IIII'm Baaaack!!!

Hey everyone! I'm back! I can't believe it's been 1 week shy of a month since I posted here! But I KNEW July would be busy so I slacked off on stitching and a bunch of my other monthly goals, I usually set for myself, and was just a woman of leisure!

Since this IS a stitching blog, I'll show you the stitchy stuff first! I worked on page 9 of the Abbey. All that on the lower right area is all I got in on this...or on anything! This is the ONLY stitching I did all month! Not bad, but definitely not to par with what I can normally accomplish in a month! (Sorry it's blurry!)

As I mentioned in my past post that my wedding anniversary is in July. And we spent 4 days at the beach. It shoulda been a great time, but everything and anything was against that. (From bad weather to our car breaking down to a scheduled power outage leaving us in a hot cabin for 3-4 hours...it just went on and on!) However, the view from our cabin? Spectacular! See?
And this last photo is just a cute one of my girl! She is growing so fast! She LOVES to have her photo taken! And whenever you aim a camera her way she throws a big ole' cheeser! She's my lil' ham!
I hope you all had a wonderful July! And I am hoping to pop in here more often in August! Not much going on now that the crazy month of July is done and over with! Back to regular ole everyday life....and stitching!!!

Just a quick hello!!

Wow! What a month so far! I have been busy, sure, but no where near too busy to post, I have just been taking some time off from the normal things of life.

This may sound crazy, but every so often I have to deprive myself of the things I love best so that when I come back to them I enjoy them more....does that make sense? I sometimes feel as though I take for granted some of my favorite things, so then I need a break just to change things up, and then when I come back to it, it is special to me once again. Am I crazy? I just needed a change, so for this months change, I am taking a "break" from some of my most loved things, like reading, and stitching. So that when I come back to them they will be once again something special to me.

I guess in a way this is a blessing, how awesome is it that I am so pampered that in order to really appreciate the things I love I have to take a break from them so when I get back to them they are once again wonderful to me? I guess it's the whole "absence makes the heart grow fonder" train of thought....=/ weird, I have also done this with coffee, drinking daily tea instead and only having coffee on the weekends. I think when you do or have something so often, or all the time, it is no longer a treat. I want to once again be excited about my reading and my stitching, so need to take a break, and am focusing on a few other things I need to pay attention to right now.

So, I WILL be back, but for now, just taking a break! Don't worry, I won't be gone forever!

Hope all my American readers had a wonderful 4th of July!!!

See yah again soon!

SAL progress on Coming Home for the Holidays-July

Still working on the left hand side, with back stitching, and also worked a bit on the light blue in the roof, you can hardly see it...it's slowly coming along, when you think that when we started this SAL in Oct and it looked like this:

Yup, it's come quite away!

Tag! I'm it!

Well, I've been tagged by TWO people for the 11-questions dealy Mcthingamajigger that's goin' around! So I guess I have TWO sets of Questions to answer...is that right? I don't mind! I'll do it! Because I like these girls! They are good questions too!

So, Jules...ops, I can't go to her page because it's flagged for Ma

lware...hmmm...but I can read it off the googlereader! hahaha! LOL

1) What is the strangest thing you’ve ever confessed to eating for breakfast?

I don't think I have eaten weird stuff for breakfast! =)

2)When shopping, what aisle do you gravitate to first?

BOOKS!!!! Then baby stuff!

3)What is the most recent book you’ve read?

"The Pact" by Jodi Piccoult

And am currently reading "Immortal in death" by JD Robb

4)Who is your favourite movie star dream guy/gal?

Josh Holloway (LOST) and Eric Dane (Grey's Anatomy)...and so many more! =)

5)Do you file your patterns by Designer, Alphabetically or by Category?

I'm not that picky! If they fit in the box, in they go! =)

6)Do you stick to the pattern when stitching or change it up?

Stick to it!

7)Would you ever want to try your hand at designing?

Yeah it'd be fun!

8) Do you tend to stitch more or less in the summer months?

Less, I would rather be outdoors!

9)Have you ever attended a stitching retreat?

No, just one more thing to add to my List of things to do before I die!

10)If money wasn’t an issue and you had the opportunity to choose from one or the other,

Move

11)Do you track the hours you spend on a stitching project?

I used to, but now it's hard because I have to hop up alot during stitching to deal with the baby.

Now for terri's list:

1. What is your favorite television show?

I have too many....Right now it's CSI....all three

2. What was your favorite band when you were a teenager?

I was into hair bands, Guns-n-Roses. Motley Crue, Warrant, Metallica

3. Have you ever been in a hurricane?

No, but I've been through three typhoons, which is the pacific equivilant of a hurricane

4. Have you ever played in the pouring rain?

Oh yeah! Fun times!

5. What is your favorite pro team? (hockey, baseball, football, soccer etc)

None

6. Have you ever traveled to France to watch the Tour de France?

No.

7. Have you ever taken dance lessons?

Yup

8. Have you ever totally gotten into a song (singing and dancing in your seat) while sitting at a traffic light?

Yup!

9. What is your favorite alcoholic drink?

Jack and coke and Guinness

10. What was your favorite thing to do on summer vacation when you were a kid?

Lay on my bed and read in the cool comfort of my parents house

11. Do you have a book that you read over and over and will do so again? If so, what book?

"The Bestseller" by Olivia Goldsmith

I think everyone else has been tagged, but if you want to participate, feel free. My 11 Questions are:

1. Coffee or tea?

2. Reading or stitching?

3. Tennis shoes and socks or flip flops?

4. Hand written letters or e-mail?

5. Chocolate or Vanilla?

6. Big juicy steak with potatoes or Salad?

7. If you had a million dollars what would you do with it?

8. If you had to spend the rest of your life doing one thing what would it be?

9. Sunshine or rain?

10. You get the chance to hang out with one person for 24 hours who would it be?

11. What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?

I guess thats it! =)

The Red Headed step child of stitching projects!

As you can see, I have been diligently working on this Pain in the hiney project! I finished all the x's in the roof of the house and am about ready to start the backstitching! Alot of the blue on the right hand side of the house, next to the roof is what I had to frog out! By the time I was done, there was nothing there! I think I am about done with the pink flowers in the front of the house as well. When I look at it like this I am pleased at how far along it has come!

Thank you all for your lovely comments! And my new followers! I have been tagged by Terri and Jules....so gotta go see what I gotta do, and then I'll post a separate post about that! =) Thank you girls for thinking of me!!

This weekend I will be working on my SAL project with Jules, so...I will be posting that progress on Monday, or so! And we'll see what kind of progress this next month will turn out, since July is a pretty busy month for us!

Well we just got home from hubby's work 4th of July picnic and I'm hot and tired so off to grab a glass of Raspberry Iced Tea and my book!

Joyful stitching and a wonderful 4th of July to all my American readers!

The Abbey- page 6 DONE!!!

I am so excited about this! Because my goal for this one for this month was to finish page 6 and with the exception of 7 stitches, I made it!!! What with all my playing computer games. I didn't think it would happen, but I did it! so, now I will scoot down and work on page 9, (the page directly under 6) If you followed my progress on "Howling at the Moon", you know I like to start on page 5 (dead center), and work my way in a spiral, clockwise. I don't know why, but that is just how I like to work these big ole' things!

I have to apologize for the double post of The Abbey, (meaning I posted about it twice in a row, without posting about the birdhouse in between) I have been working on it, but last week found a horrible error, and ended up pulling a huge chunk out on the right hand side, so while I did make some progress I also regressed as well (Is that the right word?) Anyway...plus last week I didn't get my Abby post in 'til late int he week, so didn't get birdhouse up either. I think I have decided that instead of it being called "Cozy Re-tweet" I have decided to nic name it "Crazy Re-tweet", because I feel like I'm going crazy every time I work on it, somehow i find something wrong at every turn, or something! I am SO just about to call it quits on that one! And to think there are 2 more to stitch! NOOOOOOO!!!!!! I will have to be committed to the loony bin by the time I finish the last one! But! I have made a solid decision that I WILL have working copies of the pattern for the next two!

So, for sure I will be posting progress on Crazy Re-tweet this week.

My goals for that one for the month was to finish birdhouse #1, and start #2....didn't happen!!!

And for July I am not sure how much stitching I will get in, as it is a busy month for us, I have 4th of July holiday, Hubby's birthday, and our wedding anniversary all in July. And The hubs has decided to spirit me away to the beach for 4 lovely days to spend the weekend in a nice cabin overlooking the ocean. However, I was thinking about it, and this late in the game, I'm not sure he'll be able to get reservations for the cabins, they are usually all booked up for the summer! So, we will see!

That is all for us here. Looking forward to some (lots!) of family time next month!

Joyful stitching! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

The Abbey-Progress!

For the most part I have been working on the right hand side on all those beautiful clouds! I love all those violets/grey-violets! So pretty! I haven't been stitching too much, been doing other things. I found two new types of computer games I really enjoy and I have bought about 6-7 new ones and have been spending all my time with them! My husband is a die hard gamer, he's the stay up all night swilling Mt.Dew kind of gamer, and I have never been THAT into games, I'm not into the shoot em up kinda things he likes, killing all things from people to aliens to zombie kinda thing, but I have found HOGS (Hidden object/mystery) games, and Time management games (where you are given so much time to complete a certain number of tasks) and I am addicted! So have been spending much more time in front of the computer with these silly (but addictively fun) games. And not as much time with my stitching...I'm sure this obsession will run it's course and I will soon be back to my stitching regularly, but lately I've been a bit distracted...

I think the fact that I've not been stitching as much has also kept me from blogging....after all, what am I supposed to blog about if I have no progress?

Well, thank you all for stopping by and saying hello! And I am trying to make the rounds and say hello to you all in your comment boxes, which my googlereader overfloweth, so I am slowly getting through it all, and there is ALOT of gorgeous stitching going on out there!

Joyful Stitching!!