My last weeks progress...

Hi all!

I hope everyone had a great week.  This week has been a busy one for me.  I worked, what seems like a ton, so I didn't have as much time to stitch this week.  I did take some time this weekend to enjoy a movie with my husband.  We saw Les Miserables.  Oh my goodness...this was such a good movie.  They did an excellent job with it.  I've seen it on Broadway twice, and it was so comparable.  Toward the end of the movie, I told my husband that Hugh Jackman seemed like he sounded a lot like Colm Wilkinson, who did Jean ValJean on Broadway in the original production and also in the Anniversary Concert.  Then come to find out that Colm Wilkinson was the bishop in the movie.  It all made sense. If you haven't seen it, you really need to.  

So, here's my stitching progress this week... 

This is Amy Brueken Designs A Man A Month.  I'm working on this as a model for my LNS.  I didn't make a lot of progress on this, but I did get the backstitiching done on the last two snowmen on the top row.  I'd like to get this one done soon.  I think this one is going to get some focusing on for awhile.

 This is my ornament that I worked on this week.  It's from LK's Joy to the World.  I love how it turned out.

Now, can anyone tell me what this last one is from?  This is for an exchange, but it was a fundraiser piece several years ago.  I've wanted to do it for a long time, so I decided to do it for the exchange.  Sorry the picture isn't that great.

Well, I hope everyone has a great week.

January WIPocalypse update

Here is my January WIPocalypse update. Since I'm trying to work through some UFO's and WIP's this year, I thought I did pretty well.  Next month, I'm going to work on a couple of others on my WIP list.  I'm not sure which ones next month though.  

 CCN Santa's Village

 LK Snow Friends

 Amy Bruecken Designs AMan a Month

 LHN Heart of America

JD Vintage Stars

Not a bad start to the New Year, huh?  

Santa and a cup of tea...

Hi -

I hope everyone has been doing fairly well over the last week or so.  Things in my little part of the world has gotten a little busy...with my school restarting, the kids and homework, and work.  But I've been off for the last several days, and I've enjoyed it so much.  Today I've kept myself busy...I have chili in the crockpot, an angel food cake in the oven, bread baking in the bread machine, and laundry going.  Plus I finished my Christmas Tea piece this morning.  I think it turned out well.  I used some silk threads from Crescent Colours and the red and white is from Vikki Clayton.  I was just trying to use items that I already had.  Sorry that I cut a little bit of the side off.  

 Then the other day, I finished off the first of Santa's Village.  I love the way this turned out.  I'll put the button on top of the tree when I'm done with all of them.  Unfortunately with my counting issues that I was having at the beginning of the year, I tore almost everything out except for the tree.  Well when I was finishing up, I realized that the tree was one space higher than Santa, so I gave it a little more snow because I just didn't want to tear out anymore.

I saw this morning on the Shepherd's Bush blog that they are coming out with some new kits including a new snowman called Gray Snowman.  Can't wait!!!!!
Well, I guess this is it for now.  I hope everyone has a great week.

My lasts and firsts...

This week has been pretty good stitching wise, and other than work not too much has been going on.  The kids have gone back to school, and my new school term started this week too.  My classes seem to be pretty interesting though.  One class is a basic computer course that is a requirement, but it does teach the finer points of PowerPoint, Excel, and Microsoft Word. Then the other class is a Modern Culture class that ties art, music, movies, etc...in iwth what is going on from the mid 1800's till now.

The Joy ornament is from the LK Ornament chart this year.  It was my last finish of 2012.  I liked the way it turned out, but I didn't have the called for thread for the "O" so it looks a little wonky.  I did go buy the right thread, so I'll stitch this one again.

Fa-La-La is a SB kit that I bought myself as a Christmas present.  It's supposed to be stitched over 2, but I stitched it over one so it could be an ornament.  I really liked this one.  I have to substitute the buttons with some different buttons I had to make it work.

This one goes hand in hand with my New Year's Resolution of finishing up things that have been sitting around.  This is Jeanette Douglas' Vintage Stars.  When I picked this one up, I have only done about 3 of the little stars that make up the large big star. So I'm plugging away on this one.

Then this one is the LHN Heart of America.  Before I picked this one back up, I had only the Liberty, Freedom, and Year block done.  So definitely making some progress on this too.

I started taking the 4 trees down in the house this week.  2 down, 2 to go.  I'm trying to work on one a day.  It makes me kind of sad about taking them down.  I love the looks of my trees and all of the pretty lights.
Well, I hope everyone has a great week!
Melissa

LK Jingle Flip Its

Oh...I'm in so much trouble!!!  Look what I found on Needlecraft Corner today.  This is a preview of the new LK Jingle Flip Its that will be released this year with the first three coming out this month.  So stinking cute!!!!  Can't wait!!!!!