Penguins

Christmas Ornament Kit of the month
Painting penguins
Oct 18, 2009

This is what I did on Sunday The girls tried to help me out but it ended up being messy and i had to do fix ups on them. So they ventured off to pain on their own and ended up getting it all over my hard wood floors and now there's a spot of pink dried on my floor where Kiley laid her paper to dry. Hmmm I don't think we will be pulling the paint out anytime soon again with them home. Next painting kit that arrives, I'm doing it while they are at school lol.

I did crochet on Saturday but then on Sunday decided I wasn't happy with the way it was turning out and I set it aside. I unravel it today I think and just sit and go back to my love of cross stitch.

Happy Stitching!

My last 3 weeks and some finishes.

Sorry I have been absent so long. I had no idea that my mother would keep us so busy each day. We went everywhere in Germany that we could go in a 3 week period. So much fun! We went to Legoland, Europa Park, Coburg Castle, Neuhaus Pegnitz Fortress, Bamberg Castle along with downtown, Rothenburg and many other places as well. We had over 1,000 pictures and over an hour of video combined. I'll try and pick out some fun things to show you all. We also recorded the dolphin show at the Neurnburg Zoo if anyone is interested in watching it. Here is a photo of my mom and the girls in their new dresses that nana brought them. ^_^
Crafting things:

I did complete section 8 and 9 of my EMS Rose Sampler and am currently dragging on part 10 but I don't have a photo to show you all yet. I'll try for my next post but I am also crocheting some fingerless gloves trying to get back in the mood to stitch again. My mom made sure I was too tired to do anything but crash when we got home so no stitching in the last 3 weeks. I also know I need to post a new photo of my TUSAL as I am a week behind so next time my fellow readers!

I completed June's Ornament of the month. Their golden apples and pears but since they do not fit my christmas decor I sent them home with my mother as they do fit hers. ^_^

Also here is the Fair and Square Exchange squares I had sent to Janice. She did receive them but its taken me this long to get them posted to you all.

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!

Snowmen!

I had completely forgot that several months ago I had joined an ornament of the month club. Each month you get to make Christmas ornaments and try new crafts at the same time. Well yesterday these three little guys showed up in my mailbox. ^_^ They needed to be hand painted and then ornament glitter was added to the white areas after the paint was dry. So in about 3 or 4 hours these 3 little snowmen were ready! So now they will each get wrapped in bubble wrap and carefully placed into our ornament box till Christmas.

DH has Staff Duty today (24 hour shift) so I have plenty of stitching time after I get the house cleaned up, laundry done, and grocery shopping done. I am hoping to get a good amount stitched on Coffin buzz as I only finished one motif and about 3 letters last night after finishing the snowmen before I had to go to bed as DH was falling asleep next to me.

HAppy Stitching everyone and as always I appreciate your wonderful comments!

Happy 3rd Birthday Kiley and ornament finish

Okay first, a giant Happy birthday to my little girl Kiley, who turned 3 today! She absolutely LOVES Hello Kitty so her Oma in Texas sent her a blanket and pillow where the blanket fits inside the pillow when traveling. So cute! She also recived matching Pj's like her sister which excited them both and she got a couple of puppies. :)

Next i finally was able to sit and finish up this ornament though as to when I will actually make it into an ornament is another story. We'll see how it goes.

Ornament WIP

Well this shows you how much downtime I have had the last several days. Been to appointments and meetings like crazy. Plus both DD's have bad colds. So poor Destiny isn't eating but her blood sugars have been running high so she is getting all kinds of extra shots to keep it normal. It was normal this morning so no extra shot but she is still sick. I'm glad today is their last day of school for Thanksgiving break. They will get to rest more tomorrow before we go to our friends for Thanksgiving. I'm making candied yams to take with. It should be nice though there will be a lot of people in a little apartment and their middle DD went home sick yesterday.

Anyway, back to stitching. I think I am going to finish this ornament up and then start on my Miribila xmas fairy in hopes of completing her in time for xmas. But I also have to crochet a barbie dress for this naked barbie I bought. Its for my youngest DD for xmas and I still owe her a matching hoodie like the one I made for my oldest DD earlier this year. So who knows how much of her will actually get done. Anyway I'll keep posting my progress too.

Christmas Eve Ornament

Christmas Eve by Elizabeth's Designs

Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornaments 10th Anniversary Collection

9 in x 8 in

DMC floss and Mill Hill antique beads

32 ct Belfast Opalescent Linen

I changed up the colors listed for this ornament and there are also two glass treasures used which I didn't have so I left out. Luckily I had the correct colored beads. You just can't see the lines of snow under the tree.

Today we got our list of partners and there address for Round 4 of the F&S exchange and even though they aren't due to mail out until Jan 5th, 2008 I am thinking I will stop making ornaments and get Vicki's squares done and mailed before the holiday rush.

I had such a scare today. I awoke to find that Ruby was missing. She wasn't in the house and the only person that came in and out that morning was my DH so of course I'm worried about her and really upset that my DH has now managed to lose both our cats in less than 1 year. Otis is gone forever and so I don't want to lose Ruby but she is in heat right now and tries to get out every chance she gets but she is terrified of our basement and that seems to be where she always goes. So after I got Destiny off to school, I took Kiley's hand and we set off down to the basement to search for her. But it turns out there are moving men on the other end of the basement so all the doors were open. She had left the building. I looked around outside and couldn't find her.

I picked up Destiny early for for her monthly nutrionist appointment and all went fine there but on the walk home I had to explain to Destiny that our little kitten was gone. I felt terrible! She burst into tears and cried most of the way home. After we got into the house and she put her back pack away I told her lets go outside and look one more time. But we saw nothing outside and its freezing so i figured she would go somewhere warm. I saw the door open across the street so I went into there and pulled open the basement door and went down the steps with both girls trailing me. I called out Ruby's name and she came running to me! I was so thrilled and so were the girls! We brought her home with a little bit of a fight because the truck driving by scared her so she tried to run. But she is happy to be home, shes rubbing up on the carpet and against the kids eager to be petted. I'm glad she comes to me when I call her, that helped so much. I'm still waiting for the vet to call me with an appointment to get her fixed. Theres a waiting list. We also plan to get her chipped while they have her knocked out so if she gets out anyone who finds her can return her. I do have her rabies tag on her and thats how she was returned last time. We only seem to have problems when she goes into heat so hopefully she'll get an appointment soon. I hope she didn't locate a male cat, we don't need babies.

Britty Christmas Kitty

Britty Christmas Kitty by Brittercup Designs

32 count Belfast Opalescent

DMC Floss and Mill Hill beads

1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in

November 10, 2007

Finished up this one too today. I wanted to post it up before I go to bed for the night. I am really enjoying these quick little finishes anfter working on the same design for 5 weeks. I decided not to stitch in the ornaments and star on the tree and also the heart on the kitty so I did them all up in beads to give it a little more pop effect. Both my girls are trying to claim this one and my youngest DD ran and got Ruby our cat to show her, she said 'look its you!' LOL I had to laugh, my little 2 year old still says te cutest things. :)

Also I realized I never posted a photo of the sweater I made for my new little kindergartener so here it is:

Kaleidescope Kids sweater

Red Heart Plum Pudding Yarn

Completed Semptember 02, 2007

I think this only took me 2 or 3 weeks to complete and I used little multi colored daisy flower buttons. Now I owe my youngest DD one too, just not sure when I will get time to make it. :)

Two Happy Dances!

Miribilia Halloween Fairy

32 count Natural Linen from Zweigart

Stitched using Crescent Colours and Mill Hill glass beads

6 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in

Stitched 2 over 2

October 01, 2007 to November 09, 2007

Penguin Hugs by Paw Printings

Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornaments 10th Anniversary Collection
14 count neon blue Aida cloth

Stitched using DMC floss and Mill Hill glass beads

3 2/3 in x 3 in

Stitched 1 over 1

November 09, 2007 to November 10, 2007

I'm also mailing out my F&S squares round 3 on Tuesday. I recieved Pegs address ffrom Annemarie. Thanks so much Annemarie! For some reason Vonna's emails are not coming through. Anyway the Post office is closed Friday through Monday for the four day here so I have to wait for Tuesday to send them out but I'm going to send them the fastest way possible since I received her address so late. I don't want her to have to wait longer because of emails not getting through.

Kanzashi

Okay I saw these another another blog called My Little Mochi at http://www.casacenina.com/catalog/products_new.php?cPath=24 and she had made some little flowers called Kanzashi and if you go to this link http://www.vivcore.com/kanzashi_core.html you can see some other things this lady has made. Its amazing I think and it makes me want to try it out but I have to dig for some material here. There is a neat little tutorial on how to make these flowers too. But not on how to piece them together so that will be interesting trying to get them to hold together....

I also wanted to show you this real quick. It's my exchange for the ornament exchange. I decided to stick with the snowman theme and am sending as rewuired one stitched and one bought ornament. Added bonus: my iris folded snowman card and a ornament/pin with a cute little scarf and hat. :-) Its going to Australia. This lady doesn't read my blog so its ok to post all this. I hope she likes it, it's all in her christmas colors.