October WIPocalypse

It is time for this month's WIPocalypse. Since last month, I stitched on:

Rocky Mountain Christmas

Finished Nora Corbett's Halloween Fairy

put in about 4000 stitches in HAED QS Fragile Heart

Thanks for reading my blog. Hopefully Fragile Heart will be finished for the November's Wipocalypse.

Myrtle Beach Pals Fall Fling #15

This was the 15th annual Pals Fall Fling and I have gone to 10 of them. I am getting ready to save for next year.
First stop was in Manning, SC to Amy's from Down Sunshine Lane. We all sat out by her pool.

Laurie, Beth, Char, Theresa, me, and Amy

Then Tuesday we left to for Myrtle Beach and this was the view from my room. We stayed at the Springmaid resort.

I walked the beach every morning

One of the nights as the sun was going down.

 The Pier that was part of the resort. It had a gift shop and restaurant at the beginning.

Now onto the stitching fun.

 Laurie

 Myra

Theresa

These are all the grab bags that we brought. Each of us brought stitching goodies and extra goodies in them.

Some more stitching friends

All the stash that I came home with. Most of it I bought lol

 Inside my grab bag. It was perfect!!

 From the freebie table

 Fat Quarters bought at the Quilt store

 Big piece of fabric from the free table. Black velvet with silver metallic spiderwebs

 Praiseworthy Stitches had a table set up and I bought these

 Primitive Hare had a table set up and I bought these

 Bought these from Down Sunshine Lane

 This designer had a table set up 

 Sue Hillis was there and I bought these

 Blackberry Lane had a table set up and I bought these 2 wonderful items

 I bought these 2 project bags by Stitch a Gift and a scissor fob and needle minder by Puffin Company

Pretty purple fabric, a needle minder and overdyed floss that I bought

That is it for my trip. I had a blast and did not want to go home.

October TUSAL, IHSW, and a finish.

I was in Myrtle Beach so I missed posting everything.

For October's TUSAL , these are orts from:S is For Stitcher, Marty Bell's Rocky Mountain Christmas, and Nora Corbett Halloween Fairy.

Then last weekend was IHSW and I stitched on HAED QS Fragile Heart, look how far I have gotten.

I also have a finish- Nora Corbett Halloween Fairy

My next post will be all my Myrtle Beach pics :-)

In South Carolina

This is the annual Cross Stitch Pals Fall Fling. Friday when I got out of work, met Laurie. Hubby took me to the msll, to meet her. Then her and I headed to Kentucky, to pick up Char and Theresa. Then we headed to Manning, SC. We will be here til Tuesdsy morning. We are visiting with Amy and Ray til then. Tuesday morning we head to Myrtle Beach. I cant wait. when I figure out using my Droid more then I will post pics.

RMC page 4 done and Halloween fairy

I finished page 4 of Rocky Mountain Christmas. It has gone back into rotation, for next time.

Then I pulled out Nora Corbett Halloween Fairy. I am afraid I am going to run out of Crescent Colours Dandelion Stem for the wings.

I ended up cleaning some in my craft room. Looks a little better. I haven't sat in there since Spring. Was to hot all summer since I don't have central air.

Then I watched season 1 disc 3 of Party of Five. I also finished listening to Split Second by Catherine Coulter.
I will be starting to listen to Tough Customer by Sandra Brown. I am reading V is For Vengeance by Sue Grafton

Last night I watched the new season of Once Upon A Time and Revenge, both very good. I DVRd 666 Park Avenue and will watch that tonight.

Also on Hallmark channel today is a new show called Home & Family. I will DVR that Mon-Fri and am looking forwards to it.

Everyone have a great day

September WIPocalypse & other news

Can you believe it is the end of September already? Tomorrow is October already. Autumn is my favorite season and I am loving the temps, colors and smells :-)

So for this second WIPocalypse for the month I stitched on HAED - Lusk- Aurora's Garden and I finished page 2.

Then I finished the top half of S is For Stitcher out of June 2008 Cross Country Stitiching magazine

Now I am stitching on page 4 of Marty Bell's Rocky Mountain Christmas. I only have a little bit left of this column for the page to be done.

Next in my rotation is to finish Mirabilia's Halloween Fairy.

This week hasn't been a good one. Last Saturday DS#1 started out with a sore throat which left him on Sunday only to come down with a horrible cough. Monday I came home from work and could smell gas in my house. My oven wasn't working right so DH had put in a new part. He thought he had it taken care of. I woke up around midnight because I could smell gas again. Called DH at work. I opened all the windows and had the fan going. We don't have natural gas, it's a propane tank. Anyways we shut off the tank so no more gas. Tuesday DH came down with the cough. Wednesday I come down with a scratchy throat a couple of hours before leaving work. By Wednesday night I felt really sick and plugged up. I woke up in the middle of the night and realized that my dog had labored breathing. So I comforted him while falling asleep and our cat Molly was rubbing against his face to love him up. I woke up again and the dog now has collapsed on the floor and his breathing is worse and he will not get up. He is an 11 1/2 year old Rottie/Shepherd mix. I have owned him for 10 years and adopted him at a shelter. Best dog you could ever want. Called DH at work, need to come home Dreyx is dying. DH gets home and still can not get the dog up. I call the vet and we take him in. We had to put him on his blanket and then put that on a sleeping bag to drag him gently through the house and lift him into the truck. Anyways, vet can't hardly hear his heartbeat. He is having stomach contractions, which we believe are tumors. We could have xrays done and if he has tumors not much we can do and the vet and I are really concerned about not hearing the heartbeat. So leaving DH and I alone we make the decision to let him go. You can tell in his eyes that he is done. They are not bright and he always lets me love him up and he was turning his head away from me. The vet came in to ask if we had anymore questions and she wasn't rushing us. I told her since she believes he has tumors in his stomach or something around his heart, and with his age that we did not want anything else done for him. He probably wouldn't make it through any operation anyways. So I laid curled up on the floor with him while saying goodbye to my beautiful dog. We took him home to bury him.
My day gets worse with being sick that by the time it is nighttime I am pretty sure that I have bronchitis. DS#2 and his girlfriend came over to mourn Dreyx and they ordered pizza and wings. I really couldn't eat much and Allie was getting concerned about my breathing.
Friday I went to the doctors and I have asthmatic bronchitis and an ear infection. I am on 4 meds, yeeha. This weekend was Naples Grape Festival and I am so upset that I couldn't go. Friday DS#2 also came down sick. He went to Urgent Care yesterday and he got there as it was turning into bronchitis. So meds for him too. DH still has a cough but Robitussin is helping him. I had been so sick that I hadn't been mourning Dreyx much til yesterday. It has hit me and Molly is looking for him through out the house. The other 3 cats looked for him but Molly really loved him. She is having a hard time of it.
DH still needs to fix the oven so everything is either sandwiches or anything that I can cook in the microwave.
Well I am going to go stitch some more and watch another disc of season 1 Party Of Five.

Here is Dreyx: