Cravings...

I've been reading so many wonderful blogs lately with so many wonderful projects finished or in progress. I have so many cravings of pieces that I want to start on, yet I have so many pieces that I am working on in various forms of progression. It just sucks! I want to start something like 6 or 7 possibly more new pieces, but I keep holding off because I feel I need to finish another of my BAP. Now, imagine me using a 2 year old whiny voice, I want to start new projects!!!!! Patience is a virtue, right??? Such crap when it comes to cross stitch. The list of what I want to start, now remember this is just a couple that are screeching at me, BRD Peppermint Twist, ByGone Stitches Quaker Virtues, LHN Sea to Shininig Sea, LHN Traveling Stitcher, LK ABC Lessons, anything SB, and BC Red Thread. OOPS, I forgot there's a couple of Prairie Schoolers that are screaming at me too, but they have to wait since I don't have the charts yet.

Well, on a little bit better note, here is a finish for this week. I love this little piece. I stitched this over one on 25 ct. fabric with DMC threads. I'm also still working on the JCS model piece.

These are the pinwheels for the baby quilt from the last post. I had to make 12 of them, and I finished the 12 yesterday morning. They were a PIA. I've never done pinwheels before. Heck, I've never done triangles of any kind before. Getting the points to match were terrible. I don't know how many times I ripped these apart. I'm satisfied with what I've done though. I went to the new LNS that opened on Friday. It was pretty good. The fact that they are just opening, they didn't have a lot of charts, but they are slowly building up their stock. Here's the stash that I got. It was so nice to fondle threads and fabrics again. Then, I received an order from Shepherd's Bush as well.


Well, I hope everyone has a great week.
Take care!

PS: Hopefully big news later this week. Keep your fingers crossed, and a couple of prayers would be great too.

A Lizzie Kate state of mind...

Well, this has been an interesting week to say the least. It was absolutely frigidly (is that a word??) cold outside. So cold in fact that they cancelled the kids school on Thursday and Friday because the windchill was going to be between -15 and -20 below zero. On Friday, we woke up to -5 regular temp. That is just absolutely wrong for the temp to be sooo cold.

Work this week was still really rough. So rough that I'm thinking about looking for another job. I'm just really tired of all of the crap. The manipulation, backstabbing, etc... is tooooo much. I'm not that type of person. I like to go to work, do my job and do it well, and then come home to spend time with my family and stitch. It was so bad that I took a mental health day on Friday. Then of course I'm off tomorrow, so I will have a nice 4 day weekend to recharge my batteries.

This weekend, we shipped the kids off to my mom's, and DH and I spent time with just the 2 of us. Our oldest is 10, and we've never done this since he was born. It turned out only to be on Saturday night, but it was wonderful. We went out to lunch and dinner, did a little shopping, and watched Eagle Eye and What Happened in Vegas. I was even able to sleep in until about 10 am when I woke up and told him it was time to get the kids. It was toooo quiet. He agreed. LOL

During the week, I pulled out another project from my WIP basket. I started this LK Flip It series probably over a year ago. All I had ever stitched was January and February. So on Thursday, I pulled it out again. I finished March on Friday morning and April on Saturday. I also have all of the thread pulled for May as well. I need to work on some exchanges first though.

This next piece is LK Life's A Stitch without the satin stitch border. I'm going to make it into a floss ring tag. That's why there's no stitching in the upper right hand border. I found some really cute square eyelets at Michael's for that corner.

Tonight now I'm going to start stitching another LK piece for an exchange.

Thanks for checking in!

My New Years finishes and a couple of goals

I hope everyone had a Happy and Safe New Years. I was on call, but thankfully was never called into work. I was very grateful. On New Years Day, I decided to start something small to work on. So, I chose this freebie ornament called Rejoice by 4 My Boys. I really like her designs, but unfortunately, she retired because of her health. So, I started and finished this on the same day. I started this and finished this on the same day. I thought it was a good way to start the New Year. It's actually a replacement for an ornament that never arrived to my partner on the SBEBB ornament exchange. I was really bummed that she didn't receive the first ornament because I thought it turned out cute. But, I think this will end up being nice as well.

Rejoice freebie

by 4 My Boys

This is my next finish of the New Year. It's a LK piece called Think Winter. I used an Odd and End piece of fabric and DMC floss. It's hard to see the white and snowflakes in the picture.

Think Winter by Lizzie Kate

Now for some goals for the New Year:

I really want to finish stitching some of my WIP/UFO's that have been in my to do basket for ages. You can see the list in the sidebar.

I'd also like to work on some more quilting projects.

Frame/finish items in my finished stitching bag. (If you only knew....)

Thanks for coming to visit. Since I finished the LK piece tonight, I'm going to work on something from my To Do basket for awhile.

Have a great night.