Warm to cold!

Yesterday it was 67F and today it started off at 52F but now, it's only about 37F and I have seen a few of those disgusting white flakes! Horrors!

I haven't done a whole lot today, just a couple loads of laundry. I was awakened at 5am this morning but terrible "toothache" pains in both my legs, hips and arms. So all I could do was get something to drink and take a pain pill, crawl back into my bed, turn on mattress pad and heated throw and whimper. It was horrible.

I have been ebaying today though. Trying to get a certain car model for dh for Christmas along with one for youngest son. They are both heavy into model building now. Dh has always liked it, but now that he has all this "free" time, he is really doing it! I don't mind. I have my hobby (which as we stitchers all know can be expensive) and he has his!

Not looking forward to next week either. For two excellent reasons! 1.) The highest temp of next week is 42F and the lows will be in the 20sF; and 2.) I have to clean the house! With Thanksgiving just a little more than a week away, and my mom and aunt coming to eat with us, I have got to get this house clean!!

Isn't that a super cheerful thought to end a blog post with! LOL

Happy Stitching everyone!

Just jamming to my tunes!

Just sitting here jamming to my tunes and burning a CD to play in my car (got tired of the other one that is in there!) and decided to post a quick update on my blog!!
I've got 68 days until my cruise departs!! That means only 67 days until my flight!! WOOHOO!! I got my cruise papers in the mail the other day, along with my luggage tags, my shore excursion order forms (I already reserved online) and other "legal" things they have to send. Getting so excited now. Have to go out and buy that suitcase I have my eye on. It's a Jeep on and it's a 29" expandable with 360 wheels!! Last cruise, they broke the wheel on my suitcase and had to reimburse me. Hoping that doesn't happen again!
Haven't gotten any stitching done for 2 days!! Haven't felt like stitching. I've been stuck on reading the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris, the books that one of my favorite shows on HBO is based on: True Blood. That show totally rocks!! I'm so glad they picked it up for another season! Along with my SHO series, Dexter, Sunday nite is rather difficult as both shows are on same time, different channel. But, I get around that by watching Dexter at 12 mn instead of 9pm. Totally awesome shows, I highly recommend both shows!! I love vampires and serial killers! Weird, but that's me!

Such bad news in economy lately--DHL with those layoffs, Circuit City with bankruptcy and Best Buy going down it looks like now. Even in my backyard now, AK Steel is laying off 600 and closing down the furnace for now! Recesion, bah! We're in a Depression now (please notice I used big D not little d!!)

Have fun everyone!

Felt like blogging today!

For some strange reason, as I was sitting here at my laptop browsing my dragon sites, thought I would do some blogging as well, so here I am, updating absolutely nothing! Fun, but very weird.

So I thought I would put a cutesy little picture in with my blog today about how I feel!! Without the food limit reached of course. I just want the sleep cycle!

I have decided I really really hate this time of year! By 5:30pm I am sooo ready for bed! It's pitch black outside and when it gets dark, for some reason I get terribly sleepy!! I don't like that at all. I must have been a bear in my former life since once cold and winter set in, I'm ready to hibernate.

Sitting here in my nice warm bed, I have Rascal (dog) at my feet, and a cat on each side another on my lap. That tells the family when it's cold outside; when the cats come in and take over my nice warm bed!! Sometimes between 4 cats and 1 bed hog dog, I can barely roll over in my sleep!

I have had a couple of very bad days thanks to the weather changes that have been going on around here! We went from 7-8 days of sun, warm, dry 70F days to dark, damp, 40F days and boy, am I feeling it! The front that came thru a couple of nights ago was very very intense and boy, wasn't fun at all.

Well, I guess that's it for now. Off to work some more on Tut and hopefully get quite a bit done today.

Ciao!!!

WIP Update 11-6-08

Here is my updates on King Tut by Thea Gouveneau (not sure exactly if I spelled her name correctly or not). Coming along nicely, finished page 1 now, and here are a couple of pictures of him. The gold thread in it doesn't show up the greatest in the pictures, but it does add a nice touch to some of the shadows in it.
The picture on the left is the update pic, and the pic on the right is an update of the facial area. The shading looks great! It is so weird how when you are stitching on a design that uses no backstitching and different shades of colors to make the shadows in the design. Once I step away a few inches/feet, I can see how it is actually looking!

Beautiful day today and totally enjoyed it!! Going to be the last pretty day for awhile. Can already feel the front getting ready to come through. Supposed to rain over the weekend and my body totally agrees with that forecast!! Loads of pain today and for some reason or another, loads of stress. Hands shaking, short tempered and so on!!

Thought everyone would like to see progress of my King Tut. Enjoy!!

Another finish for 2008!

Fairy Queen by Passione Ricamo is completed!! Here she is in her splendid glory!! I stitched her on 28ct Lugana Spring Garden by Silkweaver. I didn't reallly like the Terracotta that was originally selected, so I chose something completely different!

I probably would have finished her a long time ago, but home life interfered in a drastic way!! Too much stress going on in my house this past few weeks, and I didn't get a lot of stitching in.

All the metallics make her dress sparkle in any light and the beads for the wand were a totally superb idea!!


Halloween this year was a slower than last year! We didn't give out candy this year (who could really afford it?), but my dd and ds were out and about collecting about 5 pounds of it!! DD was Catwoman from the original Batman and her costume turned out wonderfully!! DS was a ninja, as if you couldn't tell!!


DD took him trick or treating this year to save me the pain and agony of walking all over the place with him. First time in years she has taken him out!! I was very thankful to say the least!

No, this is NOT my Halloween costume!! I did not dress up this year at all. This dress/costume is from 1976 when I was in Junior High School playing the piano and singing in our Bicentennial celebration that year! My mom was going thru a bunch of old costumes and was going to throw them away (I still need to go thru another box and see if there is anything I want) and I saw this one and we both laughed at how old it is!
Then I told her "I bet I can still fit in it" and she said "No way", so I brought it home and had my dh zip up the back of the shirt (the zipper was sort of stuck after not being moved for so long) and voila!! Instant de ja vu!! I really could not believe that after 32 years I could still wear something I had worn in Junior High School!!
I immediately had dh take pictures so I could email them to my mom and show her that yes, I still fit in it! She wasn't so happy she lost the "bet"!!

My home life is still as stressful as ever. I had posted (I thought) an update about a week ago, but it disappeared from the blog, so don't know what happened to that. Everything and anything which could go wrong this past week has gone wrong!! Youngest ds (ninja above) came down with a "wonderful" cas of poison ivy and being only 12 years old, kept on scratching and rubbing it until it spread all over him!! So he missed 4 days of school and now has a crap load of makeup work to do!!