A Birthday Weekend

To celebrate my birthday hubby and I decided to go to Monterey, CA, a gorgeous little town located along the Pacific coast about 60 miles from us. We spent our days talking walks, enjoying the wonderful weather which was mostly in the lows 70s along the coast in Monterey and on the streets and beach of Carmel. We even got daring enough to rent a surrey bike and pedal along the ocean...talk about WORKOUT! LOL! Our evenings were quiet spent at our hotel reading, stitching, and just relaxing. We took plenty of photos which I will post soon to our photo blog.

Through Our Lens

I started a new project by Bent Creek as part of a SAL with the other members of the Bent Creek, HIH and Trilogy Yahoo group.

I haven't added much to my stash lately but here are a few things I've purchased lately.

And last but not least is this wonderful Pendleton Tote Bag which my husband got for me.

1st finish of 2009

I started this project on January 1st and was instantly captivated and couldn't put it down. I spent my whole stitching time this week working on it and finished it about 1AM this morning. I so enjoyed doing the speciality stitches (rice stitch, satin, and smyrna) that I can see myself doing more projects like this one. It's stitched on 28 ct. lugana in bone using the Anchor floss called for in the chart.

Christmas House Sampler

Ewe & Eye & Friends