a stitchy valentine giveaway

Found another cross stitch giveaway. this one is a valentines giveaway located at to stitch or not to stitches blog ,, link below

http://44mamawsfinishedcrossstitchitems.blogspot.com/


Its nice to have found so many cross stitchers, In my real - life I dont know anyone who stitches, so I don't really have anyone to share my projects with. And talking about stitchin progress I've currently been working on my mystic wizard pattern. Progress pictures of this one are located on separate page if anyone wants to see it. Maybe this means I'll work on something other than smalls for awhile but I wont hold my breath :)

year of smalls?

so far it looks like this will be a year of small cross stitch projects. Today I finished my 3rd small project of the year. this cute little frog was a fairly quick stitch. I have't been stitch much so it took me 3 days stitch.




I was originally supposed to go to swamp romp today but that fell thru so I spent the day stitching, playing computer games and watch SCIFI channels movie weekend. While I didnt get to do what I wanted to for the weekend I really needed 2 days in a row off so it works out well enough :)

ebay is EVIL!!

Another lot of stuff I got on ebay came in today, boy my stash is getting pretty big :) I just can't seem to help myself. this lot didnt have any floss in it but it did have a few pieces of cloth, 2 of which I have a pretty good idea what.I'm gonna do with. I got another afghan in this lot, I'm not exactly sure if I'm gonna use it or not






there was a large amount of cross stitch magazines






there was quite a few leaflets, patterns and a couple of kits including "birdhouse garden" and a small angel kit










After I got the box I sorted thru it, took pictures etc. there were a few things that are gonna end up on my ebay to be sold with the other random stuff thats already there. I'm currently trying to shrink some of my stashes and collections by sorting thru them. :) this month its cross stitch. i've been trying to go thru my book but I've got so many books that'll take me years. and for a couple months last year i sorted thru my lego collection, which I need to sort thru some more


http://myworld.ebay.com/shazzump here's my ebay if anyone is curious to see what being sold

Really big foot needed

So I came home from work today and went to check the mail and found this hanging off the mail box ---





this spider is pretty good sized her body is about as big around as my thumbnail. She is a problem for several reasons, 1.)I'm arachniphobic, 2.) she's on the mail box of all places 3.) she's a brown widow -- yes a brown widow!! we have black widows which are very common and brown widows which aren't quite as common. I think she's a she cause she's pretty big. It's not the first brown widow I've seen but definately the biggest.. I tried to get a good pic of her belly but I don't think you can see the hourglass very well here. Also I wonder why is she just hanging around like that? Usually widow spiders don't just hang around, they hide in things that I later touch or stick my hand in. wonder if she is sick or something? Do spiders get sick?






I'm not brave enough to kill such a big spider and I have to do the stretch very very far to get to the mailbox while staring at her to make sure she doesnt move while i'm trying to check the mail. Anyone wanna come kill her for me, or even just move her away from the box? I guess she doesnt necessarily have to die, just be gone

TUSAL and a little stashin

This is my TUSAL jar for january. I've been a busy little stitcher. I haven't found a jar to use yet so for now I've just been using a little jar that some mandarin oranges came in. its such a cute little jar.






I spend way to much time shopping on ebay and have several lots of random ebay stuff coming in. today I got one with a few cute little christmas patterns and fabric in it. It also had lot of floss, but it's all JPcoats, which I've never even seen before. :) I shall see what i do with those little bits






And can I say just for the record I hate mondays, why exactly does monday exist? I often feel like garfield on monday morning





waiting for the damn pie to hit me when I crawl out of bed

January IHSW

I'm off to bed early tonight, I've been double sick this week, I've had a slight case of bronchitis (which i get every year so usually just treat at home) and now have gotten some stupid intestinal virus so I'm very very tired. But before I got to sleep I thought I'd go ahead and post my IHSW progress tonight. I didnt get as much done as i had hoped, I was hoping to finish off my bookmark. I did get a good amount done on it though so i should be finished in a day or so.

this is how it started the weekend off, I stitched a little on friday, saturday and sunday but do to being so tired did go to sleep early each night. And I ended up working today, which is usually my day off, so that I could have next saturday off for "swamp romp".





and this is how it finished off:








I only have one jack-o-lantern a little greenery and some small blue blocks on top and bottom to do and this baby will be ready to go into a book.

stack o lanterns

I've been sitting here in front of my computer which is in front of the tv (currently watching Project runway all stars) and stitching on my stacked jack-o-lanterns book mark project. I've actually made decent progress on it as shown below.







I don't get as much stitching done as a lot of stitchers do, but that is because I've got a bit of s short and scattered attention span. For instance today I'm playing plant tycoon, reading fan fiction online, watching tv, cross stitching and browsing ebooks for my nook. I swear i'm so scattered its actually kinda funny. Soon I will hopefully get my taxes in cause I want to buy the materials I'll need to start "fire goddess" by Joan elliot