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

ramblings...

My concerns for my 16 month old son is growing with each passing week. He's almost 17 months old and he still doesn't talk. He says daddy a lot. Sometimes he will say Mam ma and bye bye. But that's it! He will point to things and grunt. But he won't even attempt to say anything. He knows what things are, cause when I say..go get your blanket or Binky he goes and gets them. Or if I say lets eat, go to your chair, get a drink from your sippie he understands. He just doesn't SAY anything. I so want him to talk. Even if it's to say ball..or no..or sleepy. SOMETHING! Someone tell me I'm crazy and that's this is normal. PLZ! This week I'M going to teach him what a ball, truck and a hammer is. (a toy hammer, he has several of them). Today I picked up a small plastic step stool. Maybe he can learn to use it to get up on the couch. That would solve a lot of his frustration

Keith and I watch the best movie last night. It was called 1408.It is based on the short story by Stephen King and starring John Cusack as a horror novelist who tries to stay more than an hour in a hotel room. Man is it a nail bitting..on the edge of your seat movie. (it's a horror movie of course). I recommend it to anyone who is a horror movie fan.
I placed an order with silk weavers yesterday. I cant wait to get my new fabric so I can start my new project. I'm going to do L&L Enchanted alphabet. I've always wanted to stitch this and have been putting it off and putting it off. Well I'm going to take the plunge and do it! Wish me luck. First i gotta get my WIP stitched. I haven't stitched on it for a few nights due to watching movies with Keith. I gotta go tho, Boo needs to be gotten up from his nap. He hasn't been sleeping well at nights so I haven't been giving him long naps during the day.
Til next time

Becca

another finish!

I can't belive I have yet another finish to share this month. This one is called button heart samplers by Homespun elegance. I changed just about everything about the chart to suit what I wanted. I used dyed floss and didn't add any buttons. The picture on the left is the one I stitched. And the picture on the right is what it was suspose to look like. This chart is for trade if anyone would like to have it. Plz email me at rebecca_26_2005@yahoo.com I'm looking for another quick Valentine chart to stitch. But am open to just about anything.

Right now I am working on this really cute 4th of july chart. It's a beehive and will look great next to my other 4th of july finish.

odds and ends

I have fallen in love with 2 new HEAD (heaven and earth designs). I so gotta save up my spending money for a few weeks and get at least one of them. Here is one called Winter spell. I just love her. I wonder if the back ground is stitched or if it's the hand dyed fabric. If it is fabric wonder how much that would cost.

I spent all morning looking at the newNashville cross stitch releases. There are a bunch that I just have to have. But I have enough charts to stitch right now. *trying to talk myself out of buying more stash*

School is closed again today. Think this is like the 7th day of closed school this year. That means they will have to make up 2 days this summer. Or do Saturday school like they did last year. We have probably 3 inches of snow on the ground and as of 7am it's sill coming down. I think I might call the nieces and nephew and see if they want to go sleigh riding today. Boo won't be able to go, he's still sick. I feel like that boy is ALWAYS sick. I went to work yesterday on my day off for 4 hours. And then the Supervisor just called me and asked me if I would come in again today. I told her I couldn't. I gotta let my ankle get some rest. It hurt so bad last night when I tried to fall sleep. Anyways, I gotta run. I want to get some stitching done before Boo gets up.

I hope to post a Finish today! I'm so close to being done.

OHHHH! I almost forgot. Keith's friend Arron called yesterday. He's the one with the pregnant wife. They are going to have TWINS! ***He has twin brothers** I'm going to call her today and see what she thinks of it. And try to find out what she is going to decorate the baby's room in so I can begin stitching things for her/them.

Jammer boxes

Brandon finally went down for a nap. He has been so sick the last 3 days. He's ran really high temps. Highest was last night it reached 104.3. I have him some tynol and a cool bath and it brought it down. I had him to the doctors on Tuesday. Said he had a viral cold and there wasn't anything they could give him for it. Just had to let it run its course. Good thing I took this week off of work. Ive been home to look after him.

Here is a picture of my Jammer box. I hated it. IT looked so messie and sloppie. So I decided to rewind all of my floss onto the plastic DMC bobbins. OMG..IT looks sooo much better. I'll let you be the judge.

Now here is apicture after I put all the floss onto DMC bobbins and used DMC lables. I couldn't belive the difference.

Suspose i should write here of my accendent that I had this week. I went to step over the baby gate and steped over it onto one of boo's toys. My foot went side ways and I heard an alful snap. Thank goodness Keith was there to catch me or I would have fallen flat on my face. My ankle hurt sooo bad that I had my SIL take me to the ER. They said it wasn't broken, just sprained. I have to wear a splint. Those baby gates are going to be the death of me.

Also, Keith and I bought Boo a new bed. We got him a toddlers bed. (Car's theme). He's slept in it for 2 nights now. No problems. He even takes a nap it in better than he did his crib. I hope after he gets better we don't have problems.

Well for some reason I can't get spell checker to work. So this post will probably be full of missed spelled words. Sorry all. ((Like I get a lot of readers here LOL)

snowman finished!

I finally finished back stitching the snowman my sister stitched. He is so cute. I'm thinking of putting him in a frame but I'm leaning towards a cute wall hanging. I got some really awesome fabric left over from christmas. Here is a picture of him

Well I have more to write about but Brandon isn't going to let me sit here any longer. He has been so sick the past few days. He spiked a 104.2 temp last night. I'll write more laters. I want to show you my jammer box and my WIP. Ta Ta for now.

I have new finishes!

I finished 2 things this past week. Here is a picture of my ornament finish. He is called Chilly's gift. He is from the 2007 designer freebie packet. From Stitchy kitty. I tried to finish him as a cubeish tybe of ornament. I think it turned out ok. Not perfect..but nothing ever is in life. I'm not real sure why the designer picked such pinkish colors for a christmas ornament. If I ever stitch him again I think i'll change a LOT of the colors to suit christmas better.

And "drum roll plz" here is my other finish! It is called Love you by 4 my boys. I do belive it is suspose to be a kit but a very nice lady sent me just the chart. (I just love the ladies from 123 stitch MB). Anyways, this only took me 2 days to stitch up. The hardest thing was the heart, keeping on track so I didn't mess up and have to frog was a pain. I'm not sure how i'm going to finish this. Was thinking of turning it into a wall hanging. Have to see how talented I become today. LOL

my project now is to finish the back stitching on one of my sisters many projects. She stitched a snowman and WOULDN'T finish him! So I stole him from her and told her she wasn't getting him back. LOL So now I've got to add the back stitching. He's very cute, says let it snow on it. After I finish him i'm going to start a sampler. I have never done a sampler type chart before so this will be my 1st. I promised myself i'd try new things this year. Samplers being one of them.

Keith and I spent this past weekend at his friends Arrons house. We had a great time. Only thing i can complain about is it was so COLD! They are trying not to use much heat due to the cost of fuel but lord did my toes freeze. LOL I dont' think we will be staying there again intil spring..maybe even summer. We played the game clue..guess who won both games! ME! Both games..it was so fun.

I gotta get off here and get boo up. We are going to Toy R US today to get him a toddler bed. I think he is getting too old for his crib. Although i'm not sure of the age one stops sleeping in a crib.

Stocking is finished!!

Boy do I have a lot to write about today. The first thing I want to say is I screwed up yesterday. I was at my sisters house and she had her cigarettes laying out. I stole one. Smoked it. I LOVED every minute of it. It was like I found a long lost friend. God did it taste good, smell good. After I smoked it I got so dizzy and light headed. I thought I was going to faint. It was a nice smoke but not something I want to pick up again. I told Keith and he about had a fit. I told him everyone falls off the wagon every now and again. I just got to pick myself up and get back on.

And now for some good new...drum roll plz....I have finished Logan's stocking! Here is a picture of it. The only thing I don't like is the name. The G looks like an 8 and it drives me CRAZY! Everyone says it looks fine so I'm going to leave it. I'm going to try and do the finishing of the stocking myself. My good friend Cheryl has given me great instructions and pictures on how it is done. So wish me luck!

Some more great news. I received new STASH! Check out his awesome fabric that Karen sent to me. I'm going to stitch something halloweenie on it. I love the dyed fabric.

My sister and I are going shopping today. Not sure what I'll be buying but I do know that we will be going to the hobby lobby. So I hope to find some good sales. If I buy anything good I'll be sure to post. Ta ta for now!

WIP...only back stitching left!

Here is a picture of Logan's stocking. It's really moving along. For some reason I'm Hateing the back stitching. And usually I love to back stitch. The back stitching means I'm soon going to be starting something else. I have my next project already picked out. It's going to be a valentine gift for my hubby. Shouldn't take me long to stitch it.

Here is a finish for my sister. I just love it. I think i'm going to put it on my to do list. And I just love the frame and mat she picked. It's awesome. She has several other project started. I'm glad she finally finished one. LOL

Not much else has been going on. Lady at work gave me a drum set for Brandon. Can't wait to try that out. Can anyone say head ache? He is getting his last 4 teeth in and is being a pain in the butt. Crying and fussie. Lord help me. Can't wait intil it's over. Anyways, i'm going to get off here and stitch while boo is napping.

4th of july in January

Check out this really cool frame I found for my Lizzie Kate finish. I think it looks awesome! I have an extra frame (it came 2 in a package) if anyone wants it. All I ask for it is shipping. It's sorta heavy, but get this..no glass!It's just a piece of heavy plastic. It's so freak in cool. I think my piece looks great it in. I do believe Cat. from the RR group I WAS in finished it. Now if only I could find a frame for my other LK finishes.

Not a whole lot going on around here. It's still really really cold. Like only 11 degrees cold. yesterday we got about 2 inches of snow. But it turned to rain and melted most of it.

I went to the doctors yesterday. Gotta go tomorrow and get my cholesterol level checked. With all the weight I've lost it should be a good number.

I gotta run tho...boo is throwing a fit wanting something. If only he could tell me..when could end these silly games. LOL I can't wait in til he can talk and tell me things. Instead of screaming and throwing a fit. Today he woke up with a snotty nose and a bad cough. Must be this cold weather.

Green Thumb???

I'm trying my hand at plants again. I once used to have LOTS and LOTS of plants. But I couldn't keep my cats out of them. Now that I have gotten rid of one cat and my other cat has gotten older I thought I would try again. To start with I have a spider plant. Spider plants are EASY to grow. Anyone can grow a spider plant. Here is a picture of it.

The other plants I have I don't know the names of. ( the friend that gave me the starts didn't

know the names either). But here are pictures of them

Wish me luck! I hope I don't kill them. Working full time and taking care of the baby and now caring for plants might be too much. But I love the look of live plants in someones home. I hope the vine plants take off and cover the stand I have them on. Anyways, I gotta get off here and help Keith move furniture around. We are tired of the way our living room is now. So we are going to rearrange it. Ta Ta for now!

Becca

Brrrrrr.....it's cold

Man is it cold out side. I think it's like 14 degrees out. It snowed a lot today. Nothing stuck to the ground tho. Suppose to have snow and ice this weekend. Hope it doesn't prevent me from getting to work. Brrrrrr....

I took Boo to the doctors today. He has a yeast infection. So it's no wonder I couldn't get rid of his diaper rash. Some days I would be in tears, feeling like a horrid mother, when in fact there wasn't anything I could have done to get rid of the rash. Thank goodness I broke down yesterday and called the doctor. Poor boo boo. I couldn't get his medication tonight because the Pharmacy didn't have it in, but it should be in by tomorrow when I get off work.

Here is a picture of my WIP. Man I'm almost done with this stocking. I can't wait to finish it so I can start something new. For those of you reading my blog and don't know it..I'm a one project woman. LOL I can't start something new until I finish what I'm working on. I KNOW if I start something new I'll NEVER finish what i have started. So it's a rule I've made myself stick too. So Guess what?!?! No UFOs in my closet.

As you can see, I've changed my background to hearts. I'm ready for valentines day! I want to say a HUGE thank you to Kim B. for helping me figure out how to change the back ground. Soon as I have time I'm going to put back my side bars. But right now I'm off to stitch. Boo has gone to my sisters for the night, Keith isn't home from work yet...so it's just me and my stitching!!!

Hugs all!

checking in....

Not much has been going on around here. I've been doing really great on my diet! I'm under 195 pounds! I can't believe I've finally made it under 195. My next goal is 185. I've learned that it is best to set small goals and take baby steps instead of rushing into it. In order to keep the weight off I gotta take it slow and make it apart of my life..not just a diet. ((Boy am I getting smart! lol).

Keith got a call from his good friend Arron yesterday. He's going to be a daddy! I wonder how Candice feels about that. Her and Arron will make great parents. No set due date yet. I can't wait to start stitching stuff for the baby!

I'm posting a picture of the ornament that Kathy made for me. I just LOVE it. I wish I could finish ornaments like this.

I'm still working on Logan's stocking. Got a good deal of it stitched up.

And here is a picture of an ornament that I stitched up. It only took me a few hours to do. It's a freebie from the designer packet that I got when I donated money to the diabetic charity.

wasting time....

I take boo to the doctors today. It's just for a check up so It shouldn't take long. I've already walked 35 minutes on the tread mill this morning. Man I feel GREAT! Hoping to get another 30 minutes in today. I did really good eating yesterday, only thing I had that I shouldn't of had was Mamma Bea's cheese ball. But who can really resist it? I'm going to make Keith eat the rest of it today. Because ...you hear that...it's calling me...it's calling my name!!!

Keith and I spent new years day with his good friend Arron and Candice. We had an awesome time. We played Clue most of the day. I actually won a game! Everyone won except Arron. Poor Arron..He would have won if I kept my big mouth shut. *sorry Arron* lol Keith and i are going to buy Monopoly for the next time we have game day. I think we are going back next month. Going to make it an all night night. That will be fun.

Cheryl A. finally received my package. She says she loved everything. I'm so glad. I always worry about what to send her. She is such dear Friend. I hope she wastes lots of time stitching all those Christmas ornaments. lol
I better run tho, gotta get boo and keith woke up so we can start getting ready.
*HUGS to all*

WIP...really moving along

I didn't get a picture of my WIP posted last week. So Here it is..I've gotten a lot of it stitched this week. Getting up early to stitch is really helping me out. But it's making me tired through out the day. I just want to get this stocking done!!So I can start my Country Fall peice. Maybe even do a halloween peice before I start another stocking.

Happy new year!

Today is the 1st of the year. I've got a few goals for this year. Hopefully I can stick with them.
1.. lose 30 more pounds.
2. keep on not smoking. (It's been 4 months!)
and 3....to un clutter my house.

In 2007 I lost a total of 31 pounds. If I can do that again this year I'd be sooo happy. As of yesterday I'm back up too 201. Damn those peanut butter buckeyes! I probably ate a dozen of them over the weekend. For some reason i don't have much will power this time. I'm going to stick to a plan. I'm going to get my meals wrote out couple days before hand. AND I'M going to stick with it. I'm going to use my treadmill 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening. It's the only way. Walk ..walk ..walk. I can't wait in til spring gets here. Then I can get boo out side and I'm sure the weight will fall off.

I've also got some stitching goals for this year. I'd like to get at least 3 stockings stitched for my nieces and nephews. I'm almost finished with one stocking so it's a good start. Also I'm going to try and not buy ANY new stash intil I get atleast 10 things stitched up. (LMAO!!!)) I think I can do it. I can do it...I can do it..I can ..If I keep saying it maybe it will stick with me longer.

Saturday morning blues

Today I feel really depressed. I wish I could just stay home with boo and do nothing. I just can't seem to lose any more weight. I've cut my calories back by 200...i'm exerciseing for 35 minutes on the treadmill, plus doing the Ab lounger. Yesterday I started a dieting journal. So maybe that will help. I'd like to lose 25 pounds before summer. Not that I will ever be in a 2 peice but still would be nice. I've asked all my family and friends to help me reach this goal. If they see me eating sweets or something that I shouldn't be eating, they are suspose to take it from me and trash it. If I can get everyone to pitch in and help...Last night for dinner I ate veggie burgers for the 1st time. They weren't that bad. I mostly tasted pickles tho. LOL Since I found out that pickles are low in calories i've been eating the heck out of them.
I got some new STASH this past week. Soon as my camera gets fixed i'll post pictures of the new charts. I just wish I could stitch as fast as I used to. Just gotta wait intil boo is older.
I better get off here and get ready for work. Grrrrrr....

Just gotta share this

My sister took this picture of Brandon. I just love it. So I thought I would share it. I just wish is face was a little cleaner when she took this.

My brothers car

My brother loaned out his car to his B-I-L. Well the B-I-L totalled it. Rolled it on it's top. The cops say he was driving waaay to fast. Here is a picture of it. The drivers side doesn't even have a scratch on it! The BIL was OK, not hurt at all. This is only the third car that he has totaled in 3 years. Too bad one of these wrecked cars weren't his own car. They were all borrowed cars. Thank god he was ok. What an alful thing to have happen on christmas day.

Merry Christmas all!

Well Christmas is over. I think Boo had a really good Christmas. He received lots of toys and goodies from everyone. The thing he loves the most is a talking teddy bear that his granny Bea bought him. His second fav thing would be the simi truck and cars that his Aunt Christy bought him. Today I am going to straighten up his room and get things in order. LOL That will last all but 2 minutes. I think i'm going to put some of his toys away. That way he has something new to play with in a few weeks.
Here is a great picture of boo in his Santa outfit. Hes so cute.

Here is a couple pics of him with is toys.

Here is a pic of Keith's nephew on Christmas. Jadon is a few months older than Boo. Isn't he just so cute!!

For Christmas Keith got me the MP3 player that I have been begging for. I also got some new shirts, a journal, My MIL made me the greatest curtains for my bed room. I know I got some other awesome stuff but it's too early in the morning to think. LOL

Today I am going to start taking down some of the Christmas decoration. I'm going to leave up some of the winter stuff tho. I just gotta de-clutter the living room. I feel like there is stuff every where. Guess I'll end this boring post with a picture of Keith, boo and I.

christmas gift from cherly A.

I received a christmas package from my best pal yesterday. Cheryl A. and I have been friends for like 6 years. And every christmas we send each other a speical package. She sent me the most amazeing ornament this year. I wish I had her talent. She also sent me a magazine that has a chart of a snowman in it. I'm going to stitch it for my welcome hallway that I've been trying to put together. As soon as I get logans stocking stitched up, I think i'm going to start working on it. ((I have so many projects I want to get started in the new year)). She also sent to me a Snowman towel that I just love. I have it hanging in my kitchen. She sent me 2 non-stitched ornaemnts that I have hung on my tree. I love the mitten ornament and might hang it on my mitten dryer snowman. (picture of it should be in the slideshow).

WIP..It's been 1 week

I've been stitching on Logan's stocking for one whole week. I think it's coming along alright. I spent a good 2 hours on it last night. Keith took boo with him to Walmart. I had the house to myself. That's a first in over a year. Here is a picture of it.

this is what It will look like when finished. If anyone is interested in trading for this chart(when I'm done stitching it) plz let me know.

homemade christmas !

My new Stash

I just ordered these charts from Joann!(123 stitch). 2 of them are christmas presents for my sister and the other 2 are mine. (((BE Merrry and Christmas accents are mine)))

I can't wait to get them and add them to my christmas folder. I have TONS of christmas stitching to do. If only I could get these stockings stitched up and start stitch for myself!!! GRRRR.

My WIP..logans stocking

Here is a picture of my WIP. I'm stitching this stocking for my nephew. I have 4 stocking kits and let him pick the one he wanted me to do.

Let it snow!!

Yesterday it snowed and snowed and snowed! We got about 4 inches on it on the ground. I took boo out to play in it. He HATED it. lol Soon as his hands touched the cold wet snow he started to cry. I tried to get him to make a snow angel but he wasn't haveing any of it.

o christmas tree

I wanted to share a few pictures of my tree. My "husband" puts up the tree and usually puts the lights on for me. The rest is up to me. This year my tree looks overly filled. (is overly a word? lol). The reason for that is because I couldn't get to the back of the tree. So it is totally empty. Can you see all the cross stitched ornaments! I have so many now. I wanted to decorate my tree in just home made ornaments. I would say in a few years that wish will come true. Anyways, here's some pics.