Bolaven....ugh

I am sitting here as the first sheets of rain are pouring out of the sky. I live on the tiny island of Okinawa Japan, and we are waiting for Super Typhoon Bolaven to unleash it's wrath on us! It is to be the worst storm this island has seen in 13 years! Winds from 130-150 mph are expected to blow through starting later this afternoon, and all into tomorrow! Please pray for us.

We ARE safe here, as the buildings are built to withstand these storms, it's not like in the States where a storm is likely to ground entire counties. Here, as long as you stay indoors, you are pretty safe, even the windows are built to withstand the high winds, something like a windshield! We don't even have to board our windows, they are storm-ready!! I don't know what the next 48 hours will hold, if we'll lose power or anything like that, chances are we may lose it for a while, but as soon as this thing has gone past, I'll let you know how we fared!

My prayers go out to those who are looking storm Isaac in the face! I pray you all stay safe and have minimal to no damage to your property, etc.

So, it's August...it's not too early for Christmas...is it?

Nope, not when it comes to Christmas Stitching!!! My first Christmas Card finish for 2012! Last year I stitched about 10 different patterns for my cards and gave everyone a different one, but this year I have decided to do them all in this pattern...I will however be changing up the colors...of the words, and the snowman's hat and scarf, so....I don't know how this is gonna be for me, I hope I don't get bored with stitching the same design over and over and ooooveeerrr...but I also have some other Christmas Smalls I wanna get done this year too....Ornaments! I have had a book of Christmas Ornaments for quite a few years, and about 5 years ago I actually DID stitch up some of them, and used them as decoration on presents, so they all went bye bye, but this year I have decided I'm gonna open up to page #1, and stitch right through the whole book! FOR ME! (There are 78 different ornies in this book,) there are "sets" or series if you will...or collections....for example "Littlest stockings" there are 12 of them, and "Christmas Critters" twelve of them, 12 santa Clauses, 12 different animals playing in the snow, 12 different snowmen, there's a Noah's ark theme, and also a set of Country Folk as well, I want to do all of them....So, I am really excited for that project, as most of you who have read this blog for awhile know, I LOVE series of things....I'm weird, I know, so the first collection I will be doing is the "Littlest stocking" series, so will show photos of them as I work on them.

I will still work on The Abbey, as well as try to get some work in on "Snow Valley Express" (You can find it in my labels on my sidebar if you're curious! ) I took the month of July "off" from serious stitching and I come back with my mojo in full swing, ready to stitch everything I see! I love this feeling!

Thank you for reading, and for my new followers-Welcome! I am so glad you're here! I hope you enjoy seeing all my stitching, as much as I enjoy stitching them! Hope you all have a wonderful week!!

Ha! So much for poppin' in more in the month of August!

I was really hoping to update here more often! I HAVE been stitching! As you can see...I have just been not on the computer lately, as I am trying to catch up on some things that went undone last month....like getting more stitching in! So, here is where I am now:

That looks really wonky, doesn't it? Like the bottom part is crooked...it is! LOL....But you can see how far along I have gotten! Quite a little bit, I'd say. I was hoping to get a finish on this page by the end of this month! I think if I stay focused, I may get it done! Wish me luck!

Coming Home for the Holidays-Progress!

It's comin' along!

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!