HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY DANCE!!!!!

And, ladies....here's what we have all been waiting for!! Ok, so what I've been waiting for! The completion of November Quilt, by Paula Vaughan.

And now I can stretch it and get it ready for framing. Maybe just maybe I will have it done for my mother's arrival. It took me 68 hours to complete! and I started it in September I believe, I want to say the 25th, so it took just about 9 months to finish! But that is because I didn't work on it all the time, much of the time I was working on other projects! So, anyway, now it is on to my father's gift. hmmm...wonder if I can get it done before Christmas? For now though I am going to reward myself with some stitching of my own. Thank you everyone for the comments, and inspiration and encouragement I had while stitching this piece! You are all a part of it!

Happy Memorial Day!

Well, yesterday was the day from hell! I dealt with way too many people, and too much noise! Everyone was getting all their stuff together for the long weekend/holiday shindigs, and family gatherings and whatnot. Sometimes my days just breeze by, but yesterday was TOO long, and I get to deal with it all again today! But! In about 13 hours, I will be home and not have to go back to that place for 69 hours! yippeee! Then I only have to work a handful of hours before I get another day off! So, if I can just make it through today, I can breatha sigh of relief and relax! For almost three whole days. (Just three hours shy of three whole days)

Thus being said, I have to admit, that! I didn't do any stitching at all yesterday. And it was Sunday-Nov. Quilt day, and even though I didn't stitch on it yesterday at all, I do have a progress picture, so here it is! i still have alot of backstitching to do, and alot of it is hard to see, because it is dark brown on brown, on the wheels of the wagon, but it is getting done. I even got up super early this morning (Yeah, how many people do you know set their alarms for 5 in the morning on a Holiday?) anyway, I have to work at 10:30, so I thought I would try to get a good nights rest because I didn't get very much sleep the night before, and I am guessing that is why yesterday seemed so awful to me. I went to bed at 10 last night, so I could get up nice and early and get some stitching in before work. now how dedicated is THAT?! or maybe I should say How Addicted is THAT?! So, I am hoping that if I get to do some stitching this morning before going into work, maybe the day will be better. I am all rested up from a good nights rest, and add some relaxing stitching in there I should be good to go! Hope you all have a great Holiday, and don't forget to remember those who have done their jobs for the land of the free!

Photos finally!

O.k. I have decided it is time for some pictures. So many of you have been posting such nice pictures of all the things you are working on and I don't, or haven't been. and I love it when people post pictures, so I am sure you all would like to see some, right? So, this is November Quilt, with some of the back stitching on it. I started the wagon,a nd the pumpkins on the ground there, I don't know if you can even tell.

something occured to me this morning...I never showed you my finished Easter Bell Pull....there's a reason why....I didn't finish it yet! Because I didn't get it done by Easter, I just sort of set it aside a forgot about it. I think that should be my goal for now, is to finish the bell pull this month, shouldn't be too hard, don't have much left to do on it. I know it is WAY past Easter, but there is always next year to display it.
This picture is of Dolphins Domain. I love the colors in this one. You can see the start of dolphin #1 here, just the outline. then in the upper left side there is a couple dark blotches, that is another dolphin, and then there is the outline of the third one and you can see where the fin will go, directly under dolphin #1's tail but I haven't started any stitching on it yet, you can just see where he is supposed to go. This one is fun, I love the colors in this one, there are alot of blended threads though, and alot of the background colors are all half stitches so they go quick. I pulled this one out from my stash drawer, just for a change in scenery. I love the fall colors in November Quilt, but in the middle of spring, they tend to seem very drab and dark. So, I pulled this one out just for a change, and also because I was starting to get the starters bug, and I really should not start another project, I have way too many WIP's and so I thought I might as well work on one that hasn't seen the light of day in a long time, just for a change. well, since not much stitching has been getting done on my end, I don't have anything else to show. I am really going to try to get more stitching in. You all inspire me, when I look at your blogs and they have all these finishes and progress pictures. Well, hope you enjoyed my photo update. Happy Wednesday

Just BSing around!...did I say that?!

Yes, I have been backstitching alot on my Nov. Quilt, since that is all there is left to do I guess I better keep on it. Now lets see if blogger will upload my photo. I tried also the other morning, but it wouldn't do it! ARGH! Lets see if it will now yup! Here it is! Now I just have to finish the backstitching, and I'll be done. I am hoping to have it finished by next weekend.

Anyway, this weekend was alot of fun. Rob and I went puppy looking. I want to get a dog really bad, because he is deploying soon, and I thought that having a dog would help me not be so lonely. On Saturday morning we went to the shelters, I saw the cutest, sweetest border collie, I wanted to take him home right then and there, but we were only looking, as we didn't have the money for him now. Plus I want to look around some more too.

Anyway, so I am getting puppy love big time now. I can't wait to get a dog.

In stitching news, I did a lot of backstitching yesterday while watching Mrs. Doubtfire. So, it is coming along, I think I may wait until it is completely finished to show you the next updated photo! Hopefully, I will have it done by the end of this week. That is my goal anyway. Then we shall see what I drag out of my drawer...probably need to get dad's underway. I should have been working on his all along, but I have really been trying to focus on Nov. Quilt. Well, I am off to get a work out in then sit and stitch for the rest of the afternoon before heading off for work.

Finally! some more progress!

Well, here is Nov. Quilt, it is now at 65 hours, and I think it is really looking great! From here on out it is alot of fill in. I am almost done with the pumpkins and yet i still have a lot of green to put in, but it is just half stitches, so should go quickly.
I have been pretty busy so haven't been blogging much lately, as last Friday I got my drivers license! Yay for me! It is SOOOO embarrassing, but here I am almost 29 years old and not having one yet, but I have always had a sort of phobia of driving. When I was about 12 years old I was in a car accident with my mom. We were not hurt or anything, but it shook me up quite badly. and then when I was a teeneager, just about the time I was going to take driver's ed, and stuff, a family friend of ours died in a car accident, she was only 16 years old so...nope! No way was I getting behind the wheel. Well, then I got out of high school, and thought I would go get my permit, and did, and after a few times out driving I saw another HUGE accident, there were people laid out covered up, dead. I took that car home and never tried again.

That was about 10 years ago,and I have always had someone to take me wherever I wanted, or needed to go. But with DH leaving for the middle East here in a little less than a month, I would have been stranded. So, I pushed myself to get it. And I did! And I have driven to work all last weekend, and sunday I didn't work but took the car out and hung out with a friend. And now I can't believe I waited so long! So, anyway, I have been busy, but as you can see, I have gotten in a little bit of stitching on Nov. Quilt. I am so close! I didn't make it for my mom's b-day, it was on Sunday (the 23rd) She is coming out to visit in July, while DH is gone, so I am thinking about maybe having it done for her then. It gives me a few more months! Plus, we shall hope that by then my dad's gift will be done too!

Well, I think I am going to go sit and do some more stitching, and read some more blogs before having to get ready for work. Bye!

A progress Picture!

HAPPY EASTER!
Well, I did it! Yesterday I worked on Nov. Quilt for 3 hours, and can I say I think I got quite a bit done, and I worked on it a bit more this morning, and it is still very early yet! I plan on working on it all day. I am going to stitch alot and read a little and just relax! It is really coming along, yesterday I finished all the blue of the sky, and around the wheels. I am pretty much done with the wagon itself, except for a fill in spot where I need two stitches, and all the ground and the pumpkins, and then the Backstitch! I don't know why it has taken me so long to post a progress picture, probably because I didn't think there was much progress on it, but I forget that you tend to see more of your work when you post the picture than just looking at what you stitched. I wonder if it could possibly be finished in a week, or two? I guess so if I keep it up. Well, I didn't finish my Easter piece, I still need to finish putting in the Easter bear and flowers and Hearts I decided to put on it at the last minute in place of what was supposed to go on it.
Well, I am off to go stitch some more. Bye!

twenty hours? I meant thirty!

Oops, I made a mistake, earlier I wrote that was 20 hours of progress on Nov. Quilt, it is actually 30...but now i have 31 and a half, as I just stitched right through watching Speed 2, so, that was really 30 hours, not 20!