a scarecrow, a cat, and two frogs

I forgot to post earlier that I did finish the scarecrow at Rebecca's a few weeks ago!

Scarecrow ~ The cross stitcher magazine

Finished Oct 16, 2011

I did work on the TW the castle that night, but realized that I had messed up at least one colour.  With all the blending I felt it would be easier to frog it and start over :(

So... I spend 1.5 nights frogging and then restarted.



TW The Castle

As at October 23, 2011

This past saturday, I went on a road trip with a 3 stitching friends.  Around 9:30 Anne P., Beatrice, and Kathy picked me up and we went on our way to Quilts and Critters in Millbrook.  They were having they annual sale, and the 3 of them had never been.  First stop in Millbrook was a little shop called Bear Essentials.  It had losts of interesting things including tea pots, jewellery and art just to name a few.  Kathy pointed this little treasure out and I thought I just had to have it!

My new monthly ort container :)

Lets just hope this little guy keeps the nastly frogs away... I have had enough of them lately!!

On our way back from Millbrook we stopped at a wonderful little shop called Herma's.  Lots and lots of very neat things in there as well as well as a ton of Gourment food.  I walked out of there with some garlic oil, steak seasoning, pepper jelly, and some blackcurrent jam.  After lunch at the Buttermilk we headed to a book store to look at there selection of cross stitch magazines and then on to another fabric store in Cobourg called Stitch Witch.  There I noticed the cutest set of scissor and just had to get them

Cat scissors

Speacking of scissors, I got the new ginghers in the mail last week.. I think they are lovely!

Gingher Tessa

Other than boring course stuff, that is about it for now.  See you on Wednesday for TUSAL!

Scarecrow update

My mom stopped in for a quick visit on Saturday to see how I was doing.  I talked a bit about my stitching, and she mentioned her scarecrow again.  She said she actually put the boy up in the kitchen, and was waiting for the girl to get done.  YA YA OK OK I got the hint, and actually took it out.  I have worked on it a bit over the weekend when I was up to stitching.  I couldn't find an older progress pics in my elements folder so looked back in my blog.  The last time I posted a pic of this, was October 2010!!
I guess I really do need to finally just work on it and get it done.
Here is a pic of it back in 2010 and a pic as of this morning.

Not all the progress was done over the weekend, but did get most of the right hand side of the dress done.

Hope all my canadian readers are enjoying a great thanksgiving weekend.  I am now waiting for hubby to get home from the gym, and then we are going to get working on our assignment that is due tomorrow.

An update.... FINALLY

So Dani sent me a message on Windows Live message the other day......

"UR blog is sad and lonely, it needs an update"

Well, I had a big assignment due today, but now it is done, so I will try and make my blog less lonely. Ok so now I have to figure out what I have done in almost a whole month! So I decided to go to the photos on the computer for a reminder

Sept 25'10
This day was an open house for the foundation I am on the board for. We are trying to open for the 2012 celebrations. We received a heritage grant to help us do this! If you are interested in more info, please see our website.

Here is a picture of the limestone building that has been named "the barracks" by the community

Oct 7'10
Right beside where I work is the Ganaraska River in Port Hope, or the Ganny as it is called. In the spring and fall it becomes flooded with fish making their way back up stream to lay eggs. I have always felt that these fish have something against me, because whenever I am told they are running, I never see them. On the 7th, my co-worker Kim told me to get out there and take a look, but to go down stream a bit... WOW!!! am I ever glad I did!! Do you ever feel sorry for these poor fish... very hard work!

Fish swimming up the "Ganny" in Port Hope

Oct 8'10

HOCKEY IS BACK!!!!!!!

My hubby and I got tickets for opening night of the Ottawa Senators. They played the Buffalo Sabres, who we saw play in April. Well they did loose, but It was a really great time. This time we got cheap tickets, but I thought they were great since you could see the whole ice.

GO SENS GO!!!

After the game, we stayed over at Dani's house.

Oct 9'10

Today I joined Dani to her WW meeting (all about thanksgiving dinner). We then picked up the boys (Blair and Todd) and went for breakfast. Then while the Boys played video games, Dani and I got to do some stitching. We also took an hour and went for a really nice block around the area where she lives.

She got some great pics, but here is one that I took

Cow corn

That night we enjoyed amazing Lasagne al la Dani.

Oct 10'10
Today was an early morning as we were still in the Ottawa area, and needed to be home to work on my first BIG assignment for my CGA course. We also stopped in Kingston to get some groceries from Costco.

The assignment took pretty much all day and it was another late night - bed after 11:30

Edit - I got my marks back today (Oct 23rd) ...... 42/50 - Not too bad :)

Oct 11'10
HAPPY TURKEY DAY CANADA!!

I stayed in my PJ's most of the day and did some stitching. Around 1pm we started on our way to Oshawa for dinner at my mother in law's. We had to take a detour (crazy 401 traffic) but managed to get there only about 15 minutes late. I did get to enjoy some time with my niece and nephew, but didn't take any pictures.

Oct 15th-17th
Friday night I made my way to Rebecca's for her annual stitchy weekend. I arrived just after 7pm and got my area all set up. Dani and Christin arrived soon after.

Saturday was a nice relaxing day of stitching. We were also joined by Kathy, Beatrice, and Barb.

Not really a stitching pic, but I loved Beatrices socks!!

On Sunday, I left around 1pm and we drove to Brighton for an open house for Adriana, Beatrice's 94 year old mom. She is an amazing stitcher, and had no idea how much she has actually done. We all want to grow up to be just like her

Oct 23'10
And we are finally at today!
This morning I slept in a bit, since I had a very late Thursday night (assignment) and a very early Friday morning (Gym). Around 1pm hubby and I got back to work on our 2nd assignment. We finished around 9pm and then I started on this blog :)

This morning I also finished a small x-stich I did for Halloween.

JBW Designs - Halloween

Stitched on cashel linen using Carries Harvest Brew and

Onyz from Sampler threads

I also took pics of all my other WIPS
Before you ask, Yes I have way too many on the go :)

Magnificent Wizard - Dimensions

Also know as Blair stupid dragon

Paradigm Lost - Long Dog

Teresa Wentzler - Castle

Ink Circles - Cirque des Carreaux

Using Carries Autumn Leaves

Ink Circles - Bramble and the Rose

Mom's Scarecrow - Been working on way to long -

but actually got a few stitches in.

Well that is enough for tonight. I am hoping to have a nice relaxing sitchy day tomorrow. Hope you all have a great Sunday