An Exchange, a WIP, and an RR

Yesterday... so exciting. Since I needed to mail off my UFO RR, and I was also finished with my Floss Tag exchange I thought... hmmm... quick trip to the post office to get these on their merry way. So, dropped my son off at climbing, which means I missed out on my climbing- but we have to make sacrifices for stitching, right?- and went off. To the post office, easy! Mail packages, again, easy! Get back in car to run second errand.... hmmm, here the difficulties start. Or, should I say don't start... As in the car not starting. Here I sit... Car won't start. Sounds like it isn't getting any gas, but I know I have 1/4 tank. I have about an hour to pick up my son. So, I call hubby.... did I mention that I left my cell phone at home? I had to hunt down a pay phone! He doesn't answer his phone. I start getting... worried. Hubby works a 30 min drive away, unless you add traffic, and there is always traffic, then it is an hour drive away, minimum. I leave a, rather frantic message... Then call back... twice. Second time he answers... YIPPIE!

In the end all worked out. Hubby comes to get me, we get the car started, and we pick up the kid from climbing... I think my car has a clogged fuel filter, or some such. Grrrr. Stupid car.

But, my packages got mailed on time!

And I have some pictures... not of the exchange until it gets to where it's going.

First, the UFO RR, it was Celtic Christmas. And this is what it looks like as I have sent it on. It has very pretty reds in it.



And then A Virtuous Huswif that I am working on for me. This one is nice in that there are no colour changes, which makes it a nice switch from my other project... which is all colour changes... but, I don't have a picture for that one right now.



The slip of paper is covering my full name, I just don't like having it, well, out there for any and all to have access to... call me paranoid. Sorry for the shadows on the stitching. I hope to finished the alphbet section this week.

what a time

well... I am done with a model that was sent to me. It was really really not my style so that made it very hard to work on. I pretty much thought it was ugly (so did my son and hubby)! But it is done now and off it will go in the mail today. Would have yesterday, but, no mail!

Then I spent a lot of time on the HAED SAL... and got NO WHERE! So much frogging! Can you really call it stitching when you do more frogging! Actaully I am a whole whopping 75 stitches ahead of where I was at the beginnning of the weekend. sigh. And to top it off... I park my stitched so I really shouldn't have had to frog that much at all, but, the evil aliens got into my stitching and created havoc! Now it is all fixed and I hope I can actually make some progress now when I work on her next time.

halloween exchange.... from me

I have heard that Lillie has the exchange I sent to her. So, I can show pictures of it now.



Whee! Pictures!

It was a fun stitch. It's from the Halloween issue of Just Cross Stitch. And I can see stitching a few more things from that issue.

small projects.

I saw this on Nicki's blog... and thought that it seemed like a good idea. I have a few "smalls" or not "bigs" that I need to get worked on. So, I made a list and did the whole random number genterater thing. I work on smalls when I need a break inbetween my bigs, my BAPS, and my models. So, these will be slow. But, with a plan I hope to make progress.

35 projects. The current one is bold.

Don't Bug Me (26)
Mother's Heart (35)
Flying Monkeys (12) Done
Dear Santa (32)
Coffee (6) Done
Tea (16) Done
Martini (24)
Scarlet Unspoken (34)
The Bookshelf (18)
Salem Sisters (2)Done
Rites of Spring (31)
Needles & Pins (9) Done
Cirque de Circles (5)Done
Tranquily Mystery Sampler (15) Done
All our Troubles (28)
Scatter Freedom (7) Done
Winter in the Square (29)
Spring in the Square (11) Done
Summer in the Square (27)
Autumn in the Square (22)
A Virtuous Huswif (1) Done
"B" is for Bunny (8) Done
Curly Q Ewe (30)
Bless our Home (3) Done
Baubbles June (13) Done
Daffodils (20)
Be Mine Valentine (21)
Florintine Floral (10) Done
Winter Floral Sampler (23)
Seasons of Change Row (17) Done
Blessings & Kind Wishes (19)
Beyond My Heart (4)Done
New Year's Fairy (14)Done
Halloween Fairy (33)
Quaker Turtles (25)

added in:
Delivering Needleworks
Witchy
Keepsake Box and Pinkeep
Flower Power December
Ode to Snow
Morning Glory
Two Hearts
Small Token
Pink Hare Sampler
Pere Noel Charmant
Hide and Seek
Beach Cottage
Medieval Mermaid
Miss Mary Mac's Pins and Needles
The Witch's Hat
Jenny Bean's Halloween Sampler

Some of these already have some work into the... so some should be considered WIPs. I just chucked all of them into the mix though and tossed them into the same pot.

I still have some new charts coming in... i.e. the blackbird loose feathers, and a chart of the month thing... there are kitted and sent to me. Not sure how I will add these to the list... maybe just pop them in at the end? I don't know yet.

First post today.

Halloween exchange from Terry. And is it lovely! I just love this pinkeep... the ghosty in the chimney is too cute. And I have to say that the tree is the best ever!

goals goals goals

Septmber goals.

-HOE Prairie Schooler exchange Done and sent
-Tranquility Mystery Sampler (try for two pages) Nope
-HAED SAL Done!
- HOE Halloween exchange - find something to stitch Done... and sent
- finish last model and mail off Yup!

All in all not too bad.

October goals.

- UFO RR. finish stitching time on this
- HAED SAL
- Floss tag Exchange
- bring out an old WIP to work on
- Tranquility Mystery Sampler. 2 pages
- X-mas exchange?

That should keep me well busy and out of trouble.