Ta Da! Country Fall is finished

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....

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.

And the winner is!

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.

lil bit everything

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.