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.

Progress (with pictures!)

I've been working the last couple weeks on Peppermint Lane and Tigerlily. I actually finished Peppermint Lane about, mmm, two weeks ago?.....But I don't have a finished picture, cause well, I been lazy.

This is the most recent

Peppermint Lane

Country Cottage Needleworks

In progress 01/07/2009

Since I finished Peppermint Lane, I've been focusing on getting Tigerlily done. Im 90% there, just have to finish backstitching and beading. I'm thinking since BF is working this weekend and I will be home and carless, I will have plenty of time to get it done.

Tigerlily

Mirabilia

In Progress 01/02/2009

Tigerlily

Mirabilia

In Progress 01/25/2009

Well that's about all for today. We had some bad weather here in Maryland earlier this week. Snowed Tuesday and icey on Wednesday. Tuesday, we went to work, but Wednesday we both stayed home. Today is Friday and I am ooooh so glad. I am very tired and ready for my sleep days. As of right now, the only exciting thing we have got going on is checking some tickets that we bought earlier this month to see if we won a most awesome prize package. It's a raffle at a club that BF belongs to, the prize is a 56" flat panel tv, a nintendo wii, and guitar hero III package. WANT!!

A bit of draggin here

I am a bit tired today. Bf and I have been carpooling in the morning for a week now. He drives in the morning and then I drive home at night. I kind of like having the company in the car and I like getting to work and not having to rush into my day. I get to my office an hour before I need to so I can sit and drink my coffee, listen to the radio and read a bit. I've thought about taking some stitching/knitting/crochet with me, but I feel that that small hour in the morning would just fly by to quickly and when the time came I would not want to put it down.

As in the previous post, my stitching has mostly been on Peppermint Lane by country cottage needleworks. I am 90% done the stitch and think I will make it into a flatfold. There is a top and bottom border in the pattern but I dont think I will put it on, but instead will cut it kind of close and use something fancy to go around the edges of the flat fold.

I should have just gone ahead and finished the stitch last night when we got home. Instead I got a birthday (belated) surprise in the mail from my friend Heather who lives in New York. Inside was the cutest lil caddy to hold yarn and such and two skeins of lovely purple naturally caron yarn. It is a wonderful bamboo and acylic/cotton blend, very soft and squishy, just the way I like it. Not sure what it will become but for now I just like holding it! So with the yarn surprise I became a bit adventurous and decided to tackle entrelac. I found some wonderful/simple instructions online and two skeins of vanna's choice yarn (pink and brown). As is the case with all knitting I have tried since I began in October, it was way easier than I thought it would be. I had to look up a couple of the stitches online, but also used another awesome website by googling "knitting help". I was able to get three passes of entrelac done and like very much how it is turning out. It's a bit chunky and messy since I am just learning but I think it will smooth out as I go along and get more comfortable with the technique.

Tomorrow night I am hanging with one of my best gfs at her house. She got a wii fit for christmas so we will prolly be making fools of ourselves with that, especially with all the drink we seem to imbibe when we spend time together.......should be a good time!!

Bf is working tonight so I'm planning on getting in some more stitching/entrelac!!