Weekend Stitching and a Finish

Friday morning I went downstairs and had one of those moments when I wish I had a camera but didn't. Our yahoo neighbors have stacked a lot of junk on their back deck including one of those tall, expensive cat trees which is getting ruined by the rain. This morning when I looked out there were squirrels on it looking so cute.

I'm cooking again tonight because we are all bored with the same old things. Lately I've been trying new and different recipes which has been fun. I get so frustrated at our local grocery store when I try to find ingredients though. Tonight's chicken pot pie uses Campbell's condensed potato soup. Our store had what seemed like a dozen different versions of chicken noodle, each with a different character shaped noodle but not basic potato by Campbell's or any other brand. It's that way with a number of foods. The variety isn't the flavor of the food but what character it is. I finally found the soup at a store I don't care for but they had the red Whitman's tins I wanted so it was worth the trip.



For the Friday night SAT at Let's Stitch I worked on Woolly Tyme again. I completed all the stitching last night and did the finishing this morning. I don't have very many of his blankets left to stitch and then I'll have something different to display every month.

Today I worked on Sea to Shining Sea. The house and water are finished and I have all but a tiny bit of the greenery/vines done. All that's left is the palm tree, sun and the flowers on the vines. I got a bill from the ONS for the next part today so I'll be watching for it in my mailbox soon.

Finally Finished

I've been finishing things all week and mailed out two exchanges. This afternoon I plan to finish my witch so I can display her before Halloween.


Cthulu with his very on Ia! Ia! biscornu.


Halloween ornaments!


Will's birthday present arrived and I went ahead and gave it to him now while he has a week off from work to play with it. It's one of the Mars Mission sets from Lego that was an incredible bargain on the Lego site. Proof you never outgrow Lego.

Thank you and Updates

I'd like to start this post by saying thank you so much to all the kind people who wrote such nice comments on my previous post about Min. I appreciate all your kind words and thoughts. Min had lung cancer just like my dad who we lost several years ago which is probably why it upset me so much.

Last week I took a break from stitching and blogging. I read A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce. I've loved fairytales ever since I was a little girl and I really enjoyed reading this retelling of Rumplestitskin.




I did have a nice surprise in the mail this week. I received my Stitching Bloggers Birthday Club package from Natty. I just love all the beautiful purple things she sent me and the biscornu she stitched for me is lovely.



I finished a couple of things at the end of February to share. Above is Kitty Cottage Sampler from LHN on Sassy's kitty footprint fabric. Below is Woolly Tyme's March blanket from Homespun Elegance.



When I downloaded the photos from my camera I found several I forgot about of Koko pestering Callie. Koko can not resist catching the other cat's tails which annoys them so much. They always end up swatting him and putting him in his place but he never learns.