Its a Wrap

for me 2010 was a good year.  Family is healthy and good.  Just need to work on grades and attitudes towards school (we can do this!)

2011 has us batting down the spending and paying off debt.  The plan is in place and we had thought it would start in Dec but Christmas sort of got in the way.  January is a whole new month and year and we will get started on the plan.

This year I was able to complete 14 projects, 4 more than last year.

2011 I have more projects scheduled than time but it will be fun seeing what I can get completed.  More ornaments are definitely on the game plan.  The tree was pretty bare this year, duo of chaos LOVED playing with glass balls so we had to move everything up.

I have fabric gridded for the ornaments Ive picked for the Crazy 2011 Challenge.  I have more than 15 projects overall picked but most are small and I hope easy to finish.  Last things I need are pockets to keep the projects together with the fabric.

Hope your New Year is festive and fun!

Day 1 of 2009

Nice and relaxing.  We all stayed up til midnight to ring in the new year.  D waited long enough to see the ball drop and dropped into bed (poor guy working to the bone).  This may have been the second year DL has made it to midnight before crashing.  P hasnt had a problem making it for years.

I had noise makers, hats and those pop-it guns and little bottles saved up from the 4th (and last new years I believe) so the boys and I stood on the porch (freezing!) and did them all.

This morning had me finishing up wrapping on the gifts for my family get together today before ditching the guys for open stitch group at A&T.  Had great fun, good eats and lots of belly laughs.  Then off to sisters for dinner, gifts and the evil chocolate cake from Costco (only had a small slice of that chocolaty goodness).

Boys got more legos - which they promptly put together when they got home and worked more on the Ferris wheel DL got on Sunday.

Stitchy updates

I pulled out Celtic banner for Tuesday's stitch group and finished line 2 of the alphabet and added more to the right border.

Rest of the week was spent on P's stocking.  Ive got quite a bit added but then found a frog infesting the chest area during today's open stitch at A&T.  Decided it was time to leave (did have a bit of shopping to do for dinner) and now I will be on a hunt for the varmint and find out how bad the damage is.

I dont do stitching goals as its a hobby that I want to keep as a fun hobby.  Lists remind me of work and those annoying seminars to "better schedule your time".  I use stitching to lose track of time and relax :o).  Kudos to those who do keep them and are able to accomplish item on their lists!

That being said - I do have a list of starts I want to do this year.  Tad variation on the finish list eh?  

1. My MMIRR project.  Needless to say I havent been able to do much on this front and due to 2 other new starts I want, it doesnt look that promising it will get started in the first quarter of this year.

2.  A Lord of the Rings montage (one of at least 2).  D wanted me to do a LOTR pic as a stitchy project.  After I gulped for air (havent done a BAP yet) we went googling for images he liked.  This is one of several I converted in PC stitch that he chose.

3.  This is one of the first LOTR posters I found and fell in love with.  Its not from the movies and you can see my earlier post about it here.  I decided that I needed another BAP so I could have yet another diversion from the first :op. 

4.  This item is more of a floss organization hope-to-accomplish rather than a stitch finish.  Ive been using bobbins and bins to store my floss BUT Ive been seeing how others have been using the floss away bags (Sharon's arraignment is wonderful thinking - 3x5 cards in the bags).  I purchased a set of tear drop cards on a ring for Celtic banner but dont really have a friendly place to keep the floss (away from the chart & fabric to help keep it a bit cleaner).  I want to get some of the bags for my banner project and maybe keep the tear drops for something else.  Thoughts?

Thank you all for your wonderful comments throughout this year.  Everyone has been a great motivator and some (lots?) have been enablers - such wonderful finishes yourselves!  

Off to play with Homer - apparently DL didnt get all the spunk out of him today, lol

New Year!

Another year ending which brings a new year of possibilities.

Many happenings with the family this year.  Along with the usual birthdays and holidays, D had 2 surgeries to remove a pilodonidal cyst.  Then we had a major scare with my Dad in Aug where a simple strep virus turned into Narcotizing Fasciitis.  He was in the hospital for about 6 weeks.  I lost count the number of operations he had but he is a medical miracle.  Several of his surgeons were shocked that he survived.  We are all happy he is still with us.  The look of pure joy on the boys faces when the see him says it all.  P started a new school and after a rocky start ended the first trimester with fabulous grades.  Devon out did himself as well. We are very proud parents.

On the stitching front, I had a total of 18 finishes this year (list to be posted later).  Surprising once I added them up.  Yes some (well most) are ornaments, they are still finishes :oP.  2009 I will try to complete most of the WIPs I started in 2008 (as well as a few from before then).  Im signed up for the MMI RR but still need to get all the materials to get started.  Not sure when I will be able to start but it wont be soon.  

D has a couple projects he wants me to stitch!  A Lord of the Rings montage - think huge monstrosity.  Looking on the web I found there isnt much to choose from so we started looking at pictures cause "dont you have that stitch program that will convert it?" (hidden DUH in there and all that).  I found a LOTR poster from before the movies that I converted.  30 pages and 50 colors (88 total skeins of floss!)  322x500  21x32 inches big.

Its by Jimmy Cauty

Im on the look out for an image from the movie that is approved-OK by the man but isnt too major I cant finish.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Happy New Years!

Here's to a wonderful New Years to all!

This was the first year DL was able to stay up until Midnight and ring in the new year with the family. He says it's cause he is now 6 years old (lol).

Small house update - During our travels yesterday, we saw the carpet guys at the house. We decided not to stop and bother them. I am planning on stopping by later today to see the wonderful results. I am hoping that this is one of the final steps for the appliances to go in and then we can move in. Hang the electrician, we should be able to finish what he and his team of thumb-men haven't been able to do.