Glad it's OVER!

I'm finally getting around to posting again now that Christmas is over. I had a wonderful time going back home and seeing my family for the first time in a year. It was a LONG trip (16 hours total) but well worth it.

I got to give my cousin and his wife their wedding sampler I had stitched for them. I wasn't actually there when they opened it, but my grandmother said they LOVED it...which is good.

So now I'm trying to finish up the tiger for my husband. I'm almost done with it and when I get it finished I have to start on a couple of birth announcements for some friends who have babies due within the next 3 months. Already got both of them kitted up and I'm ready to go!!

That's about all there is to my stitching world right now...but I'll be back!!

Busy Busy Busy

I haven't had as much time for stitching these past few days. We're getting ready to move to a new apartment. We're just going across the parking lot, so it's not a "big" move....just a change of scenery and neighbors! I DID manage to finish the monotonous blue part of my husband's tiger yesterday...now I'm working with different shades of orange....much more pleasant!! I'm hoping to have his done soon so I can get started on the RR I have to have done by Jan. 15!

It's About Time!!

I FINALLY got my cousin's wedding sampler finished! Got the names on it at about 2:00 this morning and finished up the french knots when I got up! So, aside from framing, it's ready to go. I'm thinking about just putting it in a box and wrapping it up like it is and let them worry about framing it! At least that way they'll get to decide how they want it done! Now I've got to finish up that pesky tiger for my husband, which won't be SO bad after I get through with all the blue!

One of my New Year's resolutions is to start working on my cross stitch gifts and to take more pictures of them as I do them so that my stitching friends can see my progress. Feedback is nice to have!

Rainy Day

I didn't get too much stitching done today....not as much as I would have liked to anyway. I spent most of the day waiting for the maintenance guy to come fix the light fixture in my bedroom so I could see to stitch. He hadn't shown up by 4:00 so I gathered Alyssa up and went to Wal-Mart to buy a lamp...so just as soon as I walked out the door, the guy came and fixed the light...but I went ahead and got my lamp anyway cause I'd been wanting it. Alyssa and I got caught in a horrible storm on the way home. I was pretty freaked out because I hate driving in the rain, especially when I have my daughter in the car, but luckily she slept all the way home.

So I got my lamp and worked on my stitching a little bit. I talked to my grandma and she was telling me that she got my stockings sewn together and is going to mail them to me probably tomorrow. I can't wait to see them!

Another Day.....

I haven't done much in the way of stitching so far today....I didn't even wake up until after 10:00. It's 2:10 pm now and we're hopefully about to go back to WalMart to pick up the picture we had made yesterday of Alyssa with Santa. If it turns out well, I'm thinking about having some copies made and including them with our Christmas cards.
I plan to do some stitching when we get home though. Today is "Tiger Day"....the day I work on my husband's tiger picture. I like to alternate which one I work on so that I won't get too bored working on the same piece everyday. I'm trying to get these two done by Christmas so I can make gifts out of them, but I don't know if it'll happen or not. After Christmas, I'll have a couple of weeks to work on the round robin piece I have here before I have to send it to the next person, then I have baby samplers for a couple of friends who are having babies in February and March. THEN, I want to make a musical piece for my former band director who has always been like a father to me....and THEN I want to have all my supplies together to make the hummingbird afghan for my grandmother.

Stitching aside, my child is getting on my last nerve today! She's being accident-prone and hitting her head on EVERYTHING!! I feel sorry for her when she hurts herself, but it's like she never learns anything from her pain...she's such a silly girl!!

New Blog

I've just decided to start one of these to give myself something to do. I think I'm gonna try using it as a place to keep kind of a journal of all my hobby efforts. Right now, I'm working on stitching a wedding sampler for my cousin and a tiger for my husband. The wedding thing is coming right along, however, I'm getting really tired of the tiger. It's going to be gorgeous if I can ever get it finished, but, so far, it's just different shades of blue which gets rather monotonous! We went to Wal-Mart just a little while ago and got my daughter's picture made with Santa and while we were there, I went to the craft section and looked at the CharlesCraft afghans. I found a magazine last night that said that in February, 2005 they're going to start a afghan series that will be hummingbirds and I would LOVE to stitch that for my grandma for next Christmas! I think it'll be SO pretty if I can get the right kind of afghan. They had one in the magazine that could be ordered, but I have a feeling I'd have a hard time getting my husband to order me a $66 afghan that I was going to have to make myself. Oh well, I'll look in a few other places before I decide on one!