Almost there!!!

Aha, it was half past midnight last night and i had another 24 stitches to be done to consider Page 8 done. Well 24 stitches should take around 10 to 15 minutes - typically. But 24 confetti stitches can take an hour or so. Not only that, 24 confetti stitches, with my way of threads dangling all over the place can take easily over an hour. So i decided to carry forward those 24 stitches for tonight.

In the frenzy of completing this page, i have hardly looked at other projects! Thankfully, I have been able to work on the bookmark, which is more than half-way done. I plan to complete stitching this over the weekend, and mail it first thing the coming week!!

We have this sudden plan of visiting my parents this weekend. The last time we visited was October, so there is going to be lots of fun and entertaining and visiting and what not!!! - we probably are leaving on Friday morning and back on Monday evening to Bangalore. My husband has to be back on Tuesday to office, so the only way to have a day more with my parents was by advancing our visit by a day. Which means there will be a delay in my Lilies post. Which also means, i take my BOINK, my Solo Brode and my bookmark with me or probably only the Solo Brode and the bookmark with me. Since i have three nights with me, i hope to move some stitchy mountains.

I will also finally see the pile of stash that is waiting for me at my parents address!! Meari -  i will finally see and hold all that you sent me:) I also have stuff my sister has sent me, and Riona's stash of trims and ric-rac. So apart from the happiness and shared moments my parents will have with Toto, there will also be some fun they can have watching me going through this stash, LOL

I am halfway through the book The Forgotten Garden, and absolutely love this book. If you are one for family saga/connecting disjoint pieces, do not miss this book

And, i have found an absolutely heavenly blog that has the best ever tutorial on your first quilt. I have become a follower of this blog and have now bookmarked the tutorial. I read the instructions, and should admit this is the first time i understood exactly what is being instructed, what is important probably is I could understand all that was being instructed. I loved it, so among other things i have told Mother she has got to allow me work / practise on her sewing machine.

Wishing you all a great weekend, see i have already made up my mind about Friday;-) Thanks for all my visitors and specially those of you who leave me comments.

Month-end milestone!

This update comes slightly delayed because of a happy long weekend i had!! The past couple of long weekends have been a godsend coz i got those extra moments with my parents. They leave on the coming Sunday, though.

Here's how my lilies looked by end of September; though some more color has been filled in the past days. Last night i spent 1 and half hours only doing 38 stitches - when my son woke up, and then another 36 stitches in an hour after he slept. When the end nears, we go confetti!!

I also finished Page 2 of Alla Turca. Ta da.. Yes I did!! The project looks much better than in this photo! All happy and motivated i kept the Boink project out to put in couple of stitches whenever possible. But the time never came. Never mind.

I played with my son every possible time the past three days. We also gave him a hair cut (ourselves, as we did not want him bawling) during his nap time. His Mom was thinking a slight trim would do. His Papa decided a good trim is required to 'manage' till the end of the year. Luckily we managed well, if i may say so and he did not wake up either.

Coming weekend is OHD time and it is time to stitch September. Yes!!! i have received the charts.

Ends... and Beginnings

September is over. My parents leave from here in about 10 days time, and i am already feeling sad. Emptiness looming. I know i will miss them terribly, and they will miss T for sure.

Looking at the bright side, my sister and her family will pay my parents a visit in the middle of October. I plan to take a week off to be with her. We meet after 6 years.

We have a day off on Friday on account of Gandhi's birthday (Gandhi Jayanti as we call it here). So this being a 3-day week, there is hardly anyone in office. That translates to hardly any meetings, hardly any work. Well, as far as we are concerned, all this translates to more ebay search.

Apart from ebay and more importantly, i am busy doing a school search for T. I am putting all the information in a spreadsheet. Some schools have Montessori (or pre-school as some of us might call it) option, while some start only from kinder garten. He is 18 months now, and in about a year from now we are thinking we will start pre-schooling.

This morning i took a pic of my lilies, which i will most likely show on the coming Monday.