Sunday, July 31, 2011

A good stitching week...

I have finally finished Liberty - 1776 by Little House Needleworks and I love how it turned out. I used the over dyed floss called for on the chart and a 28 count lugana fabric.
I also started my piece for the "cake" stitch-a-long we're having at the LHN/CCN Yahoo group and this is my progress so far. I'm stitching Chocolate Shoppe by LHN and for this piece I decided to go with an 18 count aida in Tan Marble by Sassy's Fabbys with DMC floss. This will be a gift for a special little baker in my life.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Quote of the week..


"Sometimes you have to let people go live their lives, and if it's meant to be your paths will cross again."
--Unknown

Monday, July 25, 2011

Weekend Update

The weekends sure do go quickly but we did our best to make the most of it. Saturday, after a nice breakfast out, we hit two used booksales in the cities of Sunnyvale and Cupertino. I now have my "Frankenstein" series by Dean Koontz complete and can't wait to start reading them. Wasn't till I got home that I realized that the book by Bertrice Small was #4 of 5 books in the Border Chronicles and Janette Oke/Davis Bunn book is #2 of a trilogy, so now I'm on the hunt to complete these as well. Sometimes the hunt can be just as fun as the read.
Once I got home I was looking for a chart for our Cake stitch-a-long (SAL) and before I knew it I had all my Little House Needleworks and Country Cottage Needleworks designs spread out on the floor. I finally got them in number order and in bags. My husband took this picture to show my "obsession" as he puts it.
Sunday I got to spend the day at Madonna Needle Works in Morgan Hill with a few of my stitching buddies. A very dear friend of ours is moving to the Midwest so we met up with her to chat, eat, shop, and stitch. I worked on my Liberty - 1776 and I'm really close to having it done. I was determined to finish it when I got home but I was tired and after dinner fell asleep.
My lastest stash enhancement are Baked Goods, Summer Splendor and 1785 Samplings by Little House Needleworks and Sunflowers in Summer by Country Cottage Needleworks. I also picked up Remember Me and Bird in Hand by Blackbird Designs.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Quote of the week

"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."
-- Roger Crawford

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Stitching update...

My latest progress on Liberty - 1776 by Little House Needleworks.

The celebration continued...

On Saturday, July 16th we had a group of friends over to the house to celebrate our anniversary. My daughter who served as our hostess did a phenomenal job with the food, appetizers, decorations, cake, etc. We had so much fun and we're to happy to have shared this milestone with our family and friends.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Quote of the week

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."
-- Lou Holtz