Finished with the Littlest stocking series!

Well, just 5 minutes ago, I finished The Littlest Stockings series! I started it in August and it's taken me 4 months to finish! Which is just ridiculous, considering when I just sit down and work on them it would only take 2-3 days at the most to finish each one (if that!) but oh well, they are done now, a week before Christmas, which is more than I can say for the Christmas Cards I decided to give up on!!! I got 3 done, and called it quits! Maybe next year!

So here is the series in it's entirety! I think the next series (tiny Christmas Critters) I will stitch all on one piece of fabric! 

And here are #'s 11 and 12, which I just finished up this morning!

Well, it's not raining (for once!) So, I am off to take the baby to the park to run off some energy so maybe she will actually go down for a nap today! Wish me luck!

Well, I really have not been stitching too much here! Just been too busy with the holidays! But I am hoping that now I've got most my Christmas Cards all sent off I will have that bit of time to put into stitching. Oh yeah, I've also been busy playing Sims3.  I had not been able to play for a long time, as my computers memory was very full, so the game wouldn't run correctly, so hubby went through and cleared out a bunch of stuff, and now it runs fine! Which is awesome! But it means i spend more time Simming and less time stitching....oops...

So instead of stitching we have been decorating.......

 and hanging stockings-three for me, my hubby and daughter, and an extra one for the soldiers who are not home this Christmas, and to remind us to pray for their safety that they will return safely and be home with their families next year for Christmas.

 Going to see Trace Adkins in Concert.  He came out here to perform for us, for free! He supports his troops.

And I did finish stockings #'s 9 and 10!

 and started #'s 11 and 12! So this set is just about done, so excited! Though I do believe it has taken me way too long to get these tiny little things done, but what can I say? There are trees to be decorated, and concerts to go to, and Sims to play! Whats a girl to do?

I hope all my readers are having a great holiday season, full of lots of stitching and family time!! I hope to share progress of The Abbey soon.  I actually finished page 9 and started 8!  

Joyful stitching! 

Finishes!!!

I did it!!! I posted about these yesterday and I made myself get off the computer and sit down and just stitch! Amazingly....I finished them both!! Now I'm trying to figure out what to do next....work on The Abbey? Start the next two stockings? Or start Christmas card #4? Decisions Decisions!!

Slow stitching....Card #3, and some tiny stocking progress

 Yup, that's what I've been doing lately....stitching very slooooowly!!Ok, it's not so much that I'm stitching slowly, but that I have had very little time to devote to it. I started this Christmas card on Halloween day, and finished it on November 15th!!! Ok, so I have a good excuse, we were out of town for 11 days, but still! I can't believe how long it took! At this rate, I will definitely not have all my Christmas stitching done for this year! I shoulda started in June....of 2010!!!! Ha! Oh well, Life happens, right?

Here are the starts to the Littlest Stockings #'s7 and 8.  Again....SLOW! I'm trying so hard not to beat myself up, I have been spending so much time with my daughter (who knew a 20 month old had soooo much energy!)  and that is so much more important than stitching, but I miss being able to just sit down and devote large chunks of my day to a project.

And "The Abbey"? Huh? What's that?! I haven't touched it since before Halloween! Same with "Coming Home For the Holidays", my SAL piece I'm doing with Julie.   I'm not anticipating a whole lot of stitching time next week, either, with Thanksgiving on Thursday. Eh, oh well....life happens, like I said.

Also, I've been sick with a nasty cold this week, so I've been wanting to rest alot more. by the time I tuck the little one in for the night,(around 7pm) it's about all I can do to just sit and stare at the TV for about an hour before I head off to bed. Don't you hate cold medicine buzzes? They are so not productive!! I'm glad I am starting to feel alot better!

Well, it's just about time for the tiny tot to be tucked in for her nap, and I am going to try to get some good stitching in while she's out! I'm hoping she gives me at least a good 2 hours to get something done!

Christmas stockings 5 and 6 and the start of Card #3!

So, yesterday was Halloween. I sat and ate Halloween candy, while watching dvd's of Ghost hunter and stitching...Christmas stuff!!! I feel like it was a game of "What does not belong in this picture?" But, I got alot done so...hurray for productivity!

First up is Christmas Card #3....and as you can see, even from the tiny bit here, I have decided not to stick with stitching that little snowman over and over and over....and over! I just couldn't! I didn't think I could...I knew I'd get bored and need to mix it up, so now I have decided to work on ones that have a folkartsy angel and the words "Joyous Noel", I will probably do 2 of these then a different pattern...I have to have variety...it keeps life spicey! LOL

 And here are the littlest stockings #'s 5 and 6! I enjoyed these ones alot! They stitched up pretty quickly! I'm half way through with this series, so six more of these little cuties to do, then I have another set of "Tiny's"...I think they are called "Tiny Christmas Critters"....a bunch of little animals doing Christmas things! LOL.... Then onto the next series....Just gonna work my way through the whole book! =)

A few posts back a few people asked me what book I was stitching these ornaments from and it is called "Christmas Ornaments" By Kooler Design Studio, Inc. 78 Cross Stitch designs."

Thank you for reading! I hope you all had a safe Halloween, and those who were affected by storm Sandy, I pray you are all ok, with minimal damage, or even better yet! None at all! 

Littlest Stocking #4 finished, and #5 started!

Well, I did it! I finished Stocking #4 this weekend! So, now I just have 8 more to go to finish this series! 

I also made a small start on Stocking #5:

So, I got a little bit of stitching in this weekend! It feels really good to be enjoying stitching again!! I have decided to take a bit of an internet break for the next 2 days and see if I can get some good quality things done. I think that is my problem...spending toooo much time on the computer, browsing, and looking, and nothing is getting done, which frustrates me, but then I realize just how much time I spend sitting in front of the computer and I think I just need to cut WAAAY back on internet stuff.  I just have too much to do.

Well, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Stocking Ornaments 3 and 4...one's finished, one is not!

Well, I think the stitching bug is back!!!  Although, I must admit, I spent most of the week on these 2 stockings, and as you can see, I only got one finished! I think I have just been really frustrated with lack of free time to stitch now! In past years I stitched sooo much more, and now I feel as though I don't have enough time to get everything done, so I just give up altogether! LOL...Oh well, enough bellyaching about that! I have to just be happy that I got done what I did!

But, sometimes, don't you wish everyone and every life demand would just go away, so you could get more stitching done?  Oh well.

Well, last weekend we took Alyssa to a birthday party, and she caught a cold while she was there, and now I have it, and so does hubby!!! So, I don't think this weekend is gonna be much fun! Probably a lot of loafing around and blowing/ wiping of the noses! I am really gonna try to get more of these tiny stockings done this weekend! We shall see!

Hope you have a great one!

Littlest Stockings Ornaments 1 and 2

Finally here is a snap of my first littlest stockings ornaments! I finished these about a week and a half ago, and am just now sharing! These ARE really small! The next two that I post I will place a quarter next to them, so you can see just how small they are! They are fun little stitches! I haven't yet started the next one(s) yet, as my stitching slump is still in full swing....well, almost full swing...it's getting better, I worked on Christmas Card #2 yesterday for about an hour, it's just about done, but will share a progress photo in my next post!