HAED Oct. SAL Challenge

The latest on Goblin Tree. The pictures just don't do her justice! I am so pleased with the way she is turning out. You’ll notice that I’ve completed the wing up to her long gloved arm, and a little more of that gorgeous dress! She is put away again so I can move on with Best Friend. My goal was to complete it this year and there isn’t much of the year left! I have 1 more full page and 3 partial pages left. I may be able to make it yet! I must concentrate on Best Friend…..

I also want to thank all my dear cyber friends that visit and leave comments. I enjoy reading them and I enjoy visiting your blogs as well! I don’t always leave comments (I am bad, I know), but I always LOVE reading and following your progress!

Haven't Seen this Best Friend in a while....

I really wanted to finish the page before posting, but the October SAL Challenge starts today, so I have to put it down, and get back to Goblin Tree. Here's my progress up to today.

Retired Artists SAL

Here is Goblin after the SAL this weekend. She is a joy to stitch and I enjoyed spending the weekend with her!

More Birthday Stuff

Oh my! How could I have left this out?! My dear friend JM from the HAED Borad sent me Molly Harrison's Yellow Haired Witch and the matching eCard! Isn't she a sweetie!!! Thank you Jeannie-Maree!
I also got Amy Brown's Book Worm as part of the Birthday Club.

AND look what was released from Selina Fenech, Dragon Skies! This went right to the top of my wish list! (Like I NEED more projects!)

Birthday & Other Stuff

My Birthday was last Friday and my DH gave me this lovely necklace: A cat of course!


















My 2 boys (the cats) got their Mom this lovely figurine:


Aren't they just the best?!



On the stitching side, I did start Rosey! The bad news is I had a major visit from the frogs! Here's the deal... As you probably know, I will be stitching 4 cats on one piece of fabric. They are all close to the same size within a few rows. But since they will be together I have to make the all the same size. So Rosey needs 9 extra rows that aren't on the chart. The best way I could figure to do this was to split it up and add 4 rows to the top and 5 rows to the bottom. Sounds not too difficult... HA! IF YOU CAN COUNT! LOL! I started Friday, stitching with my delicious VC silks and loving it. Since I need the extra 4 rows across the top I decided to get them out of the way first. So I used the 1st row and repeated it at the top 4 times - that's 175 stitches across the entire top row, 4 times. THEN I realized that I had mis-counted! Holy Cow! Why couldn't I have seen that after the FIRST row!!!? I usually count and re-count a million time, I don't know WHAT I was thinking! So... I had to rip it, rip it, rip it! On top of this I had to be so careful, since it's silk and I didn't want to ruin it. What a job! But I mamaged to do it, and I've re-stitched it all now, so here is my start on Rosey after much ado!

This is what she will look like:

More Goblin

HAED's background SAL starts today, so I thought I would update my progress on Goblin first.
Now I am going to start Curly Tailed Rosy for the SAL. I finally got my fabric and the delicious silks. More details on Rosy back on Aug 16th titled New Start SAL - HAED.

Spinning Update

I've finished the "'Walk to Rivendell", in my case "SPIN to Rivendell". That was 458 miles. I'm now 7 miles into "Rivendell To Lothlorrien" which is 462 miles total. Where I am: At the Ford of Brúinen, turn south on ‘narrow paths among folded lands’.
My stats:
Classes completed (since July 10th): 47 Includes spin, weight, core & abs training
Total Miles Spun: 465
Weight Loss so far: 10 pounds
As of 9/12/2007 Lost one dress size!