Tuesday Update

A little update on this cold, icy Tuesday... I made up this little hanging pillow for a friend that loves to garden. The stitching took me 2 nights over the weekend and about an hour this morning to finish it into the pillow. I love this design by The Sampler Girl. I am going to stitch this again this week for another friend who loves to garden and just closed on a new home (and big backyard for gardening)!

I've also made a LITTLE progress on my last house in my LHN (you can see where I was in my post below). I have not had a lot of stitching time between a power outage last Tuesday, a snow day for my kids last Wed and no school yesterday.

Also, I've been spending a lot of time organizing/cleaning my house as I was supposed to start a new job today (after 8 years of being a stay-at-home mom)! However, due to the weather, my kids had a 2 hour delay and when I called my new employers to tell them I'd be in at 11 am rather than 9 they told me to just start tomorrow instead. They seem like a great group of people and I'm looking forward to starting tomorrow. I've been very blessed to stay home all these years and now I feel very blessed to have this wonderful part-time (26 hrs a week) opportunity land in my lap in perfect timing.

Thank you for visiting!

Meredith

Is it really Nov. 3rd already???

How can it be Nov. 3rd already? Time is a-flying this year!! Since my last post, I started "Pear Tree" by Little House Neighborhood. I just LOVE this ornament and it's going very quickly so far! I started it on Nov. 1st and have all the pears completed already - that's pretty fast for me!!

I finished Red House in Winter by Little House Neighborhood. This is a beautiful design.

I now have quite a few ornaments to finish. I think one day next week I'm going to set up my dining room table for a day of finishing. I need to get on the ball and get these finish-finished because it will be Dec. 1st before I know it!

And, here are the reasons I don't have much stitching time these days!

I love them so! It's been a great 1st semester of the school year for them and a busy (but fun!) fall. Flag football comes to an end this week so at least that free's up two evenings a week for a little while. It's getting cold here and snuggling under blankets is starting to sound nice!

Have a great week and I'll try to post as soon as I'm done with Pear Tree (maybe by the end of the weekend!!!) Thanks for visiting and for the inspiration!!

Meredith

Oh my goodness, it's been awhile!!!

WOW! It's been a while! Not sure why I haven't updated my blog since the fall...but I think I got so busy with the kids school, helping in their classrooms at least once a week, sports, girls scouts and boy scouts, my youngest's speech therapy, husband traveling, twins birthdays, my Nana's 90th birthday celebration weekend, etc...that any free time I had...I stitched.

But, the kid's last day of school for the summer is today so that means all extracurricular activities sans speech have stopped and we are ready to play and relax for the next 2 months - I'm hoping to be better about blogging!!! And, I hope to get to stitch while they practice their reading and math...

I have been stitching so here's a recap of what I've been working on... It's a little bit of everything...

The Sampler Girl - Long May She Wave

Black Bird Designs - Now I Know My ABC's

Monster Bubbles - Day One (I LOVE this design - I've stitched it twice!)

A bunch of Christmas Ornaments that need finishing

The Sampler Girl - Eat Your Carrots

Hare's Easter - Plum Street Samplers

Primitive Betty Freebies

I've also been working on my Little House Needleworks, Little House Neighborhood so that's coming along slowly but surely.

And, I spend much time looking at your blogs and drawing inspiration to stitch even when I'm tired at 9 pm or should be cleaning the house ;-)

Thanks for visiting and have a great day! Meredith

Wow, it's been a while...

Wow, it's been a while since my last post. I have been stitching - but a bunch of other things took front seat for a while. There seemed to be a lot going on at my kid's schools, I organized our annual block party and I got completely HOOKED on the Twilight Series and literally spent every spare second of 6 days/nights straight reading the 4 books and then, of course I had to watch the movie (twice) and there was no way I could stitch during it... (Thanks, hubby for being SO understanding and sorry for being an absent-minded mommy during that time kids!)

So, now that I am grounded in reality again...here's a few small items I've worked on.

The first is one finish of the Halloween pattern from the Just Cross Stitch magazine. I actually made two of these and finished them slightly differently. I gave one to my sister but forget to take a picture of it. I'll try to remember to take one the next time I'm over there. I splurged and bought the JABC Halloweens Pins for these. I love them! I split them between her pinkeep and mine.


The other piece I've been working on is "Hen Party" by Little House Needleworks. I am making this for a friend who has a house and barn just like this that they have been restoring. Rather than Hen Party at the top I am going to put their last name.

Once I finish this up I think I'm going to start working on some Christmas ornaments. I think my best bet with all the holidays coming up, fall break for my kids, New Moon (the next Twilight movie coming out ;-) etc., is to keep my projects small for right now until after Christmas. This way I don't feel the pressure of trying to finish up big projects. Well, that's it for now. I have been enjoying all of your blogs and work! Thanks for all the inspiration!

Meredith

A little progress on 3 pieces...

Hello! Hope you all are great! Well, my kids have been back to school for 1 week and 1 day and I had such high hopes for lots of stitching time but that has not been the case this last week!!! As it was my 3 year olds first week of school (3 mornings a week) her pre-school has a ramp-up start so I was with her the 3 days this week. I am class mom for my one daughter and have had meetings regarding that. It was back to school night at the pre-school Monday night, football Tuesday night, ballet Wednesday night, football Thursday night and Cub Scouts Friday night. Plus, my husband was away from Sunday through Friday. I'm beat!!!!

But, I did manage to get one little project started and finished!! It is the Halloween design by La-D-Da in the Just Cross Stitch Halloween issue. It has literally been all I've been thinking about stitching since I got the magazine and while I was working on other pieces. So, I finally gave in and I love it! I hope to get to a fabric store this week to get some backing and ribbon to go with it. I used some fabric that I had laying around and some brown and orange thread that I also had. I'm not even sure of the colors!
I've made a little progress on Sun Flower Inn. I think I'm having trouble working on this because all I really want to do is stitch Fall and Christmas stuff now! I'm considering putting this one away until early next summer.

And, here is My Lady's Quaker. Again, loving this but in a different frame of mind right now. I'm going to keep going on her though because I do feel accomplished after each little motif is done!

I am itching to get to a LNS that I've never been to before. It's called Where Victoria's Angel's Stitch and it's in Clifton, NJ which is about an hour from me. There are a couple fall pieces I really want and I want to get the materials to stitch the Sugar Plum ornament from the JCS Christmas issue for myself and several people. I am hoping to get there in the next couple of weeks once all this back to school craziness calms down a little bit.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Hope you have a great weekend!

Meredith