Okay, here is my first ornament for 2007. Now, don't get confused into thinking this is the only ornament I've done, it's just the first for 2007. I have a brass shaped tree that has 3 finished and hanging on it already, and a whole stack in my "needs to be finished" finishes just waiting to be stuffed and be-ribboned. This one came from The Sampler Girl and is a freebie. I stitched it on the leftover fabric from the tail end of Irish Coffee, hehehe. Sorry to say, the fabbie didn't come with an identifier but I can tell you it's an evenweave, cream colored.

It's been a busy weekend here for me. My daughter's room is getting a makeover, and since we can't paint the walls (rented house) we are completely re-doing her furniture. When she went from crib to big-girl-bed, having completely skipped the whole toddler bed thing, we bought her a plain white dresser and a princess style twin bed. The bed was older, and the orignally white paint and polyurethane coating have yellowed. Well, the last time we moved she traded in her little kid bedspread for a big kid bedspread. It has bright colors, groovy circles and five-petal flowers on it. So, I dragged her matching pillow sham into Home Depot and used their machine to match some paint colors and away we've gone. The formerly plain white dresser is now lime green with knobs in yellow, purple, bright blue and orange. The bed, which will get done this weekend, will be a darker shade of pink to offset the lighter pink background on the bedspread. New curtains were hung, in bright blue with sequins on top. We've acquired a disco ball and lava lamp to help with the 'groovy' look, and also a mobile style lamp with pink mother-of-pearl type circles hanging from it over her reading chair, which is dark pink. It's really coming together and she's quite pleased with the look so far.

Today begins another week of back-and-forth to school, broken up by intermittent boughts of laundary and housecleaning. Hubby has one more free weekend before his next cycle starts and he's working 12 hour days again for two weeks. We're going to try and squeeze in more sightseeting and attempt to track down some blooming desert wildflowers. On our last trip to Tucson we saw saguaro cactus blooms on a few of these majestic cactus!

Welcome

Welcome to my blog. I have no idea what I'm doing here, so this will be a learning process for me. I hope I have the patience to stick with it! Pictured to the left is my latest stitching finish. It's a little freebie I found on another blog, that had a been finished into a pinkeep. Since I can't start any day without coffee, I thought it an appropriate stitch for me. It's from The Sampler Girl, and I did change the colorway to match my kitchen.

I stitch alot for my daughter, who likes bright colors and groovy, girly designs. She loves purses, handbags, and perfume bottles. I have stitched them all for her! She seems to always want them to be made into pillows, and has so many there is almost no room for her in the bed.

I'm finished stitching bigger pieces for the time being, and am concentrating on Christmas ornaments. You see, we threw out our old tree last year as it had become quite old and feeble. My husband in active duty military, which means we move around alot, which apparently is hard on a fake tree. LOL So, we are getting a new one this year and since we have 10' vaulted ceilings, we can get a big one, and I'm going to need more ornaments. Originally, I wanted two trees, but since we are in a smaller house one is all we need for now. So, I hope to be showing more smaller finishes very soon.