Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas 2008

We had a great Christmas. It was very quiet this year, no visitors. The kids had a great time. Santa was good and now the house is a mess.


This first picture is of Christmas Eve dinner. We usually have the 12 meatless dishes but because there wasn't extra people to eat I just made what our family will eat. We had perogies (potato/cheese, cottage cheese and gluten free), kolach (Ukrainian bread), beet leaf cabbage rolls, jello salad, mushrooms and shrimp.



This second picture is the three boys playing with Christmas toys.





I have also started a picture for my sisters new baby.
This is the chart...

and this is my progress at the end of day 1. I have about 4 days worth of work on it but haven't taken a picture. Maybe if I can manage to clean a bit of the house today I will get more stitching done tonight and post a picture with more progress.


Thursday, December 11, 2008

Stiletto SAL

I have started a new blog today. It's a stitch a long for the Stiletto cross stitch charts.

I posted some of the finished charts and one of my wips.
This is my wip of White Roses Stiletto. It's really coming along beautifully. I haven't worked on it for awhile so I'm hoping the SAL will get me going again.
Please check it out and join the fun!

Monday, December 1, 2008

My busy month of November

Amazing how time flies. There is only 24 days left until Christmas. How will I ever be ready?

I've been so busy making perogies for craft sales.




I made 40 dozen potato cheese and lost them all when I forgot to put them back in the freezer. I went to pack them in the cooler to take to the craft sale and found then sitting IN FRONT of the freezer. They had been there all night. 40 dozen thawed bags of goo. So now I have to start all over again for the next craft sale on December 6th.


I also finished a needlecase.










This is on ebay today for the last day. I hope it sells to feed my circle of stitch, sell, buy.
I also joined a Mystery SAL from Chatelaine Designs. I'm very excited but scared at the same time. What if I don't like it? After the group cost $30 and the supplies which I haven't bought yet, I better like it. Most of her designs are wonderful so I'm pretty confident that I'll love it.
I also joined an exchanged group. My first one so this will be tons of fun.
Tiny Treasures Exchange