April IHSW

This weekend was IHSW and I stitched on HAED SK Sunny Saturday.

 Then today I pulled out Mirabilia Halloween Fairy.

I also watched 2 movies:
White Water Summer - older movie with Kevin Bacon
Water For Elephants - awesome! tearjerker

I also watched Friday's General Hospital and Live With Kelly!

I also was reading Dark Lover by J.R. Ward.

April TUSAL

Ok posting to my blog has a whole different look. Anyone else have a change? Yesterday was April's Tusal (Totally Useless Stitch A Long) Here is a pic of my ort container.

Sunny is moving along

I have been stitching on her all week and moving along. Page 2 is almost complete. About 2 more weeks. Page 3 is a full page but most of it has large blocked areas of 1 color and not alot of confetti.
HAED SK Sunny:

Today is a sad day in the entertainment business. Dick Clark has passed away, at the age of 82, from a massive hear attack. You will be missed!

Today I listened to quite a few chapters of Blow Out by Catherine Coulter. It is hard to turn off.

Today I broke down and ordered from Fire Mountain Beads as I want to make a few of these bracelets.

I love bracelets so I want to make a lot of them and sell them plus my scissor fobs. Trying to use up what beads I have so I can get better quality beads.

My cat, Ruby, is doing a lot better. She has an upper respiratory infection but her lungs are clear. Scott and Dylan took her to the vet yesterday. She is on antibiotics. Plus I have had her locked in my bedroom at night, with me, and the vaporizer going. Today she is perky and playful and getting into trouble. She even asked for food and she hasn't eaten much in a few days. Thanks for all the concerns.

Today's movie was The Rite, it was ok and based on a true story.  I also watched Live With Kelly! and General Hospital. Also tonight was Revenge, very good.

Time to go to bed, 6am comes to quickly lol.

Progress pics

Last week I stitched a little bit on HAED SK Sunny.

Yesterday I pulled out Mirabilia's Halloween Fairy.

On Friday, April 13, my son, Dylan, graduated from Universal Technical Institute (UTI). This is in Exton, PA and it is to be an auto technician. We are very proud of him as he almost quit twice.

I have a kitty with a cold right now and she is eating a little bit and drinking water. Her nose is stuffy and she sneezes a lot but less than she has been. I have been playing nurse. I steamed up the bathroom and took her in there and then she slept in my bedroom last night, with the vaporizer going. She has had it since Thursday and is not running a fever. May have DH take her to the vet tomorrow if she doesn't feel any better.

April WIPocalypse and another row of SK Sunny done

I do have some catching up to do but first for the April WIPocalypse.
Since March's I have finished 2 projects:
LK Halloween Rules

Then I finished JCS Halloween Collection Brittercup's Halloween Cat Tree

My 2 other WIPs that I am working on til done is HAED SK Sunny. I have finished a lot of this. Yesterday I even finished another row.

My other WIP is Mirabilia Halloween Fairy.

I had my birthday on April 2. My manager and the other young woman at work ordered pizza out and when I wasn't looking had decorated our breakroom. Made me feel special. Scott bought me a George Michael CD. Justin took me out to see Hunger Games and then went out to dinner at Joe's Crab Shack. Loved both things. I have an awesome family. Wednesday I finished another book. Goody Goody Gunshoes by Sammi Carter. I am reading the last book of the series now called Sucker Punch. I am also listening to Blow Out by Catherine Coulter.
Last night I fixed a ham dinner for my inlaws, which they enjoyed. I also fixed another ham dinner today for my family.
I have been watching movies on TV too:
I am Number Four - Good
The Dilemma
Due Date - stupid funny
Fair Game
Beastly

I have been DVRing a bunch of movies for the evenings when my shows aren't on and when they are on hiatus this summer.

Thanks for reading,
HAPPY EASTER!

Won an award

I was given this award from Erla Bjork . Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
I know the rules say a new blogger and someone with less than 200 followers but I have been blogging since 2005? and have over 200 bloggers. So I will search who I blog with.


The Liebster award comes with four conditions that each recipient must satisfy when accepting.

1. Choose 5 up-and-coming blogs with less than 200 followers to award the Liebster to.
2. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
3. Post the award on your blog.  List the bloggers you are giving the award to with links to their sites.  Leave comments on their blogs so they know about the award.
4. Share 5 random facts about yourself that people don’t know about you.”

Here are the five people and blogs that I’ve chosen to share this award with, I could have chosen so many more …. Hope you all like your award

Kitten Stitching

Shut up and stitch!

Ambitious Stitches

Connie's Misc.

Faithfully Stitching;)

Well I now need to tell you 5 things about me….

1. I played the clarinet for 8 years in school 

2. I have sarcoidosis

3.I love to dance

4. I have OCD - everything has to be organized, CDs, DVDs, all in alphabetical order. Books alphabetically by author and their book by published date.

5. I am a sims3 addict

Jewelry and scissor fobs.

Last night was bead night at Michaels. So I only made 1 bracelet and 1 necklace. Justin had txt me that it was getting nasty out and he works in the same plaza where Michaels is. So I left a little early.
First I set up the little table and put the bracelet and necklace on it, so I could take a pic but look what happened!

This is Ruby and I adopted her from my son Dylan. She is 2 years old and loves attention.

Now down to business. I made this necklace for Allie(Dylan's GF), sshhh don't tell her. I am hoping to give it to her today. I made the bracelet that goes with it last November for her birthday. But she asked me to make a necklace to go with it. The bracelet I made for my MIL. She likes my bracelets and asked me to make her one for her birthday, which is in April.

Then when I came home I still felt like making things. So I made 3 more bracelets. The pastel pearly one will have a matching necklace. I will do that today. These will be for sale.

Then I made 3 scissor fobs, which I also will be selling.

Cross Stitch kit review

Yiota from Yiota's XStitch had emailed me asking to review one of her cross stitch kits and then posting on my blog. I was honored to do so. The kit came in 2 weeks ago and I was sick the first few days so couldn't do it.  I have a lot to blog today so wanted to let Yiota know that I love the kit. The pattern is in large print so it is very easy to see the symbols for stitching. The floss is already wound on bobbins for easy use. I asked for evenweave. Her kits are in aida and 28 ct evenweave. The instructions are very easy to read even for a beginner. There are just 2 very minor things and no big deal but being honest in my review. 1 is the picture of the design is slightly blurry but not very much. I have problems taking my own pictures lol. The 2nd thing is the fabric wasn't cut evenly on one side so I will just fix that before I begin stitching it. Like I said 2 very minor things. I highly recommend checking out her site and ordering from her. Oh and very fast delivery. Her business is in the UK and I am in western NY. She mailed it on a Monday and I received it that Saturday. That is faster than some services I get from online stores IN the US. Please go check out her site as she has a lot of themes to offer.

Oh and I don't have to stitch this up any time soon. She just wanted me to review the kit. But since it is a cute little snowman then it will fit into my stitching sometime this year :-)

A row is done

I have been making pretty good progress on HAED SK Sunny. My goal is to finish page 2 by the end of April. Hoping I can do it.

Both of my boys have had their birthdays this week. Justin turned 22 on Sunday and Dylan turned 20 today. My baby is no longer a teenager and I am sad about that. They grew up to quick :-(

Today I listened to more of Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown and I am on the last CD. I also read more of Hunger Games, which I really like.

Tonight I watched:
General Hospital
Ringer - gets better with every episode

Thank you for all the comments. I was also awarded a blog award and will post that another time.

HAED progress and 2 Halloween finishes including Crazy January Challenge #1

I managed quite a bit of stitching this weekend.

Saturday I managed a few hours and 200 stitches on HAED SK Sunny .

Today I did dishes and then listened to my audiobook for 6 hours while stitching and doing laundry. I am listening to Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown. I have 3 CDs left to finish it. Anyways after that I watched Once Upon A Time and then Desperate Housewives - 3 more episodes til the series finale :-(
Anyways I finished LK Halloween Rules

 LK Halloween Rules

28 ct Amber linen

Crescent Colours, GAST, WDW, DMC

7/17/11 - 3/25/12

Then I pulled out Crazy January Challenge #1 and finished it right at the end of Desperate Housewives, perfect timing for the blog.

JCS Halloween Collection - Brittercup's Halloween Cat Tree

30 ct Belfast Antique white linen, GAST, Kreinik

1/1/12 - 3/25/12

Pretty good stitching day for me.

Thank you for visiting and the comments, I appreciate all of you.

March TUSAL and HAED progress

This month's TUSAL has threads from Marty Bell's Rocky Mountain Christmas, LK Halloween Rules, HAED SK Sunny and JCS Collection's Halloween Tree.

Tonight I stitched some more on HAED SK Sunny. I am thinking of skipping this month's Rocky Mountain Christmas week. I really want to finish page 2 of Sunny by the end of April.

TV watched today:
General Hospital
Private Practice - from last week
Supernatural - from last week
The Vampire Diaries

Thanks for all the comments. I appreciate them very much.

IHSW - March

I am sorry I am late posting this. I have been sick all week but now feeling better.
Saturday I stitched on HAED SK Sunny

Then Sunday I pulled out LK Halloween Rules. This is getting close to being finished.

I finished Howl at the Moon and stitched the border for the last chart. Then onto the bottom border.

This week I finished reading Blind Side by Catherine Coulter and I think this one was my favorite one, of the FBI series, so far.

March WIPocalypse

It's that time of the month. Actually I was supposed to post on Thursday night but I was tired and I went out for dinner last night and then vegged out.
So since last month's post I have stitched on:

A Colonial Garden - Elizabeth Designs

Finished

LK Halloween Rules

 

HAED SK Sunny

 Marty Bell - Rocky Mountain Christmas

Brittercup Halloween Cat Tree

Tuesday's stitches

I am trying to get back into an exercise routine. If I am busy reading things online and I get home later than usual then I walk, march in place and do other exercises while watching General Hospital. If I get out of work early or it's not a busy evening then I will work out with a Wii game or a walking DVD. This works for me and I am sore but it is a good thing.
So tonight while doing my exercising, my cat, Molly decided to keep batting her toy mouse under my feet lol.

I sat down and stitched more on HAED SK Sunny and am enjoying the colors in her.

Today I also got to read more of Eleventh Hour by Catherin Coulter and I am on the last CD of Play Dirty by Sandra Brown. They are both really good.

Tonight I watched:
General Hospital
Live with Kelly - 2 episodes
Rimger

Justin(DS#1) and I plan on going to the movies tomorrow. Trying to decide what we want to see.

Thank you everyone for reading and leaving comments.

weekend update

Friday night DH took me out for prime rib. Then he had to go into work. I ended up watching Grimm while finishing gridding on HAED SK Sunny.
Saturday I went to my LNS because I needed CC Blackbird. I needed more to finish LK Halloween Rules. But as always, she was out of what I needed. She always is. So I ended up ordering what I need for the rest of this years projects, online.
So Saturday I stitched on HAED SK Sunny

I am enjoying working with the bright colors.
















Then today I pulled out JCS Halloween Collection, Brittercup Halloween Tree. I started it January 1 as part of the Crazy January Challenge. Not much left to stitch on this.

Maybe I will finish this next Sunday.














Tonight I watched Once Upon A Time and then Desperate Housewives.
I did listen to my audiobook a little bit today: Play Dirty by Sandra Brown.

Today I played the wii and played Just Dance Summer Party. I loved it and what a workout. I am sore all over lol.

Page 1 finished HAED SK Sunny

Woohoo! 1 page is done, 2 more to go.

Now I am gridding page 2. It looks like there is a lot of confetti stitching on page 2. Do you think I can finish the 2nd page by the end of April? I will certainly try.
I listened to more of my audiobook while stitching tonight, Play Dirty by Sandra Brown. Plus I watched yesterday's and today's episodes of General Hospital. Sad episodes.

wow, MIA

I didn't realize that I hadn't blogged in over a week. Where have I been? Well stitching of course :-) I am not putting in any pics to share as I haven't taken any.
Last week I stitched on Rocky Mountain Christmas and then Sunday I pulled out LK Halloween Rules. I was stitching on Howl At The Moon and ran out of the CC Blackbird. So I am going to the LNS this Saturday. All week I have been stitching on HAED SK Sunny. I am hoping to finish page 1 tonight.
I was bad and broke my rule of not buying anymore charts til I finish everything that I have started. How could I pass up the 50% sale on Leap Day at HAED. I had to buy QS Genevieve. I saw her being stitch on another blog and fell in love with her. I also bought the mini Queen of Hearts. That is my favorite chart and I have the original chart which is about 36 pages. The mini is only 9 pages.

Reading wise I am doing pretty good. I finished Hemlock Bay by Catherin Coulter and started The Eleventh Hour by Catherin Coulter. I love this series. I am also listening to Play Dirty by Sandra Brown and am halfway through that.

I think that is about it for now. I am hoping to post a stitchy progress pic tonight.

TUSAL & RMC

It's that time of the month. TUSAL (Totally Useless Stitch-A- Long). So here is this month's.

All the orts in here are from:
SamSarah Designs The 1892 Pledge
LK Halloween Rules
Joan Elliott Christmas Angel- the sparkly thread
Elizabeth's Designs A Colonial Garden
HAED SH Sunny
Marty Bell's Rocky Mountain Christmas


Speaking of RMC ( Rocky Mountain Christmas), I have pulled it back out and will be stitching 1 week a month on it.

So Linda, let's see who can finish first. You are a faster stitcher and have more time. I know I am way ahead of you but I do believe you may finish first :-)

Thank you everyone for the comments.

IHSW progress

I didn't stitch as much as I would have liked. Seems I was really tired this weekend and was asleep on the couch by 9pm both Friday and Saturday. That isn't like me at all. I usually go to bed around 11.
Anyways I did stitch a little bit on HAED SK Sunny. This is on 25 ct evenweave 1x1.

 Then today I pulled out LK Halloween Rules. I am pretty sure this will be finished in March. I finished Greet a Ghost, stitched some more of the border and then started Howl At the Moon. So I have this pattern and then 1 more before doing the bottom border. I am so close.

So that is how my IHSW went. How was yours?

IHSW

It is International Hermit Stitching Weekend. I have been stitching a little bit and will post pics tonight.

Garden is finished

I finished Elizabeth's Designs A Colonial Garden. It was given to us at a retreat in March 2010. I only did the gate and a little bit of the wall, while there. I pulled this back out last week and finished it this afternoon. It is done on 30 ct weeks linen. I didn't care for this linen but then again I am not a big fan of linen.

Elizabeth's Designs - A Colonial Garden

30 ct weeks linen

3/19/10-2/15/12

Last night Justin picked a paper, #8 was written on it for my next WIP/UFO to finish. It happens to be HAED SK Sunny. I put in a few stitches on it today. It was a SAL in 2010 with the HAED BB. So this will be my main project til it is done. I do like the colors in it.

This is page 1 of 3

Justin and I went to the movies tonight, We saw Chronicle. I rate it a 3/5. I liked the storyline. The acting was fine and the special effects were great but it dragged quite a bit and the main character walked around with a camera on everyone so it was like the Blair Witch Project.

Well time for bed. I am sleepy. Thank you to all who read my blog and leave comments.

Spooky, Garden and exchange

yesterday I watched quite a few of my DVRd TV shows. I stitched quite a bit on LK Halloween Rules.

 I finished the chart Brew Some Fun and started the Ghost chart

This is the picture of the whole thing so far.

Tonight I pulled out A Colonial Garden

If I don't finish it tomorrow night then it should be done Thursday night. This I will frame and give to my SIL.
Tonight I watched:
Live With Kelly! - getting bored with the show. She is inot The Bachelor and does the night befores dialogue. She is into Jersey Shore , which I find disturbing. I guess I will have to see who she gets as her regular cohost.

Some of General Hospital
House
Hart of Dixie

Last night I finished reading The Edge by Catherin Coulter and this morning I started Riptide by Catherine Coulter.

I almost forgot to post a pic of my Valentine Exchange. This is through my stitching Sisters Yahoo group. I loved it all. Thank you so much Linda J.

Thanks for visiting and the comments. I appreciate them all.

bracelets and a WIP

I have promised some friends to post my bracelets.
This first one is the bracelet that my sister gave me for Christmas. I had to fix it as the charms were falling off and every time i put it on and off all the beads would fall off. So one bead night at Michaels and the instructor showed me what I needed to fix it. I love this bracelet.

This past Friday night was another bead night at Michaels and I made me a Valentines bracelet.

I love jewelry and especially bracelets and this has been so much fun.

Yesterday morning Scott took me to get groceries, as still without a car. Then got ready to get our taxes done.
I am able to go to Myrtle Beach this year for Pals Fall Fling. I have missed the past 2 years and you have no idea how much I have missed it.

I stitched all night on Elizabeth Designs A Colonial Garden. I am hoping to finish it this week.

I also read a few more pages of The Edge by Catherine Coulter. I am almost done reading it.

Thanks for visiting and all the comments.

It's a frog night

I want to know which one of you sent that darned frog my way? That wasn't very nice at all. Actually I have never ever done what I did tonight. The letters of A Colonial Garden is what I had to frog. I am a little tired so I will blame that for my mistake. I actually backstitched the words on the wrong side of the project. Ok, I know it's funny but really, did you have to snort to? Well despite that, I still did pretty well tonight.

 So the bushes are done and the sunflower, along with the words. Since there is backstitching and specialty stitches it seems to be stitching up quick.

Last night I went to the movies with Justin (DS#1). We saw One For The Money. I liked it and my son thought it was hilarious. I have read all the books and he hasn't read any. I didn't care for Debbie Reynolds as the Grandma. Morrelli didn't look Italian and Ranger was really nice looking but his body type was wrong. He also spoke more in that movie than I think he did in all the books. He never had much to say and always called Stephanie "Babe". The acting was great! So Justin and I have decided to go to the movies every Wednesday. It is 1 night he week he doesn't have to work and I miss going to the movies. We have a list of what we want to see.

Today I read a little bit more of the book I am reading. The Edge by Catherine Coulter. Love it!

Tonight's TV:
The Vampire Diaries
Grey's Anatomy
Private Practice

Tomorrow night I am going to bead night at Michael's. I know I will have fun.

Night everyone and thanks for all the comments.

Colonial Garden

I had Justin pick a number for the next UFO to stitch on. Elizabeth's Designs A Colonial Garden was picked.
So tonight I pulled it out and worked on it.

I started this in March 2010 at a retreat in Syracuse, NY. All I had done was the gate and some of the right wall. Tonight I finished that side of the wall, stitched the left side and the branches. There is quite a few specialty stitches in this so I am hoping that will make this go quicker.

Tonight I watched:
Live with Kelly!
General Hospital - what is going on with Kate?
Ringer

I also started a new book last night, The Edge by Catherin Coulter. Another one of the FBI series. It is really good so far.