Mid-month Milestone and some Memorabilia!

March has been a drowsy month for me. I have this great urge to just sleep, sleep and sleep. Something inside me nudges me to let go stitching for the night, and there are nights i have listened to that voice. So there has been relatively less progress on Page 13. As you will see, i have not been able to discipline myself with the 10 by 10 area stitching. Stifling innumerable yawns, i have stitched the same color thread ever so often, so as to hit my '100' sooner and then go to sleep land. Oops.

Here is my next SAL with Sticklounge. The name is actually Purple Garden, but i am using Red. Also i am doing just the center part of the actual huge design. When it gets near completion, i will tell you why;-)

And here is the needle-roll completed. All you experts pls tell me what do you fill in your needle roll, and how do you make the roll look taut? Mine looks limp, eh?? Any suggestions are welcome! Thank you.

I have also won two giveaways in the past week. I will post their pics as soon as i receive them. Both are to come from the US, so i guess it will take some time to reach me. With 14th March being my birthday, i am looking at these as wonderful gifts meant specially for me:)

Not sure if you knew, my son and I share the same birthday:) He completed 3 years on 14th March!! Here are the pics taken some in his school and some at home! I had taken the day off, and the two of us had a great time together. Husband was missing in action, as he is gone to drop my in-laws to their place. Now it is my parents' turn at home:)

I will end this post with some Tanishk memorabilia:)

A First with Beads, among other things!

My first dating with beads went fine, LOL. The needle roll project that i started last week, looked this way when the canvas-work was completed.

This is how they look with beads, and i am loving them!!One charming thing is i do get beads here locally, so whenever i need a bead-diet, i can now go headlong. I loved putting the beads, and can now understand how my other stitching sisters go crazy about these. I am now considering this project as completed although the finishing is not yet completed. BTW, this freebie was found here. Pls do visit, you will be immersed in a world of goodies!!

I am now working on the finishing bit, but instead of concentrating on that I worked on a project that will travel to a different home, and its final destination being another home. Since it is to be under wraps as of now, this is the best i can show of this quickie project. So, this is project #3 that is finished.

I also did a bit of back stitching on Freddie, but nothing to warrant a pic. Tonight i am thinking i will work some on Freddie, and then tomorrow onwards is going to be aLilies journey yet again. Fingers crossed wrt my son's sleeping early;-)

Saturday, 26th February was our 10th wedding anniversary. This is what i gave my husband. I think he liked it, as he was turning the pages every now and then.

And finally about my son - some photos i took on Friday - he was dressed up for his first Annual Day in school:) On 14th of March, he is going to be 3, and i am sure will have a lot of fun at school. The celebrations at home are likely to happen on the 19th. More on that when i post my next milestone pic.

Another Page done, a new project and great books

Page # 12 of 20 is now completed in my Lilies Project... The fourth 'quadrant' or so of this page was full of confetti stitches, that i was finding it a bit too much to handle. I put the final stitch close to 1AM of 20th February (omg). For the past week to ten days, my son has not been an easy sleeper;-), which is why my stitching time got stretched beyond my usual time.

Last night he slept close to midnight (God, hope you give me such days very very rarely). So i now have 8 nights to stitch on any other smaller project that i have with me. I have couple of gift projects (read squares) to work on, i hope to start these in this period.

I now have a better pic of a new project that i had started. This is a freebie given here. Looks like what we need is evenweave / linen, but i worked on 14 count aida (which is my staple over here, and i am not going to rant;-) about that anymore)

This is my first needle roll project, so let us see how the final product will look like:)

I finished reading the book Coast Road by Barbara Delinsky. I LOVED it, one of those books (at least for me) written with the male as the main character. I recommend this book to anyone who loves reading family fiction.

Currently i have picked up an RD Select Edition, 2006. First book there is Jeffrey Archer's False Impression. It begins with a bang, and a promise of lot of action. Needless to say, i am amidst great books!!!

Thanks to all those wonderful comments on my previous post. I loved everyone of them. Here's wishing all of you a great week, with enough stitching to keep you happy.