It's almost that time!

Time for my vacation!! I am so ready to pack my crap and get in the car for the drive down to Myrtle Beach with my boyfriend. This summer has been crazy busy and flying by fast! While everyone else has done and gone on their vacations we have patiently waited for our time to come, and it's almost here! I am ready to sit in the sand and play in the ocean! I am ready for my free waffle breakfasts at the hotel. I am ready to sit on my ass all day and do nothing. I am ready for the car ride in which i will sit and knit socks while watching episodes of Grey's Anatomy and movies like Knocked Up and Twilight on my Ipod. I am soooo ready.

Of course, before we leave...soo much to do! This weekend we have a friend's daughters birthday party and bf's mom is away for alil trip of her own so we are checking on grandparents and dog and house. I can check one item off my list and that is getting my car serviced before we leave..a painful $200 spent, but its worth not having the worry of being stranded 10 hours from home.

I haven't been stitching much lately. It's so friggin hot in my house, I can't stand to sit on the couch long enough to get anything done. I did knit a sock though. One sock. My first sock. That will probably never have a mate. But, I knit a sock. I learned a new skill. I got so excited I ordered a circular needle and some sock yarn from Knit Picks. So with my circular needle, I can learn to knit TWO socks at one time, therefore skipping that whole bit with all the guilt where I knit one sock who never meets its sole mate.

Speaking of the heat. It's hot, y'all. Hot in my house. At first I was all "oh, its not so bad" but ya know, it's gettin' old. Really old. We have the ac unit up in the bedroom, but I really don't feel like spending all my free time holed up in my bedroom when I have a whole house to lay around in. So yea, it's hot...and when it's hot, nothing gets done, nothing. So my house is a disaster. I start to clean it, and then I get hot, and then I take a break...and then I see they are showing a marathon of America's Next Top Model on Oxygen, and well, what was I doing? BUT, I refuse to leave and go on vacation and come back to such a mess. So the next couple weeks/weekends will be a flurry of activity and packing and cleaning and laundry. Maybe with some stitching and ANTM in between....not to mention Real Housewives of Atlanta (crap I missed it last night!), Project Runway, Hell's Kitchen, Top Chef........

Where have I been?!?!?!

Well, its been awhile since I posted. Not much to write about....but mostly no internet access at my house at this time. I've been stitching away and finished a few things, and started more than a few.

BF and I are doing great. Tonight we are actually going on a weeknight date night, going to dinner and seeing the new Harry Potter movie, I'm really excited!!

A friend of ours has recently put up a pool at her house for the enjoyment of her family and hangers on friends (me)....I decided I needed a day off recently to unwind and chill on my own. That day is this Friday and I will be spending the day doing some general household duties but probably spending the majority of it in my friends pool....floating on a blow up raft with a cold drink in my hand and the sun on my skin.

No pics to post as I am posting from work and only upload pics on my laptop at home. Hopefully soon in the future I can get some one here showing my projects and the fun times I've been having away from the blog.

pics and updates

A couple weeks ago my friend sean came in to visit from arizona. my friend jessica thought she'd have alittle get together with dinner and wine....quite an experience.....

The following sunday we had a bit of snow in the area so i got to enjoy the day off work on monday which was quite nice. DBF stayed home with me so we enjoyed a day together of hookie and sitting on the couch chillin out....

Lizzie Kate Halloween Double Flips

In Progress : 03/01/2009

Today, dbf worked some overtime and then came home and took a nap. While he was sleeping i went out to the library and rented a couple videos. for the evening, he went out with some guys from work while i enjoyed some more quiet time here at home, gave me a chance to finish up the first of the six double flips

Lizzie Kate Halloween Double Flips

First Six Finished : 03/07/2009

Now the only thing to do for that project is to wait for the last six designs in the pice to be released, hopefully soon! I'm still working on Iris by Mirabilia, but took a break from her because I realized I was missing a color so I couldn't touch her. I was able to pick up the missing thread at Michaels, but am still avoiding her. I think next I will work on "bayside bungalows" by Country Cottage Needleworks. It's the cutest design and though a bit on the pricey side, it came with all of the Crescent Color threads and buttons so all I had to do to complete the kit was buy the fabric.

Bayside Bungalows

Country Cottage Needleworks & Crescent Colors

32 ct. Parchment Jobelan

Began: 03/07/2009

Here's some pics!!

Valentine's Day 2009

Lizzie Kate Halloween Flip Its

Began: 02/21/2009

Iris
In Progress: 02/17/2009



Iris

In Progress: 02/24/209

I'm a Pirate!!

So for the last couple months I have been wearing my glass, I ran out of contact lenses just before christmas and didn't have the time or money to worry about ordering new ones until last week when i ordered more. well, the order came yesterday and well lets just say, its not going to well. I put them in this morning before work and on the way in while my DBF was driving i kept telling him that something was weird, i couldnt see right. well, long story short, after much fiddling and checking, i realized that the website i had ordered from had sent me the incorrect prescription for my right eye. party my fault, partly theirs. when i had placed the ordered i had misread part of my prescription and selected the wrong axis, but they are supposed to verify the information with my eye doctor so they should have caught the mistake and fixed it. so i sent a quick email asking what i should do, praying i wouldnt have to shell out another 40 bucks for another box of lenses and try to figure out what to do with the useless ones i couldnt use sitting at home. two minutes later i heard back and (thank god) they are sending me the correct lenses at no charge with expedited shipping, and also sending prepaid postage so i can send the unused, in correct lenses back to them. so thats a load off there, but today i have to sit at work with the wrong lense in my right eye, that will teach me not to carry my glasses with me from now on.

on the stitching front, I've been quite busy. I am cruising along on Iris, unfortunately I have been remiss in posting updated photos, but I will get it in gear soon, promise! i also started working on the lizzie kate boo flip its in the hopes that i will have them done and framed by halloween to hang up.....you'd think with Halloween being six months away this could be accomplished, we shall see.

valentines day, bf and i went to Medieval times! talk about a good time!! we had so much fun. i have been a couple times but he had never seen the show so it was exciting. when we were in myrtle beach on vacation last year we had gone to the dixie stampede show and it was very cheesy. the food at medieval times was excellent and the drinks yummy!!

Pics coming soon!! Pirate Peace out!!

Late night finish!!

So I got home and sat myself down, determined to finish beading Tigerlily. It's quite a tedious and time consuming task, but I finally got done.

And here is the picture I also took of finished Peppermint lane.

Now on to the next project!! Most likely I will begin working on Mirabilia's Iris Pixie Couture. Yay for a finish!!

Where is it?

So we (us here in maryland) were supposed to get snow all last night and all day today. but nooo, it stopped around 9 or so last night. I was sooo looking forward to a nice snow day at home, i think last wednesdays call out/liberal leave spoiled me. I would give ANYTHING to work a job with a compressed/flex work week. It's been discussed here at my office but still not happening yet.

BF and i stayed home sunday and watched the big game. i made dinner and worked on the beading for tigerlily, almost done!!

I'm totally bummed sitting at work, i want to be home snuggled on my couch with my stitching.