Cooler Weather!

It was almost 90 on Saturday and today it was barely 70 - who's complaining? Not me! I opened all the windows, turned off the AC and enjoyed!

Got a lot more done on Quaker Garden too!

Day 1 Quaker Garden SAL

Here's a rather blurry pic of my day one progress on Blackbird Designs 'Quaker Garden'. Didn't get that much done, just couldn't get inspired in the morning. But after looking at all the other bloggers who are taking up the challenge, I felt guilty and decided to get things in gear.

Hopefully Day 2 will see a lot more progress.

Just couldn't get into Celtic Spring this week - its hard to work on during the week, I'm not seeing much progress cause I just don't have the time to be able to devote to it. Today I had big plans to do some much needed spring cleaning and lots of stitching - wound up doing next to nothing - ugh!

But I did manage to go through some patterns and kit up a few projects. Now that I've basically got them ready to go, maybe it will make things easier. Tonight I started Shepherd's Bush 'Chanukah' from their 'Year in Stitches' series. I think I might like to do a few more months of these as well. They are on the small side and just challenging enough to make me feel like I'm doing something creative. Not sure how to finish them - guess we'll cross that bridge once they're actually stitched.

A finish (almost)

Work has been crazy so I put Celtic Spring aside until the weekend when I have more time to devote to it and can concentrate on all those stitches. But I didn't give up stitching altogether. I finished a Valentines design - Bent Creek's Valentine Bird. I changed all the colors cause I was simply too lazy to look for the right ones in the messy GAST and Weeks drawer. Here it is!

Not much progress

Hardly got anything done on Celtic Spring this weekend, I'm kind of bummed out about that. Had this vision of doing tons of it - but with chores and errands and working with that braid, I barely made a dent in it. Kathleen was right, the braid is kind of stiff and that makes it hard to work with - it gets tangled constantly.

Watched part of Mr and Mrs Smith tonight; its pretty good so far. Will catch the second half tomorrow night.

Got a ton done for December - Ever After might actually be done this week! We finished Lake Louise and half of Christmas Eve - whoo hoo!

Weekends!

Kathleen came to the rescue with the leftover gold braid she used for Celtic Autumn so I got some of that done tonight. Didn't have much stitching time today, between running around to get groceries and a few other things (including the BB gift card-whoo hooo!) and the chores like the never ending laundry, I was busy most of the day.

Course it probably didn't help that I slept until 11 am - but then again I didn't go to bed until almost 2 am.

I Love Friday

Only worked three days this week but I swear it feels like I was actually there for about 8! It was a gorgeous day today - got up to plus 2 and its January! The snow is melting like crazy and as far as I'm concerned it can stay like this throughout winter.

Here's the latest progress pic of Celtic Spring : I didn't get much done today, but at least her sleeve is half done now. I have to get the gold braid tomorrow.

Finished Kristin Hannah's new paperback 'Home Again' - definitely a great book! And yes I'm cheating and posting twice on Saturday, cause I didn't post last night.