Finally finished!

This is my grandma's Christmas present, I just finished it tonight. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out! It's Cedar Hill Cross Stitch's "Rose Border Bookmark."

A card for a friend at church

The design and card are from a UK Cross Stitching magazine, Cross Stitcher I think. The UK mags are sooooo much better than the US ones! Unfortunately I can't afford the subscriptions!

Funny!

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Book review!!

Thought I'd throw something new into my blog.. lately I have been really hooked on Beverly Lewis's books- the ones that are about Amish communities? I was seeing them at Walmart all the time so I finally picked up one at the library sale and I was hooked. I just got finished reading a series of two -The Postcard and The Crossroad. They were great!! They center around an Amish woman named Rachel who loses her sight via hysterical blindness toward the beginning of the book, a postcard, and "Englischer" that comes to stay at her family's B&B, etc. I don't want to give anything away but they are really so good! Just make sure if you read any of the books in the different mini-series that you start at the beginning. I am going to take a break from them for a little while but I plan on reading all of them eventually. She really knows what she is writing about because she has Amish/Mennonite heritage in her background. It's really interesting reading about how Amish communities work! Ok that's enough on that for now, but I really do recommend reading them.

A gift

for my "brother from another mother(and father.")LOL I finished this as a birthday gift for him, I think it's safe to post it now.. not sure if he's gotten it yet or not..

Our tree

and a speedy little kid!

Candy Cane Seeds!

My latest accomplishment. Rob tied the bows, didn't he do a good job? hee hee. These are gifts for Hanna's teacher and teacher's asst. I have finished something else too but can't post yet cause it's a gift for someone and I haven't given it yet. ;-) I really like these jars, I may make one more for my desk at work..but probably after Christmas.

Quilt racks my dad made

The quilts were made for my kids by the lovely ladies in the Yahoo group Chatty Stitching Exchangers!

What' I've been up to-

Stitching, stitching, stitching! From the top: An ornament or card by Tokens & Trifles, my San Man stitchalong(which I am putting aside for the moment), another ornament/card by Homespun Elegance- this one will have the bird holding a star from his beak, Mom is mailng me the button- and David's stocking..

Oh I am such a slacker...

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging more or posting pics, I am still plugging away at David's stocking, and the San Man stichalong, which I may put on hold to stitch some cards/ornaments. I will post a pic soon I promise!

Halloween freebie by San Man Originals

It feels good to finish something! lol I finished this one today on my lunchbreak. I doubt I'll have it framed in time for Halloween though.. ;-)

Progress pics as of 10-13-07

David's stocking on the bottom, and my San Man monthly stitch-along on the top. I am still on the September stitchalong, I need to get crackin! I have only been working on it on my lunch break for the most part. I have put "Loving Swirly Snow" on hold to work on a fall project, a San Man Halloween design. I will post a pic of that soon. :-)

Very disappointed..

This is my Christ in Gethsemane framed. I'm NOT disappointed about this. My dad made the frame and my mom framed it for me. I took this to the county fair for the needlework competition and did not win ANYTHING for this. I mean, the eyes and the hands are 3 floss threads over one fabric thread! The two other pieces I submitted were unframed and therefore in a different category- they got 2nd and 3rd place ribbons and were much simpler, and THIS got NOTHING?? I know it's just a county fair, and it's not the reason I did the piece to start with, but I thought surely it would get something. The ones who got blue ribbons were professionally framed and I'm pretty sure that's why. But you know what? I am not spending $70 or more to get this framed at Michael's when my dad makes beautiful frames. Anyway, I just had to vent.. thanks for listening.

September Stitchalong..

My progress on the September Stitchalong for the San Man MB, moving slowly but it's my lunchtime project.

Making progress!!

Been working hard on this one lately.. still slow going but I've gotten quite a bit done since last time I posted. :-)

A funny pic!

Just a pic of my youngest eating a push-up over Labor Day weekend. lol

Moose Be Christmas!

a message board exclusive by San Man Originals.. finished him today at lunch!

Tagged! Middle Name

The rules:
1. You have to post these rules before you give the facts.
2. Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name.
3. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had. When you are tagged you need to write your own blog-post containing your own middle name game facts.
4. At the end of your blog-post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
My middle name is Michele.
M-Music. I love it! I love to sing, I love all kinds of music.
I-Interesting.. at least I hope I am! lol
C-Cross-stitch!! Need I say more? If I need to you don't know me very well. hee hee
H-Housework. What I feel like I am always doing but I don't think I probably really do enough of. ;-)
E-Eating.. especially sushi!
L-Love I have for my family and all my friends!
E-England- my favorite place to visit.
I'm tagging:goodness.. I don't know many bloggers.. um.. M-??I-?? C-?? H-?? E- Elisabeth L-Lizzy E-Eileen (Leeny)

Going away for the holiday...

We will be driving to MD to see my brother-in-law and family this weekend. Hope I will have a lot of stitching progress to show when I get back! We'll be back sometime on Labor Day!

Progress on my 3rd project

This one is slow going, since I only work on it on the weekends..

My progress this week..

The second picture is "Moose be Christmas" by San Man Originals, the 1st is my progress on David's stocking. Progress is slowing down on the stocking because I'm working on the top there and it's "stitch a few stitches, change colors" , etc. I'll be glad when I'm done with that part!

German Shepherd

I finished this a few weeks ago, couldn't post cause it was a surprise for a friend of mine, and I don't know if he ever looks at my blog. lol I was semi-happy with this, the features of the dog aren't really defined, but I didn't want to wing it with my own backstitching. It was a free pattern I got off a website and there wasn't a picture of the finished piece.

Finished something!

Hurrah! This is an exclusive pattern by San Man Originals for a monthly Stitch-along.. I finished it tonight! It was my "lunch hour" project but I wanted to finish it so I've been working on it the past two nights.. now I know I am going to give it to someone but can't decide who(m?)- I have a couple of people in mind.. as there are not many that I "pine" for.. hee hee..

Another project I'm working on

For the San Man message board 12 days of Christmas SAL.. the pictures not that good but will post a better one soon. Haven't decided who I'm going to give this one to yet..

Progress from vacation on..

Haven't posted in a while.. this is the progress I've made since last time I posted. Will post some of the other things I'm working on soon. :-)

Stitching into the night..

Here is the progress I made on the stocking on vacation, and the little bit I got done tonight!

"Making Friends" is finished!

Back from vacation!

It was great and I got some stitching done too! finished my Pine Mtn. pillow kit and made some progress on David's stocking. Also started a couple of new small projects. I will post pics soon!

June 25

Before I go to bed, thought I would post my progress..

Progress as of 6-21-07

Let's see if I can put both pics in one blog!

No stitching this weekend. :(

Was too busy!! I hope to get some done tonight though.. we'll see..

Peter's Stocking WIP

Got a loooonng way to go on this one, and of course it will say "David". lol

Pine Mountain work in progress

Not much longer now!

another finish

This is another one I finished not too long ago, from an old Just Cross Stitch magazine. If I remember tomorrow I will scan and post my WIPs!

Hi all!

I hope some of you are still checking this, am going to start posting cross stitch finishes and WIPs on here.. I miss all my stitching friends! To start off let me show you one of my recent finishes, for my grandma, for her birthday. (She doesn't have a computer so I'm safe to post it. LOL) It's a Daydreams kit.

just in case anyone is still checking

I have moved my blog to www.xstitchmama.vox.com, but thought I'd post this here anyway. I finally finished!

I've moved again!

http://www.xstitchmama.vox.com

Come and see me!

Progress as of 8-15-06!

Finally! Now on to the other side.

Is anyone else tired of Brangelina?

Just when we think the hubbub is dying down, they make a wax figure of Shiloh and her parents. Give me a break!!!!! They aren't the Holy family. Shiloh is cute but so are alot of other babies. SO tired of it.. they are just people like everyone else! Sorry just had to vent. This whole wax family is so ridiculous.

in case anyone is still checking..

and not given up on me! Here is a picture of my progress on Christ in Gethsemane as of lunchtime today.

here I am!

I had all this stuff I thought of at work that I wanted to post about, just random thoughts really and now I can't remember any of them.
Pop Candy posted this link to look at Tom Hank's hair over the years. I have to say all years are better than it is right now. His hair reminds me of John Travolta's in Pulp Fiction. EEw.
Does anyone watch "Dog the Bounty Hunter?" I so thought he and Beth were already married. Duh. It's so sad about his daughter.
I started back stitching today, a little, at lunchtime on my break, working on Christ in Gethsemane. I still would like to get this done by the county fair this year. I will post a pic when I have made a little more progress.
What is up with the Dixie Chicks? I mean Natalie M. needs to give it a rest already. Let's just drag the whole insulting the president incident out. We get the point. Holy crap. The other two aren't saying much that I've seen. She just seems like such a witch(actually something else but I'll try to keep it clean.) Are they a country band or political activists? I don't want to buy a CD where all they do is moan about the government. Granted I haven't heard the CD but look at the title. Her opinion is her opinion and she needs to stop shoving it down everyone's throats.
OK enough said.

random thoughts

Firstly, I got Rhett Miller's CD via amazon.com. Love it!!

I read today some guy is making a movie about Mother Teresa and wants to cast Paris Hilton as Mother Teresa. What's wrong with this picture? He said her features resemble M. Teresa. Hello? What about her acting skills??

Dh rented "Elizabethtown" and "Fever Pitch" for me on pay per view. Both were really good!! Elizabethtown to me had a surprising ending, at least in how it transpired. I thought it was really cute. And "Fever Pitch" was great. Drew and Jimmy make such a cute couple. Jimmy is so hilarious. He is the new generation's Mike Myers.

Today I felt like such an idiot. Was dropping my son off at daycare, and when I came out there was a car similar to mine sitting where I usually park. I started getting into the car. Then I saw the Simpsons floor mats. Then I smelled cigarette smoke. Then I saw the person sitting in the passenger side of the car. HELLO!! I apologized and quickly shut the door. Boy did I feel stupid!

Well, that's about it.. I'm going to go to bed early tonight for a change!

one more time

Ok, giving blogger one more chance. I tried AOL journals (for past few days go to http://journals.aol.com/hannasmom1198/mythoughts . It was ok but you can do more to your page with blogger. You have to get a typepad account to really play with your AOL blog. Was just listening to Rhett Miller on myspace. I have GOT to get his CD this weekend!! OK, I did something really stupid and I need help. Dh's clothes had oil on them(motor oil or something similar)- I washed them in the washer and thought it came out, put them in the dryer and now have oil stains all in my dryer, and am afraid if I put anything in there, the oil will heat up and get on my clothes and/or cause a fire. Any ideas how to get it out? Someone said coke cause it gets it out of clothes, I tried that but it only got the surface oil out, the stain is still there.. arggggggggh I wanted a new dryer but not this way... help!

test

tried to blog the other day and kept getting errors... let's see what happens today..

back again

arrgggggggh! I had this long post, then said publish and kept getting error messages. I hate that! Anyway, shortly after my last post, our water heater broke and flooded our downstairs. Our computer was fine, but our desk was ruined so we had nowhere to put the computer. Now everything's straight but I've been lazy about blogging.
My WIP "Fall Sampler" is no more.. it was on the floor in an open plastic bag when the downstairs flooded, and my overdyed threads ran all over each other and the fabric. It's ok in a way cause I really was getting tired of it anyway.
Believe it or not, I'm currently reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder series. I've had them all since I was little, but don't think I ever read them all, so I am now. They're actually quite interesting. I'm on the 3rd book right now.
Dh and I went to see "Failure To Launch" last weekend, it was really good and alot funnier than I thought it would be. But as a friend of mine said, you could watch Matthew McConaughey read a box of cereal and it would be interesting. lol
Not much else going on here.. still sick of the Brangelina hubbub, I really don't see what the big deal is. In fact I saw a funny article online showing how he always changes his look to match his girlfriend/fiancee, just confirms my thoughts that he's like a little puppy dog! And I used to like him so much. Oh well, enough of that.. maybe this one will publish...

Long time no blog

And no good excuse..been playing more games online than blogging!! Got this cute stuffed animal and they have a cool site called www.webkinz.com , you can play fun games and play in their little world.. I know I'm a bit old for it but it's a good way to relax! I haven't stitched much recently either, that's partly why, partly when I sit down to stitch it's usually at night and I get sleepy! I'm going to start working on it on my lunch break soon tho.. I really miss it, I just can't get motiviated.
On another note, I am ssssssssssooooooooooooo tired of hearing about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I mean who really cares?? I wish they'd just get married, then maybe the gossip will move on to someone new.
I'm reading a really good book right now - Nighttime is my Time by Mary Higgins Clark. I hadn't read any of her books in a while and I forgot how good they were! It's been hard to put this one down.
I weighed myself today.. I think I should've made the standard New Year's resolution to diet..
oh well, that's it for now, will try to be better about checking in.. give me a shout out if you're still checking in with me.. lol

A hilarious site

(Click "A hilarious site" above.) This site finds odd/funny stories(mainly odd crimes reported)in US papers/magazines and posts them.. there is some wacky stuff on here!

Fall House Sampler

This is my progress so far- I started this last fall I think it was and finally picked it back up this late summer/early fall. I'm trying to finish up things I've started before I start anything else. I like how this is coming along. I'll be glad though to finish the bottom and actually start working on the top where the house is. :-)

Gary Glitter

OK, what is wrong with this picture. A few years ago Gary Glitter was put in prison in the UK for 54 counts of child pornography, from what I hear pretty explicit stuff. How long did he stay in jail?? 4 months. That's it!! And now he is wanted in Vietnam for messing around with underage girls. Hello. That's what happens when you only lock him up for 4 months. Should have been at least a year per count.. so that's 54 years. Sorry.. just had to get that off my chest. Couldn't believe it when I read that the other day!

Progress on "Christ in Gethsemane" as of 11-14-05 

spammers beware

Any spam or advertising for your personal site put in my comments will be deleted! So don't bother!

Finished my mother-in-law's t-shirt!!

My progress on my mother-in-law's t-shirt as of yesterday..(10-3-05) 

ebay fun

Ever go to the feedback of someone who won one of your items, and see what else they have won in the past? It can be quite intersting.

American Princess

Did anyone watch this? I confess when I saw the commercials I thought it looked rather ridiculous. But dh was watching one of the episodes on the marathon WE was having and I got hooked, I'm glad I could watch them all at once! I liked both of the last two contestants, but Michelle was my favorite and she won. :-) I'm excited for her! Wonder if she and her family get to move to England and she gets to be an actual princess or what.. hope we find out!

Saturday night

Well I don't know if I have enough to say to fill up two blogs but I like messing around with the settings on this one so I'll keep it, if anything just for stitching updates and a random thought here and there. I like Yahoo 360 cause I can limit who reads it but there's not the fun templates and fun stuff you can add, at least not yet. I like the burgundy in this template, thought it was kind of fall- ish. I love fall. I hope the temps cool down soon so it feels like fall!

Finished this Friday for my co-worker/friend Jean for her birthday. I can't wait to give it to her Monday! 

decided to keep this one too..

Not sure what I'll post about yet.. or if anyone's reading.. drop me a comment if you want me to keep it up..

new blog!

I have created a new blog elsewhere that has a little more privacy. Email me if you want to see it! If you know me than you have my email address, no need to post it here! Thanks!