Happy New Year!

Design: Happy New Year

Designer: Lizzie Kate

Threads: Recommended GAST & WDW (except used GAST Blue Jay for Presidential Blue)

Fabric: note sure...a lavender color that has a smokey grey tint to it. 28 ct

Please excuse the wrinkles, but here is my first finish of 2008! Can't believe that the holidays have flown by and 2008 is here already. Our Christmas was nice and quiet. My son turned 13 on New Year's Eve and we will celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary tomorrow! So, alot of celebrating going on here! :-)

I actually seem to have gotten a little bit of my stitching mojo back over the Christmas break. I finished up 3 ornaments (see below), stitched the above Lizzie Kate, started another small Lizzie Kate and signed up for The Bride's Tree SAL. I've never done a SAL before and am looking forward to it.

Here are my ornaments:

Left: for my best friend, Lori

Design: Dearest Friend

Designer: Brightneedle - from the booklet "Small Samplings"

Threads: DMC

Fabric: 28 ct Cream linen

Middle: for my friend Cindy, who is currently going through treatments for Breast Cancer

Design: Breast Cancer Christmas Tree

Designer: freebie from Stitch Pink website

Threads: Tree - Thread Gatherer Silk 'n Colors Green Leaves, Lt

Ribbons - DMC metallic 5288

Hearts - GAST Tea Rose

Did not do 3 dots together from pattern, but put on Mill Hill Petite Crstal Beads (40161) instead

Fabric: 28 ct. Baby Lotion linen (stitched over 1)

Right: for my hubby

Design: French Country V - Reindeer

Designer: JBW

Threads: Thread Gatherer Silk 'n Colors Green Leaves, Lt

Fabric: 28 ct Opalescent Linen (stitched over 1)

2008 Stitching Goals:

1. Finish Train!
2. Finish numerous WIPs
3. Do all ornaments for SAL
4. Do all the 12 Day of Christmas ornaments from Erica Michaels (wanted to do for son this Christmas)
5. Stitch Dragon Dreams' ornament from the 2007 Just Cross-Stitch Ornament issue for son
6. Start either "Christmas Wishes" by Mirabilia or "The Toy Gatherer" by Shepherd's Bush
7. Do several Sekas ornaments (Santas or Snowmen)

2007 Movie Favorites:

Here are my top 10 movie favorites for 2007. In no particular order!

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Miss Potter
• PS I Love You
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets
• Spider Man 3
• Dan in Real Life
• Meet the Robinsons (animated)
• Enchanted
• Ratatouille (animated)
• Music and Lyrics

If I could add another 2 to the list, they would be:

• I am Legend (though quite scary!)
• Fred Clause

Other movies I really enjoyed, some surprisingly:

• Transformers
• Alvin & the Chipmunks
• Surf's Up
• The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
• The Astronaut Farmer
• The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
• Firehouse Dog

Biggest disappointments of the year:

• Shrek 3
• Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End

I may have mentioned other movies throughout the year, both negatively or positively, but they didn't stand out enough for me to really mention here.

2008 Anticipated Movies:

• WALL-E
• Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
• Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Star Trek

Here is my final finish for 2007:

Design: Santa

Designer: Henzeit

Threads: GAST Cranberry & Pine

Fabric: No idea...taupe colored, approx. 16 ct evenweave

Finished as a pillow. Not bad, for my first ever pillow!