Another ornament

Hello Stitchy Friends!

I am making progress on another ornament. It is from this year's ornament issue. It's called Snow Birds by Country Cottage Needleworks.


I found some light blue linen in my stash. It is working up well. Again, I will have to post another picture later when I sit down to do final finish work on these. I have a few more I would like to get done.

My sister in Minnesota posted pictures on Facebook of snow they received there this week. I am not ready for that yet!

It has been a busy week at the library. I am ready for the weekend. The only bad thing is tomorrow is my Saturday to work...so no early start to the weekend. I can't believe its November already! I still have to get the Halloween decorations put away...

Hope all of you are finding time to enjoy your stitching!

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Ch..ch..changes...

Hello Stitchy Friends.

I have been doing some blog reading on and off this afternoon, in between chores.  I was pleased to see Lee posting again on Lake Stitcher.  She posted some thought provoking comments about her lack of blogging of late.

I know sometimes it's hard to know how much personal news to share as opposed to just keeping it about stitching.  I guess I look at my blog as kind of a journal, and write it for my amusement as well as hopefully keeping some of you entertained....

I have been stitching away, however I had to take a forced week off due to an injury to my thumb.  Somehow it became infected under my thumbnail.  So, I've been on antibiotics for about 10 days with a new round to start tomorrow.  It is much better now, but it was rather nasty.  The doctor thought it became infected through a tear in my cuticle, with bacteria getting in there.  Not fun, rather painful too.  I won't gross you out with a picture.

I have chosen some ornaments that I would like to get stitched up soon.  I would like to do 'Season of Love' by LHN for our son and his girlfriend; as well as do one for our daughter and her boyfriend.  Relationships seem to becoming serious for both of them.  It is going to be an interesting few months ahead I think.  We like both of their partners in the relationships, which is a bonus!

I plan on stitching their names and "Christmas 2013" on the back of each ornament.  I am close to being done with the first one.  I have other ornaments I would like to stitch as well, hopefully I will get time to do a few more. 

Well, hopefully I will find time to post a little more often.  I know I won't be able to keep up with the daily blogging challenge some of you have taken on for November...! 

Happy Stitching!


 

Halloween

Hello stitchy friends!




- Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Halloween!






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It's been awhile...

Hello Stitchy Friends!

It's been awhile since I've posted. The days seem to race by, and I don't find time to blog. I have been pushing hard to stitch something though.

A fellow blogger generously loaned me a chart I was looking for. I feel lucky to be a part of this community of stitchers! I wanted to stitch this for Mike, due to his passion for photographing bald eagles every winter.




Forgive the wrinkles please. I pushed hard to get it done quickly. I will post another picture after it's properly finished.




I completed an ornament finish from this years ornament magazine. This one is of course from Little House Needleworks. I have picked a few others I want to stitch from this years issue as well.




Mike and I found ourselves alone on Saturday night. He had a three day weekend, and we decided to make lasagne. It turned out great. We watched a couple of recent DVD releases after dinner. So it was a very nice night.




A couple of weekends ago we took a weekend trip to Branson, Missouri with my sister and brother-in-law. One day we went to Silver Dollar City. My favorite thing of the day was when I found the Midwest Living Culinary Institute. It was such a pretty place. Mike and I attended a cooking demonstration. It was fun. Isn't the chandelier something? It was huge! It had to be incredibly heavy all blown glass. The quilts hanging over the railing were really pretty too.







It was a fun experience. We saw a couple of shows, and visited Cecila's Samplers. What a nice cross stitch shop! I have been there before on a previous trip, but it's a fun shop to visit.

I thought I had a couple of pictures from the shop visit, but I don't know what happened to them.

Well I have made this post long enough. Next time I will share a picture of a couple of projects I just picked up from the framer.

Happy Stitching!
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Questioning my organizing

Hello Stitchy Friends!

I have just a question for all of you stitchers out there at the moment.

I am seriously questioning my organizational method of arranging my Crosstitch patterns.

I currently put charts in plastic sleeves and then in three ring binders. I have them organized by type, such as I have fall charts together, Spring charts together, patriotic, Christmas and so forth.

The last two evenings I have spent some time searching for a chart my niece wants to borrow with no luck so far. I'm rather frustrated. How do you organize your charts? Do you group them by designer? Or??

I welcome your suggestions. You see, I'm a librarian and organization is big with me.

I promise a better post soon, with pictures of current stitching progress and projects!

Thank you!


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Pumpkins for Cathey!

Hello Cathey!

Happy Blogoversary today! We are all thinking of you!

Last Day of Vacation...

Hello Stitchy Friends!

Well, all good things must end.  Today is the last day of our string of vacation days for now. 
It's back to work tomorrow.  I have not gone into the library once over the time I was off.  Unusual for me.  I usually end up going up at least once or twice to pick something up, or check on something.  Mike stopped up today to do some computer work, and warned me that my office was not a pretty site.  Lots of piles to sort thru and boxes to unpack.  So, I already know what tomorrow will be like....

All in all I spent time stitching, reading and doing some jobs around home that needed to be done.  I cleaned some cupboards out, and we made a couple trips to Goodwill with some surplus things.  We took a few day trips, and just generally enjoyed hanging out together.  When Mike and I are both working, we don't see a lot of each other through the week.  I work first shift hours and he works second shift about an hour's drive from home.  So, when we are off work together we enjoy hanging out. 

We found this covered bridge on one of our drives. 

We also took a day trip to New Salem.  This was an early settlement north of Springfield, where Abraham Lincoln lived in some of his early years.  Nice old log houses, stores and wonderful split rail fences.  A very peaceful State Park. 

I am close to a finish on "Needleworker".  I will post a picture when I'm finished.  I took some time today to put out some more Fall decorations and added Halloween things in as well. 

I will share pictures of that on my next post, since I don't have any of those photos uploaded to the desktop computer.  It's easier to do those posts from my iPad where I can take a picture with it and upload it to my blog.  You will notice the pictures above are much higher in quality than those I take...  Mike took both of these with his camera.  :)

Well, hope you are enjoying some beautiful Fall weather in your neck of the woods.  We are here.

Happy Stitching!