Happy Friday Update!!

Stitching:

Finally, I have a few pictures to post of projects that I have completed, well at least the stitching is finished. It has been a productive week I am pretty happy with the results. Hopefully, this stitching trend continues since I have a few exchanges that need to finish as well.

This "Welcome" designed by Aury. It is stitched on 16ct hand-dyed aida from Enchanted Fabrics called Fairy Blush. The floss I used The Gentle Art "Old Red Paint". I really enjoyed stitching this pattern and I plan to make it into a flatfold -- thank-you to Meari for the great instructions.

Here is Just Another Button Company's ABC Apple. This will be a needle book for my oldest daughter. She picked the inside fabric of red, white and blue stars, does not really match, but it is her needlebook. I am happy to make it exactly how she wants it. Now I just need to find the buttons, I put them away and hid them really well. This is stitched on 14ct fiddlers with DMC floss.

Lastly, this is a pattern I found in the June issue of The Gift of Stitching. It is a Debbie Draper design and it was a very quick stitch. It is on 14ct Ivory aida (picture not so good) stitched with over-dyed floss called "Ballet" from Ozark Sampler. This will be a scissor fob to be posted in the Monthly Finishing Challenge.

Stash:

I did manage to make a few stash purchases on-line this month. I have three Bent Creek Stockings and the 2008 PS Santa to add to my 2009 Christmas SAL pile. I think I will have more than enough to keep me busy in 2009

I also purchase a wedge kit from Heartland Needlework's Baker's Dozen collection. You get everything you need to complete the project for a very reasonable price and free shipping. This will be my first time working on linen--I am a little nervous about that one.


As for Me:

Just a little to let you know what is going on with me. The kids are ready to go back to school and I have been hired as a substitute teacher in the school district. Call me crazy, for me it is the perfect job. I set my own schedule and pick the schools I where I want to work as well as grade level. I will be at my kids school so life should be fairly easy. I also took on an extra position with the PTA. Wish me luck.


See ya!!

CJ

Random Monday Update

Scissor Pocket.
Well what can I say, I have started to put together my scissor pocket, totally by hand since I am not home and have no access to a sewing machine. I am not sure I like it very much, but it was a good start and I plan to make more but in a different style. This one "my prototype" will be used to house my children's little craft scissor since is it wide enough to hold at least three small scissors.

JABC ABC Apple.
I can report that 40% of the stitching is completed. I will wait to assemble it at home with my sewing machine, ruler, etc... Since this a specific request from #1 daughter I need to make sure the final product is perfect -- at least near perfect.

Stash Purchase.
I have been really good while here in Ohio, the only stash purchases I have made have been on-line. Fortunately, I have had not time to look for a LNS or do any kind of fun shopping at all on this "trip". So what did I buy on-line??? I bought a few necessities from 123Stitch to finish a project as well as a few new patterns and I can't remember what they are. I also purchased "Name Flakes" from Vee and Co. Someone on one of the groups had one of their patterns, not a Name Flake, but something else so I decided to check out their site. Cruising around I found Name Flakes and knew I had to have one for each of my kids. The web page had great examples of how to finish them and I am so excited. It is their stitched name with beaded snow flakes, what a great item to display at Christmas. Vee designs each one and sends the pattern in a PDF file via e-mail. How great is that? Now I have to add the name flakes to my ToDo List--which I also need to add to this BLOG.

Speaking of Blogs (nice transition).
Today I added Mylene from the Netherlands to my list of blogs. She is a very crafty and talented lady and I read her posts very often so I decided to add her to the list. I have also noticed that my blog is showing up in a few more places--how cool. Other than that not much more going on in the blog world or at least my little piece of it.

Card Making
It used to say in my profile that I make cards on occasion, that was before my husband decided to help me with the private blog we set up for our son during his hospital stay. After I set-up DS blog and showed it to DH, he decided to try his had at it and one morning I woke up to find out that I was five years old, loved race cars, coloring and riding a big wheel. Anyway, I do enjoy making cards and the odd little paper project. This came out of my attempt at scrapbooking, tried it, don't really like it so I switched to cards. Now that school is getting ready to start back up I like to have a stash of cards for the teachers. Last year I made the kids teachers and aides a box of six Thank-you cards, it was a big hit. So I plan to do the same this year, except get an earlier start -- ha, ha like that will really happen but at least I am thinking about it.

Well, I need to get ready to visit DS in the hospital, today he gets to eat real food which means he may be getting out of their really soon, hopefully today.

See ya!!