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I took off this past Friday and what pleasure it was right from Thursday evening!!

I was telling myself the other day that June, July and almost the whole of August parted ways with me with ZERO stitching. Earlier i stitched to my heart's content when my son would be sleeping. These days though, him being all of 7 years, things have changed!

I need to find ways to stitch when my son is at his hobbies; somehow i seem to be part of his hobbies.

The sweet heart tells me you just do this particular thing and go to your stitching. In end May this is how it turned out:

the moment i take my fabric out, he will want me to do something. [Take 1][Ok]

Then when i have held my chart and eye-balled where i am and where i need to focus, he will want my attention. [Take 2][Alright...]

Then when i rearranged all the necessary things, he will want me for yet another aspect[Take 3][Sigh 1 2 3 4....] 

How much should i actually be stitching today, i ask myself, amidst all this 'traffic' and again, before me, my brain and my project connect; yet another whiny suggestion[Take 4][That's it] 

Close the project - chart back, thread set back, needle and fabric back

One sweet heart is happy, one bitter-sweet

This must have been in end-May. Also June, his school started and so started robotic days for me. And that is how my cross stitch and I were in two different worlds in June, July and almost the whole of August.

I now realize there had been no holidays in the past 3 months! The first was on 28th September (Friday). Time to enjoy the holidays right?!

Thursday evening we had decided to make this weekend an enjoyable one! This came true for Friday. We went to our favorite second-hand-book shop and got some books - 3 me and 4 my son. We also enjoyed lunch in our favorite Bengali place. So our day was full of joyous and relaxed moments! Here are our books:

Friday night was when I realized T was not well, in fact his eyes looked heavy and he had mild fever... [Not good]  While he took to bed early, I stitched some on Friday night. Saturday morning, I had him rest for a good part of the day. He was better by evening. He does not usually sleep in the daytime, but he did on Saturday, giving me some additional stitching time. And this is a darling project! Western Barn, a chart I got via ebay when T was not even a year old:)

Sunday - we just did the weekly buying of vegetables and other staples. We(my friend and i) had originally planned an outing - my friend and her daughter, and my son and me for a lunch. Now that would not work. My co-sister had suggested we spend some time shopping. That also was not taken up as I did not want to tire my darling. Sunday saw no stitching either!!

So that is how our 3 days went. With a bit of downs, we still managed a good relaxed time. And now thanks for reading my ramble. Here's wishing you plenty of time stitching or reading or spending with your loved ones.

This and That

works when we cant think of anything more specific... like when my mind is still waking up from a cozy, calm, balanced weekend...

Here is a sneak-peek picture of the special project for a special person... It will be a long time before it gets unveiled of course. This was a quick stitch and i enjoyed the stitches immensely. I only have to add my name somewhere before i can send this away for further work to happen. The feeling of accomplishment is multiplied becuase it helps me increase my number of completed projects of 2010, LOL

Reasonable amount of Frederick time too. I really love this piece, i keep telling my friends this will be the first work to get framed when done, because i know the very spot it will take on the wall. I hope i am brave enough to frame the rest of the completed xses. As an aside - when one writes xs, it looks to be short form of excess. We do not want to even think that do we?

And finally my recent book collection diet

Wishing you all a great week ahead... Before we know it, October will be over - but then the whole year has been this way, or so it seems. Thanks all for your comments. I love every one of them!!