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

Backstitching

The past 2 days at work have been crazy. Training a couple of young women who will be working at a new lab. Plus having tons of samples ourselves. It was fun though and enjoyed working with them and their boss. He seems like a great guy. He gave my manager and I, an amish cookbook from PA. Just going through it made my mouth water lol.
Last night was library night with the knitters. I had missed the past 3 Mondays. I go and none of the show up lol. So I stitched for an hour then went through their movies and brought home 4.
Tonight's movie was from Netflix and was Morning Glory. Awesome cast, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams(sp?), Jeff Goldblum. I rate it 4/5.
I have all the backstitching done on the hat and have some more to do before adding the beads. Hoping to finish it this week.

Thank you for all of your comments, I appreciate them :-)
Shelleen

Crazy January Challenge #3 finished

I have been stitching on this for 2 nights and finished it.

From Merry's Heart

JCS 2000

Merry Christmas To Thee

32 ct white linen, WDW - brick

1/3/11-3/25/11

I also stitched on Poof Hat tonight.

I am getting there. Just a little bit of cross stitching left and then a lot of backstitching and then I have to add beads.

I only worked an hour and a half today. I had my yearly doctor's visit. She was happy that I lost 22 lbs since last year. Everything was good and I scheduled my mammogram for 2 weeks.
I also had to renew my drivers license.

I have Dish Network and they gave me 6 free PPV movies to watch by the end of April. So tonight I watched Shrek Forever After. I also DVRd it so I can watch it again.

Today is Justin's 21st birthday, woohoo!!! His friend's threw him a party but no drinking and driving. Dylan is also on his way home now. Called his dad that he is having car trouble so needs to get it fixed tomorrow.

I am changing my hair style and have an appointment tomorrow morning and getting my eyebrows waxed. I can't wait.

Thanks for all the comments, I truly appreciate them. I am over a week behind reading all my friend's blogs so please bear with me for another week to catch up.

{{{hugs}}}
Shelleen