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What a tiring week I have had. This week was my turn to co-lead our offices three day drug and alcohol education class. Many of the students are in trouble because of their use and it makes for three long intense days. I usually come home for a nappy afterwards. I did manage to get some stitching done though:). Early in the week I finished up my two ornament exchanges. I am quite pleased with how they both ended up.

On Wednesday night, I pulled out my supplies for Bordeaux Sampler. Earlier in the year, Carol turned me on to this pattern I believe was an exclusive at the Vikki Clayton silk website. I purchased the pattern, silk and fabbie a long time ago, but waited until I finished Woodland Fairy to start it. I will be stitching this along with Carol and Anne, but they are a good bit ahead of me. It uses Taro Leaf, Malt and Diane's Roughe VC silks and I am stitching it on 40 Count Vintage Magnolia linen from Lakeside Linen. I really love this color and am now glad that I accidentally ended up with two pieces of it. I am excited to find something pretty to use the other piece for. Maybe my Carriage House Samplings Alphabet. This is my first time stitching on 40 count. It actually isn't too bad...but I haven't hit the over one pieces yet:). Here is the minimal progress my sleepy self made on Wednesday. I am not sure why the pic is so blurry. It doesn't look that way on the camera.















And I also had some great stitching mail this week. In the pic below is an adorable ornie from Cathy(left) and a lovely pinkeep from Renee (right). Both are just stunning and were accompanied by some wonderful extras. Cathy included LHN's House of a Needleworker chart and Renee gifted me with a piece of her own handdyed fabbie. Thanks ladies...you are both so generous and helped me kick the holiday season off to a great start!

Autumn Exchange and Kitty Pcis

Last week I received a lovely package in the mail. It was my Autumn Exchange from Kath. She stitched me a beautiful pumpkin she made into a flat fold and sewed a stunning tote bag. Kath is also going to be kind enough to send me instructions on making the tote. Allen and I sat staring at it for a while the other day trying to figure it out:) Aren't the colors lovely and just perfect for fall. Kath also included some cute autumn napkins and fall colored DMC floss:) Thanks Kath!!!















And now for some kitty pics...unfortunatly the best one is hard to see. Thursday I came home from work and could not find either of my kitties. Neither one was in their more obvious afternoon nappy spots. When I went into our bedroom to change into my jammies for the night, I noticed the comforter I had folded on the floor had unfolded itself a bit. Upon closer inspection, I found that Cooper had made himself a nest in it. This is as close as I could get without scaring him off. Unfortunately he is a black cat sleeping in a black blanket. If you look really hard at the end by the stand fan and mirror, you can two greyish little circle...those are his ears:)














When I got a bit closer he ran off, but I took a pic of the hole he had made for himself. He was all cute and cuddly:)















I have been stitching this week. I worked on Woodland Fairy, M9 and started Christmas at the Seashore by By the Bay. I hope to post progress pics later this weekend:)

Autumn Exchange

Just a quick post to share the Autumn Exchange I stitched for Chris. This is the first time that I have machine sewn a needlework piece. I really had fun with it and I am glad that I have my sewing maching. As I finished this one, I also did much of the finishing on my Garden piece from severl months ago. I should have a pic of that one this weekend.

Here is my Autumn pillow....


I really like the fabric i used for the finish. I am going to have to do another fall piece for myself with it.

Exchanges and RRs

So, while I was at CATS, I spent some time working on Christine's Round Robin. She asked us to stitch a set of seasonal hearts. I chose to stitch the winter heart in a nice pale blue. It reminds me of how cold winter can be and the blue glare you get off of the snow some times. Here is my progress so far. I should have it done this coming weeknd.














While I was away, I also got a special package in the mail from Sylvie. She stitched us a lovely black cat wallhanging. It is all done over one and is absolutely stunning. She also made me a cute stuffed kitty and sent a ball and catnip mouse for the cats:) Thank you so much Sylvie. I love the gift:)!!!

Redwork Exchange

Just a quick post to show off my Redwork Exchange. Anne in Australia received my exchange today. I am very excited! I really hope she liked it as I had a blast stitching it!

Redwork Exchange

Just a quick post to show off my Redwork Exchange. Anne in Australia received my exchange today. I am very excited! I really hope she liked it as I had a blast stitching it!

Cooper and the Couch

For some reason I didn't feel like doing a ton of stitching this week. I focused most of my time on my Crazy Cat Lady Exchange. I finished the stitching tonight and hope to finish the finishing of it tomorrow.

This weekend is Allen's brother's wedding. We have a bunch of free time on Saturday, so I will be bringing my Autumn Exchange, Christmas Fairy and Christine's RR. Hopefully I will get a lot done while Allen does his homework. I will be away until monday.

I shall leave you with some sweet pics of my Cooper Cat...





Sleepy Cooper hugging the back of the couch.















Why are you bugging me while I am hugging the couch? I am a very busy cat and the couch needs my full attention.












Please go away. You are disturbing my sleep. I will beat you with my kungfoo paws of death if you do not go away.



What a cutie!!

A Weekend of Stitching

It has been a good stitching weekend. Friday night, Allen had a couple of friends over for dinner and cartoon watching. I spent my evening watching The Venture Brothers with the guys and finished all of the charted stitching on Brotherly Love. All I need to do now is add the names and birthdays of my friend's little boys. I will go ahead and wait until the baby arrives to complete it.















After finishing Brotherly Love, it was on to put some time in on Mystery 9. I really want to catch up after falling a bit behind last month. I am still not sure it is possible as those silly artichokes take so long. I am totally done with the stitching for parts 8 and 9 on half of the piece and got a good start of part8 on a third corner. Hopefully, I will be almost done with that artichoke tonight.















And in exchange news, I received my Redwork Exchange from Ashleigh on Friday. She stitched a lovely quaker design and finished it as a photo album. I am thinking about using this as an album for pics of my stitching, particularly those things I give as gifts. Thanks again Ashleigh!!