Stitching progress

It's pretty much too hot to do anything else but stitch lately...although I have done a few other things.

Here's my progress on Hinzeit's Sweet Land of Liberty.  I think I just might finish this one soon.

I took a short break from this to stitch what I thought was July's Halloween ornie theme.  I just noticed that I transposed themes...this one (black cat) is actually the theme for Aug.  DUH....  Oh well, it's early enough in the month that it's possible I'll stitch July's theme too (Haunted House). 

Majestic Cat by Homespun Elegance (I love Sandra's designs!)

Keep cool and....

Happy stitching!

Happy July 4th!

I hope everyone enjoys their July 4th celebrations.  As for us, we're having a quiet, relaxing day and most probably will go to a friend's house to view the fireworks tonight.  I made a patriotic trifle to take with us and these individual ones for us to eat here at home.  I'd intended to use an angel food cake but only found pound cakes at the store.  Since I had some of my here in our freezer (that probably tastes better than store-bought anyway), I chunked up some of that to use in the trifles.  My original intent was to bake another blueberry galette but decided it's way too hot to turn the oven on. 

I've been working more on Hinzeit's Sweet Land of Liberty and making some progress.  I really think I can finish this one soon if I keep working on it.  (I'm itching to start something else, though...my stitcher's ADD kicking in.)

I also finished and "cubed" LHN Old Glory for a patriotic LHN sal:

I took some time out of patriotic stitching to stitch a Halloween ornament for the Halloween ornament blog.  It's Trick or Treat by Plum Pudding Needleart and published in the JCS 2013 Halloween issue.

Happy stitching!

Post Labor Day Update

As you can see, I'm challenged by titling this post, so there you have it.  lol!

I hope you all enjoyed your long Labor Day weekend.  DH and I expected a quiet one.  We got a few things done around the house and watched a couple of movies.  On Sunday afternoon, we drove to Houston and "hung out" in Rice Village where we had lunch and browsed in a bookstore then went to Central Market and bought some "foodie" goodies.  When we arrived back home, we received an invitation to join some friends for a Labor Day pot luck (it's still way too hot to want to have a picnic!) so yesterday I made a big batch of potato salad and some Texas sheet cake for my contribution.  It was fun getting together with everyone.

We got up early yesterday to take a walk and saw a coral snake on the track.  It's only the second coral snake I've seen in the wild and both of them were on that walking track...even close to the same place on the track.  He didn't seem to be too bothered by our presence;  we didn't hang around very long to give him a chance to change his mind.

I finished and mailed off the model and finished and mailed off the donation quilt square so now I can get back to stitching my own stuff.  Here's the quilt square (HIH Wee Vegetables):

I picked up an old wip/ufo of Hinzeit's Sweet Land of Liberty to work on.  I'll also work on LHN's My Dwelling Place.