Friday night SAT

I stitch on Friday nights with Let's Stitch blog and with my stitching sisters Yahoo group. I decided to pull out Waxing Moon's Stars & Stripes Forever. This is all that I got accomplished.

organizing and rotation

I have about an hour left of stitching on the ornament for the exchange but found my eyelids closing tonight so will finish it tomorrow and then mail it on Saturday.

I got all the 600s of floss on bobbins and in the Jammers box. A few of them I had 10 of each. The 700s will take me a couple of weeks I think. That bag is really full and will fill one side of the Jammers box.

I have also changed my stitching rotation. I had to do it to make it easier for me. I love the Let's Stitch blog and haven't done the Friday night stitch a thon because I chose a big project. Work is usually busy on Fridays and I dreaded stitching that night. So now I am picking simple things that have been kitted up for years. So now my new rotation:
Mondays- alternate between Rocky Mountain Christmas and The Storyteller
Tuesdays - Mirabilia Winter Queen - when done then UFO Ice Angel
Wednesdays - Night Before Christmas - when done then will be UFO I Shall Wear Purple
Thursdays - The Christmas Angel
Fridays - cute, quicker pieces
Saturdays - Incentive pieces with Only One Ewe BB - Quilt Sampler , M Designs Halloween Tree
Sundays - Halloween designs

CW renewed some shows

for next season and I am happy to see that Smallville and Supernatural are 2 of them. They also will have a new series on called The Vampire Diaries and will be based a little bit on the Twilight series, woohoo!! I am so bad and I had already promised myself no new shows next season as I want to watch more movies. But how can I pass up on a series like that?

On the stitching front I am almost done with ornament for the exchange. I am half done listening to Braking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. I am really enjoying this one.

Good evening

no pics to show as I am still stitching on an ornament , for an exchange. I have been watching TV and all night tonight I was listening to Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.

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sitting in my pjs

I just got caught up on the blogs for the week and commented to a few of them.
Checked my banking online/ TV guide for the week so I know what shows are new and what are repeats or not on at all. I have laundry going and going to go check the lineup for Nascar race tonight. DH won money for the winner last week. Plan on stitching all day and watching movies, unless DH comes home and takes over the remote lol.

I have been stitching

I stitched some more on Night Before Christmas, Thursday night. I will be putting this away for a couple of weeks. This week is ornament week for me.
Thursday I also watched TV while stitching:
General Hospital
Supernatural - 2/5
The Beast 1/29
Bones
Grey's Anatomy
Private Practice

I have also been listening to Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.

Today I went to Michael's to pick up more plastic bobbins and then to Walmart for Jammers boxes. I bought 6 packages of bobbins and 3 Jammers. That will keep me busy for a couple of weeks. I am almost doen winding all of the 5oo DMS on bobbins and then will put them in numerical order. These are all extra extra floss that I have and will fill a few Jammer boxes. But will be so much easier to find a color when I run out of my regular Jammer box that I use for all the WIPs and UFOs. That Jammer box has 1 of each DMC color in it and has the whole set. I still need to buy 3 clear bins for fabric. 1 for aida- I only use for ornaments and certain designs. I won't buy more when that is all gone. 1 bin for 28 ct and 1 bin for 32 ct. My beads and kreiniks are already organized and I should be ok with the overdyed flosses.

mouse night

Tonight I worked on the mouse in the upper left corner. it is such a huge piece that I can't get any closer so I will try to remember to take a pic of each side.
Today I watched:
General Hospital
Smallville 2/5
Lost

Night Before Christmas

I have been stitching on Night Before Christmas, for the past 2 nights.
While stitching I watched:
General Hospital 2/16 and 2/17
Medium 2/16
KyleXY 2/16
DVD: Jeff Dunham's Christmas Special- pretty funny

Today I also listened a little bit to Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.

Quilt Sampler half done

I have been stitching away on this all week and accomplished quite a bit.
Today I watched General Hospital - 2/13, Ghost Whisperer - 2/6 and 2/13, Dollhouse, Nascar, and Desperate Housewives.
This week I need to work on a RR and an ornament for an exchange.

A Quilting I will go

well actually I didn't go anywheres except for the shows on TV and I do get into them. I stitched on this for a couple of hours tonight while watching General Hospital , last nights KyleXY, 2 Charlie Brown Valentines specials and 90210. I still have over 1/2 to do on this. but will continue to stitch on it til at least half of it is done. Then I will stitch a couple of pages of Night Before Christmas.
Thanks for all of you leaving comments. it means a lot to me.
Yesterday I finished Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer and tomorrow I will start Breaking Dawn. Then onto some James Patterson books.

Holiday FALs

This was my FAL weekend and I didn't start til today. I did shop for fabric yesterday and had it all pulled out but I couldn't get in the mood til today. There are 2 pieces missing. 1 needs to be framed, I have the frame and will sand it and paint it a lavender color. I have another piece to frame but I didn't have a frame to fit it so that will have to wait for another time. As you can see I have Halloween , Christmas and Valentine pieces here.

an exchange recieved

I received the from Melissa through the stitchingbloggers exchange board. This was the last exchange since the board is closing,. Thank you so much. I love the package.

Quilt sampler

I finished the little block on the top left. I think that the backstitching takes longer than the actual cross stitching. I am also doing this 1 over 1.
I watched General Hospital and 90210. I also listened to Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. I am about halfway through it.
Can't wait to stitch on this some more tomorrow night.

WIP pic

I stitched a couple of hours on this piece. It is my incentive piece with OnlyOneEwe BB. I am supposed to be done by February 14th. I will try to get as much done as possible.
I watched General Hospital, House, 24, and Medium.
Also today I listened to Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. I am enjoying it.

Night Before Christmas

I forgot to post a pic of this. I stitched on it Thursday.

I plan on changing my rotation this month. I am stitching on the Quilt sampler during the week since it was an incentive piece to be done by February 14. Then I will mostly stitch on Night Before Christmas as it is a SAL.

January ornament

I started this last weekend and finished it today. it is Santa's On His Way. It is by Rosie & Co. and from the JCS 2003 Christmas issue.

Christmas Angel progress

I stitched on her face tonight, while watching Lost and General Hospital.
I started to listen to Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. I am hooked on the series now.

lots of WIP and 2 finishes and a NEWS!!!

I have some good news but I am going to make you wait and read my progresses first. Now stop groaning and no you better not be scrolling down to read it. I knew you would, you just can't resist. LOL


Last Thursday I pulled out Night Before Christmas and worked on Santa in chimney. I just need to do the backstitching on it. That will get done tomorrow night.
LK Hoppy Easter is finished. Well not the way the chart shows it. I did this for my RR with the Belle's. My RR is Easter. I am using 2 pieces of fabric. 1 is for a bellpull and the other piece will be for a pillow.
Then Sunday I finished Brittercup's Trick or Kitty Treat. The pic came out darl but I think it is cute.
Monday night I stitched on Rocky Mountain Christmas by Marty Bell. I started this many years ago and love the piece but the changing of colors all the time is as bad as a TW.
Last night I stitched on Mirabilia's Winter Queen. I finished the 1 section, that was my goal. I can't wait to stitch on her again.

I am also thinking of changing my rotation. Quilt Sampler and Night Before Christmas are 2 SALs with 2 different groups and Quilt sampler is supposed to be done in February as part of an incentive. I do enjoy stitching on them. So I was thinking for february to stitch one week on the Quilt and then another week on Night Before Christmas and alternate the weeks. Then go back to daily rotations in March.
I started an ornament - JCS 2003 issue- Rosie & Co. - Santa's on His Way. I will finish it this weekend.

I finished the aaudiobook New Moon by Stephenie Meyer and I enjoyed it very much. I will be starting Eclipse, tonight.
We have been getting a lot of snow. We have been in snow warning from 10pm last night until 1am Thursday morning with a foot of snow when done. Roads have been horrible but schools didn't close because of state mid terms.

Ok so now for the good news. Are you ready?
JUSTIN DS#1 is on the Dean's List at college. I am so thrilled for him and so proud. We got the letter in the mail yesterday and he happened to be home. I handed him his mail and he opened it and the surprise and grin on his face was priceless. He started giggling and told me what it said. Way to go Justin!!!!!

Wednesday Rotation

I stitched on this today. Have this whole 1/4 section done except for the holly and beads. I will add them when i am all done cross stitching this piece. it is Christmas Angel by Joan Elliott from The Cross Stitcher December 1996 issue.

Season Premier of Lost was on tonight and it was good to see it back. I sure did miss it.

I listened to quite a bit of New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. Came home and charged my MP3 player so it is ready for tomorrow.

Tuesdays Rotation

I stitched on this during the evening. Mirabilia's Winter Queen. I love stitching on her.

Work was slow the past 2 days. We have to rely on mail for work. Well no one picked up Saturdays mail and the PO was closed on Monday so we had 7 samples to work with and I left work at noon. Today we only had 30 and I was done by noon so I left at 12:30. I wasn't feeling good anyways so I caught up on emails and BBs , picked up Dylan's girlfriend and then took a nap for 1-2 hours. I am feeling better now. I watched last week's and tonight's episodes of 90210 and wanted to watch General Hospital that I thought had DVRd only to find out that the soaps were not on. Bummer as it was getting good. I don't get into all the hoopla of the inauguration, sorry if it offends anyone. This country has money problems and to spend it all on that just was upsetting to me. My opinion and I am entitled to it :-)