A New Moon TUSAL Update

Another new moon, where is the time going. A big Thank You to Daffycat for hosting this years TUSAL. I had plans to take my pic outside today but mother nature had other plans. Sorry about another crummy picture but on the good news I'm buying a new camera this weekend. Unfortunately I'll only have it for 10 days before it goes on vacation with my daughter, who will be leaving soon for 8 days in France.

So a variety of colours went into the jar this month with a lot of red and green from my Christmas Sampler.

A Late Wednesday Update

A day late but by the time I got my power back on last night just couldn't be bothered to update. We had 140 KM an hour winds on the Island, over 50,000 homes lost power. I was extremely happy this morning that we hadn't lost any of our trees and we only lost a few of our roof shingles, DH is up on the roof as a type doing the minor repairs. So Monday and Tuesday were my SAL stitching days, not as much progress as I would have like but oh well. The red is finally done so all that is left to do is to finish the white snowflakes which are a 1/4 finished already. Then the beading, hopefully another couple of weeks and I'll be done with this project.


Yesterday's stitching was amazing got so much done on my "Water Garden" might even be back before Monday with a happy dance. Hoping everyone has a warm and wonderful weekend.

Monday I think

WOW, forgot just how tiring being a new Mom can be, forget tired exhausted is more like the right word. I think I'm feeling my age. Well Sam is getting a schedule sort of figured out which means a little more stitchy time for me. My rotation piece for this last week was the Giraffe Family I pulled it out of its happy home in the crazy basket and stared at it. I love the design do not get me wrong about that but just couldn't get motivated to stitch on it. Then it came to me it was the fabric, I use to be an aida girl but not no more some things I still use it for and I'm trying to clean it out of my stash. So after much thought, well not really the started Giraffe Family from January 5th got tossed back into a plastic tote to be frogged at a later date. Which meant a trip to the LNS, so with a much happier feeling here is the Giraffe Family stitched on Linen where it deserves to be.

Well I'm sad to see this piece packed away again for awhile, its on to a new week. So I'll be back on Wed with an update this week on my Christmas SAL piece, then the rest of the week will be the "Charmed Water Garden"
Wishing everyone a wonderful start to their stitchy week.

My Belated Wednesday Post

I guess its sort of a a finish and a WIP all rolled up in one. I didn't have a chance to work on my Christmas piece this week, but before you object I have a valid reason. I'm pleased to show off my excuse. Samuel Rowan was born at 6:41 PM on Feb 22 2011, weighing 9lbs 9 ounces and measuring 22 inches long and yes you read the weight right. No drugs either, I'm a natural girl. We are home and doing great. So please forgive me if I don't comment on blogs as often as I should and I can not guarantee how many stitchy posts I'll have for the next little while but when you see this face can you blame me.

Another one off the list

I actually finished this Friday morning but was just too darn tired to post it. So here is Snowflake Serenade all stitched up. All that's left is to think about how to finish it.

So seeing as I had 3 days left in my week before i switch back to the Christmas Sampler, I had a problem what to do to fill in the days. I just got my silks for Sabrina the other day and she was pouting, so I decided to free her from the basket for a couple of days.

I'll be working on the Christmas Sampler beginning of the week come back on Wednesday for a peek if you want to. Wishing everyone a safe and warm week.

Wednesday again

First off, no real baby news yet. Guess I should be happy that the Doctor is keeping such a close watch on me. He doesn't really want to induce me before I hit the 38 week mark unless he absolutely has too. Last Friday's Ultrasound had the baby weighing 9lbs plus don't remember what she said the ounces are. So hopefully I will be holding this baby at the beginning of next week. I guess the good news about being put on bed rest is it means lots and lots of stitching time. So here is this weeks progress from the Christmas SAL


I managed to get all the green border done and just need to fill in a missing L and the bottom right snowflake then all the red will db finished. Then comes the delightful job of going back and filling in all the white snowflakes and beads. So hopefully a couple more weeks of Mon and Tues stitching will result in a happy dance.

As much as I would love to go back to working on my Inviting Holiday Wreath, I agreed with Cat that we needed a rotation to get these crazy 15 done. So next on my list in the order I started them is Snowflake Serenade, there isn't a lot left on this one so hopefully I'll be back soon with a picture to share.

Off to try to catch up on some blog reading sitting for too long is killing my back.

A crazy January update

So last week I decided I needed to start a rotation to get these projects worked on instead of jumping around on them like a jumping bean. I will keep working on my Christmas SAL on Mondays and Tuesday but the rest of the week will be devoted to 1 of my crazy challenges. Last week I started at the beginning of the list with Inviting Holiday wreath, in case you forget here is what it looked like after the first day of stitching back on January 2nd. Not much to look at is it.

And after the weeks work:

Looking a lot better in my opinion, so off to stitch on my SAL piece before I go for another round of poke and prod with my favorite Doctor, and no still no baby news yet. I'll be back on Wednesday with an update on the Christmas piece or sooner if I can pry some info out of my Doctor.