Happy Halloween!

In honor of Halloween, I am going to start a new project!  Here she is:

Scott is a huge fan of Edgar Allen Poe, and this will be an awesome Halloween picture that we can put in the library all year long!  I'll be stitching this in between trick-or-treaters!  Hope everyone has fun!

WIP Wednesday, except it's Thursday

Thought I'd post my progress as of yesterday.  First up is Family Sampler by LHN:

I'm enjoying this very much, with the exception of all the extra fabric I have to deal with.

Next up is Two Girls by Industrioushead.  Amy, you can stop reading right now.  Go on, I'll wait...
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Okay, I had to do that because she is my sister and I forgot she still reads this from time to time!  Here it is, as modeled by my sweet Mayhem:

 Have a great evening, everyone!

Has it been almost a week already?

I have had such a busy weekend, I don't think I have had a chance to breathe!  Here's what I have been up to:

• Friday - drove to Maine (4 hours).  No stitching.
• Saturday - shopped with Mom and made Vegetarian Chili for dinner.  Stitched a bit.
• Sunday - various chores for winterizing the house, including putting the lawn mower away, cleaning the gutters, closing up the bulkhead and tarping it, checking for woodpecker damage in the eves.  Then, drove home (4 hours).  Stitched a bit, but less than on Saturday.
• Monday - worked, then made apple crisp and Ham and Hash Brown casserole for dinner, with the leftovers prepared to bring to my MIL on Tuesday.  No stitching.
• Tuesday -  worked, then to Joanne's to pick up supplies for a baby blanket, then the supermarket to pick up ice cream to go with the apple crisp I brought to my MIL.  Then, home to re-heat the casserole and apple crisp.  Then, into Southie to have dinner with my MIL, whose health has not been to good lately.  Then, home again.  No stitching.
• Wednesday - work.  Have to go to CTS to pick up gift bags for gifts I brought for my friend, whose second child I will meet tonight.  Hooray!!!  Hopefully, will stitch tonight!

Success!

Last night we let Mischief and Mayhem sleep in our room.  We have been trying since the end of our vacation, but for the past 2 nights, they were just too rambunctious - chasing each other all over the house and scuffling.  Very cute during the day, not so cute when you are trying to sleep.

So, we decided the best thing to do would be to play with them hard so they would get tuckered, and it worked pretty well!  Yes, I did get stepped on (in the face) once or twice, but that's to be expected.

We'll try again tonight!

Mayhem has gotten too curious for his own good.  Yesterday when I got home I opened the door and they were in the hallway.  We keep them in the kitchen/library area during the day, but they had gotten out.  I didn't notice they were out until I had gotten the door opened pretty wide, and when I noticed they were loose, Mayhem had made his way onto the porch.  I threw my stuff down (including the groceries!) and grabbed him, but he had gotten to the end of the porch already.  I was terrified!!!  I'll be opening the door alot more slowly from now on. 

Honestly, I don't know how people with actual children manage to stay sane!

Have a great day

WIP Wednesday

I worked some more on LHN Family Sampler tonight.  Here is my progress so far:

I also started a new Christmas Ornament.  It 's called Two Girls by Industrioushead.  As soon as I saw it, I knew it would be the perfect ornament to give to my sister for Christmas this year.  Here is my progress so far:

It's quite small - I am stitching it on 28 ct white monaco over one.  Here is what it will look like when it is finished.  I really like her style, and this will be the first of many of her designs I will stitch.


Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

What I did while I was on vacation

We had a wonderful week!  Scott and I spent the time shopping, organizing and playing with kitties (who keep growing in adorableness and size).  We got a dining room table from IKEA as a 5th wedding anniversary present (traditional gift is wood).  We were originally going to get a sleigh bed, but it was just too expensive.  We will continue to save up for it, and in the mean time, we will have a place for our guests to eat when Christmas rolls around (IN TEN WEEKS, PEOPLE!!!).

I also stitched, of course.  May I present (less wrinky than Cat Lessons, but un-ironed, just the same):

Time for God, by Lizzie*Kate

Started 10-8-10

Finished 10-17-10

Stitched on 28 ct Mushroom Monaco, with DMC

This was a quick, fun stitch, and I think I will have to stitch it again.  So many people I know would appreciate this, and as it is was such a quick stitch, why not repeat it? 

So, now I am working on LHN Family Sampler.  I neglected to take a photo, but not much more had been done, as I abandonned my plan of stitching it on Wednesdays and Sundays just during my vacation.  I picked it up on Sunday and while I love it, I need to find an easier way to acccomodate the vast amount of extra fabric I have - I was afraid to cut it until I had completed the outline, but it's HEAVY!  Any suggestions as to what I could do to help with this would be greatly appreciated!

I hope everyone had a wonderful week, and it's back to work I go!

A wrinkly finish and a new WIP

So last night I finished Cat Lessons, except for the personalization, which will have to wait while I get a few Christmassy things done.  It was a fun stitch, and every time I see it I will think about my increasingly rambunctious and curious kitties!  Here it is, in all it's wrinkly glory!

And since I finished this, I now felt justified in finally starting Family Sampler by LHN.  I am doing this as part of the SAL at the designer's yahoo group, and I have decided this will be my Wednesday and Sunday project until my Christmas gifts are finished, then this will be my focus piece.  This is about an hour's worth of fabric prepping and stitching, and I already love it!

Can't believe it's Thursday already!  Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Makin' Biscuits

Mischief's evening ritual: