Jan 29th Monday Update

You might have got a sneak peek because of the WIPocalypse post but I'm here to share my week last week anyway haha. 

Monday I made progress on Winter Line Up by The Trilogy. Day 7 added 213 on it...

After that I rolled my 20 sided dice to see what project to pull out. Woof Block Party by Hands on Designs was picked. I started it in November 2020. I haven't worked on it since. Here is where I was with it...

Monday I added 165. Tuesday I added 604. I have 4 days into it now...

The fabric is 28ct Carmel Macchiato Jobelan from Stephanie Fabrics. I'm using the plain DMC threads for it. It's funny because it seems to go so slow. I'm happy with my progress. Any progress is better than letting it hide in my WIP tote since 2020 haha.

Wednesday I rolled again and pulled out Peppermint Sleds. I was only 36 stitches away from finishing Sled 2 of the 3. So I knew I would finish it quickly. Then I finished the cardinal one too. It took 432 stitches...

So 2 more finishes to add to my page. Wohoo! Plus they are on display proudly for the winter season. 

Thursday was a new start Acorn Gnome another Jim Shore Mill Hill kit. Here is what this one will look like...

I added 339 for Day 1...

Over the weekend I decided Rainbow Dragon from Paine Free Crafts deserved some time. Friday I added 267...

Saturday I only added 18 stitches haha. We ending up doing everything else. Finally put away the Christmas tree. I miss it now. Left out winter theme stuff and added a vase that lights up that my mom loved. It took place of the lights from the tree at least. So we will survive haha. We also watched a WWE PPV because it's my favorite one they do. We really only watch AEW now and we were not surprised with really not enjoying the PPV from the old company. Just so many different ways of doing things. But Jeremiah and I enjoyed our time together complaining. Fred had a radio contest so he was out in our enclosed porch. He had a blast. It was from 2pm Saturday to 2pm Sunday (of course he did take a break to sleep). He ended up with 117 contacts so he was a happy little nerd haha. 

Sunday I worked on Rules for Life again. It was a lazy day so I added 809 stitches!!!

If you want you can look at yesterday's post. I got the whole part by Love on the right added and a bunch of the right border. I'm actually really close on this one now. I think I will keep it up for a few days till February challenges start to see what I can get done.

I had a doctor appointment this morning. Yearly physical. I already knew the bad news. I'm fat. But there are several different ways its starting to add up. I've never had high blood pressure. Of course now I do. It was really high and probably has been for a bit. So she put me on a medicine. My liver is acting up losing weight would help. I have a skin tag that needs removed. Just frustrating and things I already knew I needed to work on are definitely being pointed out to me in different ways. But stitching hours and hours is just so much more fun I told her. So I need to work on balance and adding in my fitness again. But not letting it completely take over again. Just putting it here is helping with my accountability. I'm admitting it out loud. Time to focus on my health so I'm not my mother. I have to. So I can stitch longer. Plus be in Jeremiah's life. Time to be smart with my life choices. 

Anyway I'm off. Love yourself. Take a walk haha. Smile.

Sept 11th Monday HUGE Update

Hey readers it's a Monday but not a normal Monday. I have been playing along with a Go Stitch challenge on Semi Sane Stitchers FB group and boy I have a ton of stitching report. So get ready and let's do this...

So as I explained a letter of the alphabet is called randomly from a wheel spin every morning. I am in the normal level so if you have a pattern that the name of the pattern starts with that letter you stitch 200 on that for a completed day. If you don't have that letter you have a penalty of 400 stitches. Awesome part it doesn't have to be completed that day. Just soon as possible. Entry into a drawing for every 10 days you complete. If you don't miss a day you get an extra 3 entries. There is also an insane version where they do 400/800 stitches for more entries. Not for me....this time haha. So let's see Week 1 of this fun challenge...

Monday - No Stitching. So exhausted from the weekend.

Tuesday - Makeup Day 1 - I got a ton done!!!

Day 1 Letter - I - It's a Mermaid Life from Tiny Modernist (200 stitches needed)

 Day 2 - Letter P - Peppermint Sleds from Lizzie Kate (200 needed)

Day 3 - Letter G - Grow Together from Heaven and Earth Designs (200 needed)

This is an old WIP from 2014. I even had to rekit it. I was happy to have it back into my WIP tote though. Means a lot to me. Jeremiah holding on to my hand to walk. Getting through life together. So many things. Plus I love the artist Jim Warren. It's funny it creeps some people out. But I love the meaning behind it for me.

3 Days Caught up. Wohoo!!!

Wednesday - Still trying to catch up. A lot done though...

Day 4 - Letter X - No X for me so Go Stitch. I picked Season 2 from Hands on Design so I could get a start on September. (400 needed) 401 added.

Day 5 - Letter A - I have 3 options for today Jeremiah picked All American from Primrose Cottage Stitches (200 needed)

 

I got 118 of the 200 added.

Thursday - More catching up why did I have to miss the whole starting weekend haha.

 

Finishing up Day 5...

Added the 82 needed to finish.

Day 6 - Wild Card - We could pick any piece and do the small number of stitches thankfully. (200 needed)

I kept working on Season 2 after posting the 200 for Day 6 toward Day 7. Got another 260 added before calling it for the day...

Friday - I finally catch up today!!!

Day 7 - Letter V - Go stitch day for me. Yep back to Season 2. (400 needed) So the 260 from Thursday...

Added the 140 to finish Day 7.

Day 8 - Letter P again - Peppermint Sleds from Lizzie Kate (200 needed)

So close! One more sled in this set and kitted up another P just in case.

Saturday - Constant Consonants - Several options for this wild card day. One option was to pick up WIPs that start with a consonant and do 100 each and get extra entries for every 3 worked on. 2nd option hit 600 stitches on any WIP in one 24 hours span and get an extra entry. Final option was to treat it like a normal day and do 200 on any consonant piece. I was overwhelmed mentally on Saturday and took the last option. I thought we would have a busy day. We had a busy day planned at least.

So I worked on Season 2. As the day progressed plans kept changing. We ended up having a very lazy Saturday and it was very needed. I just stitched away. As the day progressed I noticed I was nearing a finish on Season 2. So I noticed my needles started going faster...

643 stitches later it was finished!

Plus I got an extra entry accidentally haha.

Sunday - Letter U - No U so a Go Stitch day (400) for me. This time I picked up Hello Four Seasons from Soda Stitch (Summer Gnome) I would like it done by the start of Autumn on the 23rd. 

Added 406.

Wow that was a lot to keep track of and post. I found an error too and because of my crazy list keeping I was able to correct it. Just a problem logging in my stitching calendar thankfully. What a busy stitching week. Now I'm curious.... 3,039 stitches this week!!!! Wow! I ignored pretty much everything else haha. 

Sunday we did go up to the old house. I just get so depressed going up there. We did get a van of stuff at least. Just not the feeling of Wohoo we got a lot done. I was just overwhelmed with the junk. Probably 3 boxes I boxed up is trash or should be. My sorting brain wasn't working. I was just throwing stuff at this point. Just want it done. I get mad at how much trash and just junk I had. Like my computer desk. Full of junk. Grrr. Oh well it's done. Just need to sort the thrown together boxes but I told Fred at this point let's just get it out and be done. I will bring it to the cabin later sit down and sort it out. I found some postcards mom sent countless years ago. Yep tears were shed. Lots of tears. We are going back this coming weekend. Helping the homeowner move some furniture. Hopefully getting the laundry and dressers of ours which will be a huge accomplishment. Just need to get them downs the stairs, loaded on the trailer, and to the storage unit. 

Okay I'm off to stitch for week 2. Have a great week. Love yourself. Cry if you need to but then smile at how lucky we all are. No matter how bad it is....it could always be worse. Breath. Smile. We got this.

Monday Update - Naughty New Start 2

 Hi everyone. So lots to talk about. Tuesday I finished up the Thanksgiving Heart...

I LOVE the way it turned out. Yes I ordered two from Ebay so shush haha. Now to find time to drag out the sewing machine to finish it before Thanksgiving. After finishing that up I pulled out 99 Bottles. I told Fred it won't be done by Christmas like I wanted. I'm now hoping to have it done by his birthday March 5th. We'll see. Anyway. I added two new bottles. Here it is now...

Then I cheated...after reading the other participants of the Naughty November SAL I realized I could start my new start whatever day I wanted to. Besides I'm extra naughty so I started my new start Thursday. I knew I would have a busy weekend. So Thursday Jeremiah picked Lizzie Kate Peppermint Sleds. Mom picked the sled with the peppermints for the first of this set...

I got 1 hour and 58 minutes to work on it Thursday. I didn't get to pick it up again till Sunday but after just 32 more minutes I was able to finish it off...

Fred and me headed down to our cabin Friday after he got off work. Jeremiah stayed home to have a gaming marathon. He had a blast with his friends. Fred and I had so much fun. We did only what we wanted to do and nothing we didn't want to. Those weekends are just wonderful. Saturday we went geocaching and found 20 before the rain and wind kicked in. It was a perfect relaxing recharging weekend. Definitely needed. Now I'm ready for the new week.

Have a great week. Love yourself. Love each other. Smile as much as you can. Take care of yourself.

Update

 Oops missed my Monday update. We had a fantastic week at our cabin for Halloween week. Few friends joined us and of course loved our happy place too. The weather was cold but honestly that was a nice change. I did stitch every day in October! How awesome is that. Now since we've got home I'm so far behind. No stitching. Just trying to catch up. I'm either walking. Trying to read emails. Doing laundry. Walking more. No time. I need more time haha. Don't we all?? As you seen in my Halloween post I did manage to finish up another Halloween Mini so that made two finished this year. Wohoo. Now it's ready to be put away though. I have so so many projects screaming to be stitched. I've told myself NO SALs next year! I just need a year off. I need to breath and stitch to be happy and work on what I want to work on. Please please remind me this when I see all the fun stuff starting this winter when I'm in hermit mode. I will pick out a year long monthly piece but that's it. I want to concentrate on my being healthy and just being happy. 

Haha now might not be a good time to talk about this but I did join in with Rachel and I think a few others for Naughty November. Hey it's not really a SAL. It's blog fun. That's different. Plus it's a good excuse to start 4 new projects. That's the naughty part. So I went through everything......that was mean..... and narrowed the choices down to 4.....wow that was hard. So on the Friday's in November I will be starting a new project. Here are my 4 picks...

 

A Little Beach from Lizzie Kate. What a cute little project. 

 

Woof Block Party from Hands on Design

A Thanksgiving Heart from Sekas

Peppermint Sleds from Lizzie Kate 

I don't know which one of the 4 will be first. I'm going to let Jeremiah randomly pick a number for the pick. He loves doing that. Yes I love the irony that I complained about having projects yell at me and then I'm starting 4 more but hey it's Naughty November. I deserve it. Get over it! Haha.

I probably won't get too much time on them of course. We are going to our cabin still on the weekends. This weekend is supposed to be warm again even. So we will clean up and take down our Halloween decorations. 

Have a great week....end. Love yourself. Love each other. Smile. I'm sure trying. I'll be back Monday.....hopefully for an update.