Week 19 - Stitching and Margaritas

A day last this time... what can I say.. Adulting is hard

Here is a re-cap of my week

On Monday, I worked on Dragons for Ink Circles Monday.  Only a tiny bit of border got done

Tuesday I worked on my Lizzie Kate ornament, and finished it on Wednesday

Snowy House - Lizzie Kate Tiny Tidings XXII
WDW and 32ct mushroom

Saturday, I finished Merry Christmas V2.0.  Looks so much better on Mushroom!

Merry Christmas - Lizzie Kate Tiny Tidings XXII
WDW, DMC, 32ct Mushroom

Saturday I also pulled out and finished week 3 on the Blackwork Tangram SAL from Lakeside Needlecraft and Peppermint Purple

Blackwork Tangram SAL - Weeks 1-3

As you can see, no stitching on Thursday or Friday.  I can't remember what happened on Thursday, but Friday I met up with some ladies and attended the Girls Night out in Cobourg.
It was a fun night!

On our way to a pottery class, post 1 martini :)

El Camino in Cobourg makes amazing Margaritas! 
My favourite is the Black Margarita

Some ornaments

I realized tonight that I have been a bad blogger again
After my exam I have kinda checked out of everything.... Studying for it really took a lot out of me. Hopefully my next course won't be as bad. I think it will be in one aspect, as it isn't open book. I spend a lot of time marking up the Canadian tax act!

Anyway, on to more festive topics...

I have been finishing up my dragon dreams ornaments






















All the backs are the same, except they all include their specific number



I also went stash diving and made some ornaments using the sulky blendables and Rosewood Manors Red Threads.













I have a few things to show you, but as they are gifts for people who might read this :)

I also wanted to announce the 2nd winner from my giveaway. I only had 2 comments on my TUSAL and only one of them entered my giveaway, so....

Congrats Dani - tkdchick !! Look for something coming to you in the new year :D



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Ornament suggestions

As some of you know, I have been doing the dragon dreams 12 dragonlets this year as an ornament a month.
I now have them done! (you will see last two with ornament SAL at the end of them month)

So now onto finishing them.

I been thinking about what I want to do pretty much since I started them, but couldn't decide.
Well over the weekend, I decided, but just had to get the plan down on paper.

Last night I stitched the back part for Day 1.

I really like what I did with it, and think this little project will be perfect over the next few weeks when I only have a few minutes here and there to stitch.

Here is where you come in...
What do you think?
Should I include beads when I stitch them together?
What colour do you think I should use for the hanger?

I would prefer to keep them all alike.

October 2013 Ornament SAL

Forgot to post this last night :(

I have continued my dragon dreams 12 days ornaments for this month as well.  I did day 10.

September 2013 ornament SAL

I have been keeping this little finish for 25 days! I started this and if ished it the same day... September 1st!




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July ornament SAL

I managed to get my ornament for July done early, but wanted to wait to show it off

Here is day 7 from Dragon Dreams



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Ornament sal + update

On the weekend I managed to stitch my ornament for June

I decided to keep going with the dragon dreams series. Here is day 6






Speaking of the weekend I went on a little adventure starting Thursday night.
I drove over 900 kms to Arlington Heights, which is a 'burb of Chicago.
Why you ask? Well there was a stitching retreat that I was invited to!

The drive was long, but SO worth it! I don't think I have laughed so hard in my life!!!
Here are a few pics from the weekend

Packed and ready to leave at 6am



Waiting to enter the US



Some amazing finishes at The Rocking Horse



My "nest" for the weekend



One day at lunch - amazing steakhouse!



Most of us went to a steak dinner Saturday night - Emily and I had girly Martinis



After some shopping - trying to get it all in the car!



Sheldon happy I brought him home cherry coke zero!



I am hoping I can get the time off work again and go next year!


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Ornament sal - June 2013

I'm 2 weeks late on this post, but the ornament was finished on May 26th

I continued with the dragon dreams 12 days ornaments... Here is day 5




Hopefully My June post will be on time :)

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Goals May 2013

Well I survived tax season!!
and I managed to get my goals for April done!!

Let's recap

1) stitch an ornament         DONE

2) attempt a rotation again (trying 4 stitching days, 3-4 projects)         This worked until the 11th of April then fell apart as work got busier.  May attempt again... not sure yet

3) make progress on my Lizzie Kate ABC Christmas         DONE

4) make progress on one of my Ink Circle WIP'S         DONE

For May my goals are:
1) Start Fortunate Traveller by Teresa Wentzler         DONE
2) Stitch an ornament
3) Start my review kit
4) put stitches in at least 2 WIP's

April 2013 Ornament

I managed to get an ornament done in this crazy month.  I kept it easy and continued with the Dragon Dreams 12 days of Christmas.  Here is day #4 - 4 calling Birds.

Dragon Dreams, 4 Calling Birds

March'13 WIPocolypse and Ornament SAL

Today is WIPocolypse day!

I think I did pretty good since last month.

First off I had a massive HAPPY DANCE!

Smaug before

HAPPY DANCE!!!
SMAUG IS DONE!!!

After Blair's dragon was done I began to give some love to some other WIP's.  Here are the other WIP's I worked on since the last report

Gigi's Belle Lettre's "B"

The Drawn Thread Gameboard

My Heaven and Earth - restarted for the 3rd or 4th time.
Think I finally am okay with the fabric!

Lizzie Kate's ABC Christmas

Now for the Ornament SAL update.  I did get an ornament done as well this month!
I went back to working on the Days of Christmas from Dragon Dreams.

Day 3 - 3 French Hens

Theme-a-licious January 2013

Today is the last day of the month which means it is time for a Theme-a-licous checkin

 

The theme for January was:

Jardin January
The holidays were a little stressful...let's relax in a nice garden. Work on any piece with flowers or gardens.

Well I worked on Maple leaf, Sampler gameboard, and Smaug.

The maple leaf could quality since leaves are in gardens

The Gameboard does have some flowers... but haven't really done much of those yet

Smaug really doesn't have flowers

The ornament theme was:
January
tree or wreath

Here is one area I did follow the theme
I finished day one of the dragon dreams dronglets of 2012 which is "Partridge in a pear tree" or is it "dragon in a pear tree" lol

January 2013 Ornament SAL

As I said in my previous post I still needed to share a few finishes with you.

Silverlotus started an Ornament SAL this year and I signed up to do it since I wanted to do an ornament a month this year anyway!

When Jennifer Aikman-Smith of Dragon Dreams posted 12 dragonlets of Christmas on Facebook in December, I just knew I wanted to do them.  I figured this would at least help me get my 12 done.

Well... instead of just doing one, I finished 2!

Dragon Dreams
Dragonlets of 2012 - #1

Dragon Dreams
Dragonlets of 2012 - #2