I'm Back!

Okay, so I've been back a week. Where has the time gone? I've been catching up from my trip and the week flew by. NH was COLD! And it did snowstorm while I was there, of course. But I made it home fine.

The 2 charts I picked for my prize were Dragon Charmer - Josephine Wall, and Spread Your Wings - Renee Biertempfel. Thanks again to all involved! AC Moore had a sale Sun. & Mon. DMC floss 6 for $1, so I got the floss I will need for both. The receipt was about 15 feet long!!! I won't be starting them anytime soon. I have to get some work done on Dark Cherry first. I am still on page 1! ARG! The sparkle in the moon is just killing me. I'm using PTB but it's not cooperating with me this time, don't know why. Here my progress




Happy stitching to you all!!!

HAED Themed SAL Jan. 2009 And NEWS!

The Theme was: Background. So I continued working on Dark Cherry. I'm working around the sparklies, I'll do them once all the other stitches around that area are done.

Now for the News! I am one of the Winners of 2008 SAL Challenge! I was so stunned when I saw the post this morning over at the HAED BB! I get to pick 2 full sized charts as my prize!!! I haven't picked yet, I'm still in shock! I'll update you when I do make my picks. The people over at HAED are so wonderful! Thank you HAED and all the HAED stitchers!!!!

On a non-stitching note, I have to travel for work next week. I leave on Superbowl Sunday and return on Friday. I'm going to New Hampshire/Maine. Just the place you want to go in February, NOT! No offense to anyone that lives there, I just hate the cold. NJ is cold enough for me, so I'm not looking forward to this. Pray for a foot of snow at Newark Airport on Sunday! (Maybe then I can get out of this trip!) I don't think I will be updating my blog till after, so have a great couple of weeks, dear readers! Thank you for your comments!

Goblin Tree July 29- Ravenscroft - HAED Fourth weekend Themed SAL

The Stitch-A-Long ran from Friday morning to Monday night. The theme this month was mystical and magical, wizards/witches/zodiac/sourceress' etc, so Goblin Tree fit right in!

Here she is!
One of my goals for this year was to complete 3 more pages of this, so I am 2/3's of the way there! 2 pages down so far this year! This also shows the start of page 7.

2008 Fairy Day SAL

Goblin Tree after the SAL. The SAL ran from June 24 (Fairy Day) till June 29 (Sunday night). I've hit the right side of the design. That's the last page, going across the top, and the page (4) is almost 50% complete. It's so wide now that is won't fit in the scanner, so I had to chop off some of the left side to show the progress. My goal for this year was to complete 3 more pages of this chart. So this puts me right in at half way to my goal. One and a half more pages and I'll have succeeded.

Thank you to all that have visited and left comments. Ann, thank you for your answer to my Orvis question. I found TSC on the web and placed an order for it! Thanks!
I also finally went out and got more invisible thread. Now I can attach the charms to my Double Flip-Its.

DH and I went into the City to see Eddie Izzard on Friday. What a show! It was sold out. He was fantastic! What can I say? I am a sucker for British humor. AND Eddie just frosts my cupcake every time!!!

I don't know how much stitching I'll get in this week. We are having a 4th of July party here (on Friday). The first time all the family and friends will see the pool opened. I am praying for nice weather. They keep changing the forcast, now they are saying there's going to be the possibility of thunder storms for Friday, Saturday AND Sunday. So my rain date (Saturday the 5th) might also get rained out! I am just going to keep praying and keeping my fingers crossed! We sent out 23 invitations, so with the children that would be just about 65 people. A lot of my inlaws are planning to stay over for the weekend. I don't know where I'm putting all these people! But it should be fun, and my DH will be in heaven. I just hope I live through it!