Exciting news and updates

Hi there! Well, it has been a great week. You know how a couple of months ago, I was incredibly frustrated with my job. I decided then to start looking for a new job. Over the past couple of months, I have gone on interviews sporadically. Several of the interviews were for case manager nursing positions. Most of them, you have to have your bachelor's degree or, which I don't have yet. Yet, I still did well enough at the first interviews to get called back for 2nd ones. Finally this week, I was offered a good job at the hospital my mom works at. I will be working on the cardiac floor on the weekends. 12 hour shifts, every Sat., Sun, and Mon. Then, I'm off Tues - Friday. Awesome $$$, too. I know it's every weekend, but to have 4 days off during the week is so worth it. I start on May 4th. Can't wait!!!! This is a picture of my youngest DD. She had her kindergarten music program on Monday. It was so cute! Our music teacher at the kids school does an amazing job.

There hasn't been a ton of actual stitching this week. I've been working a lot on the JCS piece. It's due back to them around the 15th. More stitching on that later today. This is what I have been working on. This is my progress on the Moda baby quilt. I think it's really turning out well. (Excuse the sleepy looking daughter, she really had been up for over an hour). This is going to be the backing for the quilt, and also the 72 prairie points that will go around the sides.

Well, after my last post, I decided, why am I torturing myself by not starting anything. So, I've decided to start a project or two. I started LK ABC lessons last Sunday. Not a lot of progress, but I don't feel so deprived anymore. I also received the threads to start either Beatrix Potter or Quaker Virtues. I think it will probably be Quaker Virtues. I received the threads from Vikki Clayton. The colors will be Old Maid of the Heart and Victorian Mint. I love those 2 colors.

Last, but now least, have you seen this new Plum Street Samplers design. It's called Still Waters. I saw it on the Shepherd's Bush blog, and just fell in love with it. It's not necessarily my type of pattern, but I do just love it. I called my new LNS yesterday, and it turned out they have it in stock, so I'm running over there today to buy it.
Well, I hope you all have a great week. The kids are off on Spring Break next week. It will tough on DH and his sleep (DH works midnight shift), but he'll do OK. He knows I'll be home with them more of summer break so he's OK with it.

Take care!

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.

The last 2 days have been pretty decent. DH & I bought an elliptical and it came yesterday. (More about that in a couple of minutes), then I received stash in the mail yesterday. Can you say, Oh so excited!!!!! I had held off for a little while from ordering anything from market, then last week, I broke. I just had to. Oh, and I just found out today, a LNS opened less than 20 minutes from my house. I guess it opened in February. As of right now, they're only opened on Fri, Sat, Sun, and Mon. I have every intention of being there this Saturday. I don't know when the last time was that I have actually been to a LNS. I hope they're doing well so they can stick around.

This is my progress piece from the LK Housework piece. I hope to finish it this weekend. I have done some other stitching, but I can't share. It's a model piece for JCS magazine. I'm enjoying it so far. I'm stitching it to make some $$$ to buy a Kindle 2. I really want one of those. I have just fallen in love with it.

Have you all heard about the Silver Needle/LK/JBW retreat weekend in July? It's the weekend after my birthday, so I persuaded DH to let me go. I've already sent in my deposit. So ecstatic about it. I know this picture is bad, but I found this on Moda fabrics blog. It's a baby quilt. It's just adorable, and I'm going to attempt it for a friend who is having a baby in May. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
These are my sweet babies. My DD #1 (middle) had her 9th birthday on St Pats Day. I can't believe that they are getting so big.

OK, so here's the rest of the elliptical story. Bought it online from NordicTrack. Received yesterday and put it together today. I couldn't get the stride on the left side of it to adjust. So I called NordicTrack, and the girl is like, "well, I don't really know why it won't adjust unless the pin is jammed". Mind you the piece that isn't working came preassembled. Anyway, another 5 minutes later and she was like, well, we can send service out to you, but it will be a $45 service call. I went off. I was like, why should I pay for something like that, when I just received it yesterday. I asked to talk to a supervisor, and she was like well, they would have to call you back tomorrow. I told her that she couldn't tell me that there was no one above her there.

Anyway, to say the least, she finally waived the $45 fee, and DH ended up fixing it anyway. Granted, I did lose it a little, but seriously, if I pay that much $$$ for that, I expect it to work when it arrives.

Alright, enough rant, I will write again soon.

Take care!