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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

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??

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

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!

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

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

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....

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!

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!

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!

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????

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!

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!

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.