightning by John Sandford while stitching. Then House and 24 came on. Both good episodes.

Got into work and found out my hours have been cut. Not to bad and as of now I have Thursdays off. It won't last long though as it will get busy soon. I am also on call for Thursday until 8:45am. if I don't get called to go in then my day is mine. The main manager is still not happy at all that I take off time in October for the Pals Fall Fling. It is to busy to take time off then. My manager told me not to worry about it.

Well time to go to bed. Thanks for reading my blog and leaving comments. I appreciate it.
Shelleen

LK Boo Club Spiders

I got up and cleaned before sitting down to stitch. I pulled out LK Boo Club.

I stitched quite a bit on the border and then started Spiders. I am working on the web now which isn't showing up very well.
I stitched while watching NASCAR- congrats to Kurt Busch's win.
I finished listening to Dark of the Moon by John Sandford. I watched the movie Baby Mama, which was funny. I also watched the awards, which is nearing the end now. Did anyone pay attention to the Memorium for everyone that passed away last year? I did not see Farrah Fawcett mentioned.

The rest of the week I will be stitching on HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep and starting a new audiobook. Heat Lightning by John Sandford.

S is For Stitcher

yesterday was a good stitching day. Scott was tired and we went grocery shopping. Had subs for dinner.

So I sat and stitched on S is For stitcher. I listened to Dark of the Moon by John Sandford. Then I watched Saturday Night Fever, mmm John Travolta dancing.
I found out Smallville was picked up for it's 10th season. I am happy about that.

Friday 3-5-10 SAT

Last night was Friday night SAT with Let's Stitch blogger group and Stitching Sister's Yahoo group. I started Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Kitty Moon.

I would have gotten a lot more done but I was really tired and kept falling asleep with the needle in my hand.
I did watch some TV while stitching.
3 episodes of General Hospital and then the new episodes of Ghost Whisperer and Medium.

Things have been going on at work for 2 weeks now to piss me off. After yesterday and some lying by someone, I am thinking about job hunting. I know there isn't much out there. I love my job and my hours. No weekends or nights or holidays. There aren't many of those out there. it is also convenient for Scott to take me in when the weather is bad, since it is a short distance from my house. But I just can not take it anymore with the lying and laziness.

Christmas Angel

Cleaned a lot at work this afternoon. The main manager is coming tomorrow so had to get ready for him.
Came home and got caught up on reading everyone's blogs. i didn't post to many of them but I enjoyed reading them all.
Then I pulled out the Wii and worked out for 55 minutes. had some frustrations to get out, from work.
Then pulled out my ipod and stitching. I am still listening to Dark of the Moon by John Sandford. Then I watched Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. I got quite a bit done on Christmas Angel. She is being put away tile next month.

Workout Wednesday

A coworker called in sick and were busy today. But got out of work on time.
I decided to work out for 30 minutes with the Wii Fit. Now I have a question for some of you. Do any of you belong to Weight Watchers? I am thinking of joining online but wanted some feedback on it.

I pulled out my ipod to listen to Dark of the Moon by John Sandford then sat down to stitch on Christmas Angel, some more.I got the backstitching done from where I was last night and then stitched some more of the ribbon.

February Goals

Finish:
Sampler Bookmark - finished
Mill Hill Treats Collage

Start:
JCS ornament - finished

Stitch on:
HAED Aurora's Garden - did
HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep - did
Cross Country Stitching S is For Stitching - did
LK Boo Flip Its - did
HAED Fly Butterfly - did

Audiobooks: 4 - finished 3

organize floss - DMC 900s are done

Tuesday Family night

I was having one of those days today. Before we all left the house this morning, I said " would someone start my car up?" Both boys were in the house. When I left they were gone and my car wasn't started. Then I get to work and I can't do anything right and can't speak lol. I get home , cook dinner and the boys and I sit down to watch tonight's movie. We watched Serious Moonlight. It has Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton and Kristen Bell in it. Sounds like a funny movie. The storyline was good and love the actors. But the movie was slow. So when it ended I told the boys of this mornings problem of asking Someone to start my car. Without missing a beat Dylan said Someone left last night and he never came back home, that is why Someone didn't start the car. I said well then Someone is fired. In which Justin says. Someone does a lot of shit around this house so he should count his blessings that he was fired. LOL where do these kids come from? Dylan will be 18 at the end of this month and Justin will be 20. So I guess I should stop calling them kids and boys but that is what they are to me.
Anyways here is what little stitching I did tonight on Christmas Angel.

I am hoping to have a better stitching night tomorrow.
But then maybe Someone will come home and stitch some more on it for me :-)

I did watch today's episode of General Hospital. Pretty good.

March has begun

Where did February go? I can't believe it is March 1 already.

While watching General Hospital I was organizing GAST. I bought photo boxes and index cards and the alphabet tabs. I put an index card in each of the bags that my GAST are in to keep the bag standing up better. Then put them in the box. I have half of them done so am hoping to finish the other half tomorrow.

Then it was time to stitch. So I pulled out my ipod and started listening to Dark of the Moon by John Sandford. Then started stitching on Joan Elliott's Christmas Angel from The Cross Stitcher December 1996 issue. I started this a few years ago and the last time I stitched on it was march of last year. I also watched 24 tonight.