Hand dyed floss and flowers

Okay so today I received some beautiful hand dyed floss that I ordered off of ebay from the Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe The 2 at the far left end are the freebies she sent me. Each skein has 20 yards on it! And she sends free floss with every order, I got 2 skeins because it was my first time ordering from her. I am not sure why the far left one looks orange, maybe because of the sunlight in my house but its a beautiful deep purple color. I am definitly going to order from her again. I ordered the four set of pinks/purples this time so maybe some reds? I think I am going to use some of these when I make up my Round 7 squares. :)

And these plants or this plant has taken nearly 2 years to finish growing and bloom so I felt I had to share though don't ask me what they are called because I don't remember. anyway I planted these as seeds last year in 2007 and they only grew about 6 inches before winter hit and they surprisingly survived the winter and now this year they have grown to about 1 foot and started blooming! This is the first one. I have hanging pots all around my balcony of different kinds of flowers including sunflowers which I hope will bloom this year.

Thank you everyone for your concerns about Destiny. she is doing good and stayed home from school today. She'll be back on Monday. We also bought her a pink water bottle to fill with water of course and carry with her at all times as the kids are starting to play outside more often and if our daughter dehydrates, well lets just say lots of problems there.

One of the scariest days

Yep you read correctly. Yesterday afternnon was filled with fear, Military police, EMs, Dr's and nurses. If you haven't already guessed, this has to do with Destiny. She came home yesterday and at 1500 we checked her sugar, all was good so she ate her 2 BE consisting of a buttered tortilla and 8 oz sugar free koolaid. And then fell asleep in her daddys chair in our livingroom. We were watching desperate housewives when at 1630 she started convulcing, drooling, and her eyes went into the back of her head, she had seized. This had never happened to her before so I was yelling at my husband to call an ambulance. An MP showed up first and I was pissed! What the hell was he going to do???? Well he did nothing but stand there and stare at us as I tried to keep Destiny concious. It took 8 minutes for the ambulance to arrive but it felt like 20 minutes. And then they were filling out paperwork!!! While my daughter sat in a chair and was crying!! I'm sure DH saw steam coming out of my head by then. I had 3 MP's and 3 EMS in my livingroom and they were all just standing there talking in German none the less. I finally went to one of them and said "help her!!" We had to show them her passport because apparently that somehow makes a difference. I'm sure once they saw American USA citizen their feet dragged even more. I had to carry her to the ambulance!! Can you believe that???? And then their idiot Dr who I had told that my daughter has very deep veins couldn't for the life of him find her veins to administer Glucose. Now they used their machine to check her sugar and it registered at 32!! Ok our new machine is defective but I'll tell you about that in a bit. Anyway this idiot Dr used every last needle in the ambulance on my daughter trying to find a vein, all the while my daughter is fighting and screaming (this is an effect of low sugar) They finally give her some through her nose and also give her something to calm her down which only hyped her up instead of relaxing her. They sat there working on her for 30 minutes before deciding to drive to the hospital and even thier the Dr didn't do much. They pulled blood and ran a test that took them till midnight to give us the results. By then Destinys sugars dropped back to 34 and she had thrown up about a 1/2 gallon of liquid. You want to know the test results? They showed nothing and this female Dr's response was she didn't know what was wrong with my daughter and then she went home!!! No Dr till 0700 this morning. Thankfully it was the male Dr who cared for her when she was first diagnosed. He found that not only was her monitor broken but her idiot Dr earnhardt had her insulin dosage way above where it should be and was having her eat too much food, thus a fat little child. Our insulin pen also broke so they replaced it for us and also gave us a new monitor. NOW ANYONE WITH A MONITOR, If you are using the one touch ultra, the comapny NO LONGER makes these, they are outdated so go replace them with the One Touch Ultra 2. No wonder the pharmacist told me he gets them for a penny, they don't work anymore. Oh and the female Dr said 2 other kids the previous week came in from faulty monitors, the EXACT same one we used and I looked at her like and you didn't think the word should be put out? Cause seizures can kill. Anyway to make this short she is now going on a new plan which we have to take her back to the hospital June 16th to learn about and how to care for her then. Also her 30/70 (NPH) is working against her now which they didn't think would happen for several more years. Destiny is back to herself now but no patient liason showed up either which they are required to do so I will be going into our clinic to find out why she never showed.

Thanks for listening to me rant, I had to get this out.

Day 8 SMO SAL

Okay after a day and half here is what I have completed on Mys Day 8 SAL. Why yes that is only half a bear, why is he only half done? Because he is boring to stitch, I just don't normally stitch bears and am now thinking I should have used half stitches, mine can be different right? I have until June 5th to finish this one as thats when June Day 7 starts. So maybe I can actually get him finished before the deadline. This one is just hard to find the motivation. And yes I have abanoned my rotation. My stitching mojo is depleted big time so I am stitching what I can to help keep it going as I feel awful when i haven't made one x in anything.

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Piggy Bank

Okay so this is what I spent the pass week doing. Destiny needed a little bank to keep her money in that she is saving towards a camera. So I used plasyic canvas and created this little bank for her. The lid lifts off so we can remove the money when need be and its small enough to sit on the fridge to keep away from little grabbing hands. I also completed my 4th of July round for Fair and Square in plenty of time for the deadline which is June 2nd. I had started to work on my Round 6 0r is it 7 but my wrist started hurting so I had to stop stitching. I have been trying to read blogs and keep up with all your beautiful stitching as well but DH is on night shift again which means he is on the computer all day long and so I am hardly online. Thank you everyone who has taken the time to stop by and leave a comment, they are appreciated and help keep me motivated. :)

My Lady Of Snow and Daisy's

Wow I just got moving on this one this week. I picked it up on Wednesday and got a huge amount done but continued to work on it on Thursday also. I was just getting so much grey done I didn't want to stop. Anyway no stitching was done on her on Friday so I am putting her up until next week so I can pull out Collecting Shells. I am eginning to hate working on Aida cloth though so hopefully I can finish her before I despise it cause i really like this piece as it reminds me of Destiny when she was littler.

Also Destiny graduated Daisy scouts this past Tuesday. She had her bridging ceremony from daisy scouts to now a Brownie scout! Congrats baby girl! Here she is in her uniform before we headed off. All the little things attached to the front pockets are called swaps that she got at some meetings, she has more but I couldn't find them all.

EMS Rose Sampler and Peacock Stitching Chair

Saturday I decided to work on the arms of my 2nd Peacock Stitching chair and even though I was hoping to complete them, life got in the way and all the specialty stitches slowed me down. I still have to order quilt batting to complete this which I forgot to ask my floss mom for when I sent her a floss list I needed so I may just order this online instead of having her make a second trip. The stitching is not crooked, its just the way i took a picture. Its 2312 here so I am tired so please forgive the bad picture.

And today I worked on Part 4 of the EMS Rose Sampler. I completed most of part 4 so I feel I accomplished something today. Next week I can complete part 4 and start part 5 if there is time. I may catch up after all on my regular rotation. :)

Tomorrow Destiny has her Bridging ceremony where she bridges from being a Daisy scout to a Brownie scout. Her daddy won't make it since he is working night shifts again. He had to replace someone who is having marriage problems and cannot attend work for whatever reason. And DH also goes tomorrow to get new uniforms and gear for his deployment and so we have no idea when he will return and then he has to go to work again so he will be sleeping on the bus and inbetween missions. And I am betting come Wednesday mornign when he is finally off work he will sleep all day long. Anyway its late here and so i am off to bed. But I do leave you with this picture of Kiley holding our bunny Cocoa. He is well adapted to our family now and allows Kiley to take him everywhere. Oh! Also I am being honored on May 21st as a volunteer for the elementary school. It was a complete surprise to me! They are honoring all the volunteers. :)

I'm terrible

Here is the amurgurami owl I made May 2nd and I started a amurgurami mushroom but only got about 90% done when I went eh, I don't want to do this anymore. I made this owl for my mom who loves owls.

Anyway on the 4th we went out and looked around and while out I found The Sims 2 Castaway for Wii and I bought it and have been connected to that for this entire week so I have no stitching to show you but I did beat it and completed all the goals too so I promise to have some stitching to show you on my next post.

DH and I have been getting things together and ready for his deployment. Yesterday we went to legal and looked over our wills that we never got signed from last year and other than they have to change 2007 to 2008 everything looks good. We are also getting power of attorneys done up too and so today we go sign all of that and legal will be done with.

The weather has actually been nice out and so I got a lot of flower planting done and even some put into pots so I can have flowers inside the house too.

Wait! I do have stitching to show. Remember my mothers day towel exchange, well my partner received it and she loved it saying the towel was the softest she ever felt. Anyway heres what I stitched for her. This was completed April 27th BTW

SMO SAL Day 9 & My Lady Of Snow

Heres what I completed of the SMO SAL Day 9on Tuesday. Hopefully next week it will be finished. On the May 5th we start Day 8.

And here is my lady of snow as of last night. I got a few hours in on her but I really feel like I am going nowhere fast with her even though I get in at least 100 stitches each week. Maybe its all the grey I am doing, I may have to do some of the blue to the left next week, maybe that will motivate me some more.

We got our money in from the government yesterday too! They gave us 1,750 for a family with 2 adults and 2 kids. I would love to stash shop with some of this but its going to my DH laptop for when he deploys and also I bought an elliptical machine so I can workout at home and then the rest is getting saved because on May 24th is a 4 day weekend so we are going to go to Legoland which i have to price today since we are going to need to buy Euros before we go. I hope the Euro rates get better by then. I always feel like we lose so much money converting from USD to Euro.

Collecting Shells and Fair and Square Round 6

I completed my Towel Exchange this morning and so I decided its time to try and get back into my rotation. So I pulled out Collecting Shells and worked on her dress. I'm not sure if you can see it but I did a lot of white and a little bit of purple and blues too. Saturday we found a place in the Atrium that would pierce your childs ears as long as they were 3 so we paid 6 Euros and had them pirce Kileys ears. She picked out some little pink stoned ones, I'll try and snap a picture later to show you.

And I just found out today that Laura M. has received the my Fair and Square Round 6 squares and they went off with a hit! I am so glad you liked them Laura. :)
And finally my younger sister sent me this photo of my only nephew Rowan. He is in headstart this year and so this is his yearly picture and next year he will be in Kindergarten. I am not sure why one of his ears is darker than the other though....

EMS Rose Sampler and F&S Exchange

Yay! I finished part 3 of my EMS Rose Sampler and I also received my Fair and Square Round 6 squares from Laura. I really liked them and she also included so many goodies! I feel spoiled, Thank you Laura M, you did a great job!

Now I am working on my towel exchange and am really happy because the original design I was going to use didn't thrill me but I found one last night that I really love and am much happier with and then I can get back to my rotation for a bit. I also had signed up for the Fair and squares July 4th round but I have until June 2nd to get that mailed out so no hurry. :)

Peacock stitching Chair #2, EMS Rose Sampler, and Exchanges

Okay so you know how I told you I had the itch to start something new? well the Peacock stitching chair won out. In one day i completed the scissor fob, chair sides, the front drawer, and part of the arms. I also am showing you the progress on my EMS Rose Sampler. Its really bothering me that I am behind on this so I have been working on it today to try and get it caught up especially since I am still on part 3 and part 5 is to be released in a week. So yes, I am trying my best to get caught up before I get too far behind. But soon I have to quit becuase my Mothers day towel exchange is due to mail out May 1st and I haven't even started on it yet but no worries! I will complete it in time. :)


I just heard today that my partner has received my Monchromatic biscournu exchange on the floss moms board. Rachel I am so glad you liked it and all the goodies inside. :) I chose Green as my theme and used many colors of greens to stitch her 5 inch biscournu and even used a mint green fabric to stitch it on. I used a green flower button for the center of the biscournu. If any of you remember it is the same buttons I used on both DD's sweaters, I just changed out the center so both center and outside would be green. Here is what I sent to her:
The front and back of the biscournu before stitching together.




On a bad side, I have not stitched Thursday through Sunday because I have been a bit down. My DH is getting ready for his first deployment at the end of the summer to the worst place of all and its not Iraq. They may stick him with another unit and that would move us from bamberg to K town, which i am dreading. I have finally settled here and things are going good with the school and Destiny's diabetes German Dr and I don't know what they have set up in K town not to mention its huge there and the base is divided up into four bases and I don't drive here, the orads are too small and make me nervous so I never bothered to try and get my liscence here. DH's SGT is trying to make it a temporary thing that he goes with this unit so we can stay in Bamberg which I am asking everyone pray that it happens and of course for DH's safe return. I just heard today from my upstairs neighbor that her DH who is also an 88M like my DH was injured today while driving a convoy, it was just his leg but still it makes me worry more. Her little girl who is Destiny's age is sitting on their balcony while her mommy is on the phone looking as depressed as can be. I just wanted to go up there and hug her.


DH has food poisioning today too. Turns out I had some expired eggs in my refrigerator and he ate them. I don't really cook eggs so when I do I check the expiration date on te package but he didn't and he ate a few yesterday. Now he is vomiting and can't keep anything down and has been in bed since they let him come hoem finally at 1500. I feel for him, I hate that this has to just run its course and there's nothing I can do to make him feel better. So this is my life lately, hopefully things will get better soon but as I am not working this week it just leaves more time to worry and stress and when I am like that it is hard for me to sit down and stitch.

School Photos!

Here is my DD Destiny's Kindergarten school photos this year, I love them! Oops, lol her class photo is sideways. Oh well I'll fix this later as we have Daisy Scouts tonight! Her Best Friend is the girl below her in the dark blue sweater. EDITED: fixed the picture!

My Lady Of Snow

Alrighty, guess I didn't do too bad scanning this in, lol. Heres is my progress of yesterday and today. Its not too much more done than last week. I got about 3 to 4 hours done on it. Since I have been working this week its been cutting down on my stitching time. I also mailed off my F&S Exchange and my monochromatic biscournu exchange so as soon as my parnters receive them I can show them to you. I just have to do my towel exchange now but its not do to mailout until May 1st so I still have a few weeks.

Chinese Goddess Of Mercy

Well here she is as of last Friday night. I'm sorry for the bad picture but DH went to the field for 2 weeks and took his camera with him along with the memory card so I am stuck trying to use our webcam to snap pictures especially with this one as it is way too big to put on the scanner. Anyway by last Friday I had completed all of the little girls head and started on some of the moon and other outlining.

By Saturday I was way too bored with Collecting shells to even do more than 15 white stitches on her so no photo yet as its too pathetic to even take a picture. So for the last several days I have been working on the peacock chair. I had to order some batting for when I put it together which won't be done until DH returns home anyways since he hammers the feet onto the chair. I'm way to nervous to take a hammer to some beads. I noticed on my Garden Chair that I ordered back in Feb from ABCStitch that I was missing the beads and 1 1/2 inch brads to attach them so I emailed Marie and she apologized for them missing from my package and said they would be sent out to me but its been weeks and I received today some things I had on backorder since Feb but no feet yet. I'm going to be really mad if I don't get them since I did pay for them.

I sold my first thing on my etsy store! I'm so excited especially because their books I won't use anymore and at least they can go to someone who will use them.

Do any of you buy Disney books for your kids or grand kids? I get them in regular shipments but I have 6 of them that are repeats and so they need a new home. They are all brand new, hardcover, and in English. I'll sell them for $5 each and that will include the shipping and handling too. If your interested then please email me at Poohcorner1114 at yahoo dot com and put in the subject line Disney Books so I don't mistake it for spam mail. Oh! The list of books are: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Toy Story 2, Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid, and winnie the Pooh's How to Catch a Heffalump.

My Lady Of Snow

Well I got a few hours in yesterday on her and here she is so far. I'm trying to go back to my rotation now and I'll just finish up my towel exchange on Mondays maybe or over this weekend so on April 15th I can get everything to the post office at once. I am getting that itch to start something new too, like maybe the Peacock stitching chair. I know I already stitched this one but I gave it to my mom and so I want to stitch one for myself and then I have the garden chair I want to do too but I am waiting on the feet for that one.

EMS 2008 Rose Sampler and Dragon Dreams

Here is part 2 of the EMS 2008 Rose Sampler. I completed it several days ago but since DH had a 4 day wekend I couldn't get to the computer as he spent 24/7 glued to our only computer. Part 4 was released also so I am catching up. I got bored though so I had to switch to another project for a bit. I completed my Monochromatic Biscournu Exchange for the Flossmoms Board. And I am mostly through with my F&S Exchange. But I can't show my exchanges until my partners receive them and I can't mail them until April 15th. I am also going to try and complete the Mothers Day Towel Exchange too so I can mail off all 3 together and then I am back to my rotation.

And I proudly present this little dragon, He is my DD's Destiny first completed project and she even added the beads herself! This is the 48 hour dragon dreams freebie. I'm so proud of her! She is now on to making a butterfly.

TOL Sampler Happy Dance!

TOL 2007 Sampler

18 count Beige Aida

Started: January 2007

Completed: March 30, 2008

I just had to finish this, it was getting on my nerves, I was so close to a finish. So I completed it last night and then started on my monochromatic biscournu exchange. I know my exchange deadlines are like a month away but I want to get them finished before I realize the dates a week away, lol. I'll probably do like 1 each week or something so I can still stitch on something to show on this blog. My DMC color that i needed for my 2008 EMS sampler arrived so after I complete the biscournu for my exchange I am going to work on that so I can catch up.

Oh! I forgot to post this last time, its the Day 10 SAL for SMO members. Heres my progress so far as of a few weeks ago. I still have to fill in the castle, stitch the 3 snowmen and then the snowflakes. I just completed the snow and the windows.

Lots of Pictures

Sorry I haven't blogged in a bit, This past week was one long migraine, I spent a lot of it in the dark unable to do anything but hope the pain meds kicked in soon. Heres what I completed last Tuesday of My Lady Of Snow. And then I got bored of all the grey and decided I best complete my Mothers Day gifts so I can mail them out with the package I have ready to mail to my family in Cheyenne. I want to mail it out on April 1st so I had to get busy. The pincushion below is for my mother and since my little sister Heather is a mommy for 5 years now, I had this urge to stitch her something as well. So i had this froggy fabric screaming to be used for something for her and since she is a fellow cross stitcher (no blog) I made her an Altoid Tin using a freebie pattern that I redesigned to fit the cover and then added flowers instead of the bees used. I have included for her some purple scissors and a gold needle. Please look at the inside photo, I put the frog fabric along the sides of the inside too. Has anyone else ever done this? I'm sending them some other things but I just took pictures of the stitched items.

Mothers Day Pincushion

Winter Roses - Garden Roses

By Ursula Michael

Started: March 18, 2008

Completed: March 20, 2008
Finished: March 25, 2008

32 count Lugana Hand dyed fabric

(Its a purple and pink mix but the camera doesn't pick it up for some reason)

Casey Buonaugurio Designs Frog Biscournu Freebie

Started: March 20, 2008

Completed and Finished: March 25, 2008
32 count Lugana Hand dyed fabric, same as above.

I am not sure why my camera doesn't pick up the colors in this fabric.

How was everyones Easter? I hope you all had fun. Mine was okay. The kids had a blast. Saturday we had an Easter egg hunt at a friends house but since it was snowing the hunt was indoors. They smoked inside their house so my allergies went crazy. They invited us over the next day for easter dinner and since I knew there would be a baby there, I didn't stress over the allergies since they won't smoke inside with a baby there. It took me all the rest of saturday and half of Sunday to be rid of the horrible allergy attack. And then on Sunday my DH couldn't be motivated for the life of him and so we were an hour late to dinner, i.e. missing dinner completely. And then we were drinking and talking and having fun and a migraine kicked in. Luckily my fellow friend had some meds I could take. But they only took the edge off and the alcohol didn't help any either. But I tried to battle it out and stayed there. DH left at 1730 to work so I would have to walk home with the kids in the snow. Nice, huh? well shortly after the couple with the baby left becuz he got cranky and instantly 4 people lit up in the house! AHHHH allergy central right here! Even all my meds didn't help. I finally left at 1930 with the girls and we walked home during the snow break. we got home in time just as the snow storm worsened. And my allergies continued until this morning and I have had a 3 day headache on top of it all. I thought it was becuz of my allergies, you sinus headaches? I hope I'm not getting sick.

Well, this weeks stitching as you can tell will be filled with w/e excites me at the time. Hopefully I'll be back on schedule next week. I'll try and comment on blogs tomorrow, I have a weeks worth to go through!

EMS 2008 Rose Sampler

well I got a few leaves and vines finished today. But here is the total progress so far. I ordered the missing DMC colour I needed so as soon as it arrives I can complete part 1 and I am sure by then part 2 also.

Has anyone visited Periphaeria Designs? She has a Spanish Sampler Mystery stitch Along out and the first part was released a few days ago. I like it but am wondering if I have time to even squeeze thisone in with all the WIP's I have going along with my exchanges and other projects I need to get done before May 1st. I think this will have to wait for now. Is anyone else doing this one?