Progress On Fright Night Friends

Well, with only 9 days left until my goal date arrives for Fright Night Friends, I thought I would post a piccie. The only problem with finishing this one on time is...I am running out of the dark blue/gray that is the shading color in the fence, so I am going to get everything done that I can other than that until I can get some more. I only have one length of 5 strands left of DMC for it, and I am not sure that will be enough...=( anyway, Hope you enjoyed this. Oh yes, and the orange thing protruding out of the moon is the tail of the orange cat that is sitting on the fence, and the green square thing next to the pumpkin boy is his trick or treat bag. you'll see...it will all make sence soon! =P

scratch that...maybe

I know in one of my posts from yesterday I said I had my goals down and everything. Well, I need to add two new pieces to that goals list...last year I started two fall pieces, one was for Halloween, it has a cute picture of a boy dressed up as a pumpkin with a halloween trick or treat bag, and a cat, and the big bright moon, which is called Fright Night Friends, and I also started a Scarecrow as well, called The Watchman. and I never finished either one for the season last year, and I am pretty sure if I put my mind (And needles) to it I should be able to get them done for Halloween this year.So, my new goal is to finish the Fright Night Friends by...hmmm...Lets say Sept 22nd, and The Watchman by Oct 5th. Sure, why not? I just randomly pulled those two dates out of my hat. Let's see if I can get it all done. So, as of right now I have three projects to complete, very soon, (Love Joy Home, which I still want to try to get done by Oct 1st) and these two fall pieces as well. Good luck to me!

Put on your dancin' shoes, I'm doin' the cha-cha!

So...in my earlier post I said I had a goal of finishing my Easter Bell pull by Friday...Well, I made it WAY before then, as I just put in the final stitches two minutes ago! Told yah it wouldn't take long at all, and it only took about 3 hours. HOW come it took so long to do 3 hours worth of work?! I had everything else finished on this piece, right before Easter, months ago, all it would have taken was 3 hours, and I could have had it done MONTHS ago! Anyway, I will not spoil the moment by berating myself for taking so long to finish,as my parents always told me about my college education- it doesn't matter how long it takes you to finish it matters that you finished, and so without further ado...here is Easter bell pull. However! I don't think it will suffice as a bell pull, I am going to frame it as a regular wall hanging, I think, the lil' bunny there off to the side kinda throws off the whole bell pull idea, but I thought it needed a little something extra as we all know the castraphe that caused me to have to put the little bear/rabbit on the side. For those of you new to this blog and don't know, I will admit...I cut the fabric too short! But, oh well, I like it the way it is. Now onto what I hope will be my next happy dance very soon, Love Joy Home.

Sampler and Patchwork bears

Here they are! progress pictures of Patchwork Bears, and one you haven't seen for a long time, one I haven't even seen for a long time: Love, joy home. I worked on this one mostly yesterday. I think if I were to work on it soley for two or three weeks, I would have a happy dance, But I doubt that will happen. So, I am going to put a dead line of Oct 1st for it. My goal is to be finished with it by oct 1st. so, we shall see if I can do it! You know the one that seems to be nagging me the most right now, and it is totally off season, but it is my Easter bellpull. I could probably have it done in a few hours if I would just sit and work on it, but I have not, for a long time, and I should. Maybe that should be a primary goal for right now, to have that done by next Friday, Love Joy Home done by Oct. 1st, the top half of Patchwork Bears done by Nov. 1st, and my father's Snow Valley Express done by Dec. 10th. We shall see if I can actually do this! Yay! I have set stitching goals, maybe this will keep me on track. Wish me luck!

Happy Saturday!

Well, I really WANT to post a new picture of my bears, but! We have two printers...one has ink in it right now and one does not. The printer/scanner/copier is the one without ink, so everytime I need to actually print something I have to unplug the all-in-one machine and go into the control panel on the computer switch the settings to the other printer and then plug in the other printer and then print. And! When I need to scan something I have to do the same thing back to the scanner/printer/copier. So, mainly what I am saying right now is I am too lazy to dig down through the millions of cords under the desk to switch out printers right now, especially when I am not entirely sure what Blogger will even do with my photo. Plus I don't really have that much time right now as I have to get ready for work here soon. I have about an hour and I was planning on using that hour so stitch, before heading off for work. I am not- for once- in the mood to stitch on Patchwork Bears, though I was thinking more along the lines of Love, Home, Joy. Yesterday pathetic little me did no stitching at all. I guess that is what happens when you have too many hobbies! But! I do get out of work early tonight (at 4) and I don't go in until 4 on Monday, I have all of tomorrow off so I am sure somehwere in that 48 hours, I shall pick up a needle. In fact, I think I will go do just that right now! Have a great day!

Here it is!

So, here you have it, my progress as of yesterday before I put 3 hours of progress in on it. It is coming along, slowly but I think I got my stitching thing back! I had lost it, it went out the window-whoosh! But it is back. Today I worked on Snow Valley Express, Not too much just about two or three lengths of floss, though, nothing to write home about. Maybe tomorrow I will work some more on Patchwork Bears or SVE and post another picture. Thank you Von for your comment!

I'm back!

I cannot believe it has been almost 10 days since my last post. I guess that is what happens when you have too many hobbies and they all clamber for your attention and want to be first. (Remember my mentioning the books and DVDs from Amazon?...Blame them!!!) I have not been stitching a whole lot, or reading blogs a whole lot, but this morning I made myself sit and read blogs, and really enjoyed myself! And so I have decided to write a little blurb here, and (gasp!) share a progress picture of Patchwork Bears, which is what I am still stuck on. I am really enjoying myself with this one. I do need to rotate out though, and get some work in on Snow Valley Express. As I was reading everyone's blogs I am seeing so many different projects being worked on by each of you and I think: What happened to my creative muses? Where DID they go? My ferver and excitement thinking about all my different projects and how I would rotate them around, and Deadlines for certain ones, and now I am lucky if I haphazardly pick up a project to work on half wittedly while I am a vegetable in front of the TV. I really need to get back into it. So, with that said here is a picture of my progress on Patchwork Bears.
...Ok! Never mind that thought! Blogger is being a pain, so no photo today but soon, I promise! I am going to try to stay on top of things (blogging in a timely manner, and stitching everyday) Maybe I need to start a new project? But who needs the guilt? =) Well, I will once again try to post that photo, then I'm done for now! Thank you all who have visited me here even if I have very little to write about.