There be Dragons here!

Ok, it's a rip off the Star Trek Movie,"The Voyage Home" said by Scotty, (he said whales though..:)

I logged in today and saw I had one of the dragon eggs hatch today..on the top right corner.. Isn't he cute? lol.. I guess I am a proud mama and will find a dragon xstitch to honor them...lol His/her siblings need your help so kindly click on each one ok?

Well other than a decreasing amount of bouts with migraines, my dragons and two very sweet bloggers have honored me with some awards. Unfortunately I am still having trouble with the set up.. so for now I will show you the awards and then if someone takes pity on me and goes over the rules again and the posting of sites steps I will do my best to play fair.

This one was from Wendy from Belguim:



and this one from my BFF Cindy F from Texas:





Aren't they the sweetest? Definitely raised my flagging spirits.

Everything else is pretty much the same but I will not go into again..enough!

Tonight is SAT on Let's Stitch and I hope I will be in the stitching mood, it has been difficult to concentrate for long.
I will check in a little while, about the only thing I have done is post to a few who have had a new finish and visited a few friends. Gotta get my mojo back!


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Not a Great Begining for 2009

This is a really late posting for the year but it looks like the year did not start as good as I thought it would.
Yes, I did spend time with my kids, who were ill, so we kindda passed it along...you know share and share..lol then I couldn't stand my dying tree and decided it had to go so I worked all weekend getting all the ornaments into bins... it seemed to me I had more of them then when I started!...
Meanwhile I received a notice from my mortgage company that my premium had gone up over $ 600.00 dollars! a month ..that was Saturday. Well, migraine city here I came.. blood pressure high, heartburn, (maybe ulcers who knows), besides all the joint pains from all the heavy lifting and fetching and carrying..cleaning and sorting and so forth... I was already suppose to be bed bound so I guess I just managed to prolong it... :( .. I lost my car a few months ago and of course they sold it for less( don't they always) so now I get a letter that I owe $9,400. dollars the balance of what I owed and minus what they sold it for... if my head didn't hurt so bad I'd laugh..
I finally had a little good news today Wednesday....seems the insurance company double billed and the mortgage double paid and that is what cause the extreme hike.. My agent stated they will be sending me a check for over $ 3,000.00 that I can send to the mortgage company into my escrow account and I spoke to them and they will fix and reevaluate and hopefully no change but I know that there will always is a change even it's a few dollars they never lose...
Gosh.. what a way to start the year...
I haven't even been able to pick up a project to stitch since Friday's SAT and am so not into anything just yet, just want to take a sleeping pill if I had one and forget it all.

Sorry didn't mean to vent but had to get it out and didn't want to let the family see me so down.

Say listen do me a favor I don't know if I am suppose to ask but see my baby eggs up top, they are little dragons and they have only a short time left to live and I need to have you click 1 time on each so they can hatch.. will you help out...gosh I hope I didn't break a rule and get them taken away..

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Adieu 2008

As we say Good-bye to 2008 let us remember all the wonderful things we have and we have gained and we have shared.
I for one have a wonderful loving family, I have gained thru the blog world new loving, caring friends and shared many encouraging words and receiving even more.
This will be my last blog post for this year...wow what an experience it has been and to think I fought it for so long.. I felt it was for kids and dating couples or for business etc.. never really took the time to really look into it until I was looking for a particular craft idea/problem to solve and decided to look into cross stitching and viola.. my eyes were opened..the lights were turned on...lol.. I joined my first blog "Let's Stitch" which encouraged me to continue with something I had thought I would never be able to do again... Through many wonderful ladies who just gave such encouragemnt I took up the needle and slowly fought the pain and said 'Yes I can, Yes I will"... Yes, I continue to have many bad days but when I finish a project and the those beautiful words start pouring in I just forget those days and bask in the warmth the words give.
Mushy? yeah but ah so true..
I want to especially give thanks to one dear friend I met named Cindy Fong from Texas who I secretly think is my younger sister-clone or ? we just seem to hit it off right from the start. We like the same things, we seem to be thinking about the same thing around the same time..we somethings can almost finish each others thoughts, spooky huh.. She is just the bestest BFF ever...

Well not to delay this any longer, time to get festive around here, kids coming over. I want to wish each and every one of you a wonderful and safe New Year with your love ones... Thank you for being part of my life, for knowing you has enriched mine. Here is to a great 2009 and to many more stitching projects ahead..
Let's continue to share them.. (I have some new ones that my daughter gave me, wait to you see...but not now wait til next year...lol)
To all my loyal followers THANK YOU it means a lot to me to know you care enough to return each time.
As always, thank you for stopping by and please leave your comments since they are the only way I will know you have stopped and shared with me...after all they are the footprints of where you have been and ...I really love them..

New Finish Yo Ho Ho Ho Pirate Santa

Hi Everyone
Just a quick note hoping everyone had a great holiday...I sure did with my family...but then I always have a great time whenever I can spend time with them.
We ate, we laugh and we shared...a little too much...my son was sick but we insisted he join us so he shared his cold..lol.. next day my daughter wasn't feeling well and neither was I so everyone stayed home....:( .. I ended up with exhaustion and elevated blood pressure that caused severe swollen legs (sorry to be so graphic) and have been bed ridden ever since (good time for stitching...lol) I barely made it to Friday SAT..but I did stitch for a few hours and worked on Witchie Poo and a little on Earthdancer... As soon as I find my camera, it's gotta be among the boxes and wrappings I will download the pictures of the finished xstitch gifts I made for my kids.. I took this one and had downloaded before I did the final finish so I am showing you a before wrapping. What I finally did was insert it in a little jewelry box and gave the pink to my daughter in law (her favorite color), blue to my daughter (her favorite)..with little bracelets in side..was going to make earrings to match but no time...the Michael Powell tree to my son...Rudolph to my grandson..besides their other gifts then of course the rest of the gang got their store bought regular gifts.
this is actually the pink but it is washed out..sorry..

Well gotta go.. headache is among us..time to do some shut eye in darkville..

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The Tree Progress

Wow I actually stitched 6 hours straight last night during the SAT with only the one necessary pitstop...even did without food! I am very pleased with my progress.
This design is so whimsical that I just love it and am looking forward to doing another of Michael Powell's cute designs.
I quit at 12:30am and crashed into bed, got up early for a work meeting.. then came home and after finally eating something did a little decorating around the house.. I am now going to quit since it is almost time to take everything down again...lol.. truthfully though I tend to leave everything up til the start of New Year so will really see lots of glowing lights for a while (will keep me inspired for any Xmas project I don't get to finish, good head start for next year...:)
Here is my tree..what do you think?



Will be a little sad to see it go but since it's for the kids I know I will see it again and again.. I know too that I will eventually make one for my self..

My daughter stopped by this afternoon and I had to scramble to hide my Rudolph and Tree and take out another project quickly... close call.

After they left the house was quieter and I gotta tell you I had a little bit of a fright. I was hearing a little bit of a noise but I couldn't distinguish what it was exactly and asked my husband but he couldn't tell.. I thought maybe it was from outside so I didn't give it much thought anymore..kids I figured. My husband was watching TV-sports (what else) and then fell asleep so I turned the sound down and decided to go back to my stitching for a while... no sooner had I taken my project out that I started to hear the sound again..eerie...this time it was like a voice I thought then maybe two voices.. I strained my ears to listen but still couldn't make out the words or where they were coming from.. I was getting curious and just a tad freaked out.. I searched the house going room to room.. nothing there but as I got closer to my favorite chair (cross stitch spot)I could again hear it..now I could tell they were voices..I felt a chill, I knew those voices..I got closer and leaned down to hear.. "Well, she really did turned out to be a fickle friend" one said..I was indignant.. they could not be talking about me, could they?.. "And after all we have been together, she treats us like this!" said the other voice, I knew it was the older of the two..... "And remember how she was besides her self when she was stuck and that wonderful new friend came to her rescue?" ... said the youngest..my cheeks burned..they WERE talking about me.. I was so embarrassed but confused what had I done to them..surely they understood what had happened? they were my friends and I felt that would know that I would never forget them and just because we had not been able to spend some time together it was due to time... I thought about my new friend..she had been there for me .. did she too think I had abandoned the others? Surely not..we talked all the time and she knew what I was doing, my schedule and she was always caring and constantly encouraging...
Wow, I started to laugh for it was my conscience talking...in the form of "Witchie Poo and her Sister"..so I uncovered them and apologized, made all the right ohhs and ahhs of how well they were holding up and promised that as soon as the holidays were over I would be with them again..pinkie swear.... My goodness they may be green in the face but I swear I saw some pleased as punch pink cheeks... It may not be New Year's yet but I have made one resolution and that is to return to dear friends (new and old, real and stitched ones) and share the new year...together. The sister's and I have toasted to it!!

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Hi everyone ...still going around Xmas shopping? Yeah me too!
Though they are small and inexpensive gifts it is still a chore to go to the mall!!
Anyway I just want to update everyone on my xstitch "Tree" progress. I managed to work a little last night and I will be stitching with the group on "Let's Stitch" for our usual SAT for Friday nights.
Hopefully I will get this finish very very soon as I have one more design to stitch for Xmas.. The pressure is on..! lol.
Here is Michael Powell "Tree" design for 2008..


Okay off to my SAT..

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Whew Rudolph with Black Nose is Finished!

I really don't know why I called him Rudolph..it was the first name that popped into my head I guess.. but whatever his name, he is finished!



"Light Up Your Life" Freebie
Design by : Sandra Parlow
Used 3ply of
DMC floss colors recommended..
Fabric 10ct Aida - White

I did change the thread for the lights, instead of Kreinik green and red, since I only had the red when I searched my two LNS (Joann's and Michaels) they were non existent. But I did find DMC Jewel Effects..Beautiful but oh so difficult when the thread is short and 1/4 stitches are used..mama mia..will certainly use again but will choose my design wisely.. I think it came out pretty good though.
Thought I would make 2 but no time I think ( I am gonna have to do one for me eventually)
Also changed the wording to "You Light Up My Life" since it's for my kids.
I should have used 4 ply of floss for the design itself but ...oh well.

I also started a Michael Powell Design..Xmas Tree.. I love his wacky designs and will eventually do one of his houses.. Love his website "Michael Powell Cross Stitch Art" at http://www.michaelpowellart.co.uk/



As always, thank you for stopping by and please leave your comments since they are the only way I will know you have stopped and shared with me...after all they are the footprints of where you have been and ...I really love them..