Et Voila!

I've finished This is the Day!




I'm very pleased with how it came out. So are my bears. Sorry, this is my poor excuse for an art shot. I don't know how you ladies do it, taking gorgeous arty pictures.




The other thing I don't know how to do is to put down in a different font the name of the piece, the fibers and fabric used. I'm sure I actually know how, but I'm too lazy to try it out.




So you'll just have to suffer with me. This is the Day is from the Just Cross Stitch January/February 2009 issue. It was designed by Tracy Riffle of Hands to Work. I used the called for 40ct. Autumn Gold linen by Lakeside with the called for GAST, WDW and CC fibers. And I love it!




In other news, the boy child is away for the weekend. He's attending his first ever scenario paintball tournament. He's in it bigtime -- camping out, taking part in a 2 day event. He was so excited when he left. Here's a picture his friend's father sent from his cell phone.


I hope he's enjoying the tanks, the scenarios, the welts, the mud, the wind, the cold, and everything else that I just can't get into myself. But that the boy child lives for. :D

The girl child is still at college. She's happy this weekend too -- her boyfriend went down to spend the weekend with her. There's a Freshman Formal that they're going to. On Friday, the boy child was obliged to carry a bag to school containing the girl child's dress so he could give it to the boyfriend to take down to the girl child (the boyfriend is a senior and goes to the same high school as the boy child). (Did all that make sense??) I'm sure the boy child got rid of the offending bag asap! I don't have any pictures of the girl child or the boyfriend at the Freshman Formal. I do hope she takes some pictures.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! And if it's spring break time around your area, enjoy that too! Ah, the green is starting to show outside! Yay!

Ruthie Sunday and more Day too

Another Ruthie Sunday gone by. This time both Paulette and I were prepared and tackled the pretty wench, as Paulette would say. lol! I think we're both at the same place now.



And I know we're both heartily sick of satin stitch by now.




Unfortunately, Paulette tells me there are more satin stitch alphabets ahead. Which is a real bummer. Oh well. At least the next one isn't satin stitch. I hope. :D




On the This is the Day front, I finished the house section -- except for the over one in the little box area.




I don't understand how the pink and the tomato red can look good together, but they do, in a wild sort of way. I love it!!




I'm hoping to tackle more of this piece today if there's time. But thanks to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, both of which I was rereading (or listening to) at the time, I got a good amount done Friday and Saturday.

BTW, I took these pictures under my Ott lite -- it's yet another cloudy day and I just gave up on taking the pictures by natural light.

Hope you all have a great week. And thanks for stopping by and commenting. I love to read your comments! :D

I've joined the stampede.....

I've joined the crowd of bloggers who seem to be working on This is the Day from the January/February issue of Just Cross Stitch Magazine.



As you can see, I've done the groundwork, so to speak. Got the borders done, the grass sown, and now I'm starting the meat of the matter.




I really didn't think doing all that groundwork would take so long, but it did. Why is it that one always thinks something will take no time at all to do and it ends up taking forever? Anyway, I'm using the recommended fabric and fibers, 40ct Autumn Gold from Lakeside Linens with GAST, CC and WDW fibers. No adventuresome changes for me! I love how the model looks, so I'm satisfied.




Of course, while I'm stitching this, I'm thinking of all the other projects I want to be stitching. Sigh.......