Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

I'm singing an Easter cantata tonight with our church choir which will sure put me in the mood for this holy weekend.

I started another model this week but before I started, I stitched a couple of small spring themed pieces:

Bunny Wabbit by Val's Stuff (love this little guy!)

Spring ABC's by Lizzie Kate

Last night I took a break from model stitching and worked a bit on a (please don't ask me how) old wip that I dug out while watching OSU play in the final 4 of March Madness:

My "baby" celebrated his 17th birthday yesterday by going to the beach with some friends and then having them join us for dinner.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

A Finish

I finished LK's Harvest Blessings last night.  Sorry the picture quality isn't that great.  Just in time because I have a new model to  start now.

I'm also working on an ornament for an exchange.

Diane Williams (Little House Needleworks) revealed a model I stitched for her called Autumn Band Sampler.  It was a joy to stitch and I love it so much, I'll have to stitch another for me to keep.  I love how she framed it too.  She previously designed one called Winter Band Sampler that her fans (including me!) love so much that she decided to do a whole series.  I'm anxious to see what she comes up with for Spring and Summer.  Please visit her website at www.littlwhouseneedleworks to see all her beautiful designs.

No football game this week.  I'm very tired so it will nice to have a break.

A Little Progress

I've had very little stitching time because of  band but did manage to make a little progress on Lizzie Kate's Harvest Blessings.  I'm really enjoying using my new StitchMate stand;  I believe I'm actually stitching a little faster on it than when I'm using Qsnaps (the big ones, anyway).

Previous progress:

The band did very well last night.  They played the first movement and most of the second of their show.  TS (or whatever it's classified as now) Lee slightly lowered our temps and has provided us with an almost steady breeze which really helped.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend.  

Ta-Da!! A Finish

I put the final stitches on LHN's Virtue Sampler on Saturday.  This is my first project mostly stitched on my new StitchMate floor frame.  I can say I've fallen in love with this frame and wonder what took me so long to get one.  lol!

Next up is an older Lizzie Kate...I think it's called Harvest Blessings.  With it so hot, I'm thinking maybe thinking of fall might cool me off.  It's worth a try, anyway.

We had our first football game Friday and the band did well.  The football team won the game too.  GO BUCS!  It was so hot that day that we really worried how the kids would tolerate the heat...esp. since they wore those hot uniforms.  Only a couple had problems but we were able to cool them down.  Today the high will be 104 (I don't even want to know the "feels like" temp today as humid as it is.)  UGH!

Hi, again!

It's been a while since my last post.  Here's what I've been up to since the last one.

First, DH celebrated a milestone bday this past week.  Our kids thought it would be great for us all to celebrate together so our older two surprised him by flying into Houston last Friday afternoon.  (We'd been plotting for weeks.)  The other boys and I drove up and met them at DH's office where we "kidnapped" him and took him out to dinner at a Tuscan/Texan "fusion" restaurant called Stella Sola (Lone Star in Italian).  He was totally surprised!  The next night the kids cooked dinner at home including making homemade pitas which are really fun to watch baking b/c they puff up like a ball.  The kids alwyas have a good time when they get together...it makes this mom's heart feel good.

On the stitching front, I finished and mailed out another model to Nikki from Country Cottage Needleworks.  I can't say anything about it except that it's a really cute one and I love the color combo.  I'll let you know when it's been released so  you can see it.

For my personal stitching, I finished a little wip of a freebie from Val's Stuff.  I also worked a bit on LK's Harvest Blessings, Village Square Sampler, and America, Land That We Love.  The last one I'm stitching along with some friends and I've altered it a little from the original.

Thanks to seeing a stitching buddy's blog, I fell in love with another antique repro sampler and ordered it the same day I first saw it.  It's called Maryanne Wenn (sp?) and is available for download from the Needleprints blog.  You'll need a paypal acct. to order it, something I'd resisted for a while but since I had to order this one........

Spring has definitely sprung around here.  My walking buddy and I have enjoyed hearing the birds sing, the warm temps, and seeing the flowers.  The other day we saw an armadillo crossing the path in front of us. 

Speaking of flora and fauna, we live on a lake and often see ducks, geese, turtles, etc.  I had a close encounter with one of the geese last week who came up close to the house.  Never a dull moment!

Happy Friday

DS's coming home from college for the weekend so I've been busy baking cookies today. I also made some bread in the bread maching that I'll slice and freeze in small packets for him to take back to school.

I get to join some of my buddies for a stitching day tomorrow so I'm baking rosemary foccacia for that. Yum! The house smells good. Unfortunately, it's warm and humid so it was hot in the kitchen.

On the stitching front, I started (finally, I've had it in my stash for a long time) LK's Harvest Blessings. Maybe I'll even have it stitched and framed for next Thanksgiving. I also worked some more on my bap. Since I liked the BC Sow Kind Seeds so much, I thought I should start one for myself since I already have the threads pulled for the other one for the exchange.

I have a couple of finishes too...the church from the Town Square freebies (Trilogy) and LHN's Joy to the World ornament. Both were just about finished wips. It sure feels good to finish some!