Time Flies!!

Hello everyone!  Have you been busy too??  I've been stitching a little and doing some Christmas shopping and making a Holiday Planner and going off sugar (I feel so much better - but can you imagine  Thanksgiving and Christmas without sugar?  EEK!  What will I get in my stocking?  Socks??)  Here are some pictures of what I've been up to...

LHN's Counting House.  I'll try to finish this by Christmas.

Prairie Schooler Autumn Leaves Foursome...  Hopefully this will be finished this weekend, if I can get some concentrated stitching time!

An AMAZING Blog gifty that I received from Andrea.  Have you ever SEEN anything so beautifully finished?  Look at those beads!!!!!  swoon..... : )

Here's a Margaret Sherry freebie that I stitched into an ornament for a friend that loves cats...

And another gift from a blog and real-life friend, Angie... Aren't they adorable?  A little notebook cover and pouch!

And finally a gift for my MIL.  I was all set to try a pinkeep... but I chickened out and framed it instead.  I'll get up enough courage one of these days!!

That's it for me right now!  I'm sending off an exchange today.  Can't wait to receive mine back again!  With paying for dd to stay in college, we're cutting back on Christmas presents for each other this year.  I think we'll just do stockings - so getting these few stitchy things here and there from my blog friends and exchanges is going to be my Christmas!! : )

Have a wonderful day!

Another Crazy Finish!

Hello, hello!

I have had a busy weekend with company here, so I haven't stitched much... and when I tried to stitch during the Super Bowl it was a lost cause.  Tooooooo stressful and exciting.  

But my Packers won.  YAY!!!!!!!!

I did get to do a little stash shopping during a Super Bowl sale, though.  I almost talked myself out of it since I have so many projects that I'm working on, but my husband and daughter came to my rescue and said I had too.   I complied.☺  I bought a number of charts that I've really been wishing for, and now I'll start to gather the thread and fabric for them.  I won't plan to start them until most of my 15 starts are finished... Well, except for a few of them...  LOL!

Today's finish is the "Let it Snow" ornament from CCN.  It's from the '08 JCS Christmas Ornament magazine, so I won't be passing along the pattern this time.  Now I have to decide what to work on for the rest of the week.  Hmmmm... Choices, choices, choices!!

Blessings!

Ready for Some Snow??

I am!  I love a good snowstorm!  Here's my progress from last week...

I got a little more done on "Let It Snow"...

I finished my Reindeer Exchange Ornament and sent it out...

No, you *can't* see the front yet!!

And I worked on Morning Lake...

I hope to get more done on Morning Lake tomorrow during the snowstorm.  How fun for me!! :-)

I'll be back tomorrow with the winner of the traveling Shepherd's Bush pattern.  See you then!

Blessings!

Days 3 & 4

Not much progress to show.  I have the cold in full force and can't concentrate to stitch.  Sigh.  Here's my Day Three start... Thankful for Ewe by LHN and Crescent Colors.

 Today we were gone all day and now that I'm home, my sore throat and I just want to find a warm blanket and go to bed.  I did just enough of this CCN Let it Snow ornament to say I started it and then I put it away.  I do hope that I feel better in a day or two.  I have so many fun stitches to work on!

I hope to visit your blogs and see your challenge progress, but tonight I may not be leaving many comments.  It takes too much effort!!   G'night!