becca's world

Trick or treat....

2009-11-03T05:23:00.000-08:00

Took Brandon trick or treating this year. And I'm so glad I did. He had so much fun. Loved going from door to door. And he was really thrilled over his Dino tail. (wish i would have taken a picture of him from behind). He would go up to the door and say trick or treat..with only being told to say it once or twice. I wish Keith would have went with us. But he just gotten off work when we were walking out the door. And Brandon didn't want to wait on him. LOL While we were out we ran into my sister and her kids. So i thought I would grab a picture. I'm so glad I did. Look at Brandon's happy little face. Priceless...eh? ((You can click on the picture for a close up.))

Today i am going to take down the Halloween decor. And probably start getting the Christmas stuff out so I can check lights. We put up soooo much stuff at Christmas time that if I don't' start now (checking lights) I'll never have it done and be ready to decorate after thanksgiving. Keith says we aren't putting up as much lights this years..i say..yeah right to that. LOL

my sister in law...

2009-10-20T18:13:00.000-07:00

My sister in law was in a wreck last week. She is so lucky to be alive. She has a broken leg, other leg has a crushed foot which has to have surgery done on it on Thursday. She has stitches in several places on her face. She also has broken ribs. She hit a van ( think it was a van) head on..going about 50 miles an hr. Thank god she is ok. She has a very very long road ahead of her. Please pray for her and keep her in ur thoughts. I spent the night and day today with her. She can't be left alone for very long. Due to the fact that she has to hop on one leg while using a walker. If she would need anything, or god forbid fall.. She is staying with her mother in til she is better again. But her mom has to work during the week. Pray for them..plz

brandon turns 3!

2009-10-11T05:14:00.000-07:00

Hello fellow bloggers! I've been gone from my blog for a really really long time. Today I am posting pictures of my sons third birthday party. It was just a small gathering of friends and my family.

Brandon being silly. I just love this picture.

I was a little worried that the candle flame would scorch his eye lashes, lol but he blew them all out.

yummy cake...Keith baked the cupcakes for me. I but on the decorations. haha...i got the easy and fun job

ohhhhh presents. He was so excited by the presents. Loved opening each one.

he is so into bakugan. He received many for his birthday. I have put some of them up that way they don't get lost.
wow a fire truck!

being the great mommie that i am, i couldn't let him get all fun toys, had to get him an educational toy. This will teach him all sorts of things, colors, shapes, numbers, letters..grrrreat.

and a scooter, also from mom and dad. He played with it for 4 minutes, fell on his toy farm house and won't go near it now. LOL Wanted him to play with it inside to get used to it before taking it out side and falling on the hard sidewalks.

and this is my hubby Keith. I couldn't go with out posting this picture..just because i know how much he LOVEs his picture posted on the net. hahaha Love you bunches sweetie.

And all good things have to come to an end. He is mad cause one of the other kids took this fire truck. also he's very tired..the party was during his nap time.

On a sad note..reason Keith's family didn't join us for Brandon's party is because his sister was in a head on car wreck Friday. She is in the hospital. Doing very well for someone that wasn't wearing a seat belt. She has a broken leg, her other leg has a crushed foot, several broken ribs. Lots of cuts on her face, her lip had to be sewn up cause it was cut really bad. so plz everyone keep her in your prayers.

As for me, I've been doing ok. I've finally lost enough weight to get below 200 pounds! yay me! I know weigh 195, have lost 40 pounds and plan to lose another 25 before being happy with my self and my body. I can get into a size 14 jeans! Some depends on make size 12 jeans. That is freak in awesome. Turning 30 a few weeks ago i didn't quite reach my goal of being 190 but I'm so very very close that I didn't lose sleep over it.

Have a grrrrrrrrrrrreat day everyone!

PS..will be doing some maintenance on my blogs looks some time today.

is it August?

2009-08-06T04:37:00.000-07:00

Really couldn't tell around here that August is here. The days are hot..but not the normal hot we are used too. We are used to humid, sticky summers. And well this summer has been an awesome one. Hot windy days, filled with cool nights. I could live with this type of weather all year long. I am able to get out side and enjoy the weather with out sweating bullets.

My sister got married last month. On the 10th of July. It was an out side wedding. Never been to an outside wedding before. It was great. Kids were able to run free in the yard, weather was great, and the ceremony didn't last forever. LOL And my

sister looked beautiful. Dressed in her white gown, hair done up, pretty yellow nails. Just spectacular. And Jason, the groom looked very nervous. But dressed very nicely. Unless you looked at the hem of his pants. I was asked to hem the pants, since I had a sewing machine and knew how to use it. But for

some reason my sewing machine didn't want to sew the fabric. So in the end I ended up sewing the him by hand. What a very very long progress that is. And it looked awful. I really felt bad, but i didn't know what to do.

And of course I have to share a picture of my Boo. With this little bow tie on. He just loved that little bow tie. The shirt was a little snug but we mad do. How cute is he! While on the subject of Brandon. I should tell you that we have begun potty training! Not sure how it happen, one day he said he had to pee..the next day he was in pull ups. It's been smooth sailing every since (hahah yea right). He doesn't have any number 1 accidents in his big boy pants, except while he is sleeping, but we can't not, will not, do number 2 in the pot. Any tips on that? Of course it's only been..2 weeks..maybe 3 since we started. I'm hoping today is the day. We talked about it a lot yesterday, bought him poo ball. LOL Told him he could only have the ball if he pooped in the potty. And thats all he talks about while he is peeing in the pot. Anyways, that's the scoop on boo. He's been having so much fun this summer, out side, riding bikes, playing with this neighbor cousin. What a great summer to remember.

As for me..I'm still trying to lose weight. I can't believe I have lost 30 pounds since January. I haven't lost any recently but I really haven't been trying. Not as hard as I should be. One thing I gotta say is..My husband is the greatest. So supportive of me, he doesn't care if I'm fat or skinny ( I'll NEVER be skinny). He loves me just the way that I am. That's one of the mail reason I'd like to lose weight. Too look nice for him. He deserves it. Eating healthier isn't that hard. I love the food, wheat bread, yogurt, veggies, fruit. But god sometimes I just want to eat..pizza, hamburger,anything deep fried. LOL I eat a lot of soy burgers, which if I put the right toppings on, pickles, tomato, ketchup, it taste like a real burger. And I found this Fab bread called sandwich thins, 100 calories, full of fiber. I just love it. Here is the site..check it out..and try some soon! http://arnold.bimbobakeriesusa.com/subcat.cfm/subcatId/131

I have totally lost my mojo for stitching. I can't pick up a needle, don't' want to pick up a needle, the thought makes me sad. But one good point is ..I have my cross stitch stash sorted out and neatly put away. Something I could never do before cause I was always searching for that next great chart to stitch. I have on the other had renewed my love for reading. I have read 2 books this week. Very good books, couldn't put them down. Actually stayed up til 1am last night reading it. I'm such a loser nerd. LOL

I guess that's all for now..I'm off to pay farmville on face book. Have a great day!

4th of july

2009-07-04T05:17:00.000-07:00

happy 4th of july!!!

I watched the flag
Pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine
Saluted it,
And then he stood at ease..

I looked at
Him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square
And eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men
Like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign
Soil
How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes
Shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers'
Graves ?
No, freedom isn't free

I heard the sound of Taps
One night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler Play
And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant 'Amen,'

When a flag had draped a
Coffin. Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the
Children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and
Husbands
With interrupted lives.

I Thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in
Arlington .
No, freedom isn't free.

Enjoy Your Freedom
&God Bless Our Troops

Happy 4th of july!

2009-07-03T01:34:00.000-07:00

Welcome summer! Summer is finally here. It's been so hot and sticky out that Brandon and I can't really get out side to enjoy the weather. I for one can't breath in the humid weather, and he gets over heated too quickly. So we have been entertaining our self's inside the last week or so. I found this really great learning track on Craig list. He loves its! And I love it because it's teaching hi

m his colors and letters. I also found this train track at a yard sale for 5$$. What a great deal. We don't play with this track as much because he likes to knock the train off the tracks and he can't get i

t back on right. Then he gets mad and gets really fussie. So unless I can sit down with him we keep this track hid. LOL

Here is a picture of my 1st sunburn of the season.

Man did it hurt.Brandon and I was spending a lot of time in the small pool that my sister bought for us at a yard sale. (5$$!!) But something went

wrong with the pump. We aren't sure what , Keith is suppose to work on it today. i hope he gets it fixed so i can continue to work on my tan. oh also because Brandon enjoys it so. LOL he was really scared at 1st. But after spending time in it he really started to enjoy it. I cant' get him to do anything but walk around..but it's a start. I remember last year he was terrified of the pool. So we are taking baby steps so that doesn't happen this year.

As for my diet/life change..I have finally reached 205..5 more pounds and 'll be at my goal weight! Not that my goal weight is my stopping point.but if I reach 200 pounds I'm going to go get my hair done. Cut/color/ and style. I can't wait. I can't believe I've almost lost 32 pounds! I can really tell it too. My clothes fit so much better and I have energy! Now if i can find time to exercise i could lose that last 5 pounds in a matter of weeks. But working full time and taking care of a 2 year old..i just can't seem to find time.

As for cross stitching..well..i've lost my mojo. I have over 500 charts at my fingertips and I cant find a single that that catches my eye.I haven't stitched a single thing since I finished my girl on the swing. And it took all I had to finish her. Someone help me plz! LOL

My sister is getting married next week. And i didn't stitch her a wedding sampler. I feel kinda bad about that but..what am I too do.

Happy 4th of July to everyone. Plz be safe and responsible this weekend. NO DRINKING AND DRIVING PLZ!

Happy late mothers day

2009-05-14T06:07:00.000-07:00

Of course I didn't get on here in time to wish you all a Happy Mothers day. I just can't seem to find time to blog these days. I have so much to write about..see things I would like to post..but then I get busy and forget. My sister got me the most wonder full gift for mothers day. It's a hanging candle. It's from party light. I have been wanting it for a very very long time. My sister in law next door gave me the mini jar candles. Isn't it fabulous! I can't wait to light the candles and see what it looks like at night. Keith for mothers day ordered me something..not sure what..but it hasn't arrived yet. Hopefully it will be here soon! Will let you know what it is when it arrives.

I have been working on my touching the autumn sky. I'm

soooo close to being done with it. I have begun adding the beads. I think all I have left is the very top, a few beads and a little back stitching. I can't believe I have been stitching on this for over 2 months. I never thought it would take me this long. Here is an updated picture.

I found a bird nest in my back yard a few weeks

ago. I've been watching it almost daily. Seeing the little birds out my kitchen window. It's very

neat to see such a thing up close. I have taken a picture of it. If anyone knows what kind of bird this is I would be glad to know.

We have had more sickness in this house this year than I can stand. Last week I had to take Brandon to the doctor, he had upper repertory and ear infections. Again! And Tuesday I had to take Keith to the doctors (kicking and screaming lol ) and he has strep throat. I pray I don't get it. I don't have PTO hours at work to take. Would really stink to use the little hours I have saved laying on the couch sick.

April....April

2009-04-28T06:16:00.000-07:00

Where has April gone? The month has flown by. I can't believe it will be May soon..and soon after that hot..humid weather. I dread it. I don't do well in the heat. I have been spending most of our afternoons out side with Brandon. Before it gets too hot to be out side. I have been stitching very little.I hate taking my stitching out side. Scared it will get dirty. Here is a picture of it tho. My WIP hoping soon I will have it stitched and finished. Click on it for a bigger view. I really enjoy stitching this. Love all the great colors. I can't wait to start adding the beads.

I received the above and beyond award this month at work. I received a bag with our mission statement on it. I was very surprised to receive this award. I was rewarded this bag for the following reasons..takes initiative to follow through with her job,supportive of change,very positive approach to problem solving, and planned activities at home and brought to work for the residents to enjoy. How great is that? lol

We had a great Easter, spent Easter with my family here. Had a large dinner with the family and then took the kids out side for an Easter egg hunt. Of course the older kids found all the eggs leaving the smaller kids with nothing. Next year we've got to figure out a different way of doing things. We have kids from age 12 down to age 1. I hate to break them up in small groups, maybe have a big kid help a smaller kid? Or give them each 1 minute to find eggs..starting with the smaller kids 1st? I dunno..anyone have any ideas on this?We didn't buy Brandon much for Easter. He has so many toys now, and with yard sale season upon us..we didn't see the need. We don't allow him to have much candy, but I did buy him a small basket of stuff.

I hung a bird feeder in my back yard. Trying to bring finch birds to the yard. After a week of hanging back there and nothing..No birds at all. I woke up the other morning and found this eating from the feeder. Isn't it beautiful!!! I love watching this little bird eat.

The weather has been so nice here the last few days. High 80's. Today it is suppose to be 77 degrees but with rain. Of course the my day off it rains..it rained last week on my days off. grrrr

I've been doing alright on my diet. Still at 208 tho. I'd like to lose enough weight so I can fit into my shorts soon. I'm not buying new shorts..I'll either lose the weight or suffer in jeans. LOL What a great way to keep me motivated.

Anyways, I gotta go. Going to get my housed cleaned up today so I can relax the rest of the week.

Before I go tho here is a picture of my husband,son and me. Of course I couldn't get Brandon to sit still. He was wanting down to finish (drinking) blowing his bubbles. LOL

under attack...ack!!

2009-04-08T03:19:00.000-07:00

A few days ago I was in my laundry room putting the clothes from the washer into the dryer. I noticed there was a wasp flying around the room. I sprinted to the kitchen and grabbed the first thing I saw to kill it...a bottle of mean Green(used to clean counter tops and floors). I went back to the laundry room and saw there were 3! wasps flying around. So I took aim and sprayed them with the mean green. When I saw the wasps were weakened I saw my next plan of attack across the room..the broom. Well...I started for the broom..and slipped in the mean green fell onto my knees and did a split. I was in awful pain..couldn't move..thought I broke something in my knee. But I was still under attack ..the wasps were now back on the move..and pissed. So I crawled..sorta of..to the phone and called my sister to come help me. I wasn't able to stand up..my inner thigh muscles hurt sooooo bad. She came and helped me..first my killing the wasps and then by getting me to my feet. Needless to say I am terrified of bees.I have no idea why I have this fear. I'm not allergic to them. But I freeze up and get all squeamish when I see one. Anyways, my knees are fine..other than bruising. I hurt for a few days, had a heck of a time walking. lol But now I get a good laugh when I tell this story.

I haven't gotten much more stitching done on my touching the sky piece. I spent one day frogging it..I was one over too far. I hate when that happens. I am so glad I stitched this on linen. The stitches look so neat and fresh. You can't really tell but it is stitched on a lite blue fabric.

Today I have to get my house cleaned top to bottom. I am having a party lite/candle party today. Party lite has such nice things but way to expensive for me. I'm having this party to see if I can sell enough things to get the candle tree I want. Gotta sell 150$ worth of stuff.

Brandon is in a new phase. Now when he gets into trouble..he wants a hug. You can be in the middle of telling him not to do something and he will hold out his little hands and say "hug mommy..hug". He hugs me probably about 50 times a day..cause he's not only wanting a hug when he's in trouble..it's all the time. If I ask him to pick up his toys, tell him dinner is ready, if I get up to go to the bathroom, all the time!! But at least he's not banging his head on the floor.

We have started potty training..but it's not working. The first few times were fun..and he sat on the little potty chair. But now it's a fight...he says "it's broke mommy, it's broke." talking bout his pee pee. I've tried offering him a sucker if he pees in the potty. But that isn't working. Keith seems to think it's too early for potty training. At what age did you potty train your little boy? Brandon just turned 2 1/2 a few days ago. I'm going to do some Internet searching today see what the experts say.

I have been sticking to my diet fairly well. I've had a few set backs with the hurt knee and the weather. One day it was 70 degrees out side with sunshine., the next it was snowing!! I couldn't believe it. Crazy weather.

But I'm off to do a little stitching before Brandon gets up. Hugs and have a great day.

blah blah blah

2009-03-31T03:24:00.000-07:00

I feel like crap. Woke up on Sunday feeling very tired, sore throat,and my head feels like it is stuffed full of cotton balls. I went to work in a very foul mood. And working in a nursing home isn't the place for someone in a mood like this. I got through the day tho, came home and slept on the couch. (tried to sleep on the couch, Brandon didn't like the idea). Woke up Monday morning, got dressed for work..and I just couldn't get myself to go. So I called off. I HATE calling off. But I feel so drain of energy. Working 4 days a week, taking care of a 2 year old, taking care of ALL the house chores, trying to diet and exercise has really taken a toll on me. I feel as if I have the weight of the world on my shoulders and I just can't take it much more. I just want to lay down and sleep and sleep and sleep. I'm tired...and being sick doesn't help matter much. Today I have decided that I will get my walking and exercising done as soon as Keith is off to work. And then I'm going to spend the day on the couch with Brandon watching cartoons. Heck with the house chores..but..I won't be able to lay around knowing things need done. So I will probably not lay around all day. I feel guilty...is something wrong with me? Why can't I just forget what needs to be done and do what I want to do? Anyways..enough depressing talk.

I have been working on Touching the autumn sky. I love the colors in this piece. So pretty, kind of reminds me of fall. I think i will take a break from it today and stitch something small. I don't know what yet..but something cute and springish.

If anyone has any linen/even weave they would like to sell plz email me with prices. glorylady25@gmail.com I could really use white,cream,ivory, or lite blue.

I have this piece of Aida in my stash. I've had it a really long time. I do believe it is silk weavers. You can't really tell in the picture but it has sparkles in it. Very pretty. But what do i stitch on it? I have no clue what would look good on this fabric. I was thinking maybe flowers but i just don't know. Any opinions would be great.

Hope everyone has a great day.

my boo boo is sick

2009-03-25T02:16:00.000-07:00

Took Brandon to the doctors yesterday. He has ear infection and upper respiratory infection. So the doctor gave me 2 different cough medicines to give him. One for the day time and one for night time. He also gave me an antibiotics but doesn't want me to start him on it unless he's no better by Sunday. I don't understand why he would want me to wait..but I'm not a doctor. lol

I need some help with my blog. See on the right..where I have a picture posted and it says I love Sig country. I want people to be able to click on that picture and be taken to Sig country's web site. I have fooled around with HTML codes for 2 days and have not figured it out. Can anyone help me out? Sig country is where I get all my blog candy, pictures with my names and my headers for my blog. I just love them there. And it's free! Here is the link in case anyone wants to check it out. http://forums.delphiforums.com/sigcountry You do have to sign up tho. IT's a message board.

Today I am going to spend most of the day cleaning. Spring cleaning..getting rid of junk that we don't need any more. And I'm going to finish washing down walls. So think of me when you are sitting and stitching the day away.

green thumb

2009-03-24T03:28:00.000-07:00

I weighed in this week at 209! I am so close to my goal that I can almost taste it! I've been drinking slim fast and eating protein and fiber bars. You wouldn't believe how full you feel when eating these bars.I've also been doing a lot of walking, I try to walk 45 minutes every day, but I do good to get in 30 minutes of walking. I'm glad the weather is staying nice, I put Brandon in the walker and away we go. He loves it almost as much as I do. I've also been weight training 3 times a week. I LOVE my new weight set. I'm hoping to reach my goal weight by may. Fingers crossed!!

I've decided to try my hand at house plants again. I used to have many many plants in my home. But when Brandon came along I was scared we would try to eat them so I gave all of them away. Also I couldn't keep my cat out of the plants. She would lay them them..flatten them out, break the steams. I finally got sick of trying to keep her away from them. But now I have a new idea..hanging baskets. LOL Worth a try I guess. Here is a picture of my Jade plant. A friend of mine gave this to me. Isn't it awesome!(click for bigger picture)

Here is a picture of my WIP. It's called Touching the autumn sky. Very very pretty.

Today I gotta take Brandon to the

doctors. He has been sick all weekend. Started with a fever but now he is coughing and has a runny nose. I know it's probably just his spring allergies but I want to get him checked out anyway. Strep throat has been going around and I want to make sure it isn't that. I have to be at the doctors at 8:40. I will post an update when I return home.

Is it spring yet??

2009-03-13T13:17:00.000-07:00

Oh my. I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last posted. Whats up with that? Well I've been very busy around here. With the warm weather I have been taking Brandon out side to play most evenings. He loves being out side. And I love the warm but not so hot you can't move weather. So this is the perfect time of year for me. Having Brandon out side is so exciting. He is in the stage of asking "whats that"? So we walk around the yard , him asking the question and me telling him what this and that is. And he love to touch everything! He even picked up the neighbors dogs poop and brought it to me, asking "whats that"? It was soooo gross. Another thing that amazed me was the day we found a frog in the yard. We played with that poor frog for at least an hour. I had to finally hide the frog so Brandon couldn't find it. I'm sure the frog was glad to hop away from our yard. LOL

I've been doing really well on my diet. All though I've not lost any more weight. I go from 15 to 17..sometimes I hit 19. But I feel grrrrrrrreat. I have energy to play with Brandon, to get my shift at work in and I sleep so much better. Specking of exercise I have a new "toy". It's called The wave, by the firm. It is so awesome. Keith bought it for me after I saw it on TV. I've had it a week and can already feel the muscles in my stomach tighten. I'd post a picture of it but I'm too lazy to search the web for one. LOL

I haven't been stitching much lately. Work and playing out side doesn't give me much stitching time. I am working on touching the autumn sky by MIRABILLA. I am stitching it on 28 ct lite blue linen. I think i have fallen in love with linen. Makes everything look so .....neat. LOL I have more of this done, worked on it last night while watching a movie but didn't take a picture of it. Wish I could fine more charts of little boys to stitch.

I gotta run. Brandon is wanting his dinner. Hope everyone is doing well. HUGS!!

Better late than never!

2009-02-19T05:27:00.001-08:00

Happy Valentines day all! Sorry to post this so late but I haven't been in the blogging moon lately. What did you get for V'day? Keith actually bought me something this year, with out being told what to get me! I was so surprised. He bought me red satin sheets for our bed, and a stuffed valentine Puppy dog. I LOVE sleeping on those sheets. So soft. I've wanted a set for years and years. I bought him his and hers Ky. (maybe a little TMI?) lol and stitched him the Valentine stocking. (click for bigger picture)Which I just finished yesterday. I think I'm losing my stitching mojo. I haven't stitched much at all this week. I've been either on this computer or watching movies. And usually when I watch movies it's great stitching time. Last night I watched the movie called Cloverfeild. I LOVED it. What a great movie. Also watched a movie called Blindness..what a stupid movie.

Keith and I got our income tax money this past week. He bought a 46 inch flat screen TV, which we now have mounted on the living room wall. I bought me a home gym. (I'll have to post pictures of it soon) I've had it for over a week and haven't used it. LOL I'm so lame. I haven't' lost any weight in almost 2 weeks. I like to eat..love to eat stuff that is bad for me. I need some major help from family and friends. I've been taking diet pills called slim quick. Been on them for 2 days,not sure If i see any difference with them or not. Will let you know when I'm on them for a week or so.

I bought to new charts last week from 123 stitch. New waxing moon charts. I can't wait to stitch them. Might start them today. Not sure tho. Have lots of things I want tostitch but just dont' feel like stitching. (((Some one help me!!!!)))

Here is some pictures of Brandon. He's doing much better with the fit throwing. Every time he throws him self down on to the floor we've been making him get up and go sit in his room for about 5 minutes. Seems to be working for us.

boring week

2009-02-10T00:30:00.000-08:00

Today I woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep. So here I am blogging at 3:30am. I don't really have much to report. I've been working, stitching and playing another game on shock wave. I am so hooked on a game called Westward gold rush 3. LOL If I'd stop playing those games I'd have a lot more stitching done.

Here is another ornament I stitched up last week. It was quick and simple. It is by Lizzie Kate, tiny tidings. You can't see the white on the top of the stocking. I was thinking I should probably back stitch that part. Haven't decided yet. I sent 4 of my stitched ornaments to Vicki at http://www.sewfun.biz/ to finish for me. She charges 6$ per ornament to finish them. I don't think that is a bad price. I can't wait to get them back and see what she has done with them. The other 2 or 3 I am going to finish myself this week. Least going to give it a try. LOL

I received my Valentine swap from Heather.(http://heatherstitch.blogspot.com/) I LOVE the heart she stitched for me. I think I will leave it posted all year long. Isn't it beautiful! I mailed my stitched piece to her late so she hasn't received it yet. I'm thinking today or tomorrow she should have it.

I am stitching on Hearts n hands Valentine stocking. Here is my progress so far.

Ice storm and another ornament finish

2009-01-29T10:33:00.001-08:00

Well the winter storm is finally over. We have been without power since last night. Finally came back on a few hours ago. It was a very very cold night. This morning we made the trip to my sisters to reclaim our kerosene heater from her. We offered to let her and the kids come to our house to stay warm. Keith, Brandon and I spent the morning laying on the couch under the covers. Me trying to stitch a little (and I do mean very little lol), Keith sleeping on and off, and Brandon....well he drove me nuts. Kept wanting the TV turned on, lights turned on, wanting to go into his room to play, but he couldn't because we had that part of the house blocked off. Anyways..it was a very long morning. Here are some pictures of the town and of the ice. We are still under a lvl 2. Which means don't go onto the roads unless really really necessary.

Here is my recent ornament finish. Another snowman. You will be surprised to know that the one I'm stitching now is not a snowman! Can you believe it? LOL I just need to find someone to finish them for me. If you know of anyone plz let me know. I can do it myself..but not very well.

Brandon is still throwing himself down on the floor. When will he stop this! It makes me feel like I have no control..nothing I do makes him stop. Now when he does it he has to spend 5 minutes in the time out chair..which only leads to another head banging off the floor. grrrrrrr How in the world do mothers of more than one child make it..and remain sane?? Thank goodness I knew when I had Brandon that he would be enough for me. LOL Don't get me wrong..I love him very very much, but when he is throwing his tantrums I just want to join him on the floor. Another thing he is doing is..eating off of my plate. Doesn't matter if we have the same thing to eat..he wants to eat mine. Why is this?? Why can't he just eat his own food?? Does it taste better on my plate? Oh to be two years old again.

I gotta run..want to watch the life time movie today.

Becca

Have a good one all!

new stash and a finish

2009-01-21T02:23:00.000-08:00

Man has it been cold here lately. Last week we got down to -13 degrees! I don't remember it ever getting that cold. I had to drag myself out of bed on those cold mornings for work. Going outside to start the car was brutal! We have about 3 inches of snow and ice on the ground. I don't see it going any where soon due to the cold. Brrrrrrrrrrrr

I have another snowman ornament finished. I've gotten board with these snowmen. So I have started working on a different one. It's from a chart called Charming Snow Trio by Ursula Michael Design. I'm almost done with it. So soon as I finish it I'll post a picture of it.

Now onto the greatest part...new stash. LOL I have fallen in love with Barbara Ann Designs. Her charts are so bright and color full. How come I'm just seeing them now?? I bought a few of her charts from http://www.creative-poppy-patterns.com/ And whats great about buying from here is that they email you the charts. So no waiting for the mail to arrive..and no extra money paid for postage. These are the 2 I bought. First one is called Lucas the love elf..I hope to stitch him on 32 count over one..to make him into an ornament. But since I've just tackled 32 count over 2..I'm not so sure about it. LOL The second one I bought is called Warm Winter Welcome. Just look at all the bright colors! So very pretty. Anyone stitch anything by Barbara? If so I would love to see your finish.

Now some family news. My mother come down on Saturday..spent the night. Spent the night on Sunday too. We had some much needed together time. I even called off work on Monday so we could have the morning together. Not the best reason to call off work but I've missed my mother. Most of the time I filled with anger towards here but not this time. She is talking about moving closer to home. She is 3 hours away..in a town that I NEVER go to. I miss her...not her now..but the old her. I don't think I'll ever be as close to her as we once were. But we can always try..see where it goes..but not if she is 3 hours away.

Brandon got this really great toy from his grandma Bea. Keith and I sat it up for him..he spent forever playing with it. Even the cat came out to check things out. LOL It's sorta like Lego's . You

build tunnels, drop the balls in watch them roll down. It's so much fun. You can build smalls ones, like the one we built for Brandon, or you can build one huge one! But Brandon can't reach the top of it to drop in the balls. LOL

Now for some much needed motherly advise. Brandon is having fits where when he gets mad the throws himself down on the floor..when he does this he BANGS his head off the floor. Hard! I don't' know how to stop him from doing this. He's going to bust his head open one of these times. Cause he doesn't care whats on the floor at the time..toy car, toy gun..whatever.. Any tips for me??We've tried ignoring him..tried telling him it was bad..don't' know what else to do.

Hope everyone is keeping warm. Have a great week!

another ornament finished

2009-01-13T02:17:00.000-08:00

I have another ornament finished. Only 3 more to go. I'd probably have another near finished but I had to stop and stitch a valentine chart for an exchange I'm in. I hope my partner likes what I stitched for her. I was looking through my stash for a valentine chart to stitch..do you know I have like none! I only have a few and those aren't what I would want to stitch for someone else. I might have to visit eBay some time today. LOL Anyways, as soon As i send my exchange partner her package I will post a picture of what I stitched for her. Today I am going to "finish it" Not sure how I will go about doing that. Pillow? wall hanging? Hmmm wish I had some of your all talent when it comes to this sorta thing.

Now for the best news ever! I started my news years diet. Started it on Jan. 3th. I weighed in on Saturday the 10th. I lost 8 pounds! YAaaaaaaaaY! I've been eating a lot of oatmeal, yogurt, soups and baked chicken. I walked 3 days, in the freezing cold, for about 35 minutes. I'm so happy that I lost. It feels great. Now for the others on my team, they didn't do so great. My sister and Sister in law are on my team. My sister didn't lose any and my sister in law lost 2.Which is great for them I guess but the other team lost a total of like 19 pounds! My family is doing a "biggest loser" contest. LOL It was an idea that I cooked up due to the fact that I hate dieting and exercising alone. If I have someone to help push me along I do so much better. But it seems like i'll have to do the pushing and tugging this week. My start weight was 231. I'd like to weigh 195 by summer. My goal weight is 165. That's still 10 pounds over weight but I think it's a good goal for me.

I have updated my sales album. I have all sorts of good charts in there. I even have Q-snaps with a cover for sale. I have decided that I hate q-snaps. Snaps just don't keep my fabric as tight as I like it. So I'll stick to my scroll frames. Here is the link to my album. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v11/beccaC/sale%20or%20trade/

email me if you find something you would like to buy. Shipping is extra of course.

I guess that's it for today. Hope all is doing well.

Christmas ornaments

2009-01-03T12:40:00.000-08:00

How did I miss posting a Happy New Years post? Where has the time gone. Seems like just yesterday it was Christmas. Oh how the time flys....

I have been working on Christmas ornaments. I've decided that for the whole month of January I am going to do nothing but stitch ornaments. I only stitched 3 last year! People were very disappointed that they didn't receive an ornament from me as a Christmas gift. Here is a picture of what I'm working on right now. The only one I won't do of the 8 pictured is the 4th one on the top row. For some reason I just don't like the way he looks. Right now I am working on the 1st one. But I only have a few stitched completed so I won't share a picture of it. I never realized just how many Christmas ornament kits I have laying around here. I've got to get them stitched this year! Just Gotta. Here is a picture of the 2 I have finished. They are quick to stitch up. I'm stitching these ornaments on scrap pieces of cloth I have laying around. The linen or even weave I stitched these 2 ornaments are was fun. I don't do much stitching on anything but Aida so it was nice change of pace. I might have to order some in the near future to work a larger project on.

Not much else going on in my life right now. So in til next time. Happy stitching.

Becca

2008 christmas

2008-12-28T02:25:00.000-08:00

Today's post is going to be all about Christmas! Christmas was a very busy day around here. We woke up around 7am to open presents. Brandon had such a great time tearing his gifts open. I dressed him up in his Santa suit. Here are some pictures of him. We didn't buy him much this year. Seems like he grows out of things so fast. We will be getting him some more things at income tax time. He really liked his cow bowling. Well what he really likes is the ball that makes tons of noise and drives daddy and mommy crazy. LOL Anyways, after opening presents Keith went back to bed. So that left me to clean up the mess in the kitchen. The night before our electric went out. At like 5:30 and didn't come back on in til after I went to bed. So I had all those dishes to do from the baking I did. (yeah..U read right..I did some baking). Let me tell you that dishes from baking are HARD to clean once they sit all night. While we are on the subject of baking...Let me show you a picture of what made for my sisters dinner(actually it was lunch). I made peanut butter fudge and buckeyes. I also made peanut butter pies and chocolate pies but didn't take pictures of those. Anyone that knows me knows how much I HATE to bake, or cook. My thing is eating...lol.

We spent the morning at my sisters (sorry no pictures of this visit) Then we were off for a 2 hour drive to my MIL's. My MIL was sick with the flu, so she spent most of the time on the couch. But we had an awesome time. Keith's sister and brother's family's where there. Everyone got along..didn't feel the tension in the air that I usually feel when the in laws are all together. Here are some pictures of the opening of presents and such.

Before we opened presents I wanted to get some family pictures taken. I sure wish grandma would have waited on those suckers....This is Brandon and his cousin Jadon. They are only a few months apart in age.

This Is Keith (right) his brother mike(left) and his sister Christie(lower).

Here are the boys opening a gift from there Uncle Mike. He got them Leap pads. I went to 2 different walmarts and a Kmart looking for the books and cartridge that goes with this reading system..can't find them. I looked on eBay and have found a few. But most is for grade school children. So I might have to put this up in til he is a little older. And start stocking up on the books and things so he will have them. Very cool gift.

This is my Mother-in-law. She is more than that tho..she is my friend. She is the greatest person ever. Always willing to do for other people. Anyone that knows this lady is blessed. She was ill on Christmas but was still able to have a great dinner cooked and keep the kinds entertained.

This is me of course. My SIL got me this gift. Awesome. I can't wait to write someone a letter and use my new envelopes and stationary. I know I don't look very happy is this photo. But I hate having my picture taken. And I hate my smile, hate my dimples. Grrrrr lol

This is MIL with all her grand baby's. The dork with this Santa hat is Timmy(his dad is Mike..pictured above). He is 16 years old. Much Much older..but still a big baby. LOL He's a great kid..Some one for Brandon to look up to. I hope they get to spend lots of time together when Brandon is older. This is after all the presents are opened and everyone is just chillin and relaxing. Jadon really didn't' want his picture taken, he was getting crabby from not having his evening nap.

This is Christy. My sister. She is really my sister in law but I love her as much if not more than my real sister. She is so much fun to be around. Some times she gets a little crazy and strung out but for the most part is is awesome. She is really diggin her new jeans. A present from her mom. And for some reason I didn't' get a picture of her boyfriend so I will post a picture of him below hers. How did I let that happen??

This is Byran..Christy's boyfriend. I had his name for gift exchange. Well I sorta left his present at home. It was a gift card to walmart. So we just ended up giving him cash in a Christmas card. LOL I felt like such an ass for forgetting it. I'm not sure who got Byran the boxers shorts..but who couldn't use new underpants?

Well that was our Christmas. We ended up staying the night at MIL's house. I really didn't think she needed the extra company being sick and all but she more or less insisted. We had a great evening playing with Brandon's new toys. LOL I don't know who liked them more..Brandon or Keith's.

I spent yesterday taking down the Christmas tree and putting away the Christmas decor. I Love having the tree up in til after the new year but our Christmas tree has seen it's last year. The leg on the stand is cracked and broken. Took it down early before it fell over and broke completely. We did buy a new one at Walmart, the day after Christmas, got it 50% off. Was scared to wait to long after Christmas to get a new one. Was afraid they wouldn't have any of the one we wanted. Anyways Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Hugs to everyone.

mostly ramblings...

2008-12-19T03:29:00.000-08:00

Not much to share with you today. Seems like all I've been doing lately is working. I did get the news yesterday that Starting Jan. 4th I get my old hours back. YAY! I never thought I would be so happy about working every weekend. LOL But I am. Having those 3 days off in a row is soooo nice and relaxing. I can't wait.

Last year at Christmas time I stitched a stocking for my nephew Logan. I have had it stuff in a drawer since then waiting for Assembly. Well I took the plunge and did it myself. I have to tell you that I was a nervous wreck the whole time. But in the end it wasn't really that hard. It's not perfect (not like my friend cherlys stockings) but it's together and ready to be used. The next stocking will be much better I hope.

I'm working on a Christmas ornament still. I found a peice of (I think) linen in my stash that someone sent to me. I think it's linen or even weave. It's soooo tiny. The stitches are so small..I think my ornament will be lost on the tree unless I can figure out a way to finish it big but make it look good. I am enjoying stitching on this fabric (what ever it might be). It's a nice change from stitching on Aida all the time. I found a few stocking ornament charts that I am going to stitch up next. I am going to stitch one for my nieces and nephew. (well that's the plan for now).

Here is an update picture on my twins! They have gotten so big since I seen them last. The twins parents have gotten into the grove of caring for 2 baby's. I don't know how they do it, I'd be soo tired and worn out. Dealing with just one about did me in. LOL I do believe that Ava is on the right and Victoria is on the left. Vic. is larger than Ava. That's how I can tell them apart. Aren't they sooo cute.

And of course I have to end this post with a picture of Brandon. While at grandmas she let the boys eat candy while laying in bed!! How scary was that. They had a blast. As did she. The other boy with Brandon is Jadon. Brandon's cousin.

And the winner is....

2008-12-15T16:36:00.000-08:00

The winner of the stocking chart is Heather from Brunswick, Canada. You can view her blog at http://heatherstitch.blogspot.com/ . Email me your address Heather so I can get this in the mail to you soon! Congrats to you.

I have no stitching to share with you. I haven't stitched anything since finishing Moonie. I've been hooked on an online stitching game. It has consumed all my free time. And it's a really lame game so I don't know whats got into me. LOL

Since I have no stitching to share I thought I would share a little Christmas story with you. Hope you enjoy it.

A candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would remind people of the true meaning of Christmas; so he made the candy cane to incorporate several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ. He began with a stick of pure white, hard candy. White to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless nature of Jesus, and hard to symbolize the Solid Rock, the foundation of the Church, and the firmness of the promises of God.
The candy maker then shaped his cane into the form of a "J" to represent the precious name of Jesus, who came to the earth as Savior. It could also represent the staff of the "Good Shepherd" with which He reaches down to to reclaim the fallen lambs who, like sheep, have gone astray.
Thinking that the candy was somewhat plain, the candy maker stained it with red stripes. He used three small stripes to show the stripes of the scourging Jesus received. The large red stripe was for the blood shed by Christ on the cross so that we could have the promise of eternal life.

Good bye Moonie...chart giveaway

2008-12-13T01:28:00.000-08:00

Good bye Moonie...I can't say that you'll be missed.I am so glad to have her stitched. Only thing I need to have her finished is some star charms. I have a few in my stash but can't seem to find them. Maybe by the time I have her framed I'll have found them. I wish I would have stitched her on darker fabric. I think I might stitch her again some time (not any time soon tho) and not use the glissen gloss and stitch her on black. I think that would look awesome.

I don't really have a lot to say. I've been so busy with work. I hate my new hours, seems like i never have a day off. Going from having 3 days off in a row every week to having one day off really stinks. LOL I've been begging my boss for my old hours back but policy states that I have to wait 90 days. And IF my position is open still I can have it back. So fingers cross that no one applies for it. LOL Also I'm having trouble with a lady I work with. She is so mean and hate full toward me. Tells lies about me to other workers. And I really like this girl..we will call her Stacy. She is always talking about me behind my back. I just wish she would grow up. If she has a problem with me I wish she would just tell me and get it over with. It's tiresome going to work every day dealing with the same old drama. I'm sure our nurse is getting sick of hearing it. Anyways..sorry for going on and on about it.

Today I am having a GIVEAWAY! I have won several giveaways in the last month so I though I would return the favor to someone else. The prize will be this stocking chart (see picture) complete with button and charms. All you have to do is leave a comment telling me you want to be entered into the giveaway. I will draw a name Monday when I get home from work. Good luck all! (for better picture of chart..click on it!!).

I'm off now to stitch on my snowman ornament. Thought I would do something quick and easy for a few days.

I'ts starting to look like christmas

2008-12-05T01:21:00.000-08:00

Good morning all! Hope everyone is keeping warm. We sure have been having some very cold weather here in Ohio. Today's post should be a long one with lots of pictures.

First I want to show you an almost finished Moonie. I have mostly back stitching left and a few stray stitches that I didn't do. I can't believe I'm almost finished with her. A little tip for anyone that might stitch her..when ordering your speciality thread..order 2 of them. I ran out of the 1st white glissen gloss thread and I'm about out of the second one If you make any huge mistakes with the green or red glissen gloss then you aren't going to have enough to finish. I would say that this piece has been the most challenging thing I have ever stitched. I LOVE the way she looks tho.

We took Brandon to see Santa clause the other day. As you can see from his face..it didn't go very well. LOL He didn't want anything to do with Santa. So I bribed him with candy. I told him he could have candy if he held Santa's hand. Well He held Santa's hand and the candy in the other. Guess What he was looking at the whole time?

Last night we went to my Niece's (all three of them were in the same musical!) sing Christmas songs. We took Brandon ..and I thought it would be a total nightmare..but it wasn't. He loved it! He even clapped when everyone else was clapping. He didn't cry or fuss the whole hour we sat and watched!

I have our Christmas tree up. IT looks amazing with all the stitched ornaments on it. It's about 70% home made ornaments. I'll take some pictures of the outside of the house some time soon and share those as well. I never knew that decorating a tree with a child was sooo hard to do. Brandon kept hang the ornaments on the same branch. I think at one time he had like 6 ornaments on the same branch. He also about knocked the tree down by pushing on the tree to hang an ornament. We had the neighbor boy (which is also my nephew) come over to help. Man oh Man does that boy ask a million questions. But he is great with Brandon. We had a great time putting on all the decorations.

Now for the last picture. My sister bought Brandon some candy called SixLets. Little balls of chocolate...That fit perfectly up a child nose. Guess what he did! He came out of his room saying "nose" "nose" and laughing. I didn't think anything of it. In til Green slime starting coming out of his nose. I screamed..BOO WHAT HAVE U DONE! I had to get a pair of tweezers to pull the green ball out. Kids...The things he does will have me put in a nut house for sure.

Today Keith and I are going Christmas shopping. Can you believe I haven't' gotten any shopping done yet! Nothing..natta..zip. And like 3 weeks left til Christmas. Wish me luck.

Happy Turkey day....

2008-11-25T13:11:00.000-08:00

My Christmas ornament exchange partner has received her ornament from me so I thought I would post a picture of it. Of course I had Brandon hold it for me so I could get a picture of him posted as well. LOL Just wish he was looking at the camera instead of the ornament. I stitched the snowman on perforated paper. I know I didn't spell that right but I think you get the idea.

Thanksgiving in in 2 days so I wanted to post some things I'm thankful for. I keep seeing in the news where people are having a rough time this Christmas season with food, gifts and gas to heat there house. So 1st I am thankful that we have the money to buy what we need. Now I'm not saying we are well off but we do have what we "need". We can't really afford what we "want" right now but we have heat, food and a roof over our heads. 2end I'm thankful for my son's health. I remember the 1st winter he was born, what an awful stress full time it was. Seems we lived at the doctors office. I haven't had to take him to the doctors in a looooong time. 3rd I am thankful for my job, I see lots of people getting laid off, losing there jobs. I work full time in a nursing home and I pretty sure my job is safe. And last but not least I am thankful for my family and friends. If not for them it would make for a boring life.

Now back to stitching...I have been working on my Moon Beam witch. I can see the end in sight. I know lots of you left comments for me to put her down and start something new. I can't do that..I have to finish what I start. I have zero UFO's. I always finish a project before starting a new. If I don't like what I'm stitching I stitch it anyway. I don't know why I'm like this. One main reason is I HATE starting new projects. I hate "kitting" up a project. Trying to figure out what sorta fabric to stitch it on, finding the right size scroll bar to use. I think this is the reason I stitch large projects. I think I'm going to start a HEAD design after Christmas is over. I like the idea of a HUGE project to work on. I just gotta find the right one. Anyways..I'm rambling on and on. Here is a picture of (I call her Moonie) Moonbeam witch.

Something happen to me the other day. I got home from work and Keith told me Brandy called. I asked him Brandy who? He said " I don't know she said to tell you Brandy called." I asked him if she left a number and He said" Nope". So I check the caller ID. (Thank god for caller ID). And her number was on it so I called it. Brandy was my BFF in high school. We did everything together,we lost contact over the years due to our different lifestyles, family's and jobs. But she called me! WE have talked on the phone several times since then and we are thinking about getting together after Christmas to catch up on things. She is still married to her high school sweet heart and has 2 kids. One is named Brandon! Same as mine. How cool is that? LOL

I hope everyone has a great Thanks giving and eats lots and lots of turkey.

Here I am!!

2008-11-20T04:19:00.000-08:00

Frist off I want to say how sorry I am for not visiting your blogs and leaving comments. I have been sooo freakin busy this week. Doing what? I have no clue..but every time I've wanted to get on the computer to read blogs something came up. I will try to do better in the coming weeks.

An update on my Moonbeam Witch. I hate her...I really really do. IT's taking all I have to finish her. What I really want to do is toss her in the trash. She is soooo mean. With all that fancy sparkle in her clothes..she has invited the frog to visit every night this week! Grrrrr.... What I really want to do is start some christmas stitching. I have several ornaments calling my name.

I took part in a ornament exchange this year. And I received my ornament in the mail the other day. I love it! And guess what..it's a snowman. I can't show you the ornament I stitched for her..because I was a very bad partner and just mailed it out yesterday. (It was due out Nov.1st) I have no excuse for mailing late..other than I was lazy and didn't want to venture out into the cold weather to the post office. (How lame?)

I've been so busy the last 2 days cleaning house. I mean really cleaning..washing down walls, dusting...cleaning up the clutter I have EVERYWHERE. Next week I get to host the Thanksgiving dinner. The house will be filled with people...screaming kids..But it will be nice to see everyone together again.

I think I will watch a few espoides of Desperate house wives before I start cleaning. I'm almost to the end of season 4..Can't wait to start watching season 5 and catch up to where the show is now. Have a great day and keep warm!

I've been tagged

2008-11-11T02:29:00.000-08:00

I've been tagged by Clonnen at http://clonnen.multiply.com/

The rules are as follows:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.

2. Post the rules on your blog.

3. Write six random things about yourself.

4. Tag six people at the end of your post.

5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

6. Let the tagger know your entry is up.

Here are my six...

1. I smoke cigs. I've tried quiting 3 times in the past. Once I quit for 6 months.

2. I love Christmas time, love the pretty lights, all the snowmen, and I would like to have a room in my house decorated for Christmas all year round but Keith won't let me. LOL

3. I use coupons..LOVE to use coupons (if anyone has coupons they could mail to me that would be awesome!!)

4. I don't really have any friends, online or in real life. I can't keep up and I'm selfish with my time.

5. I was married at the age of 15 and divorced at 21. My 1st marriage should have never happen.

6. I hate wearing shoes and socks. If I could go bare foot all the time I would.

here are the 6 people I'm tagging

1.Ginnies http://ginniescrossstitch.blogspot.com/

2. Helen http://stitchingranny.blogspot.com/

3. chiloe http://chiloescorner.blogspot.com/

4. GingerLouise http://gingerlouiseclothing.blogspot.com/

5. Kim http://kimstitches3.blogspot.com/

6. Tracey http://flowerpebble.blogspot.com/

A while back A fellow blogger((http://orgjunkie.com/)) was giving away the couponizer(http://www.thecouponizer.com/). I didn't win this contest so I took the plunge and ordered it. I am in LOVE. Never has organizing my coupons been so easy! IT is a great investment to someone wanting to use coupons but just not sure how to go about it. Since Keith lost his job a while back I've been trying to figure out ways to cut back on our food budget and coupons is the answer! So ladies that don't use coupons could you send them to me? I'll pay for postage.

Now what you all have been waiting for...an update on Moonbeam witch. Well I don't have a lot of progress to show you. I worked another long weekend. Oh..while on that subject I probably should tell you about a major change that will be taking place soon. I have bidded on a new position at work. My hours now are 4 days a week, every Friday,sat,sun and Monday. (EVER WEEK! no weekends off) Well now I am going to be working 5 days a week, with every other weekend off. BUT..I lose a dollar an hour since I won't be working every weekend. So I think in the end I will still be making the same amount of pay. So we will see how that goes. Anyways...back to moonbeam witch. She is a pain in the butt..I don't think I will ever take on a project that uses so much blending thread. Some days the stitching goes great and other days the blending thread breaks up on me, gets tangled a lot, and some times I have a heck of a time getting my needle threaded. Here is a picture of her...smug looking, eh?

Welp I'm off to catch up on some blogs. Have a great day!

Home Alone...

2008-11-06T02:42:00.000-08:00

I've made great progress on my Moonbeam witch. She is turning out soooo great. I have run out of the white blending thread so I had to order some yesterday. Hopefully the mail man will bring it soon. I know I wrote in my last post that I was going to do some back stitching..sorry to disappoint ya all but I didn't get to it. After I finish this piece I'm going to have to start my Christmas presents. I haven't stitched a single ornament this year and that's not like me at all! I usually have at least a dozen done by now. Before I forget..If any of you would like to receive a Christmas card from me plz send me your address. Send it too glorylady29@gmail.com

Keith and I took down our Halloween decorations the other day. Seems like we didn't have them up very long. Keith wanted to start putting up our Christmas decorations, only because it takes us sooooo long to do it. (we really go all out for Christmas). But for some reason we haven't gotten to it yet. We have been having awesome weather here, 75 degrees..in November! It's very strange. To be wearing light summer clothes when we should be hauling out our winter coats. It makes me think that come January we might be in for some major winter weather.

I spent all day yesterday ALONE! Keith and Brandon went to MIL's for the night on Tuesday. She wanted to keep Brandon over night and needed Keith to do some house repairs. So they both packed up and went to stay. It was so awesome. I sat and watched like 7 episodes of Desperate housewives. (season 3..old reruns). I did some cleaning..stitched..cleaned some more..stitched. Mostly I stitched and watched TV. LOL It was great.

Post edited forgot to post MIL's pumpkin

After I clicked the publish post button I remembered that I wanted to share my MIL's (who I will now refer to as mom) Pumpkin with you all. Mom got this great idea for her pumpkin from someone else. And I just LOVE it. She used the pieces from Mr.Potato head. You know..the kids toy. Brandon just loved it. So guess whats he's getting for Christmas?!? And just think..Brandon can do this himself next year. Put the pieces anywhere he wants to..and no mess!

While at moms house we decide to rake the leaves. Well Brandon in sited on helping..of course. Just look at him. After we raked up a big pile we taught him how to jump in and have lots of fun. We had a blast..who knew playing in scratchie leaves would be so fun. I had to take an extra allergy pill but it was worth it.

I've been boo-ed

2008-10-30T06:39:00.001-07:00

I've been boo-ed by http://flowerpebble.blogspot.com/ check out her blog! It's great.

Here are the rules:Go to as many friends as you want and tell them they've been "B00-ed." Have them link back to your blog to pick up their Halloween Treat (picture) and tell them to Boo their friends.Then put the picture in your side bar so everyone knows that you've already been "boo-ed" and to send the picture to someone else.

Also check out this link of giveaways! WOW..I've been looking at blogs all morning
http://www.donttryit.com/bloggy_giveaways/

halloween candy are you?

2008-10-29T08:10:00.000-07:00

I thought this was a fun quiz....

You Are Candy Corn

Your Halloween personality is whimsical, colorful, and creative.

You see Halloween as a time to get your creative juices flowing.

Each year, Halloween can't start soon enough for you.

You tend to go all out for Halloween. You decorate like crazy and always dress up.

What Halloween Treat Are You?

....Can't think of a title Wed...

2008-10-29T03:25:00.000-07:00

Here is an update on my Moonbeam progress. I haven't stitched much the past few days. Not sure why..Just haven't' wanted to stitch. Here is a close up shot..I finally figured out what was wrong with my camera so the pictures are a lot better today. I think today I am going to do some back stitching. I can't wait to see her face come alive. Stitching the moon is going to be a real pain cause it's all stitched with the blending thread. I am liking the blending thread I just don't like using such a short piece of floss. I'm used to looooong pieces of floss so I don't have to thread my needle so many times.

Trick or Treat is tomorrow night. Keith and I have decided to not take Brandon again this year. He's only 2 and I'd have to leave him in the stroller the whole time. And the city I live in doesn't have many sidewalks. So pushing a stroller through the grass doesn't sound like much fun. And another thing We don't' let him eat much candy. I am very concerned about this teeth, I want him to have GREAT teeth when he is older, unlike mine and Keith's. Soooo...We are going to pass out candy instead. Everyone thinks I'm a horrid mother and person for not taking him. Will he really remember that at 2 years old I didn't take him trick or treating?? Will it really make much difference?

Remember me posting about us going to the Rolling Ridge ranch. Well my MIL sent me some pictures that she took in the mail yesterday. Check out this Deer (I forget the name of it). I almost dyed laughing. What could have made him make this face?? LOL Toooo funny.

And here is another picture that I just fell in love with. Jadon and Brandon holding hands walking toward the petting zoo. Too sweet.

I'm off to do my weekly cleaning. Keith is FINALLY pitching in and doing the house work while I'm at work. But I still have to do the toilet cleaning, mopping the floors, dusting..blah blah blah...One step at a time...LOL

Thanks for visiting and posting comments. I love to read what everyone is up to and I try to leave comments as much as I can.

great progress

2008-10-26T03:12:00.000-07:00

I have made such great progress on my moon beam witch! I was sick on Friday, must of had a stomach flu, I got sent home from work and stitched all day! While in bed. It was great. LOL Being sick was awful..but Keith really stepped up to the plate and took care of me. Made me hot tea all day. He's a good man when he wants to be. But now i think Brandon is coming down with it. We had a heck of a time getting him to eat anything yesterday. I finally gave in and gave him animal crackers. Usually we don't give him sweets in til he eats real food...but at least it was something. Anyways, back to my WIP...You can't really see the star yet hanging from her hat I had to frog that thing 2 time already, cause the blending thread keeps breaking up on me. It's a pain in the rear! I'm off to work..I just wanted to post a picture.

where has the time gone??

2008-10-22T01:39:00.000-07:00

I can't believe it's been over a week since my last post. I am falling behind on my blog and my comments that I leave for others. I'm so sorry. I worked another long weekend. I got in 50 hours in 4 days. I was sooo tired yesterday that I didn't do much but watch TV and stitch. I have made great progress on my moonbeam witch. Although I didn't get to stitch much over the weekend. I am starting to like the blending thread. I have learned that if I use smaller strands it is so much easier to manage. Here is an updated pic. Today I am going to try and get her face stitched. I'm dying to see what she looks like. I'm on another witch hunt. I have fallen in love with this little witch. Isn't she cute! I think I would stitch her on black instead of white tho. Make the ghost stand out a little more. I also have some of that white glow in the dark floss that would work great on this piece.Wish me luck on my hunt!

Yesterday was my Fathers B-day. He turned 54. I can't believe how old he is. Growing up we used to have so much fun. He would take us fishing, swimming at the local creek, berry picking..always had us kids out doing something. Things sure do change, now all he does is work and spend time on his computer..or play station. He's usually so tired from working that he doesn't want to do much else. I sure loved the old days.

Keith and I went to visit Aronn and Candice last week. We got to spend time with the twins. I can't believe how much they have grown in the short time we were away! Eva has lost a good bit of her hair and looked a bit funny. Eva is also the cry baby baby. Cried just about the whole time we were there. Where as Victoria was layed back and just took everything in. Eva is in pink and Victoria is in blue/white. They are just so cute and cuddly.

Check out my new Sig! I posted a request at http://forums.delphiforums.com/sigcountry/start asking for a witch Sig with my name on it. IT is sooooo awesome. I'm off to read and catch up on blogs. Have a grrrreat week.

Moonbeams and stardust witch

2008-10-14T10:37:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of my new project. This is the 1st project that I have used special fibers and floss on. So far i hate it. Maybe because it's something new and i'm not used to it. I am using glissin gloss rainbow blending thread and something called color wash. I ordered them from 123 stitch. I received them in the mail today. Here is a picture of it so far. I just fell in love with this design. It is from the stoney creek magazine Oct 2007 issue.

We went to a place called Rolling Ridge Ranch over the weekend. ( http://www.visitrollingridge.com/)) It was soooo much fun. Keith's mother took us to celebrate our birthdays. (Keith's was Oct 10th). I have never seen wild animals before so this was such a treat for me. And Brandon loved it. I thought he would be scared but he wasn't. He loved feeding all the different ones. Here are my Fav animals.

a finish and happy Bday Boo!

2008-10-07T04:55:00.001-07:00

I finished Tweeny witch yesterday! YAY! She looks great. I'm going to the store today to see if I can find a frame for her. I'm not very good at doing french knots so I left a lot of them off of her dress. I don't think the french knots do much for the design anyways. This was a fun stitch, but if you don't like doing 1/4 stitches you might want to steer clear of it cause it is FULL of them. Epically those pumpkins on her dress.

I received my Halloween exchange ornament from Kathy E. (no blog). She sent me lots of extra goodies. I just love the socks and the fabric she sent. And the owl ornament is just awesome. This was her 1st exchange ever! I'm glad she liked what I sent to her. And she loved the extra goodies I sent. This is what i sent to her.

Since I finished Tweey witch I am trying to figure out what to start today. I might do some more Halloween ornaments. My Halloween tree is looking really bare this year. ( I gave most of my ornaments away last year). If anyone would like to stitch me an ornament for my tree let me know! LOL

My son turned 2 yesterday, We had his party on Saturday. Not many people showed up but we had a great time. He loved all this gifts and especially loved the guns my sister got him. I can't believe he is 2 already. How time flys. He is really talking a lot now, I was worried in the beginning that he wasn't talking much. And I think potty training is right around the bend, he tells us AFTER he has messed his diaper. And he's always wanting to go to the bathroom to pee..I take him but he doesn't do anything. Just stares at the potty. So that will be fun..I told Keith that potty training him will have to be his deal because I can't stand up to pee. LOL

Anyways here are some pictures of Brandon and his party.

Tweeny witch WIP

2008-10-02T05:17:00.000-07:00

I thought I would post a WIP picture of my Tweeny witch. I have a LOT more of it stitched. I love stitching the orange colors. The picture isn't the greatest, can't wait til i get a new one for Christmas. I was going to spend today back stitching but I got called into work. So the back stitching will have to wait in til I get home tonight or tomorrow morning.

I mailed out my Halloween ornament exchange package the other day. As soon as she gets it I'll post pictures of it.

Remember when I showed you this picture Of my 2 framed girls. See that horrid brown panelling I called my living room walls. Well now check it out....Keith and I spent last week painting. It look us forever to cover up that ugly brown color. IT is now a very lovely cream color.(excuse the mess on the TV stand, I was still putting things back in order) The new color makes the living room appear larger and brighter. I love the new change.

I posted a while ago about not receiving my Christmas in July ornament exchange. Well...I think that boat has finally sailed. My partner claims she has mailed me a package 3 times and it's not reached me! 3 TIMES! Now I can't believe that at all. The owner of the exchange doesn't know who to believe..me or her. I can understand that because the owner and the partner are "friends" but as to end the exchange for me she (the owner) has sent me a package from 123 stitch. I got it yesterday in the mail. She sent me the new just cross stitch ornament issue. I thought that was very nice of her. There are lots of ornaments I'm thinking of stitching up.

I gotta go get ready for work. I'm off tomorrow and I'm going to unplug the phone. I need a day off!!

Becca

PIF

2008-10-01T05:42:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was my birthday. It was such a depressing day. I didn't get a single phone call from family or friends, no gifts to open. I went to the post office hoping to at least receive something fun in the mail, maybe something from a stitch er friend...but no nothing. How sad is that? Guess it was just another day in the year.

I found a couple ladies doing PIFs on there blogs and signed up. So now I am offering to do one here.

The rules are:

I will send a handmade gift to the first 5 people who leave a comment on THIS post requesting to join this PIF exchange. I don't know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week... but you will receive it within 365 days. That is my promise! The only thing you have to do in return is "Pay It Forward" by making the same promise on your blog (or - in your life - if you happen to be blog-less). So, come-on people, join the fun!

I haven't been doing much stitching the last few days. So no WIP pic to share. Hope all is well.

I'm a bit to depressed to write much more. So I'll leave you with this picture I seen on a message board.

new finish, WIP, halloween,new stash....

2008-09-28T04:18:00.000-07:00

I have a new finish. I've been taking this Halloween ornament with me to work. Stitching on it during my breaks n stuff. It didn't take long to stitch up. Today I am going to add the finishing touches on it and hang it from my Halloween tree.

I've also started stitching the Teeny witch (picture a few post down). I haven't gotten very far with her but thought I would share a picture of it. The hat has so many 1/4 stitches that I had to stitch one, mark it off with a marker, stitch another one, mark it off, just so I wouldn't screw up and have to rip the stitches out. I'm stitching her on 14 ct white Aida. I know I know..how boring..but it's the only thing I had on hand that she would look OK on. I did have a piece of lite purple that I thought about using but it was 18 count, and I didn't want her to be that small.

I got mad at Keith the other night and placed an order on EBay for some new charts. LOL What a great way to get back at him. These are the charts I bought.

I'm not sure why I bought the angel of dreams chart, It just caught my eye. I'm not really into stitching angels, but I might stitch this for my sister for her birthday in May. And of course I couldn't pass up the ornament chart..soon I will be stitching nothing but ornaments. I usually stitch them for the ladies I work with as Christmas gifts.

We (Brandon and I) were at my sisters house the other day when she had her Halloween decoration out. Brandon found this mask in the box and would not leave it alone. So she snapped some picture of him with it on. He is soooo cute. I just have to share a picture of him with you.

Now as many of you know I usually work day shift 7am to 3 pm 4 days a week. (Fri,sat,sun and Mondays). Well today is Sunday and I'm home! I feel really weird being home, as there is nothing on the TV to watch..church bells are ringing, something I never hear, and there are kids out on the streets already. The reason for this change is starting tomorrow, (Monday) I will be working 3pm to 11pm. I will be working after noons for 2 weeks as a fill in to help out with a staffing shortage. I don't know how well I will adjust to the staying up really late. I'm used to being up at 5am every morning. The mornings are usually my "alone" time. If I like the change I can take a full time afternoon position and have every other weekend off. Plus an extra 1.50 an hour. So we will see how it works out.

I'm off to catch up on some blogs. I now have Google reader..how did I ever manage with out it! It is awesome! Only thing I can't figure out is how to comment on someones blog without having to open the blog in a new window. Is it possible to post a comment right from the reader?

Also in my next post I've gotta set up a PDF, as I am now doing 2 of them! This is going to be great fun. But that's for a later post.

Have a great Sunday all!

greatest hubby ever!

2008-09-24T10:02:00.000-07:00

Well that might be an over statement. But he is wonderful. For my birthday ( he gave it to me a week early) he bought me an Otte floor lamp. Can you believe it! I've been wanting one of these forever. The silly man forgot to take the price sticker off and I seen how much he paid for it. ONLY 40$!! It was in the clearance aisle at walmart. Can you believe that! I think it's cheap, the other one I seen at Joann's was like 80$ Here is a picture of the lamp in the box. I used it for the first time this morning and Loved it. Anyone else have an Otte

lamp?

I finished the back stitching on bath time by DMC. I just love how the back stitching brought the piece to life. I'm going to frame this myself and hang it in boo's room. His room is a catch all for my stitching. If I have no where in the house to put it, (doesn't fit my room theme) then I just hang it on his walls. He loves starring at my work for some reason. Here is a final picture of it. I still need to add my name and date to the picture. Just haven't decided where to put them.

I have a little over a week before Brandon's birthday party. I'm hoping the weather stays nice and we can have it in the back yard. I have a fenced in back yard. I think we are just going to have cake and ice cream. Nothing special, invite the family over, let the little ones play and the adults can have some conversation. I don't know yet. Have to wait and see what the paychecks are like. I worked my butt off this weekend, pulled 3 12 hour shifts, and then I went in yesterday on my day off and worked 5 hours. So I should be into over time now, hoping to do some more 12's this weekend. Thank goodness I love my job or I don't know what I'd do. Keith and I have still been fighting over the house work. I don't think I should have to do all of the cleaning if I'm working so many hours a week, he gets to sit home and do nothing but take care of Brandon. He thinks if he does the laundry he doesn't have to do anything else. Must be a man thing. LOL

I gotta get off here. Beth the help me grow lady is on her way over. I totally forgot about her coming today. I gotta get Brandon a bath before she gets here. LOL

Thanks for visiting my blog and thank you so much for the comments!

Only back stitching left..YAY!

2008-09-18T12:12:00.000-07:00

I want to post real quick to show my WIP on "bath time". All I have left is the back stitching! YAY..

Today I was working on my Halloween ornament exchange piece and I realized that I totally screwed it up! I skipped a whole line..didn't stitch it..WHATS WRONG WITH ME!I even mark off a working copy with a marker. I've decided that I'm going to continue stitching it (it's almost done) and stitch my partner something else. i should have plenty of time to stitch something else for her. Or for once..just this once..I'll allow myself to be late on the exchange. I can't send something that I wouldn't want to receive myself.

Anyways, Wish me luck, I'm sure this weekend is going to be another weekend of hell. Long hours, and not enough sleep.

Thank god it's Tuesday!

2008-09-16T05:09:00.000-07:00

I spent the weekend working long hours again. Not as many hours as last weekend but more hours than I care to work. I'm glad it's Tuesday and I can sit, relax and stitch. I told Keith that I wasn't going to do ANYTHING today but relax. Although I do have to be at work at 10:30 for a meeting, but that gives me a chance to hit the library afterwards.

My Mother In law was here last night. She is with out electric, won't be restored for 5 to 7 days, because of the high winds we had from the hurricane. She brought us all her fridge and freezer food. She couldn't see it all going to waste. Specking of hurricane winds...Man was it awful. I can't imagine what a real hurricane would be like. The winds were so strong that I thought for sure our house was going to be blown away. And the sounds the winds made..I'll never forget it. Sounded like a high pitch scream.

An update on Brandon sleeping...Well...I put a small TV in his room. (we don't have a radio other than our computers). We leave it on all night so he has sound and some light from it. The 1st few nights it worked great. The last 2 nights have been OK, he still screams and throws a fit but not for a long period of time. I'd say about 10 minutes. And we don't tell him it's bed time. Or tell him to go to sleep. We tell him it's time to lay and watch TV. And he does it. I hate using the TV to get him to sleep, hate the thought of him watching TV at all, but it works. And that's all I really care about. Does using the TV method make me a bad mom?

I received a magazine in the mail yesterday from Mary in WC (no blog that I know of). It is the magazine that has this witch in it. I first seen this witch on

chiloe's blog and fell in LOVE with her. Isn't she great looking. I can't wait to stitch her and will probably start her as soon as I finish my DMC Bath time. I hope I have the prefect fabric in my stash for her. And specking of Chiloe's blog. She has a GREAT blog started full of galleries to check out. Here is the link..plz take time to check it out.cross stitch gallerie .

And here is a picture of my WIP..I didn't get much stitching done this weekend due to my work hours, but I did get a lot stitched last Thursday. It's coming along nicely. I don't know why but I can't seem to get a good picture of this piece. Maybe the next picture I'll put something dark behind it. See if that helps.

For a birthday present to myself I am now a subscriber to the cross stitch magazine called Just cross stitch. I can't wait to get my 1st magazine. Keith had a fit over it because he was going to pay for the subscription for me, as a b-day gift from him, but I jumped the gun and couldn't wait. LOL Oops..sorry hun..you will have to think of something else to get me. And only 2 weeks to come up with it!

Questions about blogs????

2008-09-11T03:38:00.000-07:00

I've been reading on a lot of blogs about people PIFing others. Some have received some amazing gifts and things. Whats all this about and how do I get into the action? I love sending others gifts and think this would be fun. But I don't see where I can join or jump in. Is it a friend only thing? How do you get someone address so you can PIF them with out them knowing?

Also..I've been reading about Google reader. What is that? I went and signed up for it but I don't understand it. Bunch of gibberish..wanting me to add links and then telling me the links aren't active.

And another thing...I want to change my back ground to a more fall look but the last time I changed it I lost everything on my side bar. Does that still happen? How do I prevent this?

Thought I would say thank you to everyone that visits my blog. I know I'm not exciting or glamorous as some other blogs and I thank everyone for taking the time to comment.

I need help!

2008-09-10T04:19:00.000-07:00

Well I've had a busy weekend. I again worked 12 hour shifts on Fri.,Sat,Sun and 15 hours on Monday. Boy was I ready for a day off on Tuesday. I didn't do anything but lay on the couch and stitch, watch TV, and play with Brandon. It was a great relaxing day. Even rained outside make me feel like it was sitting in the house weather. LOL Thank goodness I have Tue,Wed, and Thursday off every week or I wouldn't be able to pull those long weekends. Keith actually has the house work all done, well the major stuff, dishes, laundry, vacuuming, and Brandon's room picked up. So today I think I'm going to dust and shine the stair case. I haven't done that for a looong while and it's looking drab.

Last week I started watching a new show on Lifetime (my second fav channel) called Desperate house wife's. I've heard of this show before but never watched it. I am HOOKED! I love it. It's so funny and always some sorta drama going on. I ordered the entire 1st series on netflix yesterday. Keith isn't happy about that, but he will just have to get over it. Anyone else watch this show? Love it? Hate it?

Ok ladies...I need some mother advise. Brandon will be turning 2 next month. He has always slept in his bed, by him self, in his own room since he was 4 months old. We don't allow him in our bed, we have never slept with him. 5 weeks ago he started this not wanting to sleep in his bed. He lays in his room and cries, some times coming to the door and knocking on it. Well now it's a war getting him to bed each night. He screams and cries..boy does he scream, he kicks the door, bangs on it, throws his toys around in his room. Now if I walk in to the room he settles down, I'll tell him to get into bed, If I sit with him he is calm, eyes closed, but soon as I get up to walk out its war time again. Keith says we should just let him cry it out, throw his fits, (we've been doing it that way for 2 weeks now ) but it's not changing anything. So....what do I do? What can I do. I've never been a mom before and this is wearing me out. I can't stand hearing him cry and throw fits each and every night. Some times I get him to fall asleep on the couch and very gently carry him to bed, praying he doesn't wake up.LOL I've tried a night lite, leaving the door cracked, letting the kitty sleep with him..so far nothing...

Now onto my new WIP. After stitching A day with sunshine. I thought I would start something quick and easy. WRONG LOL This little lady is full of color changes, full and half stitches. Seems like it's taking me forever to get her stitched. She is very pretty tho. Wish I would have stitched

her on darker fabric because the back ground isn't showing up all that well. Sorry for the bad pic. Here is what I looks like. The kit came with 16 count fabric, but I wanted it to be larger and switched it for 14 count .

I am on a blog called Christmas ornament exchange. Was suppose to have my ornament MONTHS ago. It seems I'm not getting it. The lady 1st said she mailed it to me but the post office returned it as no known address. The she said she mailed it...like 6 weeks ago..haven't' seen it. So the owner of the group tells her she needs to make me another one. But I have given up on it. So sad that people can't follow through on exchanges, makes it bad for others.

Anyways, I'm off to do some stitching before the brat wakes up. LOL I'll leave you with some new pictures that I took of Brandon yesterday.

Welcome September!

2008-09-03T04:28:00.000-07:00

Well I love September for several reasons. The number one reason is of course MY BIRTHDAY MONTH! I was born on the last day of the month. September 30th. I will be 29 years old. Almost 30...I'm getting old. The second reason is fall is almost here. Fall and Spring are my favorites times of year. I love all the changes, all the colors, and the nice cool nights. The third and last reason is it is fair time here. Morgan Co. fair started yesterday. It will last in til Saturday. We will probably go tomorrow because it's kids fun day and things are cheaper. Also because I have to work 12 shifts this weekend. What is your fav time of year?

I have finished my Day with out stitching piece. I didn't get much stitching done this past weekend because of the hours I worked. But I got it finished. Here is a picture of it! And here is a picture of a picture of Brandon helping me. I want to stitch a Halloween stocking next but I have to wait in til I get some more of the purple DMC floss it calls for. Let me say that I'm going to be stitching a LOT of purple. LOL But I want to stitch it for Brandon. Maybe turn it into his trick or treat bag. Not sure yet.

Not much more to write about. Man do I live a boring life. All work and no play keeps me that way. LOL Hopefully we get to go to the fair tomorrow and have some fun.

Does anyone have either of these charts in there stash? I'd like to buy or trade for them. I found them in someone else's stash album and have fallen in love with them.

Welcome Victoria and Ava!!

2008-08-27T04:52:00.000-07:00

The twins were born last week. Keith and I had the chance yesterday to make the long trip to see them. They are so cute! I've never seen baby twins before. They did look so much a like, the only way I could tell them apart was weight. Ava is smaller than Victoria. The mom, Candice, wasn't really up to visitors, I wished we would have waited another week or 2 before we went to see them but Keith just couldn't wait. LOL Here are some pictures of the babies. I hope I don't get them mixed up and call them by the wrong name. The baby that I am holding in the yellow is Ava, The naked baby is Victoria. She hadn't had her bath yet and wasn't dressed.

I haven't done much stitching this pass weekend. I worked a LOT of hours and when I got home from work it's all I could do to shower and climb in bed. LOL I hope I can get a lot of stitching done today. It's raining out side so would be a great day to sit and stitch. Lets see if Brandon will let me. Here is an up date picture of my progress

I wanted to share something with you, When we were visiting the twins I got a chance to look at there bed room. A friend of the family had done some free hand painting on the walls. I LOVE it. I can't believe that someone did it by hand. Here are some pictures of the room. Aren't the walls lovely! I wish I had a friend that could paint something like that on Brandon's wall.

Thanks to everyone that comments on my blog. I love reading what everyone has to say.

Back to school

2008-08-20T03:45:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was back to school for the kids. My nieces came up so I could see them in there new out fits. Well they really came up so the could sit on my porch and watch for the bus. LOL They looked really nice in there new clothes, and new shoes. I didn't care for there pick of boo bags this year but I'm just the Aunt. The tallest one is Karissa, she isn't happy about going back to school, she got used to the staying up all night and sleeping all day. The middle child is Rachael is is very excited to be going back, she can't wait to see her old friends and meet her new teacher. The girl in pink is Ashley, she is the child with ADHD, she is just excited..period. LOL She is so full of energy all the time, bouncing around like a ball.

I have worked soooo many extra hours this weekend. I might as well just found a bed at the nursing home and slept until my next shift. LOL With Keith not working I gotta pick up at least 2 extra shifts a week. I'm not sure how long I can do it but I know it won't be long. My back and legs are killing me! I got used to working only 4 days a week, and I love having my 3 days off in a row.

I do have some more stitching to show you. I've been doing a little here and a little there. I love how it is turning out. Here is a picture I just took to share. I noticed the other day that this piece doesn't have any back stitching. So once I'm done that's it! I love to back stitch tho. Anyone else like to back stitch? I think the back stitching gives it a great pop in look.

Anyways, I've neglected my house hold duties while working so much this weekend, so today will be spent cleaning and doing laundry. I might even make Keith help me rearrange the living room. He HATES when I do that. LOL

Happy stitching and happy day!

Should I change the verse?

2008-08-13T02:42:00.000-07:00

I've been so sick. This past weekend, Friday, I started to feel awful. Got off work early and went to the doctors, I have ear infection and strep throat. I was running a fever, felt weak all over, throat hurt something awful. I had to call off work Sat. and Sun. I did go to work on Monday but I probably shouldn't have. Keith also got sick. He was worse off than me, at least he played it off like he was. Didn't get out of bed for 2 days. So guess who had to look after Brandon. ME! Keith didn't even bother to get up to help me out. Men are so wimpy when they are sick. LOL

I did get a lot of stitching done over the weekend tho. I couldn't do much else but lay on the couch. So I stitched. Here is a picture of my WIP. It may not look like i've gotten much done, but that right border took me forever! So many color changes, I could have skipped ..or traveled..but I was worried my thread would show. So I had to stitch a few stitches, tie off, re thread needle, stitch a few..ect..I've been thinking about removing the wording and stitching Home is where the heart is..or something like that. I haven't decided tho.

I bought some Even weave fabric from a 123 MB lady last week. I received it the other day. She even sent me some 32Ct. Even weave to try. I have only stitched on 28 count. I

can't wait to stitching something on it. I'd like to find a bright and colorful flower chart to stitch. Something like flower power but not as large. Here is a picture of what she sent me Isn't it pretty!

Other than my illness and my stitching I haven't been doing much. I did read the VC Andrews book that I wrote about in my last post. It was a grrrreat book. I am now on the Third book in that series. It's not as great as the first but I'm still reading along. I usually read a few chapters before bed. It's so relaxing to lay in bed with a book before falling asleep. I used to do cross word puzzles before going to sleep. But that took too much thought. LOL

Soon it will be my Birthday, (Sept 30th). I'll be 29 years old. I can't believe I'll be one year from 30. I don't feel like I should be turning 29. Man has the years flown by. Anyways, I'm off to sort the laundry and start cleaning up the kitchen. I cleaned out the fridge yesterday, washed it down, couldn't believe how dirty it was inside. How did it get so dirty? We put food in and take food out? Where did all the stains and dirt come from? I'm still amazed at it. Today I will tackle the stove. I think.LOL

Anyways, thanks for reading my blog and thanks for the comments. Happy stitching and Happy day!

hooked on reading

2008-08-07T03:53:00.000-07:00

Carla, I am now able to view your blog again. I'm not sure what was going on before. I'm just glad it's fixed.

I haven't been stitching much lately. I've been reading. I went to my MIL's last week. And guess what..forgot my needle! So I was Bord..went looking through her book shelf and found a book to read. It was called Gal, and was based on a true story. It was so good that i finished it in 2 days. That book gave me the reading bug. I used to read like crazy when I was younger, before I fell in love with stitching. This past weekend I went and checked out some V.C. Andrews books. Man do I love her writing style. And I really love that the books are in a series. I just finished the Broken wing series. I am waiting for the book called Celeste to be at the library so I can start the Gemini series. Anyone else like to read V.C. Andrews books? Whats your fav author or book?

I do have a new project started. And boy do I love the colors in it. It is called A Day with out stitching by Imaginating. I don't' know why this chart called to me when I was looking for something to stitch. It just did. I'm wanting to stitch a Halloween stocking but I need a large piece of 14 count black Aida. I know I know..all that complaining I did about black Aida and I want to do antoher project on it. I think this Halloween stocking will look awesome on it. So if anyone has any black Aida for sale, plz let me know. Here is a picture of what my project will look like when finished and of how much I got done so far.

My Aunt-in-law has made me the best gift ever! She has made me a stitching tote bag. I just love it. I asked her to make me just a plan bag to carry my stitching in. And she out did her self! Look at it, I love all the colors in it and she sewed on the butterfly's. God I wish I had her talent. She is the best! Thank you Franny! And I thought that I would share a picture of you of my 3 stitched and framed girls. One is called Tender gaze, the middle one is called Daisy girl and of course my newest framed piece is gathering eggs. I need to stitch a few little boys to hang up there as well. But so far I haven't' found a boy chart that has called my name. I might stitch the gift by Lanarte. But haven't' decided yet.

Poof Hat is finished!

2008-08-02T12:50:00.000-07:00

I forgot yet again to add something to my post. So i'm editing this post. Carla, you have posted comments to several of my post, but when I try to go to your blog, it says I don't have access and that I have been blocked. Pls unblock me, or give me access or something so I can visit your blog if you have one. I don't understand whats going on. But it's only with your blog that I have the trouble. LOL Sorry to be such a pain....

I finished poof hat last night. I'm so glad to have it finished. Stitching on black is a big pain in the you know where. But I do like how it turned out. I had to change a few things, like the big black spider on the left, changed it to grey so it would show up. Not sure if there are grey spiders in the world or not..but I thought it looked OK.

Brandon got his first hair cut last night. It wasn't very long but it was so uneven. He did very well. Sat still through it all in til the end, when she had to do the back of his kneck. He can't stand for his kneck to be touched. Here's a few pics of him.

I have been nominated for the Brillante Weblog award by kim. I am so honored that she picked me! I never won an award before. Thank you so very much Kim.

Now I'm suspose to nominate 7 other bloggers to pass the award onto. But I can't choose! So instead anyone that is posted to the right on my blog list is nominated! I know i'm breaking the rules..but thats just my way. Rules are made to be broken. Here are the rules of the award.

1) Put the logo on your blog
2) Add a link to the person who awarded you
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4) Add links to those blogs on yours
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs

Now i'm off to figure out what my next project is going to be. I have so many charts to choose from but not a lot of fabric to stitch on. Wish I had a huge fabric stash like some of the ladies I know. But fabric is sooo expensive. I was going to order some this week but with keith not working now I just can't spend the money on it. I'll have to wait intil September and order it for my birthday present. LOL Thanks for all the comments left on my last post! I had 8 of them! I think thats the most I have ever had. Thank you all so very much

Happy stitching!

Back from the framers!

2008-07-29T04:40:00.000-07:00

I sent my Gathering eggs off to be framed. I finally got it back! And I LOVE it. I had to put all my trust into the framers because I sent it to them in the mail. I think they did a wonderful job. I love the way the matt blends into my Aida. Anyways, here is a picture of it. Please tell me what you honestly think of it. The frame is a metal frame, and I'm not crazy about it but I think it's looks great with the matt and finished piece. As for my WIP, Poof Hat. I should have NEVER stitched this on black. I've had to change things because it doesn't show on the black Aida. I feel as if it is being over taken by the black. I've gotten so much of it done that I can't quit now. If you know of anyone going to stitch this on black plzzzz tell them to rethink it. LOL I think my next project is going to be another Halloween piece. I went crazy at Christmas time and bought like a million Halloween charts. Or I might stitch my Country Summer. I never know what I'm going to start next. It has to call to me.

I gotta work afternoon shift today. I don't know if I can stay wake til midnight. LOL I'm usually in bed by 8pm. Keith lost his job last week so I'm trying to pick up some extra hours. We have money saved in the bank but it won't last long. I hate giving up my days off. I'd rather pull doubles then work my day off. What is nice about Keith being home is he is trying to break Brandon from his Binky. I don't have it in me to do it. If he cries for it I give in and give it too him. LOL Now if I can just get Keith to do some of the house work. Think that will ever happen???

I better get off here and get Brandon. He's up and wanting to eat. That's all he wants to do here lately. Must be going through a growth spur.

thunderstorms!!!

2008-07-22T10:32:00.000-07:00

Holy Cow! We have been with out power for 9 hours. We had the worst storm I have ever seen this morning. I was woke up at 3:30 am by lighting and thunder. I decided I couldn't go back to sleep so I got up, made coffee, started a load of laundry. Sat down at the computer to check message and ...the whole world went crazy out side. Sounded like a train was ripping through our town. I ran into Brandon's room, grabbed him out of bed, (he's bed is next to a huge window), we sat in our living room and listened to the sound of everything. I heard glass breaking, things going boom, I could hear all the stuff on the porch being thrown about. The one thing that sticks out in my mind is looking out the window and not being able to see anything. The rain was coming down so fast and so hard, mixed in with the hail, It was like looking into a black box. The only time you could see anything was when the lighting struck. The power was out at this point and Brandon had no clue as to what was going on. He was scared, was shaking, he would not let me out of his sight. Kept crying for me. When the wind and rain finally stopped I open the front door to look out. You wouldn't believe the sight before me. Tree's down every where, The lady that lives across the street had a HUGE tree on her car. Smashed it, pieces of the car was thrown all over the place. IT was wild. I ran next door to make sure the lady that lived there was OK, she has a very small baby. All in all everyone was OK. Every one has damage of some sort. All the stuff that was on my front porch was blown off into my car. My car has dents and scratches from it all but it's still drivable thank god. Our roof is another story. It has singles missing from it, 2 huge holes that Keith is out trying to repair now. I'm going to post some pictures of the mess.

I just thank god we all are ok and nothing happened to us.

On Saturday we went to our nephews birthday party. It was at a park, it was like 90 degrees outside, so freakin hot. I was miserable. Couldn't enjoy myself because of the heat. I am not one to do well in the heat. But the party was nice. She has it all done in base ball theme. At the end of the party we let the little ones play in the creek. I got ate up my mosquitoes, but the kids enjoyed it.

As for stitching, I haven't been doing much. A few stitches here and there. I am hating the black fabric, I don't know why I even chose to stitch on it. LOL I always picture the poof hat done on a really dark purple. But I'll keep at it, just because I like it so well. It really pops off the fabric, I just wish it wasn't so hard to see. I'll post a WIP pic of it soon.
HUGS all. Thanks to everyone that leaves me a comment. I just love reading what everyone has to say.

here i am!!

2008-07-16T04:13:00.000-07:00

Man I am falling behind on this blog. I have come to be addicted to another site. Called Myyearbook.com. It's sorta like my space but not as popular. I love it. So I'm spending all my free time at that site, posting things, reading stuff and I'm not getting much done here.

I have been stitching on a chart called Poof. Stitching it on black 14 ct Aida. Stitching on black is hard! Especially at night, my lamp which I have always loved, isn't all that great. LOL Here is a pic of what I have done. I love stitching the purples and greens.

Also my ornament exchange partner has received her package. So I can finally post a picture of what I sent her. I stitched her an mitten and added some other stuff to the package. Here is what I sent her. I haven't received my package yet. Hopefully soon.

Not much else has been going on around here. I'm on a 10 day vacation from work. I really needed a vacation. We aren't going to do anything special. It's nice to wake up and not have to get ready for work tho. I think this weekend we are going to travel to his sisters. She lives over 2 hours away for a birthday party. Keith's nephew is turning 2 years old. Seems like he just turned a year old! The nephew and Brandon are only a couple months apart. So I guess I better be thinking about what to get him for his birthday, start thinking about a party and all that good stuff.

The kitten is going this week to be De-clawed. I can't take the scratches any more. The other morning he was trying to climb up my leg using his claws! Man did it hurt. Brandon has a new friend. A lady friend. He just follows this little girl around. I never seen him act the way he does when she is around. Here is a picture of the 2 of them. Aren't they cute. She is a month older than him. I guess i better get off here and see what Brandon is doing. He's in his room and being rather quiet. That's not a good sign. LOL

PS..I ment to post this and forgot. To Carla,I can not access your blog. Every time I try to view it it says I have been blocked, or something like that. Do you have to invite me, unblock me? I'm not sure whats going on. LOL

It's hump day!

2008-07-09T07:06:00.001-07:00

I haven't stitched a single thing since I finished Country Fall. I've kitted up several projects but put the floss away when I found I didn't have any Aida/linen to stitch the project on. I really need to buy some Aida/linen to keep on hand. I have more than enough charts to stitch, just nothing to stitch them on. LOL Anyone else have this problem?

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend. I sure did. Even tho I spent the days at work, I spent the afternoon and evenings with my family. We had cook outs and set off fire works on Friday. Saturday we had a cook out and went to the next town to watch the fire works. We all had a great time. Brandon burnt his finger on a sparkler. I kept telling everyone he was to young for them but everyone insisted on letting him do it. Poor boy. I'll post some pictures at the end of this post of our weekend.

I'm having problems with a lady at work. It is really stress in me out. I've went to my boss and talked to her about it. She said she would look into it. I've had problems with this lady before. She likes to tell lies and this time she has gone to far. I gotta work with her on Friday and I don't know how that's going to go. She talks about me behind my back and is oh so friendly to my face. I HATE people like that. Grrrrrr

I have a large bag full of Anchor floss for sale. If anyone is interested plz email me. Here is a picture of it, I haven't sorted it out so I don't know what colors I have.

Ta Da! Country Fall is finished

2008-07-03T13:44:00.000-07:00

It's finished! YAY! You see in between the border lines. All those little stitches. I had to stitch one, tie it off, stitch another one, tie it off, stitch, tie, stitch tie....Took me FOREVER! I couldn't carry my thread because it would have shown through the fabric. I can't wait to get this framed and hung on the wall with country Winter. Next (sometime) I will stitch Country Spring. I still have to buy Country Summer. It's on the top of my wish list. If anyone would like to buy(12$) or trade (for even weave) plz email me. On a 1st come 1st serve. LOL This is a 20$ chart and OOP as far as I know. I sent out my ornament exchange package today. I took pictures of it, will post as soon as I know my partner has received it. I hope she likes all the goodies I sent to her. As well as her ornament.

My mother and her Boyfriend came over yesterday. She didn't stay long, about 45 minutes. I thought it was nice of her to come visit in til I found out she only came to have her computer looked at. My husband Keith fixes and works on computers. So that sorta took the excitement out of it . But it was still nice to see her. She wanted to have a cook out tomorrow, but I gotta work in til 3pm. By the time I got home, picked up Brandon and Keith, got to her place it would be well after 5pm. We'd only have like an hour to visit then back on the road for home. I gotta work Saturday and Sunday..and Monday. I work them every week. I do have Tuesday, Wed.,and Thursday off every week tho. I 've been working weekends for almost 4 years. I don't mind it.

We are having rain again today. Grrrr..Are we going to have any type of summer? We are going to have to drain the pool cause of all the rain. No one has gone out to check the pool, to clean it or add any chemicals. I went out today and the water is GREEN! Yuck. LOL

The kitten named sassy is a hand full. I have so many scratches and bites from her. She plays rough. I went as far as calling the Vet. to see about getting her declawed. I'm not sure if I am going to do it but sure am thinking about it. Anyone know how to break a kitten from scratching and biting? She is only playing but she has got to learn that it's pain full. LOL Here is a picture of Sassy and Keith. Shhh don't tell him I'm posting pictures of him, epically dressed the way he is. LOL

Hope everyone has a great 4th of July!

The end is near....

2008-07-01T05:30:00.000-07:00

On my WIP that is. I got all the back stitching done on Country fall. Now I am working on the edge. I've made a mistake somewhere on the top and I can't figure out where it is. I'm going to have to sit down and count everything and figure out where I screwed up. Grrrr... Here is a picture of it. With the mistake. The mistake is on the right side. The little heart is one stitch short of where it is suppose to be. I suppose the mistake is in the word fall but I sure can't spot it. Doesn't it look awesome tho! I'm so proud of this piece. My next stitching project is going to be Christmas ornaments. I'm really falling behind in stitching them this year. I usually have at least a dozen stitched by now and I only one 1! I give them out as gifts and stick them on presents as name tags.

My niece won third place in the contest. She received a huge trophy! She was excited. I don't think she felt bad for not winning 1st because of the trophy. LOL Here is a picture of her with her mother (my sister) and one of her by her self. I think she is going to be a very beautiful lady some day.

Lets see..what else..Well I have become addicted to a computer game. Sims 2. LOL I can't get enough of it. I can only play it when Brandon is asleep cause he wants to sit on my lap, which would be OK if he would leave the key board alone. Anyone ever played a Sims game before? I found a cheat online to give me more money and boy is it fun when you have LOTS of money. LOL

Well my diet isn't going very well. I'm board with it all. Eating right, exercising..blah blah blah. I'm up to 192. Maybe more than that because I haven't weighted myself in about a week. I've got to get back on the wagon cause I gave all my fat clothes away. LOL I won't have anything to wear.

I am so behind on mailing out my exchanges and packages for trades. I've got to get them mailed out today. My ornament exchange is due out today and I haven't even gotten it all the way stitched yet. I've got to stop joining exchanges. I just don't have the time to stitch them...no I just can't seem to stop one project to stitch another. What is wrong with me? I know people that have 12 or more WIP going on and I can't commit myself to 2 of them. LOL

I gotta get off here and get the house cleaned. I was on strike last week, didn't do much cleaning at all..hoping that my lazy husband would pitch in and help. HAHAHAHAHHAH Now I just have extra to do this week. Guess I won't do that again. Keith and I haven't been getting along for the last few days. He really hurt my feelings. My neighbor (which is also my brother and SIL) were having a pool/birthday party for SIL. I asked Keith like 4 times if he wanted to go over and at least visit if not swim. He said no..he was to tired. Well I finally gave up about 8pm and decided to go to bed. I was upstairs doing a word search when I heard him putting the baby to bed, 20 minutes later I heard the front door open and close. Wouldn't you know it ..he went over there all most as soon as I went up to bed! See..he thought I was asleep. I confronted him when he came to bed at 3am reeking of beer. He didn't' have a lot to say to me. I don't understand why he would go next door with out me but REFUSED to go with me. Needless to say there is a lot of negative vibes in this house. He made me feel like he was embarrassed to go with me, or something like that. I don't' know, I just know it pissed me off. (sorry for the language) Sorry for the rant.

jazzy cat story

2008-06-21T15:35:00.000-07:00

OK so here is the story. Yesterday on my way to work, I found a black and white cat, dead on the road near our house. It was hit by a car and looked pretty bad. I thought it was jazzy. Took off work early so I could bury it before it got to hot. I was out side in the garage getting this cat ready to be buried. Had him in a trash bag, was putting tape on the bag when I felt something rub against my leg. I looked down and THERE WAS MY CAT! So I picked her up, brought her in the house, checked her over. And then it hit me...whose cat do I have in the garage?? Well I went ahead and berried the cat, just thought it was the thing to do. But how odd is it that I was getting ready to bury a cat that I thought was Jazzy when she decided to come home. Here is a picture of her and the new kitty. They are NOt getting a long very well.

we also changed the kittens name from lily to Sassy. It is a sassy little thing. So very play full.

My niece is running for princess of the festival. WE find out if she is the winner tonight at 7pm. Here she is riding in a float at today's parade. I hope she wins, she is soooo very shy and this will do her some good,.

Here is my WIP pic. I have a little more of it done, just haven't taken a picture of it yet. I think I'm going to do the back stitching before I work on the border. I might have this done this month! That would be awesome. I'm off here to do a little more stitching before bed. I'm beat tonight, working all day, and then going to the festival wore me out.
I bought Hip Hop Abs off of eBay last week. I got it in the mail today. So tomorrow I'm going to start a new exercise routine. (Hip hop abs is a very popular exercise DVD, everyone here is into it., teaches you to exercise and a few new dance moves.) I finally broke down and sold my treadmill. I never used it and it was taken up so much space. I'd rather walk a few miles outside then inside on that machine. Keith had a fit but he's over it.

Jazzy is home!

2008-06-21T03:19:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post to tell everyone after a week of being gone, Jazzy returned home yesterday! You are not going to belive the story I have to tell about it. Would tell you now but I've got to get to work. I'll post tonight, I promise!

Becca

WIP, Lost kitty,

2008-06-17T03:03:00.000-07:00

Man what a busy weekend I've had. Cookouts, yard sales, and working. Seems like I haven't had a day off in a while. I've haven't been stitching much. Been spending time outside with boo and my sister. Been enjoying the pool. I've got a lot of things to share in this blog, hope I don't forget anything.

First of course is my WIP. I've been slowly stitching on Country Fall. Stitching the green is sooooo boring and the stitches are scattered about. Have to keep changing colors. I think today I will take a break from the green and work on back stitching or the boarder.

I finally received my spring exchange gift. Here is a picture of what she stitched for me. My partner was Monica P. I wish I knew her board name. This piece will hang in my front hall. I wish to hang many more welcome signs there.

Now for the sad news. Our cat Jazzy has ran off and we can't find her. She has been in our family for 6 years, got her when she was a kitten. She has always been an inside cat. Some how she must have gotten out. I've looked all over the neighborhood for her with no luck. She won't survive out there by her self. She is probably scared to death. I'm going to go out and look for her again soon as it is light out. I just don't understand how she could have gotten out. Unless she jumped out the window when we were putting in air conditioners. Neither Keith or I saw her jump out tho. We brought a new kitten home last week. Maybe she was pissed off because of it and decide to run. The new kitten is awesome. So very play full. Brandon just loves him. I have named the kitten lily. As soon as I can get a good picture I'll post it.

I finally talked Keith into getting cell phones! YAY! We used to have a net 10 phone. Hardly got service anywhere. Yesterday we got nextel phones. For both of us to have one it's 100$ a month. Unlimited text. I love to text. LOL I gotta sit down today and figure out how to use it.

Hmmm....what else did I want to write about.....Oh I remember. As of Monday June 9Th my parents are officially divorced. What a sad day that was. 32 years down the drain. Funny thing is my mother has called me everyday since just to talk. Used to be I wouldn't hear from her for months and months. Not sure what that is all about. But I've ran out of things to talk to her about. LOL OK that's not funny, but really, she is like a stranger to me now, and I don't' want to start a relationship with her again just to be thrown aside in a week. Does that make sense?

I'll end this post with a picture of Brandon. Check him out. He looks sooo mad being up in this tree. After I took the picture he started to cry so we took him down. That's my brother Dave with him, He is also our neighbor. I wished he would shave that dang hair off his face. LOL I can't stand it. Here is a picture of me in the pool. Plz don't' laugh. LOL Enjoy your week.

Ramblings

2008-06-12T08:48:00.000-07:00

I don't have any pictures to share with you today. I haven't been stitching much. My son, Brandon, has been sick. It started Sunday night, high fever, 103.3. I started giving him Motrin and Tylenol ever 6 hours. He ran the fever all day Monday, wouldn't eat, but was drinking. Tuesday morning he's up at 5 am, crying, fussing, being awful. And he wouldn't drink anything. Every time he took a drink he would grab his throat. So off to the ER we went. Would have taken him to quick care but it wasn't open that early. We sat and waited for about 2 hours, of course by the time the nurse took his temp his fever was down. The doctor didn't see anything wrong with him, no fever, no breathing trouble, nothing wrong with his throat. He says to just give him Tylenol when needed. Grrrrrrrr!! Today he is back to normal. He was up playing in his room when I finally rolled out of bed. He ate breakfast (oatmeal) drank his milk and has been in a really good mood. Thank goodness. I was about to go crazy.

I sent my Gathering Eggs to be framed. I sent it to Sandra AKA Handie (from the 123 MB) in Canada. I sent it to her because she always post such nice framed pictures. I called this morning and paid her the 1st installment payment. She is allowing me to pay payments. I think that is sooo freak in awesome. I can't wait to get it back. Next week I should have the rest of the money to pay her in full. YAY!

I spent the morning cleaning my son's room. Boy was it a disaster. I've never seen such a mess. Guess that's what happens when I don't stay on top of it every day. LOL Toys were EVERYWHERE! Only took about an hour to clean up.

I am buying a tote bag from Heather from the 123 MB. I can't wait to get it. She sent me a picture of it and it looks awesome. She is selling them for a donation for the Michael recovery fund. I sent 20$ and feel guilty that I didn't' (couldn't) send more.

Also wanted to post that I have a BUNCH of anchor floss for sale/trade. I'm going to sort it out today some time.

Keith and I haven't seen much of each other this week. He's been busy helping a friend with his summer cabin. Staying away in til like 6 or 7 every night. Coming home and falling asleep on the couch. It's sorta frustrating. I'm stuck in the house all day with the kid and he's out doing god knows what. I'd like a few hours to myself in the evenings. Maybe once this cabin is finished life can get back to normal around here. I miss my stitching time. LOL

It's going to be hot and humid here today. Probably going to stay inside and keep cool. Maybe get some stitching done.

I forgot to add that i'm back on my diet as of today. I'm going to lose this last 15 pounds even if it kills me! Today I weighed in at 188. I'll keep you posted

It's summer time!

2008-06-09T07:56:00.000-07:00

boy this heat is killing me. It's 11am here and already in the 90's. And humid. I can't stand the heat. Gives me a migraine. Night before last we decide to put up the kiddy pool. Brandon was loving it. Which is a surprise to me being that he HATES the water. He jumped in, with is dinner in his hand, and sat in it. It wasn't long and he was splashing and having a good ole time. His cousins joined him, they all had a great time. It took 6 hours to fill up this little pool. It's about 3 feet deep, 12 around. Nice for the kids, nice for me to just get in and cool off, or float on a raft for a tan. Here are some pictures of the kids.

Hopefully today we can go out and enjoy the water. Yesterday the water was still too cold and Brandon wouldn't stay in it. Fingers are crossed.

Here is a picture of my Country fall. I finished stitching her dress and now am working on what I think are her boots. I really don't like the coloring, hoping it turns out OK. The picture on the chart is very poor and you can't really make anything out. Today I've got to stitch on my ornament exchange. Haven't really decided what to stitch yet.

Today my mom and dad go to court for there divorce. It's sad, they were married for 32 years. I guess I just don't understand how she can throw all that away. She never sees her kids or grand kids. Heck boo doesn't even know her, she is basically a stranger to her. One day she will regret the things she has done to this family.

I've got to get off here and get to the post office. I have 5 packages to mail out. Stash packages. I'm trading some of my charts for 28 count linen. I can't wait to receive it. Oh I almost forgot. I bought a HUGE bag of anchor floss at a yard sale. I couldn't pass it up. Wonder if I could fine someone to trade/sale it too. I know I'll never use it. Anyways, ta ta for now.

And the winner is!

2008-06-04T03:51:00.001-07:00

Sorry it's take me so long in posting the winner of the tatty teddy chart. No excuse other than I've been lazy this week. LOL Been spending a lot of time watching Life Time movies. What a great way to spend the days off, especially with all the rain that is falling out side. Anyways, I stuck everyones name in a hat and pulled out Chiloe! So pls email me with your address so I can get this in the mail to you soon.

I finished "You are my sunshine" over the weekend. It looks awesome. I do need to fix one of the boys eyes tho, they look really weird. LOL So today I will fix them and try to get it into a frame. This chart called for the use of CC floss. And Of course I don't have any of that. So I used DMC. I think it looks alright. Also the little boy that is pulling the wagon is suppose to be a girl. But a nice lady changed her for me. I can not for the life of me remember her name. I think it was Velda,I've deleted all my emails so I have no way of checking. Maybe she will see this and post. Anyways, this piece is a gift for my son. Going to hang it on his bed room wall.

Since finishing You are my sunshine. I have picked up Country Fall again. I've made great progress. After stitching on the linen going back to Aida is sooo nice. LOL It's like being gone from home all day and when you return it's so nice and relaxing. No thinking involved. LOL Anyways here is a picture of my progress. I really like stitching with the orange colors. I hope to buy Country summer next. I just wish these charts weren't so expensive. 20$ per chart! Anyways, I'm stitching this on 14 count Aida, on fabric called dirty tan.

I received a new HEAD chart this week. It is called American Angel. You should really go check it out. It is so very awesome. I'd like to start stitching it soon. Might pull the floss for it today. Make sure I have all the floss needed for it. It's like a 30 page chart. Would probably take me FOREVER to stitch it. I need some 25 count linen or evenweave. So if anyone has some White they would be willing to sell me I'd be forever great full.

Guess I must run. Brandon is wanting breakfast and I gotta get Keith to work. I hate his new job. At least with his old job someone picked him up every morning and brought him home. Now I gotta do it, drag boo out of bed, I hate it.

P.S. I love you

2008-05-28T12:18:00.000-07:00

Copyright © 2007 Warner Bros. Pictures
Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is beautiful, smart, and married to the love of her life—a passionate, funny and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler). So when Gerry’s life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it’s a good thing he planned ahead.

If you haven't seen this movie yet, you need to run out right now and rent it. It is sooo good. It's funny, sad and very watchable. I couldn't even get up to go pee with out pausing it. I don't know how I found time today to sit and watch the WHOLE movie but I did. And boy was I glad I left that sink of dishes to do it. And while I watch the movie I got a lot of stitching done. Here is an update on You are my sunshine. I'm so loving this fabric. I don't know what the brown spot on the picture is, it isn't on my stitched piece so it must be something on the camera.

Not much else is going on right now. I've totally blew my diet this past weekend. With all the good food and cook outs going on, who could resist? My husbands friends Aronn and Candice came down. They spent the whole day with us on Monday. We just layed around, watching TV and eating. She is about 5 months along, and is getting a belly. I have pictures of her showing her belly but I forgot to ask her if I could post it. So I won't, not with out asking first.

I want to write more but I don't' have anything to write about. LOL How sad is that, I actually have time to blog and have nothing to blog about.

My New WIP...and a Giveaway

2008-05-26T03:38:00.000-07:00

Well I started yet another new project this past weekend. I was working oncountry fall by Passione Ricamo,but a lady from the 123 Stitch Message board (thank you Becky!!) sent me a piece of 28 count blue linen to stitch You are my sunshine by Country Cottage Needleworks. The piece of linen is like none I have ever seen or felt before. It's so soft and beautiful. I just had to start the new chart. Also this is the second time I have ever stitched on linen. The 1st time was when I stitched the family tree for my mother. It was horrid to work with, must have been the type of linen I used.Because this piece that Becky sent me is great to stitch on. So great that I haven't did much else but stitch. The sink if full of dishes, laundry needs done, the floors are in great need of cleaning. I want to STITCH! LOL Here is a picture of it

I also want to have a GIVEAWAY. I've had this chart in my stash forever. I actually won it in a PIF of the 123 MB. But I have yet to start it. So I want to give it away. Simple rules for the giveaway, leave a comment to this post. You must have a blogger blog or account. And if you mention this giveaway on your blog I will add your name twice to the hat. Here is a picture of the chart you could win It is called Tatty Teddy advent Calendar. And if i can find it I'll include the Aida band that is needed for the chart. Although I think the band I have is linen. It was also given to me for this project. Drawing for this chart will be one week from today.

Today is Monday and I should be at work. But I took the day off. We are expecting company. Keith's friend Arron and his pregnant wife Candice are coming to visit. I can't wait to see them. I have lots of baby things to give her, I've been saving all of Brandon's for her. Well not all of Brandon's because she is preg with twin girls. I better get off here and get some house work done. I think I will do the dishes right after I put a few more stitches in. LOL Someone come take my needle from me plz!!!

My Sisters WIP

2008-05-21T16:41:00.000-07:00

Check out my sister's WIP. (one of them anyways lol). This is on my to do list. I'm waiting to find the right fabric for it. Isn't it awesome. It is called the gift by Lanarte. I don't know what color her fabric is but I do know it is silkweavers. I've posted 2 pictures of it, one is closer than the other. I can't wait intil she gets the gals face finished.

lil bit everything

2008-05-20T13:27:00.000-07:00

I have lots of things to share in this post. 1st thing is my Finished Noah ark piece. I have to wait in til the baby is born before I add the name. They have changed it like a million times. I think it turned out great!

This past week I have been working on the Tow mater kit by Janlynn Corporation. I can't work on it any more! At least not for a while. I have used a whole skein of black floss. Black,black, black...blah blah blah. LOL So this will be my first ever UFO. I'll pick it up every now again to try to finish it. But man is it boring. I'm going to be starting Country Fall by by Passione Ricamo. I have all the floss out and the fabric is ready.

On a sadder note..I've had a lot of those lately. My BF totaled her truck on Sunday morning. She was heading to work (we work the same shift),saw a wrecked car along the road so she stoped to make sure no one was hurt inside the car. She put her car in park, set the Emergency break, went to the wrecked car. No one was inside the car so she headed back to her truck, her truck was moving, so she ran to see if she could catch it, made it to the driver side door just as it went over a LARGE cliff and landed in the creek below. So needless to say her truck is mess. But Thank god she didn't try to jump inside the thing, who knows what could have happen. Here's a couple pics of her truck.

Something exciting did happen to me this past week. I received a 25 cent raise at work. WOOOO HOOOO. Everyone did, with gas costing 4$ a gallon they didn't have much of a choice. No weight lost this week. Actually gained a pound, but I ate like a pig this past weekend. So back on the wagon..I 'd like to weight 174 again some day. that's what I weighed before I got pregnant with boo boo. Anyways, sorry for the long post. Have a good one! I'll try to post before and after picture of me and my weight.

mostly ramblings

2008-05-14T02:54:00.000-07:00

I had to give buddy the puppy away. I just couldn't give him the attention he needed. Poor dog was starved for attention. With taking care of Brandon, working and my hobby's the puppy was just to much. I did however find him a good home. A friend took him. A young man that has lots of time and energy to spend with the pup. And I'll be able to see him farily often.

I have most of the Noah arks finished. Just have back stitching and the border to do. Guess I'll have to wait in til the baby's are born to add the names. I'm still not sure what I'm going to work on next. I wish I had the fabric to start You are my Sunshine. I just can't afford to buy it right now. ramblings

My exchange partner received her package yesterday. She says she really likes it. I stitched for her Stitchers make best friends. Also sent her some VC Perle floss, and some silk weaver fabric and spring stitches chart. I forgot to take a picture of stitchers make best friends. I'll have to email her and see if she can't send me a pic. I still haven't received my exchange gift, the mail out deadline isn't til the end of may.

In the last few weeks Brandon has picked up lots of new words and saying. He says "where is it" or "what was that". He also says trash,kitty, shoes, and I swear he says damn. But I'm not sure about that. He still won't ask for his blanket or Binky by name. Just grunts and points. One would think that those would be the 1st words he would learn. His aunt christy sent him a new blanket in the mail. It is sooo cute. And just in time because his other 2 blankets are looking really rough. LOL I'll have to take pictures and show you his blanket. He's had one of them since birth, takes it every where he goes, has to have it to sleep at night, I think he needs it more than he needs his Binky.

I'm off to go read blogs. I've been so busy lately that I haven't posted or read any ones blogs. I guess I should say that I lost 3 pounds this past week. On May 6Th I weighed in at 187, Yesterday the 13Th I weighed in at 184! I've been counting points, like weight watchers. I got all the information free online. It's great!

Circus came to town

2008-05-08T02:55:00.000-07:00

Last night keith, Brandon and I went to the family circus. IT was so freakin awesome. I am 28 years old and have NEVER been to a circus. So when they annouce last month that a circus was coming to our very small town I told keith we HAD to go. We had so much fun. And Brandon actually sat and watched the whole show. It was 2 hours long!I took pictures but the lighthing in the building was awful. My fav. part was the boxing kangaroo. I'd never seen a kangaroo before! Oh wait, my fav part was the monkey. He looked so old, and listen to the trainer so well. Anyways, here's some pics

The picture of the blonde hair boy covering his mouth is my nephew logan.He was doing this during the knife throwing act. A man was throwing knifes at a woman. He really looks scarde, but when the knifes missed the woman and she was alright he would cheer and laugh. It was so funny. I'm so glad this picture came out fairly good. These pics are the best ones. I hope my sister in law got some better ones. At the end of the show you could take the kids up and the there pictures taken with spongebob and patrick. Well Logan wanted to do it so we waited in line, about 5 minutes. We get him and Brandon up beside spongebob. Logan freaks out, he scarde of them! And of course brandon didn't want any part of it. So we didn't force it, left with out a picture. LOL Kids are so werid, Logan LOVES spongebob, wonder why he was scarde?

Anyways thats all for now. I'm off to search for a chart that my sister is wanting.

Noah ark WIP

2008-05-06T03:04:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of my WIP. It is Noah's Ark Birth Announcement (kit)byJanlynn Corporation. This has become a very boring stitch. Most of it is the same colors. No shading to make it pop. I can't wait to be done with it. I think I'm going to throw my "one project at a time" rule out the window and start something new today. I've been dying to start Spring stitches, Velda has fixed the chart for me so it doesn't contain so many speciality stitches."Thank you Velda!" If I had the right blue linen I would start "you are my sunshine" But I can't afford to buy the fabric right now. I'm saving my penny's so I can start weight watchers. A lady from work loaned me her things for a day to look them over and I think WW would be a great idea. I haven't lost any weight in weeks, I haven't' gained any,but still I'd like to lose those 20 pounds soon.

The bird that was nested in the back yard has left. She has been gone for 3 days, she has left behind 2 very small eggs. I think about her a lot. Wonder what has happened to her.Why she would leave her egg's and never come back. I didn't allow the neighbor kids to play in the back yard so I don't think it was anything we did. I miss seeing her every day.

The puppy is driving me nuts! I've had him for almost 3 weeks and he still isn't house broken. I never knew it was going to be such a hard thing to do. Now when I brought my cat home she was littered boxed trained in a day! Cats must be smarter than dogs? I'm going to buy some puppy pads today, If he can't hold it in til I get him outside maybe he will mess on the pads instead of my kitchen floor! I have mopped it every day this week, and I HATE to mop! LOL

My sister's birthday was yesterday, she turned 30. She was a bit depressed about it. I told her that turning 30 isn't a big deal any more. She says wait in til I hit the big 30 and see if I feel the same. I didn't' go to her birthday cook out because I didn't' want to ruin my diet. And I knew if I went to the party I would so eat and eat and eat.

Anyways, sorry for all the ramblings.

WIP, and my back yard

2008-04-30T04:34:00.000-07:00

I spent most of yesterday stitching. Brandon was in such a great mood, played in his room by himself. He must have known that mommy needed some stitching time. Here is a picture of my WIP. I talked to Candice this past week. She is pregnect with twins girls. So I changed the blue border to pink. Thought it would suit a girl better.

I'd like to share a picture of the tree thats in my back yard. I love this tree. It's always so pretty and different with every changing season. Right now it is full of flowers. And the flowers smell so good! If anyone knows the name of this tree plz let me know.

Brandon has a black eye. He tripped and fell down the step out side. His face looks awful. I swear people probably thing I beat him. He always has bruses on his face from falling or running into things. Boy lil guy.

Today I am going to spend the day cleaning. Oh what fun. This house is a disaster. And the laundry..piles and piles of it. Guess going on a laundry strike last week wasn't such a good idea. LOL It did get my husband to put his dirty clothes in the hamper and not on the floor. One step closer I guess. Why do men have to be slobs! Grrrr...

pictures of puppy and bird

2008-04-23T05:08:00.000-07:00

Here's buddy. Isn't he so cute! I never knew house breaking a dog was so much work! Grrrrr

And here are some pictures of the bird living in the tree in our back yard. I wish I knew what type of bird she is. She is very timid and fly away as soon as we enter the back yard.

As far as stitching goes, I haven't been doing much. I've been spending my free time out side with Brandon enjoying the sunshine before it's gets to hot and humid for me. I love being outside but I hate the humid weather. I'm working on the Noah Ark sampler that I bought to do for my pregnant friend. Found out the yesterday that she is going to have twin girls! Arron, the father is sorta disappointed, but he will love them both no matter what. I bet he will be an awesome daddy.

car accident and new puppy

2008-04-22T04:04:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend something horrid happen. I was on my way home from work. Driving, smoking, listing to the radio. I just happened to look in my mirror and saw this young girl covered in blood chasing my car. So of course I slammed on the brakes. She came up to my window,crying, screaming that she and her friends had been in an accident and that she thought her friend might be dead, they needed help. So me being the only person in America with out a cell phone, tells her I will get help. Drove a mile, the longest mile of my life, to a gas station and called 911. Then I drove back to the accident to see what I could do to help. By the time I got back to them there were several people already helping and I didn't' want to get in the way. But the site of that young man will forever hunt my dreams. He was laying on his back with the car on top of him. The only thing you could see was his head and most of his chest. Blood everywhere. IT was so disturbing. I found out on Monday that there was beer involved and possibly drugs. The young lady that chased me was 19, the driver who didn't even get a scratch from what I saw, was 22 and the boy that was trapped was only 16!! They all were ejected from the car, and when the 16 year old was thrown out of the car, the car rolled on top of him. So plz pray for this boy. I can only imagine what his mother must be going through. When I got home I hugged and kissed Brandon. Didn't let him leave my site for the longest time. How does one get over something like this? I can't get the image of those kids out of my head. And I see that young girl chasing my car over and over again. Anyways, sorry if this upset anyone. But I just had to share it, maybe if I talk about it I can over come it.

On a lighter note. We have 2 new family members living with us. Keith let me FINALLY get a puppy! He's so cute. Only 6 weeks old. I have no clue as to how to house break him. So if anyone has any tips.... His name is Buddy. He's so fun to play with and Brandon just loves him.
The second new family member is a bird! She is living in a nest in our back yard. This nest has been in that tree for as long as I can remember and no bird has ever lived it in. Few days ago I was at the kitchen sink doing dishes and just happened to look up at the tree and there she was. So pretty and fat! Maybe she is getting ready to have baby's? I don't' know when bird lays eggs, I've got to do some research on it. She looks like a dove pigeon. If there is such a thing. After I take my niece to the doctors today I'm going to search the net for information.
I'll post pictures of the puppy and the bird later today. I've got to pick up batteries from the store today.

my mother!

2008-04-17T04:00:00.001-07:00

I'm a little sad today. I received an email from my mother. Asking why I dont' call or visit her. And it was telling me how sorry and sad she is. She left my father almost 2 years ago to live with an internet man. No notice, no warning just left. I was 6 months pregnect at the time. The man she is with now is bi-polar and does drugs, drinks and I think(I have no proof) he hits her. And she is still very unhappy. I guess I just don't understand why she would leave dad (dad would have moved moon for her) for this "crazy" man. I'm not saying that dad is perfect but he has to be better than "crazy" man. But thats not why I am angry with her. I am mad because I haven't heard from her since Thanksgiving, and she writes me an email making it to be all my falut. Well the last time I tried to call her the phone number I have didn't work. So how in the world can I call her if I dont' have the number..and I have no clue where she lives. She lives in the big city 1 hour away. And she left us! We didn't leave her. So if anyone should be calling anyone I think it's her. I am so mad at her. I have a lot of resentment for her anyway. She let me get married when I was 15 to a man that was abusive and a little crazy. Not that she knew at the time he was abusive but who would let a 15 year old get married! (( I'm 28 now)) I'm going to sign off now before I write something I'll regret later. Thanks for reading my vent.

TaDa,,my 1st April finish

2008-04-15T02:30:00.000-07:00

Here is my Gathering egg's finish. I don't understand why the bottom of the design is left undone. I think it would look so much better if it was stitched green, like she is in a field. But I still like the end result.

Here is a close up, so you can see the bead detail. This didn't take me nearly as long as i thought it would to stitch. Also this is one finished goal for April! YAY

This is the Jewelry box that Keith bought for me. Do you think it would be tacky to have it displayed in my living room? I'm thinking maybe on top of the TV entertainment center? I hate to have it stored in our bed room. No one goes in there! I told Keith that now he has to buy me some Jewelry to put in the box.LOL We have been together for almost 7 years and he has bought me a ring and a necklace. That's it!

And now..the sad news. Or at least I think it's sad. Keith and I spent the day Saturday with his cousin Jenny. She is going to be leaving some time this month to go to Iraq. She as been in the Military for years and this will be her 1st time going over. Plz everyone say a prayer for her. Plz let her come back to us quickly and safely. Love you Jenny! Her boyfriend pictured with her is also going. I wish them the best.

And to answer Tammy's question. If I had the choice to start anything new, I would have wanted to start Country Spring. But I've got to wait in til I get my Spring exchange gift stitched and I want to stitch a square for Boo.

a quick hello

2008-04-13T09:55:00.000-07:00

I called off work today. I was up half the night sick with a headache. I don't know how I do it but when I stitch with a headache it seems to go away. In til I put the stitching down. My husband doesn't understand it, wish I could explain it to him. LOL I guess it's because I put my total concentration into my stitching and block out the world, headache and all.

Anyways, I have gathering eggs almost done! Just got back stitching left. I'd show you a picture but Keith has it at his mothers house. He took Brandon with him, spent the night. So I have had the whole house to myself. It's been so great.

Keith bought me a gift for no reason this week! He bought me a jewelry box. It is so big! I've never had anything so beautiful before. I'll take pictures of it when I get my camera back from Keith.

I squeezed my fat butt in to a size 12 today! I used to wear a size 22. I can't believe it. The size 12's are tight but I can get them fasten. I hope to lose that 30 pounds still. I've only been losing inches and not weight. So today I'm going to up my 30 minute work out to 45 minutes and cut back 250 calories. See if that helps me any.

I gotta go tho, dryer just quit and I want to get the beads attached to Gathering eggs before Keith and Brandon get home.

WIP..Gathering Eggs

2008-04-10T03:18:00.000-07:00

Here is an update on my Gathering Eggs. Isn't it just awesome! Too bad you can't see it in person. Some of the stitches in it look awful. I don't know what type of fabric this is but I'll NEVER stitch on it again. It pulls the stitches out of shape. I have to stitch it really slow to get them to lay right. And some times i have to pull stitches out and redo them because they just don't' look right. I hope to have this done soon. I have so many things calling to me. LOL Maybe I should just throw my "one project at a time" rule out the window and start something new??

My new Charts

2008-04-09T02:23:00.000-07:00

I don't really have much to say today. I gotta take my niece to the behaviour clinic today. I've been taking her for about a month now. She has been diagnosed with ADHA and compulsive disorder. She is only 9. Today she will have 1 on 1 counseling with a therapist. And maybe finally see the doctor. I've been telling my sister for years that there was something just not right about the kid. Anyone that has to put there shirt on 14 to 20 times (on, off, on off on off) needs help. I love my niece dearly and I'm glad to finally get her the help she needs. I just wish the drive wasn't so long. She can barely sit still in the car long enough. And boy does she talk..talk talk talk. LOL It makes for a long drive. Today I promised her MacDonald's after wards. So I hope MacDonald's still have the salads. I've been doing really well on my diet. Still haven't lost a single pound this month. But haven't gained any either. So that's a plus.

I thought I would post a picture of the new charts I have bought this week. This is country Spring. If you remember when I started this blog I was working on Country winter. This is a matching piece. It doesn't look very pretty, but either did Country winter in til i got it stitched up. Now if I could just make myself buy country summer I'd have all 4 of the charts. (23$ a chart) I bought this one on eBay for 11.99! I was so excited. Maybe I'll get lucky and find Summer on sale as well.

I don't know why but I have total fallen in love with this chart. I haven't received it yet, it's on back order. But it doesn't look like all cross stitches. I hope it's not full of hard to do stitches. *finger crossed*

And last but not least is You are my sunshine. This chart is calling to me! I so want to start stitching it but i am making my self finish Gathering eggs first. I'd like to change the girl in the picture to a boy. If anyone is any good at things like that would you help me out? LOL

Gathering Eggs is almost finished. I have a little bit of her dress left and the border to do. I do have to add the beads tho. But it shouldn't take me more than a week to finish up. Then I'm going to start on my spring exchange gift.

You guys should see boo boo's head. He is so bruised up. He keeps falling down out side. I don't know what I'm going to do with him. I told him the 1st time I see blood there will be no more out side play. LOL If he would just walk and not run I think he would be OK. But he gets excited and takes off running,,,and then falls, usually head first into the ground.

WIP Update

2008-04-04T03:05:00.000-07:00

This is going to be a short post. I just wanted to share my Gathering Eggs WIP. I got a lot of stitching done this past week. Thank goodness for warm weather and a fenced in yard. LOL

My finished mitten

2008-04-02T03:16:00.000-07:00

How can I be so talented in on craft (cross stitching) and so horrible in another?? I finally got around to finishing my Mitten ornament. It looks awful! The picture doesn't really show just how horrid it is. Maybe it can be stuck in the back of the tree where no one can view it? LOL I'd like to stitch this chart for my other niece's and nephews but I gotta find someone else to finish them for me.

Anyways, I got to stitch a little yesterday on Gathering eggs. I just

love stitching this little girl. The details and shading are awesome. And not a lot of back stitching to it. Although there is a lot of stitching with 2 different DMC colors. But it is well worth it.

I went a little crazy yesterday and ordered 5 new charts! 2 of them I bought from eBay. They were so cheap and I just couldn't pass them up. I bought Country Spring by Passione Ricamo. It is a matching set to my Country Winter. I also bought the Noah Ark kit posted below in another post. And I bought a chart to stitch for my Spring exchange partner. I won't tell you what it is in case she reads my blog. (yeah right lol). The other 2 charts I bought are Autumn Blessings by Imaginating and You are my sunshine by Country Cottage Needleworks. Thanks to
Kim I have fallen in love with Country cottage needlework charts. ( I hope that is the way to post a link here)

I better get off here and get some house work done before the brat gets up. He has been sooooo bad lately. Not bad bad..ornery bad. He has learned to throw things..everything..usually at me. So I'm trying to teach him what to throw and what not to throw. Also..If you look at my WIP you can see a light orange marker streak on it. that's what he did when I left my stitching down where he could get to it. Grrrr...thank goodness the stitches cover it up. I'm just glad he didn't get the black permanent marker that was with the orange marker. Could have been a very very sad day. LOL

April goals

2008-03-31T02:47:00.000-07:00

I'd like to share my April goals with everyone.
1. Work on gathering eggs/finish it
2. stitch spring exchange gift
3. stitch ornament for niece Ashley
4.work on getting my jammer in order
5. stitch a square for Boos Christmas quilt

I hope to get at least 3 of those things done this coming month. But I'd be lucky to get 2 of them done. If I didn't have to spend my days off playing taxi I'd get a lot more stitching done.

Sister's forever

2008-03-29T16:45:00.001-07:00

My sister kept Boo boo all night on Friday night. So I took the free time to work on Sister's forever. And guess what! I finished it tonight. I can't believe it only took me like 2 weeks to stitch. Here it is..finished.

Sister's forever

Stitched for my sister's birthday.

From the magazine Just cross stitch Feb 2003

Chart is available for trade.

I've also stitched up an ornament for my niece. I'm going to try and stitch an ornament a month for my family. As soon as I do the finishing on the ornament I'll post a picture of it. I even added the beads!! I HATE adding beads. It's such a chore and stitching shouldn't be a chore.

In other news..I got my hair cut off. I got about...8 inches cut off. It was down pass my shoulders and now it is way way above it. Keith isn't very happy about it. He has never known me to have short hair. What he doesn't know is I've always had short hair, in til I knew him. I had just let it grow out when I met him. And he always seemed to like it. Well..summer is coming and running after a kid in the heat isn't going to be fun. So I got it cut.

I took boo out side to enjoy the spring weather. We had a great time. We played ball and chased the neighbors cat. He falls down a lot, like all the time. Hits his face on the ground. His head looks awful. People will think i beat him. LOL He's getting so big. Soon he will be 18 months old. Where did my baby go??

I was wondering if anyone has this chart for sale or trade? It comes as a kit but I only want the chart. I'd like to stitch it for Keith's best friend. She is pregnant with twins. And is doing the room in Noah ark.

MIL's quilt!

2008-03-27T05:38:00.001-07:00

The quilt

2008-03-27T03:53:00.001-07:00

I gave my MIL her quilt this past Tuesday. She LOVED it. She can't belive the kindness of others. That strangers would stitch her a square. I told her that the Stitchers that I know are awesome. Best group of people I have ever known. This week marks her 1 year mark. She had her cancer surgery one year ago on good friday. I told her the quilt is her..glad you are still with us, love you forever, don't scare me like that again gift. LOL I love my MIL dearly. I don't know what we would do with out her in our lifes. Thank you to all the great stitchers that stitched a square for me. My MIL's sister did the sewing of the quilt. I think she did a great job. Much better than I could have ever done. I love the framed blocks she put around each square. And the fabric is such a great pick. Thanks again to everyone that helped make this quilt happen! Now I am going to stitch up some squares for Brandon and have him one made for christmas. I think i'm going to do Cars and trucks. I just gotta find some charts that will work.

I still haven't taken a picture of my WIP of Sisters forever. I'll try to do that some time today.

Thank you Helen!!

2008-03-25T02:59:00.000-07:00

I posted a while back on the 123 Message board asking for help on how to make a wall hanging. A lady, a complete stranger, answered my call for help. She turned my "Love you" piece into a wall hanging for me. She didn't ask for ANYTHING in return. No money, no stash, no nothing! She has to be a one of a kind lady. AND she did an awesome job. So thank you Helen.

Happy Easter!!

2008-03-24T03:02:00.000-07:00

I spent my Easter at work. We had a lot of family come in to see there loves ones. It was a looong day. LOL When I got home from work we went to my Sisters and colored eggs. She got brandon a great easter basket filled with toys. She got him a see n say toy. Something that I have been wanting to get him. We have Brandon his easter basket from us last night. We didn't have much money to buy him anything huge. I just bought him an already made basket and stuck some other candy in it. Here is a picture of it. And here is a picture of boo coloring easter eggs for the first time.

And here is a picture of boo coloring easter eggs for the first time. After he colored them he wanted to throw the egg. I think he thought they were balls. WE had a great time tho.

I do have a lot of stitching done on my Sister's Forever peice. I have Sist all stitched up. I didn't get a chance to take a picture of it yet. I'm off tomorrow and will have time to do more blogging. I have a few other things to share as well. So check back soon!

2008-03-19T02:05:00.000-07:00

Here is my WIP of gathering eggs. Doesn't she look so beautiful! I was hoping to get her done by Easter but I don't think i'm going to make it. There are a lot of..bubbles on this piece. I've undone so many stitches. I blame it on the fabric. I have NEVER stitched on such fabric. I wish I knew was it was called so I can ad void it in the future. LOL

Here is my WIP of Sisters Forever. I'm trying to back stitch it as I go along. I usually wait and back stitch at the end. But with all the scattered stitches I think back stitching it as I go will keep me from messing up so much. Here is a pic of what it will look like when finished. I have had it in my stash for a long while. It's from a magazine. I don't recall the name or the year. But if anyone is interested I'll post it.

Last evening Keith and I watched a great Movie called I am Legend. It has Will Smith in it. It is a very slow paced movie. Keith fell asleep twice. But I loved it. I was able to wrap floss onto bobbins and not miss much of the movie. LOL I gotta lot of floss done. (of course boo boo was down for a nap).

I gotta spend most of today cleaning house. It is a total disaster.I'm not sure how it gets so messed up. Wish me luck!

Biggest BAP I've ever seen!

2008-03-18T16:44:00.000-07:00

A lady from the 123 stitch message board sent me a picture of her current project. She has been working on this for 2 years. She has 3 more blocks to do. This is so beautiful. I don't think I have ever seen a project so large. At least not over 1/2 done. Helen...keep up the great work and plz let me know when you have the other squares done. Has anyone else ever stitched anything so large? My largest project would have to be these bears. I stitched them in 2003, I was

on a bear kick back then. LOL

I have a Picture of my Gathering eggs but I don't' feel like downloading it from the camera right now. So I'll post again in the morning. Also I've started a new project. I know, I know. I'm usually a one project woman. But I forgot all about my sisters birthday coming up!! So I'm stitching on Sister Forever that I found in a magazine. So I'm stitching Gathering eggs during the day, and in the evenings I'm working on sisters forever. I hate working on 2 projects at once. I feel like I'll get board of one and never pick it up again.

Brandon is finally better. No more fever, couch or rash. Now he's back to his ornery self. He got into my floss box and had it dumped all over the floor. Thank goodness that's all the damage he done. I never would have thought he be able to get the jammer box open. Guess he fooled me. Kids are soooo much smarter than we give them credit for. Right now he is throwing a foam ball around the room and chasing after it. OHH!!! I almost forgot. Today we went to the dollar store to pick up Easter candy. He threw a fit for this stuffed George monkey. I usually don't buy him stuffed animals because I don't see much use for them. But I HAD to buy this for him. He wasn't going to leave the store with out it. Once he got home, all he has done is carry that monkey around. Holding it and kissing it. It's so funny. I've never seen him so taken with a toy before.

In til next time!

2008-03-12T04:39:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of my WIP this week. Today I am going to go back and do the back stitching. There isn't much back stitching on this peice. So I thought if I did it now when i'm done i'm done. Except for adding the beads. A lady from 123 stitch is sending me the beads that I need for this. People from 123 stitch message board are the greatest.

Today I weighed in at 188 pounds! I finally got benith 190. I have been going to the gym atleast 4 days a week. And eating right..eating blah blah blah foods. LOL It suspose to be nice out today so I might take Boo boo for a stroll around town. Most of the snow has melted. We had a horrid snow storm this past week. Here is a few pictures of the street.

We got a lot more than this picture is showing, I just forgot to take pictures of it. Now we are worried about flooding. The river is up so very high already. So once all this snow melts we might be in trouble. ((not me of course, I live up a hill and about a mile from the river))

I gotta run tho, boo boo just fell out of bed

My WIP update

2008-03-06T02:57:00.000-08:00

I thought I would post my WIP pic. I didn't get much stitching done because of the pink flower drove me mad! Today I am going to work on the gals head. Try to give her hair and a face. I have promised this chart to a lady from the board. I'm going to put her name here so I don't forget or lose her some how. LOL If anyone knows me, they know how forget full I am.((( Sandi sandraNC)))

I am so into American idol this year. This is the 1st season I have watched the show. And I LOVE it. I'm really into David Archuleta. His singing is so pure and flawless. And he's so young. I can see him making it to the top 3. Maybe even being the Idol.

On a sad note. My beaded Scissor Fob that I bought from a lady has been finally put to rest. I've had this fob for about 3 years. I left it laying on my stitching stand, my son boo got a hold of it. And, I'm sure you can guess the rest. He BROKE IT! I almost cried. But it wasn't his fault. I shouldn't have left it out. I just loved that fob. Probably will never be another one like it. It was just the right length. You will be missed fobby. You will be missed. (I'll post a picture of it later)

I have updated my sale and trade album. I spent most of yesterday adding new stash. So If you get a chance to check it out. I'd like to trade for Aida or floss. Unless you have a chart from my wish list. Or something that you think I'd like. But I really need Aida..or even weave. I'd like to try my hand at even weave. I've never tried it before. Well i see I'm rambling so I guess I'll sign off. I'll post my photo bucket link to the right.

Becca

boo boo is sick again!

2008-03-05T02:53:00.000-08:00

I've been battling a sickness with my son for the past week. High fevers, cough, up all night unable to sleep. Yesterday he broke out in a rash. At 1st it was just a small rash. Looked like heat rash. So I just let it go. Actually forgot about it. Well when I was getting him ready for bed last night I took of his clothes and the rash was EVERY WHERE. All over his tummy, back, up his neck, and starting on his bottom. Well I freaked out. Called the 1 800 nurse line. She told me it sounded like fifth disease. After getting off the phone with her I did some Internet research and sure enough, It looks like 5th disease. So today I gotta call the doctor and see if he wants me to bring boo in.

I have finally started Gathering Eggs, A picture of it can be seen on the right. Here is a WIP after only 4 days of stitching! So far it has been a really easy stitch. I'm stitching it on a really weird Aida it is called antique beige. A lady living in Mexico City sent it to me. It takes some getting used to. If I pull my stitches to tight it looks awful but if I leave them to lose it looks lumby. I threaten to throw this piece out and start over several times.

I've been going to the gym just about every day. I love it. When I exercise I feel so much better, Energized almost. And I love the machines at this gym. You get an all over work out in a short about of time. It's great.

I had a really rough weekend at work. A lady I work with..we will call her Sally..is very upset with me. She thinks I am picking on her. (I'm a nurse aide working in a nursing home). She says I'm bossy and just plan mean to her. She even threaten to file a formal complaint against me at the police station. Now I know I'm bossy, but I am never MEAN. If I see something that needs to be done and I'm busy I'll let the other lady know. I'm just beside myself about this. I have worked at this nursing home for over 3 years. She has been in his position for 3 weeks! I really like this lady too, she does a great job of taking care of residents, and I never knew she was this upset with me. I wish she would have come to me and said something before it exploded inside of her. OK, enough of this topic or the tears will come again.

Our town is flooding. Most of the creeks are out, and the river should be with in the next 2 hours. And the rain is still falling. I'm hoping that if I have to take boo to the doctors that I can find away around the flooding. If I go out I'll take some pictures and post here.

That's all for today. Ta Ta for now

Family of love....

2008-02-26T03:41:00.000-08:00

I have fallen of the wagon. And the wagon is looong gone. I've started smoking again. I had a really stress full week and stole one of my sisters cigs. Well...that's all it took. Now I'm hooked again. I spent 2 weeks sneaking around so my hubby Keith didn't find out and kill me. I told him Saturday night that I was smoking. We spent the night in silence as he wouldn't talk to me. But he's over it now. I like to smoke. I know that sounds awful, but it relieves so much stress and it helps me not eat as much. I haven't lost any weight in the last 2 months. And that brings me to my next subject. I joined a gym!! It's sorta like curves but it's called Boots. Whats really neat is it's open 24/7. They give all the members a key, so we can come and go as we please. And the machines are so awesome. I went yesterday after work for the 1st time and only didn't 20 minutes because I was rushed for time. But today I'm going to go and do the whole work out. I can't wait. I'd like to lose 25 more pounds before summer gets here.

Keith and I went to his moms on Thursday and spent the night. We had a great time. I just love his mother so much. She is the greatest person ever. So unlike my mother. If everyone had a mom like her the world would be a better place. Here is a picture of us. Thats me on the couch trying not to smile. LOL on the floor is Keiths sister Christy, she is holding her son Jadon. My hubby keith, Keith is holding boo boo and then Keiths mom Bea. Aren't we a great looking family.

I received new stash yesterday. I recived The gift. Here is a picture of it. It is going towards the top of my To do pile. My sister on this chart on Ebay and is willing to share it with me. She paid 10$$ for this chart. So of course it has to be stitched. LOL I've never stitched anything by Lanarte. But it looks like an easy stitch. I also received a Shep bush chart yesterday. But I can't seem to find an picture of it. So a name will have to do. It is called Witches moon. It even came with the witch button.

I think thats all I have to share with you today. Boo Boo has 2 black eyes. One he got while at the baby sisters on Thursday and the other one he got at MIL's house. He hasn't mastered the skill of walking yet. He wants to walk with out seeing whats in front of him. Hopefully soon he will quit falling about. I feel like going and getting him a helment to protect him. LOL I can here peopole talking about it now.
I guess Ta Ta for now.

Becca

2008-02-19T03:29:00.001-08:00

I am so disappointed in my self. I sat down and ate a whole box of girl scout cookies (the mint ones) last night. Man were they good. Thank goodness Keith is hiding the other 2 boxes for him self. After I ate them I yelled at Keith for letting me eat them. He said..everyone has to have cookies every now and again. Yeah..but NOT A WHOLE BOX! So today I won't allow myself any thing sweet. NOTHING! *plz lord help me, for I feel like going on a cookie search lol*

I thought I would post a WIP picture of what I'm working on now. This is stitching up so quick and easy. If I get to spend about an hour on it today I might get it done. That would be great.
I also got 2 new charts in the mail last week. Halloween charts. They were sent to me by Vickie M. I love Halloween charts, but I have yet to start one. I might do that after my L&L chart. Soon I gotta get started on my niece's stocking. I promised to make all of my sister kids a stocking.
Another thing I got in the mail recently is my silk weavers fabric. I thought I ordered linen but I received Aida. So I don't know what I'm going to do now. Maybe if someone would trade me that would be great. If not I'll just stitch the L&L on the Aida.

Today Keith and I are going to the big city to see his mother. So I hope to go to Joann's and get some floss. (It's on sale 5 for 1$). It's not like I need any more floss but it doesn't hurt to have extras laying about.
Keith's friends that are pregnant with twins are going to do the baby's rooms in Noah ark baby animals. So I'm on the search for anything to stitch for them. I'd like to stitch both baby's an announcements and maybe a couple bibs. I'll have to see what I can find. I don't have ANY Noah arks charts.
I still can't get the spell checker to work here. I've been going to gmail, cutting and pasting everything to check my spelling. Lord what a hassle that is. Anyways, ta ta for now.
Becca