Just Plain Tired!

Well, the past few days I haven't had the want to to do anyhting! I haven't wanted to stitch, read, write or ANYTHING. Yesterday I had to work the dreaded 10-6 shift- YUCK! and I am still very tired, so yesterday I slept in until 7:30, which is an hour and a half later than normal, so I barely had time to go online check e-mail, check blogs and then take a shower before it was time to get ready to go. So, no stitching got done yesterday as when I got home DH and I made dinner then we watched a VERY stupid movie (Wedding Crashers) the end was good, the rest was a waste of time! And I was so tired from the day at work that I didn't feel like picking up my stitching during the movie, so this morning I think that I will get some stitching in before I go to work, which I work 11-4 today, not bad. And I was able to get up at my normal time this morning, so I have plenty of time.

I think another thing is I just got bored of Love, Joy, Home, and set it down and didn't want to pick it back up. I am well into the bottom half now, and I needed a break, but for some reason working on anything else just didn't appeal to me either, so I did nothing.

But today I think I will pick up something again, even though I am not sure what. I will try to post pictures soon!

Thank you much for the thoughts, yes,I think you are so right, I really need to get rid of the reds! I love that color combo though. Pinks and grays look good too, I could do like mauve and rose pinks, with the grays...? Hmmm..? I was just tossing the idea around. There are a few other colors I could work with like magenta/pinks, and tourqiouse (sp?) I don't know. I am sure I will figure something out. I just felt like doing something fun and creative that was sorta my own. I really should just soncentrate on the million and one projects already in the works for now, and when I finish them, then work on something.

Anyway, thank you to all who gave me your ideas.

Well, today was very relaxing much like yesterday. I am still very tired, and want to sleep all the time, I don't know why! It is frustrating, you know? But I will cope, and get through this, maybe I need to do some more exercise! Or take vitamins. I try to take a "one a day" type vitamin, because I know I don't eat right, but goodness, this just stinks. I am probably drinking too much coffee! I am addicted to it, and I drink it all day long, or maybe it is my calcium level, which I am calcium deficient,and I know that already, maybe I should get my blood checked. Maybe I am dehydrated!

Whatever it is, I don't like this one bit. It is really hard to stitch when all you want to do is lay down and go to sleep... again.

Well, remember a few posts back, I mentioned a red/gray color conversion for Home Love Joy, well, I worked one small part of it in the colors I was thinking of using and I wouldn't mind some criticism, or helpful hints, or thoughts on this, so here it is: my little sample of red/gray Home Love Joy. The only thing is, the reds...they all seem so close in shade that it is hard to tell them apart, there are four shades, and they are (in DMC)
3801-Lightest
666-darker
321 darker than 666
498-darkest
the last one is not pictured here, as this part of the design didn't call for the darkest color. I don't know. please, give me your ideas, or if you have other colors in mind I may use, I need some feedback on this, however, other than the whole "Can't see the difference in red" thing, I am liking this red/gray going on. What do you think?

A half way happy dance!

Well, here it is! Half way finished! And just as suspected this morning, it only took me 40 minutes to finish it from where I was before picking up my needle this morning.




and here is also a scan of Snow Valley Express:



So, you can see there has been a bit of progress on it. I started working on the snow and the trees, just to get away from all those bleak grays. blech!

Well, I think I must get back to the stitching!

A Stitcher's Verse

Cross Stitchers are a different breed~

The things we hope for,the things we "need"

We wish for floss to finish that row.

We sometimes wish our guests would just go!

We wait all day for that time to be~

That special time ~ that time for ME.

Each needle is threaded,the colors arrayed,

Scissors and chart have been carefully laid.

Now we relax, this is our pleasure~

Stitching this piece of soon-to-be treasure.

We always ignore that mental warning~

Stitching all night makes it rough in the morning.

But time's unimportant, we don't heed clocks

We just need floss and a sewing box.

Our project awaits us, now we proceed

This must be heaven~what more could we need?!

A cross stitching pen pal sent me this little poem, and I thought it was so cute, so I thought I would share it with you all. Well, I will be posting pictures later today. I didn't quite get to my half way mark last night, on Home Love Joy, by the time I got off the computer I was too tired to stitch, I put a few stitches in, realized I messed up earlier on that section, had to find the mistake and frogged it all out, and by the time I was done with that, I was really too tired to keep stitching, so I just put it away, and will work on it today, as I don't go into work until much later today, I have about 6 hours to get some done, then tomorrow starts my 3 day weekend! YIPPEE!

I am going to get some pictures scanned in of Snow Valley Express, though, and maybe If I can finish the top half of L,H,J, I will scan that in too. I am sure I can, unless I find anymore mistakes that had previously gone unnoticed, I am sure it will only take me about 30-45 minutes to complete the top half, that is how close I am!

More later!

Well, yesterday I worked mostly on Snow Valley express. This morning I put about half an hours worth of work into Home Love Joy, that's all the stitching I have done today. Just that half hour before going to work. I think here ina bit I am going to go sit in bed and do some more work on that, I really wan tto finish the top half and be abel to start the bottom, I am SO close.

Snow Valley is looking pretty good, I think. Tomorrow I will try to post some pictures, even though I am only at 15 hours on that one, and I was going to post every ten hours. Oh well. I am proud of myself for making myself keep working on it. Actually the part I am working on right now isn't so bad, I was just getting bored with all the blacks and grays of the train itself, and the pattern is sorta complicated. I really have to concentrate on the pattern not to miscount or mess up. I am NOT looking forward to the detailed back stitching! YOu may have no idea what I am even talking abou tif you haven't seen this piece, but tomorrow I promise you will see it,because it will be posted. I will post a what it is supposed to look like and then maybe I'll show you how much I have done since the last time I posted a picture of it on here.

Well, for now I am going to go sit in bed and work on Home Love Joy, lets see if I can have a half-way mark happy dance...is that possible? I mean can you have a happy dance for half way being done? Or do you have to wait to do the jitterbug until the very end? hmmm...? You know? I think I can dance whenever I feel like it! Anyone care to join me?! Let's get down! =))

Well, yesterday I wrote how I had so much to do and I probably wouldn't get it all done, lets see? I got the laundry done, and I worked on Snow Valley Express for a few hours, and nope, no work on H,L,J sampler, but I did make my goal to get to the trees yesterday on Snow Valley, so that is good. Today I work ALL day so I will probably not get as much stitching in as I would like. I am trying to get this bloggy-stuff done here soon, so I will have a little stitching time before going to work, we shall see.

I will have a little bit of time to get some stitching in tonight too, as I will be off work at 7, so it won't be too terribly late, but by the time I come home, shower, eat dinner, and chat with DH for a bit, it seems all I have energy for is slouching on the couch with a movie, and then bed. So, we shall see, tomorrow I only have a short 5 1/2 hours shift, so will have lots of stitching time in the evening, and on Thursday I only have another short shift so will get to stitch all morning and don't go into work until 3:30 in the afternoon, so will have all morning and early afternoon to get some stitching in. And then! for once! I actually have the entire weeknd off from work Fri-Sun. So, hopefully lots of stitching time in then! So, if I can just get through work today I will have lots of me time this week.

It's hard because during the holidays the store was super busy so I was pulling 8 hour shifts for about a month, I got used to it, and then after the holidays things dies, so we went back to short 5/6 hour shifts, so then my body got used to that, and now we are starting to get 8 hour shifts again, and now I have to get used to it all over. I am glad I only have the one 8 hour shift this week. I just hope it goes fast!

Well, off I got to get my blogs read and then to stitch for a little bit before getting ready for work. Bye!