May TUSAL and IHSW

Well another IHSW has come and gone.  I was at a friends from Friday night until Sunday night.  Lots of stitching, so no "hermiting".  Today though, I had numb bum 3.0 and got lots of "hermit" stitching in :)

I did remember to take pictures of before and after the weekend.

Summer before stitching Friday night

Summer as of Sunday afternoon when I left Dani's

Summer - Black finished around 3pm today

Summer - as of 9pm tonight

So all in all I think I got a good amount of stitching done!

This weekend was also TUSAL time.

Here are pics of the months orts progress.

Froggy after the month

Better view of the orts for the month
Mystery blue on the bottom, black in the middle,
and yellow/red from this afternoon

TUSAL's to date

 Hope everyone had a great weekend!

May IHSW

Just in case you haven't looked at Joysze blog post, it is IHSW this weekend!
That is Internation Hermit and Stitch Weekend in case you don't know :)

This weekend I am off with the travelling stitcherhood.  Although I won't be "hermiting" all weekend, I hope to get LOTS done.
ALSO, it is a long weekend here in Canada so I will have Monday at home to hermit and hopefully get even more stitching done!

I don't have a before picture at the moment as I hope to get some stitching done this week.  I will try and post a travel post on Friday night after I arrive.

Hope you all have a great week!

WIPocalypse - May

I have not been able to do a lot of stitching since my last WIPocalypse post.

Here is an up to date pic of my Seasonal Mandala's and Fish city, the only two WIP's I have worked on

Fish City as of May 8'12

Mandala's as of May 8'12

Close up of Summer May 8'12

The Winner!

Thank you all so much for commenting on my blog

Thanks to Random.org, # 19 is the lucky winner and that would be Bea

I was taken back a bit by all of your comments, and wish I could make everyone one!  If only time would allow!!  I will probably do another giveaway though :)

Thanks again!

Nothing to show + reminder

Well this has been the last full week of "tax season" in Canada.  I can't complain too much as I actually haven't done a tax return for work this year.. a few for friends but that is it!  But, this doesn't mean I haven't been doing over time... I have TONS of corporate year end work to do and even with April 30th looming, this doesn't end.  One nice thing though... tomorrow will be my last Saturday to work.

I have felt very tired this week and have not actually put needle to fabric since Sunday.  I hope to change this tomorrow after work.  Tonight hubby is taking me for a belated birthday dinner.  Hopefully I will have a picture to show you on Sunday of some work to summer.

Reminder - my giveaway end Saturday night.. if you haven't commented yet please do.  It was on the post before this one :)

Hope you all have a great Friday and an even better weekend!

200th Post!!

I was getting a few posts ready the other day for the photo hunt and realized that I almost had 200 posts.
I think this is actually pretty cool!

So.... since I haven't done anything for my Blogiversary, I have decided to do a give-away for this post.  Since I haven't finished going through my stash for things I want to sell or give away, I have decided to make a beaded scissor fob for the give away.  I am very new to beading, so don't promise perfection, but if you would like to see my past work click here.

I will leave this giveaway open until the weekend. This is open to anyone.  Just leave me a comment and tell me what colours you would like to see and something you love that I could use for the charm and/or inspiration.  For the comment to count, it has to be on the blog and not on Facebook.  If you post an anonymous post, make sure you email me as well so I have your email address in case you win!  Email address link is through my profile.


Edit: I didn't realize I still had the word verification on!  Sorry to anyone who had trouble commenting!  I have fixed it and everything should be go to go :)

April ISHW

Yesterday after work I drive out to a friends cottage for some stitching therapy. I got home late this afternoon and did some hermit time.
Here is a pic of my summer mandala after the weekend