Giveaway

Nancy over at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe is giving away the whole 1795 Sampler floss collection. Drawing ends on November 15th.

Page 2 finished

I finally finished page 2 of my HAED A Long Winter's Nap by Dona Gelsinger. I don't know why this page took so long the only excuse I have is that I got 2 new kittens and they insist on sleeping on me, one on my lap and the other one in my arms which means no stitching. I can stitch if I only have one on my lap which is usually Daniel. 

He is also the one who is the most hyper. Teal'c is the calmer of the two and is also the one who insists on laying in my arms instead of on my lap.

And here is a pic of them both sleeping on me.

                                                                                                                

I'm a bad blogger

I can't believe I haven't blogged since March but a lot has happened. My husband and I moved across the state to be closer to my family. We decided that I needed a change after dealing with cancer. Since it is cheaper to live here in the small little town we live in I don't have to work so you would think that I would be able to blog more but I've been helping my sister with her business so it's like I'm working full time still.

We had an addition to the family, my brother in law and sister in law have a new baby girl named Sophie Danay. She is almost 2 months old now and the cutest little thing but I think I'm bias.

I have done some cross stitching. I finished the birth sampler for Sophie and I also finished my first HAED it's called QS Believe by Galbreth it took me over 4 years to complete.

I'm currently working on another HAED called A Long Winter's Nap by Gelsinger.

First post of the year

Well, I'm done with all of my radiation and I'm back to work. I got the word in January that I'm cancer free. My stitching has slowed way down. 

I'm going to be an aunt again sometime this summer so I've been busy stitching up a birth sampler but can't totally finish it until the baby gets here since the parents don't want to know what it is until it comes.

 This is what it looked like at the end of January.

Here is what it looks like now.

A couple of finishes

Sorry about being absent from the blog but I have reason. Life threw me a loop in the form of breast cancer on October 14th. I've been reassured that it is the best breast cancer to get as it is stage 0, it won't spread since it is just in the ducts and non-invasive. I have had two surgeries to remove the cyst and additional tissue to have a good margin between the cancer and good tissue. I will be starting radiation later is month, I have taken off work to deal with all of this and am trying to decide if I want to go back to working overnights and deal with all of stress that is involved with it all.

Stitching has been my saving grace in keeping my sanity. I have finished The Quiltmaker and a small little stitch that I made for my sister. I'm now working on Solstice & Equinox an HAED chart for my brother.

Finally an update

I've been stitching and reading but not posting much. The heat here has been just terrible. I've moved a couple of months ago and still have yet to find where I put everything.

This is where I'm at as of the 7th of September on The Quiltmaker.

Stitching update

Well I have miss placed my camera, usually it's the cord that goes missing not the camera so you'll have to forgive the sucky pic that was taken on my cell phone.

Here is where I am on Mini Blue Topaz a HAED pattern that I started on January 1, 2013. I'm not even done with the first page. As of this picture I've done 2,299 stitches out of 75,825. 

I want to welcome all my new followers that came from joining Vicki's Grow Your Blog Party. I personally am still going thru the blogs on her list. I got distracted by a new game that I downloaded to my Google Chrome called Mahjong Butterflies. It's very addictive.