Good Grief!

I can't believe that at least 1/2 the year has gone by and I have not blogged...wow
I still continued to stitch but I just wasn't blogging about it ...so sorry to all who actually like to hear me talk....( not my family lol)...
Well to catch you up like I said I actually did stitch but not a whole lot truthfully... I decided to take a break and go back to scrapping for awhile....
I rejoined my Scrap and _itch Club... Made contact with the other girls and fired them up.... yes I am the instigator in this group...lol..
It has been life sent... or mental sent??? I have something to brighten my week and in July we finished our first project.. it is a July 4th paper album...
We had started in June but the first 2 meetings went in catching up and gathering supplies... we met on Wednesdays and had to change to Fridays... We kept staying longer and longer and two members including the house owner worked the next day... Friday was a better fit... True I can't seem to get a job to save my life but then two other members lost their jobs...bummer... One luckily did find another but Debs and I are still unemployed... One of the reason I look forward to these meetings so I can forget about the problems... We now actually stop no earlier than 1:30am so you can almost call it a midnight crop ( I've been known to get home 2-3am with dh sleeping away and not any wiser lol)
Our second project is a yearly planner, it came out so beautiful... third project a flip flop album... still working on that one but it just needs the pictures and some bling....adorable...The owner of the house Nan just took off on an 18 day cruise so we are meeting at my house this Friday (gosh I gotta really move some stuff around to fit) and I guess next week someone else... Oh I forgot...for Labor day we decided the group needed a getaway so we went to Fort Myers Beach, one of the girls has a time share and had already booked it so my daughter and I joined them and we did a 12hr scrapathon...we were exhausted but really happy... I fell into a coma when I got home and saw my bed.. Dh just laughed. We will be working on putting the finishing touches on "Flip-Flop" and starting hopefully the new project... I think it an file folder project cause "teacher" asked to gather 4 folders or we will start our Halloween but that is not big so I am not sure...
Well that's my life away from stitching so far.. I have managed to work on my craft room and the closet is done, packed and unavailable...lol (I just can't seem to get rid of the stuff/crafts I no longer use..(I hear a garage sale coming up)
Followers / loyal friends thank you for listening..

Are there any scrappers among you... if so let me know.. ok now these are just a few pics I have on the computer still need to get the others but just so you get the idea..
this one is mine...as you can see not finished at this time...

Well friends adios till the next time..

My WIPS (just a few)

My Collection of Finished Pieces (just a few)

Welcome to my Blog

I would like to extend a welcome to all visitors to this blog. I enjoy knowing that my love of Art is interesting enough for you to visit me. I have always enjoyed most forms Arts....I have always been involved in one form or another...
I love color so from an early age my favorite Aunt Mary on her visits (which were not as often as I would like) inspired me by starting me off by teaching me to learn embroidery... she would help me make dolls dresses and then bring out her box of flosses... Beautiful rich colors, a little girls treasure trove and embroider each dress with simple flowers, hearts etc.... she also taught me the simple first steps to crocheting...again simple stitches but definitely my introduction to needlework...
Growing up I was always involved in one form or another with colors through my love of crafts.
I married became a mother of 3 (1 girl 2 boys) and used what I knew to crochet their first blankets, simple caps and booties... I made my daughter a beautiful crochet dress that I wish I still had.
My sons each had their goodies too. My love of Cross Stitching I think has been the one (besides collecting and making my own stuffed teddy bears) that fed that love of colors. So many designers love colors and use them in a variety of themes.
Here I will share with you my cross stitching projects, some ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) and some scrap booking.... I invite you to leave a comment on this post if you so choose... thank you for reading... enjoy

Coming along.. Still stitching..

I have not posted in a while that I have been stitching..but I have really.. Just to many interruptions in life that I preferred to wait till I actually had something to show. Unfortunately I still can't find my camera since Christmas even though I have searched everywhere.. really bummed.. It was a birthday present from my dh this last August and I just loved it.. Kodak, red ,lightweight, auto focus for these old tired eyes..*sigh* and worst if possible, all my Xmas pictures were there!.. :( anyway I can't post a pic yet but will have to borrow my dh's big chunky SLR..or have him do it as soon as he can.. hate to wait :(

I am stitching a birthday/valentine gift for my daughter in law (2-13-09). It is a small project so I should be finished maybe even this Fri's SAT.. because she does occasionally stops in I won't post till after the event..
I have overcome my constant migraine thou I still get headaches often just not severe..yippee. I guess I should get my eyes checked too since that could be a contributing factor.
On another subject dear to me..my dragons.. they have grown and moved on to breeding so I post the new babies..help them out by clicking on them..please..
I have received some really awesome awards and I am in the process of figuring out how to post the hyperlinks to the people who I want to pass on..(well all of you really) ..Thanks to the awesome friends that always seem to remember me..it means so much to me..




Thank you Wendy! Thank you Cindy F..for the beautiful awards. They do mean alot..


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..


Nana

Stitching Hiatus maybe over!

I did a little stitching finally on Friday's SAT..worked on "Witchie Poo and her siblings..Boy they have been annoyed but thank goodness they have kept it in their hats..Right now any strange noises or voices would have put me over the edge!
Headaches are manageable for now and some of the problems have been fixed (then new ones crop up!)..it really tweaks not having a job!

I have gotten such great encouragement from my buds here in cross-stitch land not to let myself get so down I don't stitch so I have given it a try.. So far so good. Thank you ladies I really appreciate your kind words..

I also have adopted some dragons from http://dragcave.net see them upper right and if you would like to do the same go there..:) or just click on image of dragon (well help each one by clicking on them :) please. (ok ok going thru 2nd childhood).
I love dragons and have a few designs in my stash.. I just love TW's mystical designs... though for now I will look for something simple, easy..
Too many WIPS to finish. And now with my daughter giving me her stash of magazines and leaflets (besides all the threads, fabrics etc) I have a gorgeous dragon with a castle.. don't remember the name right now..

Well need to get ready to go over my daughter's for the men's football fix.. I will probably take one of my small WIPS should we the ladies decide to be crafty..

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..

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!


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..