Oh my gosh I just realized I didn't give the birds their legs! Ooops! I'll have to go back and stitch those before I forget again. :-)
I plan to make this into a cushion to display for the holidays next year. It might be difficult to find just the right backing fabric now, but I'll be on the lookout. Maybe I'll have to go shopping in my mom's fabric stash.
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Next is Preamble Sampler. I'm don't know what's holding me up on this one, other than I really don't like to stitch words. It's really beautiful though and I'm hoping to get this one finished in 2009.
Last is Mere Noel. I started this one last week and I love it. I'm out of 221 (actually my mom is because I borrowed what you see from her). Bill is going to pick up some for me today when he goes out so this one should be finished before too long.
On that note - Bill said he would stop and get my floss for me if my list wouldn't embarrass him. I asked him how I could possibly embarrass him at JoAnn's and he said by having him pick up only 3 skeins of floss. !!! I really only need one, but now I'll have to create a bigger list so he won't be embarrassed. Yay!
Cheese enjoyed his presents and spent most of the day with his new Nintendo DS.
The best part about Christmas was that my whole family was together. For reasons I won't get into, our relationship with my niece and nephews has been fragile over the last few years. Things have improved and all three of them were able to join us for Christmas dinner. I sincerely hope this is the first step toward mending the ties between us. I've missed them terribly and I've vowed to do my part in keeping in touch with them.
The day after Christmas I didn't feel too well. I thought it was just a cold, but it turned into something more. I've been on the couch all week trying not to cough. I did go to the doctor on Monday, but I think I'm allergic to the antibiotics he gave me. I had huge plans to finish Cheese's bedroom this week, but I've done absolutely nothing. I'm still coughing quite a bit and if it doesn't slow down by Monday, I'll go back to the doc.
I have been stitching in between coughing spells and naps. I'm hoping to do more today and tomorrow before I share a pciture.
I'll leave you with two pictures of the cats. Shadow crawled in this bag and stuck his head through the handle. It's a cute picture and I did get him out and put the bag away before he got himself caught in there. Libby was enjoying the festivities, waiting for a stray piece of ribbon or a bow to play with.
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Cheese had his winter concert tonight. I made him pose for several pictures because he doesn't get to dress up too often.
Tomorrow I have the day off and my mom and I are going shopping. I hope to get most of the rest of my shopping done so I can enjoy the season. Tomorrow also is the anniversary of the death of my best friend Lori. I always take the day off and do something fun and try to remember the fun times I had with Lori and what a great spirit she had. Godspeed, my friend.Hug your loved ones and enjoy your family and friends each and every time you see them.
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Yesterday I started Holly and Berries by LHN and I'm loving every stitch. Maybe I'll have a progress picture soon. 
For the first time, Cheese decided he wanted to go trick or treating with a group of friends without me. I was ok with that because it was a good group of kids. Here's a pic of him and one of the boys before they left the house. Cheese is the "Scream Reaper" - he actually had a pump that pumped fake blood through his mask. He loved it!
Last week Cheese's new bed was delivered. It's huge! It's a full sized captain's bed with a storage cabinet underneath that is removeable. He decided he wants to change bedrooms so for the past few weekends I've been stripping wallpaper and scraping paint off the trim. My brother is so kind to skim coat the walls for me to prep them for paint. Cheese chose a very dark green with a lighter shade for one of the walls. There's still quite a bit more work to do and I have to choose carpet and schedule it to be installed. I'm hoping to have everything complete and moved in before Thanksgiving. I'm going to tackle the upstairs hallway next.Thanks for visiting and catching up with us!
Little House Needleworks
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1 year old
Kindergarten Graduation
Age 7 with Champ
Moon and Stars
I spent this weekend doing next to nothing because I've done something to my back. I had grand plans of finishing the painting in Cheese's room, but it wasn't to be. I have been stitching an ornament for an exchange on one of the message boards. It's not finished yet and I'm a bit nervous about the whole thing. My pal is such a talented stitcher and I afraid my stitching pales in comparison to hers. I gave it my best shot though and stitched this piece from JCS Ornament preview magazine. It is CCN's Silver and Blue, although mine is gold and blue over one on 28 count linen. I will finish it into a little pillow with complimentary blue fabric on the back. I'll post more photos when it is finished - this is just a quick snap with the wrong lens on the camera.
Cheese is away at Boy Scout camp until Friday, so I'm adding cat pictures for fill. :-) The first one is Star, Shadow's mom, lounging on the running board of my car. She was born under our porch last May and she isn't too tame. She will let us pet her and feed her of course. We did capture her and had her spayed at the vet. Now she's one of our outdoor cats and keeps the mice away. The second is Shadow, of course. Isn't he getting big?
In Richards's latest stand-alone Shenandoah Album saga, childless Kendra Taylor and husband Isaac accept an offer from Kendra's younger sister—single mom Jamie—to conceive and carry a child for them. The sisters have recently inherited money from their father, so it's no hassle for architect-in-training Jamie, who is not quite 30, to come with her daughters, Alison and Hannah, to live in nearby Toms Brook, Va. Pregnant Jamie can be on-site while the house that Jamie designs for Kendra and Isaac is built—on Isaac's family property in the Shenandoah River Valley—by the extraordinarily handsome Cash Rosslyn. For her part, Kendra keeps tabs on Jamie, whose misspent youth had previously estranged the sisters, as Jamie carries Kendra's family's future. Cash's grandmother Grace, meanwhile, has plans for Cash and Jamie, and Grace's love of quilting, and especially her own touching love story from another era, draws these women of different generations together. Richards should've included a special pull-out hanky insert, but readers looking for positive resolutions won't be disappointed.
I'll also share a partial picture of the plate rail in my dining room that I will eventually fill with needlework. This rail/shelf is along 2 walls of the dining room. Oh yeah, I sewed the curtains for the dining room this weekend too, but need to get weights for the corners so it will be straight across the top. (The candles really don't belong there, but I was using the table and that's the only place I could think to put them so Shadow wouldn't eat them.)
We are enjoying him, but Libby (our 6 year old cat) is not too fond of him yet. I'm sure they will get along eventually.
I'll also share a picture of Cheese on his last day at the Elementary school. He'll be starting 6th grade in the Fall at the Middle/High School Building. Time really flies!
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