Aggrivation!

That is how I am feeling right now, aggrivated! Today I had to work the dreaded 10-6 shift, I woke up late, 8 instead of my desired 6:30, which gave me only 1 1/2 hours to read blogs, and stitch before going to work. work itself was alright, but then I got home and thought I would stitch, instead I sat and watched Highlander with my husband for two hours, while we ate dinner. Why I didn't stitch while I was watching...well, I hate stitching in dim light it hurts my eyes, so I didn't even try, so around 9 I decided, well i will put my jammies on go to bed and read my book, which i started a new one the other day and am really enjoying it. So i sit in bed, hubby sits next to me with his book, all is fine until he decides to turn the light off and go to sleep, so I can't read, then he tries to get all cutsey wootsey and I am not in the mood, by the time I get this through his thick skull, we are both upset, I go take a shower, and start to feel hungry, it is late and I don't want to have to cook anything, so I think I will just heat up some soup, right?! wrong! I put the container in the microwave and thirty seconds into it's heat up time, the entire thing blows up! I am still hungry so I find a banana nut muffin and am now ranting about my horrid day online.

I only got 45 minutes of stitching in, about half an hour of reading in (thank you- Robert.) I didn't get to watch my Gilmore girls, I wasted my evening watching a show I don't even like, all the whilste I could have been stitching, and now that it is 11 at night I decide, hey maybe I should stitch! Yeah right! In my frame of mind I am better off just going to bed.

Good night, and thank you so much for listening!

Progress picture!

O.k. I was finally able to get to work on hubby's computer, and get a scanned picture of my work on Nov. Quilt. I think it is starting to look good!

I have put quite a bit of work in on the wagon. I have done alot in the past two days. Scroll down and look at the post on the 16th, and today is the 19th, I have done quite a bit. It seems like this is starting ot shape up, finally. Maybe I will actually get to meet my deadline! Well, it is still early, and I have all day to get more stitching done. Guess I will get to it. I really should post more often, when I see how much work i have put in on my pieces, it tends to spur me on a bit, to keep working.

Have a good rest of your weekend.

stitching, stitching and more stitching!

Well, this morning I worked on Nov. Quilt for about two hours, or more. It is really starting to come along, I will have to post a progress picture later, as DH is on his computer, so I can't get to the scanner, but I am going to get more work in on it, and then scan a picture tomorrow, and there will be even more work on it than there is now.

It is amazing how quickly it is starting to sail along now. I just keep pluggin away at it, maybe I actually will reach my deadline! Well, I have to work at 3:30 today so I have a few hours yet to stitch, and I guess I better get going, I am so inspired by it right now!

Stash!!!

Well, Today was my day off, and Hubby had the day off as well, so he, being the sweetheart that he is, decided that he would surprise me and take me to Hobby Lobby and let me get some things. so...I got some 18 count aida, in light blue. I have been online and looked everywhere for this color and this count, and there it was! I had to have it, and I also got my first Lavendar and Lace angel...angel of Light, just the chart. They were half off on the clearance rack, I wanted to get more, but I could tell DH was starting to get impatient, so I just grabbed that one and we left. He may take me back tomorrow. Afterall they were 8$ and are now $4.47! So, if you read this and can get to a Hobby Lobby, you may want to check it out. I don't know if it is all HL's or just this one, but to let you know the sale is out there.

That is the first stash I have gotten in a long time! It felt good. Now I just need to pick out a fabric to do the angel on. I probably won't get the one that the model picture is of, but I may, I don't know.

Well, I haven't stitched at all, today. I have spent too much time with hubby, I never get anything done when he's here. Well, now I have to go do some laundry. Then I may do some stitching before bed, even though I am crazy tired. I don't know why. Tonight we wen tout for dinner and then to the mall and to see "Firewall" and then he took me to Starbucks, but I feel like dropping into bed for HOURS, and I took a nap this afternoon too! What is up with this? I was doing really well, I had two good non-sleepy days this week, and now all of a sudden...!!!???? It is so frustrating when your body doesn't do what you want it to!

Good night dear friends! And thank you all for the lovely comments on my progress piccys. I will try harder.

Oh and I have to let you know, my computer is up and going well, we ran the restoration discs and it took it back to factory set up, so I basically wiped it clean and now have to start over, and Hubby is going to order me some RAM for it, to help it work with the Clearwire a bit easier. Thank you all for your well wishes with the computer issues...these machines just can drive you crazy! They also can make your life a lot more fun,though.

Progress pictures finally, and an introduction...

I know, I should have been posting pictures all this time, however, I always find it a chore, because I have to slip into my DH's computer room to do the scanning, however, with my own computer on the fritz right now, I am having to use DH's computer anyway, so here it goes, first off, I would like to show you my progress on November Quilt, at 41 hours, as you can see, I have gotten past the half way mark. I still have some fill in on the first side, and backstitching of course, however I feel quite accomplished on having finished almost the entire first half of this piece, it has given me renewed vigor in working on this project,and working on the second half.

and here is a picture of what Patchwork Bears will look like when completed. I liked the colors and the fact that there is patchwork in it, as I am into Quilts, and have tried my hand at Quilting, and have a stash of nice fabrics that I will one day turn into quilts, I hope, I really thought this piece would be inspiring.

And this is my progress on it, I am not sure how many hours on yet.

I haven't gotten very far, and I obviously have no synchrinized plan on how I am stitching this. Many people would work the whole patchwork border, and then work the bears, or Visa versa, but not me! I have just sorta been going along working on whatever I feel like, the bear...the Balloons...the border...It's all gotta be stitched right? I think I started working on the Bears because they were closest to the center, and then I got sick of working with the browns, and moved up into the balloons, and then decided to work on some of the pretty colors in the border, and here it is. But this is definitely one of those pieces that will be brought to life with the backstitching!

So, there we are, finally progress pictures, and I am hoping that I won't wait so long to show more progress pictures. As I read other blogs, it's the pictures that really make the blog exciting, and here I go for days without any pictures. I have wanted to, thought about it, and then turned off the computer, but this time i had to do it.

And I have one other small thing to say................................................

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNE!!!!

today she turns 40, and if you read this and don't read her, hop on over to her blog she is linked on my sidebar, at Feather Stitching, and wish her a happy birthday! She is a wonderful lady,and does some beautiful stitching!

Hope you all have a wonderful stitch-filled weekend!

Well, I really need to put some progress piccy's up here soon, as I have been putting quite a bit of time into Patchwork Bears. Sorry about yesterdays measly little post, as I wrote it at 4 in the morning, the spelling and grammer stinks! OOps!

Last night I slept soundly and was able to get up at my usual 6 in the morning, which hasn't happened for a long time. It feels really good to be well rested. And up early. It means one thing: more time for stitching before heading off for work!

Yesterday I got about half an hours worth of work in on Patchwork Bears, and that is it. Today I am hoping ot get a bit more done on November Quilt. I have started the left hand side of the pattern now, and am moving along, slowly but surely, when I bother to pick it up. Oh well, I am not going to go on a rant about obligation stitching again. For right now I am going to go settle in with my stitching, probably Nov. Quilt, and relax before it is time to head off to work, and the hecticness there.

Oh yes, and I think I ma having problems with Nov. quilt int he fact that I want to do some spring stitching, as it is right around the corner, and we have been having some spring like weather here, and I am stuck working on a fall piece. I will have to look through my stash and see if there is a small pattern that has spring like motifs in it.

Well,t he computer is being wishy washy, sometimes it will work and soemtimes it won't so for now i will just use DH. Oh, Von, just to let you know, DH won't be going until summer, i still have a few more months until he ships out! He is still here.

It is funny, I seem to be able to read blogs but when I try to blog myslef on my computer that is when it goes down! weird!

I couldn't sleep, so I decided to write, but now I don't have anything to write about,a dn I don't feel too good, my tummy hurts, and my legs too, which I need to keep my eyes on the leg aches, as the pharmicist told hubby when he picked up my RX that this med causes blood clots so if I have leg aches to stop using it. but, see? My job causes me to be on my feet a lot as well, and they will ache from that too, so what to do? well, I am going to go back to bed.
Good night...er...morning.
Happy Valentine's Day!