On the Road Again

I just returned last week after 2 weeks of traveling.  I was in Philly for the first week visiting with my son and helping him out a bit while/after he had a minor surgery.  I think I needed to be there more than he needed me but I think he enjoyed being fed by mom.  (I also helped stock his freezer with some meals so he won't have  have to try to cook one-handed.)

While there, I experienced 2 Nor'easters, the first on "surgery day" and the second on travel day.  The first one blew down a big tree in Rittenhouse Square.  The second one complicated my travel but even after my flight being delayed, a ground stop, and a cancelled/rescheduled flight, I (and my luggage) made it to my destination only a couple hours late.  I was participating in a Fitbit Workweek challenge so I made good use of my waiting time walking in the terminal.  5 miles worth!

I finally arrived in San Francisco where my husband, who arrived there earlier picked me up at the airport.  (I got in late at night on a work night so, since he knows the way to the airport, we told DD and DSIL to go to bed instead of waiting up to pick me up.  It worked out well.

In San Francisco, we enjoyed visiting...and playing with our granddaughter.  The reason for our visit was to celebrate her 2nd birthday.  (I guess I have to stop calling her "the baby" now.)  One day while she was in day care, we took BART down to the Embarcodaro and walked up and down there, had lunch, and visited with the sea lions on Pier 39.  We also took a walk along the beach.

I didn't stitch at all while gone but have been working on LHN's Autumn Band Sampler since returning home.  I'd stitched the model for this one and wanted to stitch another one to keep.

DH's birthday is coming up and this year our DD and DSIL gave us tickets to see "Bright Star".  We went Sunday night and loved it..especially the music.

Happy stitching!

Rudolph, One of the Other Reindeer, I Love You from Trilogy Cardiology Leaflet, Sampler WIPS and Fitbit

Live has been crazy around here lately and you can tell from my "Stitcher's ADD".

Firstly I stitched not one but 2 Reindeer ornaments for a Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer theme for one of my groups:

Prairie Schooler (from the Christmas Eve leaflet):  (I showed this one earlier but someone pointed out correctly that I'd forgotten to stitch some of the snow.  I was glad to know this before it became a finished finish.)  Since this one doesn't have a read nose, I'm calling it "One of the Other Reindeer".

Rudolph is from Lizzie Kate's Tiny Tidings XIX:

Today was reveal day for a One Day Wonder group.  Feb's theme was something with a heart and to add a charm or button.  The design is from Trilogy's Cardiology leaflet.

I still haven't ordered floss for the big sampler I want to stitch this year but have been working on wips of Pink Sparrow Sampler (With Thy Needle and Thread) and, because I discovered I was off a few stitches and need to do some serious frogging, I put that one "time out" for a bit and picked up another wip, LHN's Autumn Band sampler.  Wouldn't you know last night I was distracted while stitching and I'm off by one stitch vertically on what I stitched last night?!  It won't take a lot of frogging to get back on track for that one.

Hopefully I'll get back on track with both of these...and maybe even finish them this year.

I was invited and joined a Fitbit challenge this week.  I found that I and another person whom I've never met have been neck and neck for 1st place.  While it's annoying when she gets ahead of me, it IS a good thing because I've been walking more this week.  I must be more competitive than I thought because I can beat her!!!  (We'll see what the rest of the week brings.)  I must say that it's annoying to find out she's gone ahead of me when I've just sat down to stitch but I must do what I must do.  ;-)

Happy stitching!

Our Valentine's Day Dinner

We celebrated our Valentine's Day last night since I have somewhere to be tonight.  (I'd better hurry and get ready to leave!)

Dinner was a joint effort but my Valentine made a wonderful cheesecake!

Happy stitching! (and eating)

Reindeer Small

I stitched this reindeer (from the PS leaflet Christmas Eve) for another blog (Christmas Ornie SAL 2018) for my February "contribution".  Theme is the song Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer.  I thought about changing his nose to red and then frogging and restitching the original color but then got lazy and hope a reindeer is close enough.  (After all, they talk about the "other reindeer" in the song.)

I changed the floss from the DMC called for to CC Cocoa and like how it turned out.

Happy stitching!

Fa La La La La

Here's my LK Fa la la la la compete with the charms.  I'm hoping to turn her into a Christmas ornament someday.

Happy stitching!

I Have a Finish!

This one was getting close to becoming a UFO but I picked it up again during one of the LHNCCN FB group's WIP IT Weekends.  I'm so glad to have it finished...and I really like how it turned out.

Little House Needleworks' Adam and Eve:

Happy Stitching!

Happy New Year and Aloha!

We started 2018 with a trip to visit with family (and meet DD's family) in Hawaii.  (If I only knew that all it took for DH to want to go there was to get DD to ask him if we could meet them there, I'd have tried this a long time ago!)

Both my brother and sister and their families live on Oahu so we enjoyed visiting with them too.

Hawaii is SO beautiful!  We enjoyed hanging out with the family at their houses, the pool, and the beaches and we also went on a few hikes (Diamond Head, Lanikai Pillbox, Makapuu-- where we saw a whale) and walked around Waikiki.  We even found an LNS, Fiddlesticks Too!

Our last Sunday there my brother suggested we go to some realtor open houses.  lol!

Diamond Head Hike

Lanikai Pillbox Hike

Makapuu Lighthouse Hike

Brother, Sister, and Me

Catching the waves on boogie boards:

Visit to Fiddlesticks Too:

Beach:

Pool Time (on Kaneohe Bay) with my Niece and Nephew:

More Beach Time with our Granddaughter:

Playtime at my sister's house:

Since returning home, I finished stitching LK's Fa la la la la ornament from Tiny Tidings XII.  I need to either order some music note charms to finish it...or leave it as is.

We're already talking about going back again!  Hopefully sooner rather than later.

After returning home, I ordered fabric for Miss Lucy Calcutt 1825.  Now I'm deciding whether to use the DMC floss listed or sub some GAST instead.  Hopefully I'll decided soon and get started on this beauty.

Happy stitching!