June Recap I don’t usually post while I am at wor…

June Recap

I don’t usually post while I am at work, but today I think I am entitled to. Our Assisstant Superintendent is retiring today and in his honor, our floor is hosting a mini golf tournament. Needless to say it is very loud and not conducive to doing any real work. So, in between catching a quite moment to work on my summer assessments, I decided I would do my June recap and July goals. Here they are:

June Goals
1. Finish Celtic Winter border-almost done with right side border…just a few gold stitches left
2. Finish page 2 of White Wedding-yes…yay me!
3. Work on Woodland Fairy-made great progress this month
4. Finish Part 6 of Mystery 9-Yup
5. Finish my part of my RR-Yes
6. Work on Lilies-No
7. Work on Butterfly Rest-No
8. Complete Friendship exchange-Yes, with time to spare

I am quite pleased with my accomplishments this month.

Now, onto July Goals…
1. Finish Celtic Winter (this may be a bit of a pipe dream)
2. Finish dress of Woodland Fairy
3. Finish Part 7 of Mystery 9
4. Make a start on the next round of my Robin’s Nest RR
5. Complete Dog Days of Summer Exchange
6. Finish Stitching on House Theme Exchange
7. Finish Elizabeth Design’s September Garden
8. Stitch on Brightneedle’s My Lady’s Needlecase
9. Stitch on Butterfly Night

I haven’t done much stitching this week because I am still feeling a bit pooky after my dental surgery on Monday. After 9 hours at work/class, I just come home and check out on the couch. I have, however, made a good start on my Summer Exchange and should be able to have it all finished by this weekend. I have the finishing all planned out and have all the needed materials. I am going to use my new favorite finishing technique…I just wish I had more patterns that were the right size and shape for this type of finishing.

I have a few pics at home to post later this evening, so check back then. There is one particularly adorable one of Cooper getting ready to go to work. Definitly worth seeing:)

I have not felt much like posting over the last tw…

I have not felt much like posting over the last two days, primarily due to some icky dental surgery yesterday. I am a bit sore and extremely tired…if only the pain meds would do something other than make me sick and sleepy. Yesterday I slept most of the day and today I muddled my way through report writing at work.

I did, however, make a little time to work on Woodland Fairy. Here is my progress. I am hoping that with some good work on her next Monday I will be able to finish her dress and sash. Now that I have gotten motivated to work on her again she is really stitching up quickly.

I also kitted up the pattern I am going to do for my Summer Exchange at The Exchange Place BB. I am now a little less than half way done with that piece. If I am lucky, I will have the stitching done on that and my house themed exchange by July 4. Go me!!

TEE HEE My blog got a make over:)

TEE HEE

My blog got a make over:)

Here is my most recent progress on My Lady’s Colle…

Here is my most recent progress on My Lady’s Collection. I am really loving stitching on this one and am so tempted to pull out my Ezmerelda’s House pattern. No…bad Leslie! I am almost done with the first of the three needle books. This is for size 24 needles, but you cannot see that the number is stitched already. For some reason, I can’t get a good pic of this one. It is either totally out of focus or full of glare…oh well.

I also finished up part six of my Mystery. I know I took pic of it, but I can’t seem to find it on my camera. Hopefully, I will be able to finish pare 7 over the 4th of July weekend.

Edited to answer a question…The other day Lynn a…

Edited to answer a question…The other day Lynn asked what CATS was and I neglected to answer promptly. CATS stands for the Consumer Arts and Teaching Show and is a needlework show with classes, vendors and a shopping area. I had read about this last September when several other bloggers attended the one in Hershey, PA. It also occurs in at least two other cities through out the year. If you want more info visit www.stitchingfestival.com So far, I know Jo, Carol, and a few other ladies will be attending. I am quite excited and I think I have convinced Allen to go with me. Maybe he will even bring his cross stitch:)

Speaking of Allen and cross stitch here is his progress on his piece. He started this quite a while ago and has stitched on it every night this week. It is a Dimensions kit of a lighthouse. I need to look for a “masculine” piece in my collection for him to work on. Here is Cooper modeling Allen’s masterpiece:)

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Just a quick post with two pics from my progress last night. I have gotten a good bit done on White Wedding and anticipate that page three will take only a fraction of the time it took me to do page two.

I also made a good start on one of the needlebooks for my Brightneedle class. I thought we were supposed to get the first instructional email last night, but maybe I am a week ahead. I am interested to see what the online portion includes. (Sorry the pic sucks)

Tonight I am on to Celtic Winter. Hopefully I will make some progress while watching So You Think You Can Dance. I am a horrible reality addict. Last night I made poor Allen watch it. It was quite a site as he was also cross stitching at the same time:)

Yay…another two good cross stitching night!! La…

Yay…another two good cross stitching night!! Last night I worked on Woodland Fairy and actually felt like I was finally making good progress on her. I had a really difficult time putting her away this afternoon and actually took an extra 30 minutes to finish up the color I was working on. Here is this week’s progress.

Tonight I made some good progress on White Wedding. I am planning on working on it some more tomorrow night so I will post a pic then. I also started a little on Brightneedle’s My Ladies Needlecase. Tomorrow night is the first of three online “session” for that class. I am not sure what those “sessions” will entail, so it will be interesting to see what is waiting for me after my work class tomorrow night. This evening, I did some more basting and started on the border of one of the needlebooks. The silks that were included in the kit are soooo pretty and I am really liking stitching over one. Working on this makes me want to start one of my other Brightneedle patterns, but Allen seems to think I need to cut back on the starting of new projects.

On the Allen front, he is actually sitting next to me cross stitching. A few years ago he stitched a grape pattern for our grape themed kitchen and did a great job on it. Shortly after he finished that he started a lighthouse pattern, but it got forgotten when we moved. Tonight, he asked if he could try stitching on my Brightneedle piece, but decided against it when he saw it was over one. Instead, I fished out his old lighthouse and he has been working on it for about an hour. I am so proud:) He even said that I can post pics of his progress.

Other good news on the stitching front….I think I got into the Liz Turner Diehl class that I had applied for at the Hershey CATS convention. There was a charge for the right amount from CATS on my charge card, so I am taking that as a good sign. I am very excited!!

Twas a wonderful stitching weekend… On Friday, …

Twas a wonderful stitching weekend…

On Friday, I finished one of the two triangles in this month’s installment of Chatelaine Mystery 9. I really liked the satin stitched flowers, but I agree that the red ones on the bottom were a bit weird to stitch. I should finish it this coming Friday.

Saturday and Sunday, I focused most of my time on Celtic Winter. I finished all the cross stitching on the word “Winter” and on the bands across the top. Yay me!! I hope to finish up the right hand border on Thursday night.

When I needed a quick break from CW, but didn’t want to give up on stitching, I pulled out the September Garden Kit that Cathy sent me. I really like it and can’t wait to get to more of the specialty stitches.

Tonight, I get to spend a little time on Woodland FAiry and I also want to start basting the fabric for my Brightneedle online class as the first segment comes out on Wednesday and I want to stitch a bit on it at some point this week.

Here is my most recent progress on Woodland Fairy….

Here is my most recent progress on Woodland Fairy. she is really looking lovely. I can’t wait to get up to her face soon. I think I am going to work on her for July’s Stitch-a-thon on FGBB. That would help me make some great progress on it. I also have a week off the first week of July during which I plan on doing TONS of stitching.

This week, I also worked on White Wedding, but you still can’t really tell that I have made progress on page 3.

Now I am off to work on Mystery 9 for the evening and then it is Celtic Winter for the rest of the weekend. YEAH!!

Just a quick post…. I have been really busy tryi…

Just a quick post…. I have been really busy trying to get everything settled at work now that most of our staff is heading out on vacation for the summer. I have just barely had time to stitch this week. I did finish off my Friendship Exchange, packed up my RR for mailing to Germany and stitched a little on White Wedding and Woodland Fairy. I will definitly post pics tomorrow after i get home from the post office. Now I am off to relax, watch So you think you can dance and work on a new project (Bad Leslie). I just started a bit on September Garden by Elizabeth Designs that Cathy sent me with the Beginner Exchange that we participated in in May. See you all tomorrow.

It has been a good stitching week, but unfortunate…

It has been a good stitching week, but unfortunately I can’t show much of my progress. Earlier in the week, I was able to finish page two of White Wedding. Next week, I hope to make a large amount of progress on page three. It is the exact reverse of page one which stitched up pretty quickly. I am not sure why page two was such a pain. I am going to try and show up a pic, but blogger is being a pain tonight so I am off to photobucket for a minute. Hopefully that will work.

Who knows why the pic is that color, but it at least gives a sense of how much I have completed. Look further down the page for the true colors if you like.

After finishing that section of White Wedding, I picked up my Friendship Exchange piece for Melanie. I was able to the stitching today and have everything I need to finish it…except Allen. Allen is my master “centerer”. Whenever I do any major finishing, I rely on him to center it for me and unfortunately he is at work all day today. He should be home at a reasonable hour tomorrow and it should be ready to go out in the mail by mid week along with my RR. YEAH for me on getting things done on time.

Also tomorrow is our second anniversary. If you ask Allen, we have actually been married almost four years. He apparently calculates from when we moved into the condo together. On Saturday, he and I went to the Melting Pot to celebrate. We had a wonderful dinner. On Friday, I also got a really sweet surprise. I got a flower delivery at work and I was quite surprised by what I found inside. Allen was very thoughtful and creative this time around. He sent me a beautiful Hawaiian lei from Maui. That is where we went on our honeymoon. Here is a pic.