Is Christmas here yet?

I was SO stressed when I got home from work yesterday!  Worrying about getting the food for Christmas Eve dinner, not knowing WHAT to get my dad for Christmas.  Luckily DH and I went grocery shopping and it was not too crowded and he offered to go look for something for Dad today since DH is off and I am working.  That helped!  It's going to be a different Christmas this year as my brother and his family cannot come to our house Christmas afternoon. So we are having my parents over Christmas Eve, and on Christmas day in the later afternoon we will go to DH's sisters house. It should be fun with all her kids and grandkids.

Our Christmas tree looked a little strange the other day! I noticed the lights at the very top were super bright!  DH said they would probably burn out soon and he was right...they did.  So the top 18" of our 9 foot tree has no lights!  Oh well what can you do at this point! I don't even think we have replacement bulbs since the tree is on its seventh Christmas.  No one will be looking at the top anyway...just the presents under it!

Wishing all of you a very Happy Holiday season, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year!!

Yeah! Dr. Appts. Done for the year!

Finally had my last doctor's appointment for 2011.  All tests were good so everything looks like we are on the right track since I am now 50!  So glad to have everything done!

And how is everyone doing with their Christmas shopping/wrapping/baking?  I just have to get something for my dad....we were going to get one thing, and now he won't have the item it goes with since he is getting rid of it so we have to think of something else!  Done with DH and DS shopping and wrapping though, but I can always think of more things to get! 

At work today we have a holiday luncheon across the street at a nice party center that has wonderful food so I will be stuffing myself!  HA...another good reason to be done with the doctor appointment yesterday...don't have to weigh in after the luncheon! 

DH is off the rest of this week and then we are both off next week so I am looking forward to that.  He will probably be doing his shopping this week...that is what he usually does!

I pulled the threads to stitch Lizzie Kate's HOHOHO on the light blue linen so I hope to be awake enough tonight to start that!

Have a great day!

A finish finally!

I finally finished up Haunted Holler last night during the football game!

Also I wanted to share a picture of a Mirabilia I finished quite awhile ago.  She is still hanging in the closet unframed though :-( .  Someday!

Christmas is 11 days away!

Everyday our son gives us the Christmas Countdown!

Not much new here except for trying to get gifts wrapped. No baking done yet since I am still trying to figure out how to use my new stove/oven (see the day after Thanksgiving post to see why I had to get a new oven!).

My friend Wendy at  http://wentostitch.blogspot.com/ was saying she was thinking about making a list of cross stitch projects to work on next year and I think its a great idea.  Maybe it will keep me motivated!

Ok expert blog friends....how do I make Wendy's name the link to her blog?

Still here!

I am still here! Just busy with work, and end of the year doctors appointments, and getting ready for Christmas!  Slowly finishing Haunted Holler. I just have the house to finish filling in.

Got five presents wrapped this morning. I found that wrapping on kitchen island is the best spot!  A little higher than a table, and easier on the back.  Tree is up and hoping to make some cookies this weekend.

Pinterest

OMG Pinterest is a HUGE Time Sucker!

That is all!

Winner...

Patty is the winner by default since she is the only one who replied on my giveaway post!  Patty I sent you a message asking for mailing info.

Stitched some this weekend on Haunted Holler. Just have the tree to finish then I am itching to get to some Lizzie Kate holiday pieces!

My good friend Laurel went into labor this morning. 20 days early.  Please say a prayer that her labor is quick and delivery safe!

Giveaway!

I decided to have a giveaway!  I have a little kit from Katidid Designs of an Oak Leaf in pretty fall colors. It includes the linen and threads needed. I can't find a picture of it online, but I think that is because it was a special kit sold during last years North Coast Tour De Stitch. 

All you have to do to participate is become a follower of my blog and leave a comment ON THIS POST letting me know that you are!  I will use the random number generator thingie to choose a winner.  Entries accepted until Friday night (11/18) at 9pm.

Busy couple days....

Well DH ended up in the hospital but everything is now checking out OK so we are back home again.  I really dislike hospitals for one big thing...the SMELL!  Yuck!  They need to Febreze or something!

I did go to Crafty Ewe on Saturday (before DH's hospital stay).  Got the Amber linen for 6 Fat Men, and most of the specialty threads too.  I also picked up another Little House Needleworks ornament (the one with two snowmen).

Not much else going on...I think I failed the post every day in November ... oops!

Snow!

We got our first snow during the night! It is pretty much just on the grass, about a 1/2" or so!  It is supposed to be in the 60's this weekend so it won't last, but this is late for us.  We normally get a good bit of snow here on the shores of Lake Erie!  Mostly it comes in January/February though.  They are predicting 150 inches for us over this season.  Ugh!  I like it around Christmas, but that's it!

Working half a day today and then taking DH for a medical procedure.  Please say a prayer for him because his heart does not like anesthesia...it tends to go to an irregular heartbeat.  We are hoping this time it won't!

I am hoping to go to The Crafty Ewe this weekend.  I remembered I still have a $50 gift certificate that I got last Christmas.  So I figured I would go get the last three of Lizzie Kate's Six Fat Men, and some fabric! 

Thursday....and I have to get better at titles....

Wow I have such a hard time coming up with titles for these daily posts!  I will have to try and get better at that.

Feeling so-so since I started eating again.  I am sure after being SO empty, the system needs to get back in the swing of things once food is re-introduced.

I got my stash in the mail!  The LK HOHOHO!  That Morris Blue linen is SOOO pretty!  I can't wait to start it, probably this weekend.  I did stitch more yesterday and today on Haunted Holler which I am still loving!

Tomorrow is 11-11-11.  I read that people are flocking to Las Vegas to get married tomorrow so they have 11-11-11 for their anniversary date! That is pretty funny!  We were married 8-8-81, and people kept telling us we should have waited until 8-8-88!  Seven year...I don't think so!

Hope everyone has a great day and I want to say THANK YOU to Carol for commenting on my blog! I love her blog and am thrilled that she is reading mine, boring as it is!! 

I'm back!

I am back now that I am no longer loopy from the wonderful drugs they give you for colonoscopies!!  It was a breeze and I don't have to go back for TEN YEARS!  Woo-hoo!!

Didn't do any stitching last night because I kept falling asleep from the medications, but plan to get a lot done the rest of this week!

I did order some STASH though!  That new Lizzie Kate HOHOHO and the specialty threads for it since I didn't have those and the blue linen for it too!  They should be arriving today or tomorrow!  Have to stalk the mailbox!

D-Day....or should I call it C-Day?

Today is colonoscopy day.  Have to drink another 32 ounces of the lovely prep stuff in about an hour.  I am SOOOO hungry since I have had no solid food since Sunday evening.  My great fear now will be getting there and the doctor saying "oh not clean enough" even though I followed their directions to the letter and drank every bit of the yukky stuff!!  Keep your fingers crossed that it turns out 'clean as a whistle'!

Monday.....

Ugh another Monday...how do they roll around so fast?

Got a good bit of stitching done on Haunted Holler...its going fast!  Kind of nice to be using plain old DMC floss too. No worries about varigation and stuff!

Will post a WIP picture soon!

A sunny Sunday

Beautiful sunny day here today! I think it's about 62 degrees too. Ran to the grocery store and back to watch the football game and make some chicken soup. Tomorrow should be interesting...have to do a clear liquid diet and prep for Tuesdays colonoscopy. Oh the joys of turning 50....

Saturday...

a very cold sunny Saturday!  Got to sleep in a bit which was really nice (we normally get up around 4:30am during the week).

Don't forget to turn your clocks BACK an hour tonight when you go to bed (well for those whose area does the daylight savings time thing).  Personally I love the turn back except in a few weeks coming home from work in the dark will start being not fun!

No stitching last night, just too tired.  Watched some of the TV shows we DVR'ed.  Grimm, Whitney and Modern Family.  We laughed SO hard at Whitney...great show!!

Happy Friday!

Phew..didn't think Friday would ever get here!  But it did!  It was SO dark at 7:30am this morning.  This weekend we move the clocks back an hour so maybe it will be lighter in the morning? but then it will be dark at 5pm.  I told DH to expect to see me in my jammies around 6pm going forward! LOL!

Started stitching Haunted Holler this morning.  I pulled some 28 count platinum lugana for it, and it uses six DMC colors that I amazingly had!  I think it will be a quick stitch.

Any big weekend plans? Weather is supposed to be sunny and 60 or so here so we might go to Chagrin Falls to check out the color of the trees and leaves!

Have a great weekend!

Ok decided what I am going to stitch next....

and it is not either of the two I posted yesterday!  Found this in my box of goodies and decided since it only takes like six colors of DMC I will do this!

Oh boy....Post Every day month??

I just read about posting every day in November!  I guess I will have to give it a try, but I don't think I have that much to say!!

The weather is BEAUTIFUL here today.  65 and sunny!  Guess we better enjoy it while we can.  Some years we have already had snow by now! I would be happy if we just got snow the two weeks over Christmas and that was it! But we usually get the majority of ours in Jan/Feb and early March.  They are predicting 150 inches for us this winter (not all at once of course!)

I cannot decide what to stitch next. I was going to stitch Prairie Moon's Toil and Trouble but now that Halloween is over I am not so sure.

Maybe I should start this Lizzie Kate 2011 Santa instead:

What do you think?

Oh I do have a question for you experienced bloggers....how can I get my blog to show on other people's blog lists on the side of their blog?  Is there something in my settings I need to enable?  Thanks!

Also, check out the giveaway on the Hanging by a Thread blog! http://pccrafty.blogspot.com/2011/11/giveaway-x-2.html

Phew!!!

So Halloween is over!  We had 334 trick or treaters!  Our neighbors REALLY get into Halloween, so here is a picture of what was next door (before it got dark!)  The scary ones would lay on the grass and wait for kids to come and then jump up and scare the bejeezus out of them!  It was the talk of the 'hood .... "that scary clown house"!