My Lady of Snow Update

I didn't realize how long since my last update. But I have been feeling better lately and picked up my stitching again. This is one piece i made sure made it to Ohio with me. I filled in the white areas on the bottom left and then a big chunk of blues and then filled in a bunch of the beads. I hate seeing empty spaces so im beading as i go as well.

Stitching, crocheting, rain, and clay oh my!

Ok well fabric is lighter but this shows the stitching better. This is the 2nd chair in the series from the cat's whiskers. I got this far and then did the heart like 3 times and none of them looked right so i got frustrated and gave up. I think i'll add it in a different way.

I made this little purse for Destiny. Its a freebie link is here I just changed the colors and made tassels for the ends instead of shamrocks. I organized my craft room looking for 3 crochet hooks to finish a baby blanket and they are no where so I will have to look harder or buy new ones soon!

Then we got rained in big time! The rain hit my door and flooded so hard my entry way was all wet. It had come in the bottom of my door. So instead of going outside we played with clay!

haha I know funny huh? Its all one color cause Kiley combined them all. Since Destiny is really big on cake decorating right now I made this little clay cake with a teddy bear on top. Yes she is into teddy bears too. LOL ok my miniatures leaves something to be desired. Oh well we had fun while we waited out the rain!

Have a great week everyone! The girls have their school physicals tomorrow and poor Destiny may need a shot that wasn't required before but is now.

Oh! I want to share this video. Duke just went bananas over the peanut butter this past week! I was LOLing so much!

Stitching and a long weekend!

Alrighty here is the piece I was stitching on these last few weeks. Its a small kit that was given to me. Its slow going just because I just don't feel like stitching, period.

But I did fall in love with this adorable black and white Pomeranian at the local shelter here so he just had to come home with me. His name is Duke and he is 7 months old. He was fixed the day before so he had to have the cone on his head till Friday.He was an owner surrender because she decided she didn't have the time to potty train him. 

Even the boys are getting along here they are napping together :)

So this weekend we went to my mom's place to visit. We got stuck in Friday nights traffic through Denver so it was a VERY long drive But I found out that my Uncle Rodney was visiting, he lives in Michigan and the last time i saw him was in Oregon when Destiny was just a baby. 

We got to play with the nephews:

Visit with my sisters:

And Kiley even got my Uncle Rodney to read her a Tinkerbell story:

And we even went shopping in Fort Collins and ran into some dark clouds as there was a tornado warning in Pueblo and we were getting the strong winds. But we all made it home safely.

And here is a photo of myself, Duke, and Kiley on the way home. Duke was asleep here so cute!

Here is Duke this morning after his bath. He needed one badly and i knew he would feel better. He is still wet in this photo. He jumped into Destiny's clean laundry and just looked too cute to not take a picture.

Some stitching and some crocheting plus Halloween

Here are our costumes for Halloween night. It was so much fun going out but oh so cold so DH and I were nearly frozen when we came home. I wore 6 inch heels that blinked pink and got lots of compliments though i was in so much pain halfway home that my legs gave out and I fell down. Luckily i didn't get seriously injured though i walked home the rest of the way barefoot and the cold felt soo good on my aching feet. We forgot to carve our pumpkin too, any ideas what to do with it now?
Here are the oh so cute buttons I bought from Anita. I love getting stash from her, she has such awesome service and what great prices! She had to mail this to me 3 times! She said the post office kept returning it to her and eventually had her fill out a different customs form and she had to use a different post office but I do appreciate her service! Thank you Anita!
Here is the very soft sweater I am crocheting for Destiny. I'm proud to say its my own pattern! And its nearly finished though Destiny asked for me to add a turtle neck to it to help keep her neck warm.
My Fairy Elf as of last night. She is going rather quickly and I am so excited! I am hoping to have her completed in the next few weeks.
I got my JCS ornament issue in today! My sister Lynnette got hers in yesterday and I was sad that it was taking so long for mine. Now I can't wait to finish up a few things so I can stitch a few ornies from this issue.
And last but not least I have received my Fair and Square Halloween round from Sharon V. Cute huh? Thank you Sharon!

Curtains, bowls and an adventure at the post office

NON STITCHING NEWS:

DH got to re up in Romania! I'm so proud of him! And Fort Carson is in his contract! WooHoo!! Congrats babe!

STITCHING NEWS
Here are the curtains I made for my darling nephew Poe's room. I stayed up till midnight on the 14th to get them completed for mailing on the 15th. They are Precious Moments and if you recall they match the quilt I made him, in fact this is the same fabric that was used for the back of his quilt. I just had to order more. If you don't remember the post I am talking about then click here
And these two little things are small Halloween bowls. I actually used a free pattern for a bag and just went up to Row 9 before stopping. I may fill them with candy....any ideas? They are sitting on my coffee table right now. Free pattern is here
And here are my squares for Fair and Square Round 15 from Peg! They will make a great addition to my friendship quilt. To see the post of my quilt click here. I don't think they have my fabric anymore either so I will just use what I can for now and leave it smaller than planned if I can't get more from Joann's.

So I went to the post office on the 15th with the intent of mailing off 4 packages, one to Lynnette filled with baby things, a few gifts for family sent to my mom, my fall F&S exchange to Jeanie C in Singapore, AND my very first MA to Dawn. So I go to the guy I know and my husband and him are friends and he sees my MA and is like

him: "this is so nice! Are you sure you don't want to put it into an envelope?"
Me: Nope please put actual stamps on it and all
him: you want me to stamp on your fabric? what is this? hemp?
Me: no its linen and yes stamp on it
him: hey (guys name next to him) look at this! Isn't it nice?
Guy: Yea that's nice! Did you make that?
Me: Yes I did (beaming with pride)
Guy: is that knitting or what is it
Me: (looking at him like he's crazy) No its cross stitch
Guy: oh OK (then precedes to ask me about myself blah blah blah)
him: I'm not sure if I can mail it like this, let me check with my manager (checks & yes he can)
Me: (Rolls eyes) You can mail it this way. People do it all the time
OK so the stamps are on there, are you sure you don't want to put it into something else? I worry it will get dirty
Me: No please just mail it like it is
him: OK ready (he positions the black time date stamp over the proper place and gives me an are you sure look and when I give him a blank stare he stamps it) I have to put tape over this to ensure they stay, OK?
Me: OK that's fine.

Then I was able to pay. I left kind of laughing at how many postal workers/stitchers have gone through this same conversation. If you made it this far, congrats to you and thanks for reading through my post!

New stash and 1st day of Sure start

So here she is when we were walking to school, please ignore the trash, thats our recycling area and some neighbors are so lazy about putting it into the bin leaving the workers to clean it up.
And we made it to class! Though later she escaped the classroom and no one knew she did till I brought her back which she then attached herself to my leg and cried. She wanted mommy to stay. It took her teacher holding onto her so i could leave and yes my heart broke into a million pieces. Though today was so much better, no crying our clinging!
And since I cannot show you the two completed exchanges until they are received I thought i would show you what I bought from Anita's. I got a pair of green scissors plus a little stitching kit, a pink storage bag, 2 fabrics for exchanges, and summer retreats by country cottage needlework's, plus the new "chair" by Cat's Whiskers. I had bought a few other things but they went to DD so I'll let her update her blog with those.

Happy Stitching!

Etui and a day outside

Yesterday was so pretty we went out and played. The girls and neighbor boy Dustin played Barbies on a spread out blanket for hours so I got to sit at the bench and stitch away for a bit. Even Batista was enjoying the sun. He will be 9 months old on September 1st. Its hard to believe.

Etui
August 2009 issue of
The Gift Of Stitching Magazine
32 count neutral linen
DMC colors 895 & 3770

Thats right I have a new completion and its been finished into something called an Etui. There is a matching scissors fob to go with it but this gave me so much trouble last night putting it together that I am not going to do the fob right now. Besides a new round for fair and square started and I am going to stitch up the squares so i can mail early and get to work on an MA exchange with a teddy bear theme.

TUSAL and WIP

Here is my August TUSAL. Added this month is some yarn colors from making the bear for baby Poe and some greens and fuchsia colors from the below project which should be completed today if i can manage to find a few minutes of peace. I know i should have finished this days ago but my youngest DD has well made my life and her older sis's life a living hell this week but she seems to be back to her normal cute self today so here is hoping. Anyone have any guesses yet on what this might be? Since its so close to be completed Ill probably just wait to show this till i get it actually turned into something.

My stitching around the house

The Sampler Girl yesterday was showing the different places around her house she has stitching and so posed to us to show the different places we have it around our house so this morning I walked around the house on a hunt for them and these are the three I found. I know I had more but I think they were removed and replaced by DH's military pictures and achievements. Hmm will have to get more put out I think and try to keep lil hands from stealing them, LOL. I do have a friendship quilt I am working on though that I think I will put over the back of the couch so I'll have a big piece of stitching out just not sure when that will be completed. The rooms you see these in are my bedroom and livingroom, not as pretty as the smapler girls house but I have begun the packing process here as we leave in Dec but the movers will be here in November and as they pack and ship anything and everything I need to go through some stuff and throw some other stuff away first so things are getting put into boxes and into the basement all summer long.

In the meantime, I'll show you my rose sampler progress tomorrow!

Happy stitching!

Love bug freebie finished!

Love Bug Freebie

32 count Silkweaver Paradise Blue

Completed: May 19, 2009

I finished the stitching this morning and then turned it into a little throw pillow. I'm happy with it. ^_^ If you want to stitch this freebie, I found it here

Coffin Buzz Completed!!!

Coffin Buzz
Freebie from Plum Street Samplers
Completed: April 25, 2008
32 count Silkweaver Paradise Blue
DMC 828

That's right! Yesterday I sat down and put on some shows I was behind on and said to myself "I am not moving until this piece is finally finished!" And you know what? I didn't! Boy I had to pee afterwards, LOL. Anyway i washed it this morning to remove the spilt crystal light DH had done to it last week and here it is all laid out drying on a towel waiting to be turned into a flatfold. Though I realize now that it is going to be a big flatfold. I did adjust the year though as it is no longer 2008 but 2009.

Now I have cleaned my house up this morning. I just have to wash and dry my laundry which will postponed as I feel like stitching some more! I did crochet a few rows on the baby blanket as well but then I came across a tangled area and after messing with it for awhile, I gave up. I don't feel like going back to MLOTS just yet so I am off to see what I feel like working on. ^_^

Life Is A Stitch

Life Is A Stitch
Helga Mandl Designs
July 2008 issue of The Gift Of Stitching
32 count Silkweaver Linen
Completed: April 18, 2009
plans: Flatfold maybe...

In other news, today I have made it over the 5 lbs lost mark! I'm so happy!

MLOTS, beads, a blanket and the rain!

First I want to say thank you to all the kind comments about my horrible day. The rest of my week was a lot better. DH didn't arrive home until midnight Thursday night so he slept most of Friday morning (good thing it was a 4 day weekend for him) Friday evening DH returned home from the post office with my monthly ornaments so this month was beading. Destiny helped do up the dark blue one, she did good. ^_^ She enjoyed it so much she asked if I would order some more for her to do so I guess I will have to look into it. ^_^My moms plane ticket was also bought and paid for so she will be arriving in Frankfurt at 0745 June 12th. We will all have to get up extremely early to go pick her up but thats ok as the kids and I can dose while DH drives and I am sure he will just go to bed early the night before. We have plans to spend the day in Frankfurt as my mom said we have family there?? I don't know them and I don't know if she knows them personally or if they are long lost relatives from my grandpa Bolte's side. It also rained this past Saturday like cats and dogs but that apparently didn't stop the candy man! LOL I had to snap a pic to show you all. For everyone in the USA, the candy man here is like the ice cream man there. He has his music and drives around post selling German candies, mainly gummy candies. Kiley had to comeo out onto the patio and jump into my picture as well. ^_^ And if your curious what our car looks like, its the green mitsubishi you see by Kiley's head.

And here is MLOTS as of this morning. I worked on her most of the weekend trying to finish up her cape. I was going to bead her arm and the top part of her outfit before starting on her skin colors but for the life of me could not find a bead needle that would work with the small beads. I have no idea what i did with the one I used before. So I think on the 15th I will be placing an order with 123stitch.
Here is a baby balnket I started for Lynnette's baby. I figure if she has a girl a will weave in some pick ribbon in certain places to girl it up some more. I have no idea why its making this wierd shape so I am hoping that once its finished and I wash it and block it, it will be okay. And I leave you with a picture of dear Destiny stitching on her Chinese Boy this morning. Please excuse the multiple stuff around her, as we were doing crafts in the living room all weekend. Ok I am off to work on my next two exchanges as I want to run to the post office with them on the 15th.

Happy Stitching!

Quilting, crocheting, and cross stitching in a weekend.

So I used up all my DMC 838 on this one and it still was not enough for a completion but here is how far I got. I did place an order with my floss mom so as soon as it arrives I'll pull this back out and finish it. The fabric is lighter than this picture, it looks so dark on here. Hmm must be the cloudy weather that's messing up my pictures.

I also crocheted this little Easter bag which was a freebie from Suzies Stuff. She posts freebie crochet patterns that she designs herself. She's a very talented lady.

And lastly for this weekend I pulled out my fabric for my friendship quilt and cut all the squares and then machined stitched the entire thing together. So here are pics of it so far. I laid it out on my side of the bed. We have a California King, just to give you an idea of the length of it. So now I pose a question to you all. Do I complete it as is or do I continue and make it larger? You see I don't know where exactly I am going to put it or what to do with it though I am loving the idea of having a quilt on my bed and whats better than one with a special stitched square from each of my stitching friends. Though the idea of being able to lay it over the back of my couch for all to see when they come over. So please give me your opinion. I am still doing the Fair and Square exchange as I do enjoy it.

DH got mad at me on Saturday as he saw me putting together my friendship quilt. You see back in 2005 I was crocheting him a Dallas Cowboys throw blanket but when the movers packed it and brought it here to Germany it wreaked of cologne. You see they won't ship cologne at all so I have no idea where this cologne would have come from. It smelled like someone broke a bottle in it and removed the broken pieces. And even with a good wash the smell was still there. It takes 3 months to get our things from Fort Bliss, TX to Bamberg, DE so I guess it had been on there pretty long. So anyway into the garbage it went sadly. SO DH wanted to know when I was going to make his blanket and was upset because I was doing all these other projects and never produced his blanket, LOL. He didn't mention it all these years so I thought he was no longer interested. I guess I was wrong. So payday I will be ordering some new yarn for him and work on it though I am wondering if I could quilt him one......

So how was everyone's weekend?