Not a lot goin on!

Not too much happening today... so I'm going to make this a picture blog! :)
Aren't you glad you chose to read today ? :)

Here's some fav pics of my family!
This is our close friend Jamie who visits us quite a lot! She's become an honorary sister to my kids and I got to teach her stitching, and she's taken to it like a duck to water!

Tory on her way to a soccer game! It's so funny because behind that mouthguard, she still had NO front teeth!!

Her first concert with the clarinet! She looks so grown up.

Dan and Tory snuggling with our Ginger Love Puddle, aka Simba!

My two goofball furbabies--they sleep like this all the time!

Finally my newest start--Ink Circles Cirque de Circles. It's stitched with Vikki Clayton Russian Sage Premium silk on Silkweaver's Meadow Mist Reflections. The floss is a bit more bright/pastel than I thought, and I'm debating ripping it out and changing colors to... something! Not sure what though. It's hard to tell right now, but I don't know how these colors will look in this big design.

Baby, it's cold outside!

Well we're in the middle of this deep chill, with more to come apparently! Not a good time for Tory to be struggling with her asthma again. She's home from school again--yesterday and today. Dr. put her back on prednisone and zithromax, and did a strep swab--the rapid test was negative. We're stepping up nebulizer treatments again, and I've got to take some stuff to the school in case she has problems there. Though nighttime seems to be her worst time!

I've been stitching, and I've got my Spot RR ready to go out, and I've finally figured out a layout for my Mirabilia RR. I need to get a HUGE piece of fabric for it though, 28x35 at the least. That's one massive piece of fabric!! I have planned to do the top part of Mirabilia's Rose Celebration, and then there are 8 sections around her for the other RR members. Hopefully I can get the fabric soon, so I can have it ready for the April 2nd maildate.

My other love right now in stitching is Passione Ricamo's Autumn Faery Spirit. The colors are absolutely stunning! I'm stitching her on SMF's Snickerdoodles, which is perfect. I've found it VERY hard to put her down, but I forced myself! I may up my goal time on her to 10 hours though, she's so pretty!

Hopefully everyone is warm!

adding some pictures for update on the Autumn Faery Spirit WIP and my kitty!

BIG Finish!!

Now typically I'm not an advocate of staying up all night, especially when you have not just one child home on break, but two of them. Actually is twas the prescence of the second (older) child that allowed me to make that choice! When 1 am came and my DH had to go to bed since he had work this morning, I was headed into the home stretch of the beading on Stargazer. This hasn't been a simple prospect since I've changed all the beads, and then ran out of one and the replacement tubes weren't a match! Yes it's been an adventure! So when he saw where I was, he said "Why don't you just stay up and try to finish?" There are many reasons I love my husband dearly, but his canny understanding of "Finishing Frenzy" was tops of the list last night! So I cued up the next "History of Britain" DVD from the set DH got from his mom for Christmas (more on gifties tomorrow!!)and settled in to bead. Well as is per usual, it never takes the "short" time I think it will, and at 6:30 this morning I finished.

Without further delay, here is my biggest finish this year, my first Mira finish in 3 years and my pride and joy as of now!:



I also had help with the picture again! Smudgers is my trouble kitty! But according to my husband, Smudgers can nearly get away with anything because he's my favorite. I won't admit to favorites!! *winks*