Monday, April 05, 2010

An April Update

Well, let the chocolate coma begin! The Easter Bunny was here yesterday, and though he didn't bring as much as in years past, he brought enough! And a couple of DVDs, Sherlock Holmes (which wasn't as good as I was hoping) and Where the Wild Things Are :) I have today & tomorrow off (YAY me!), and have the stitch in tomorrow during the day, 10-5 (or whenever I get up to go)! I should have taken Wednesday, too - I have all kinds of time saved....


On to the stitching. I only worked on two pieces this week, 6 Bats & A Witches Hat, and Samplar 4 Saisons. I want to get 6 Bats done - it should have been done last fall, except for that huge frog attack I had in it. It's actually a pretty quick project, don't know why it isn't done, really. But aside from the outside border, I almost have Page 1 done - it's the only full page. I just need to do a few blocks a week and get it done!


And on 4 Saisons, I didn't do any tree - I need to work down to get to it, so I worked on Summer instead, in HDF Ex. Milligrubs. The more of it I stitched, the more I liked the color, and like the tree/border color even more (Ex. Wattle N Daub) - I was afraid it might be too subtle, but I think it's going to be just fine. I got a good bit of Summer done - late nights on my extended weekend :) Especially considering I didn't touch it until Thursday night.



This week, I need to work on both of Lyne's pieces - her sampler and her RR; the RR goes back out on the 26th.And Lady & Unicorn is up this week. I am tempted to haul my floor stand to the stitch in tomorrow - she usually only has 1-2 during the day one, so I shouldn't crowd anyone - but how awesome would it be to have L&U in that corner of the store that is all windows, and work on it for 6 hours straight in bright daylight??? I just don't know if I want to try to haul all of this stuff with me - the floor stand has been modified so much that it definitely isn't compact now, and L&U has the scroll frame, the bobbin box, and the bag with bags & chart & journal in it - it'd take me 20 minutes to get it all drug in and set up :) I don't know, we'll see :) It would be great to get the current page done this week...


In a soccer note, we have a U18 English Boys' Team visiting this week, playing an exhibition match against the GA All Stars. They are playing at our high school on Friday - and DH & Little Kid and their team get to provide the pre-game entertainment, and take shots against he English keeper during half time. And they are throwing a cookout Wednesday night to meet the team. This is going to be fun, though our coach is pretty sure his All Star team is going to get trounced :( I will probably have lots of pictures next weekend :)

More Spring photos here photos here.


6 comments:

whatsup1 said...

Karen, that tree is gorgeous, what kind of tree is it? We are in the process of planning what kind of trees we want to plant at our GA house. Peg

whatsup1 said...

Oh, and your stitching is gorgeous. I'd love to see your latest progress and L&U. I can't wait until I can stitch at Terrie's along with you all. Peg

Karen said...

I have no idea what kind of tree that is - it's in my neighbor's yard, and I don't think I've seen it bloom before -either not mature enough, or new? But she's had the house empty for over a year (living with her mom, trying to sell), so I assume it isn't new....

DaisyGirl said...

Jacob's prom ticket cost $75 bucks! Can you believe that? At least he has a tux, so I won't have to worry about that!
Hope to see you tonight at stitch in. Enjoy your day off too.
Donna

DaisyGirl said...

Have fun next week, hope y'all beat Hall County! lol
See you soon!
Donna

too_busy_to_stitch said...

Lovely pictures! Really makes me FEEL Spring :) Stitching looks great.