Cruisin the Web

I found a couple more really cool sites today as I was cruising the information superhighway. Far more easier, and more fuel-efficient than cruising the real highway--I got flipped off by some a-hole in a mini-van/SUV thingy because they wouldn't merge. You CAN NOT sit in the merge lane for 15 minutes waiting for traffic to die down on my road. It's one of the major roads into NW DC. It is not going to happen. And he flipped me off. I should have turned around and flipped him off, but I wouldn't want to use one of my nakey-manicure nails in so vile a way. So, for the a-hole who just had to wait 15 minutes for the lanes to clear so you could make the turn into the street by the Y, I surf the net to find new things for people who know how to use their fingers for something other than the bird to look at. I have added the links to the left.

I did have S.E.X (had to go back and fix that, otherwise this was going to be TMI and Noneyabidness--thank goodness I checked this) today. I was trying to be good. I only bought a couple extra charts, other than that, I bought fabric for Bent Creek Winter and Summer Rows, which are on my 50 list, a skein of NN for a Ruby Slipper Designs that I have in my stash and a Midnight Stitching Halloween Chart. Oh, and the new Loose Feathers Club. I did not commit to buy all of them, because I do not like stitching Blackbird Designs that much. And I also got a duplicate of a chart Mom lost. And I tried to sit down and stitch on Jane Austen. I can't move on if I can't finish this one.

Had to succomb to urge for S.E.X

I ordered this. I looked at it all afternoon at work. Karen said it looked like me. I was thinking of making her hair a darker brown and changing the dress to blue and it would look a little more like me:

Cuddling Cat

May have time to stitch due to the Nor'easter

I am hoping to get some major work in on this project this week. I went out at lunch on a magazine quest, but got a couple stitches done. At Home with Jane Austen is not a hard stitch, such a pleasure after all the hard times with Santa's Journey.

I am going to Nashville in May. Hopefully Brea and I will get to Hobby Lobby. Becky said it was not good anymore, but I think the novelty of it will be a change from AC Moore. I hate AC Moore for stitching supplies. It used to be I wouldn't go to Michael's, but Michael's has fabric. I don't really have time to run to the LNS all the time, and I am not that big on ordering on line. It was nice to be able to go to AC Moore and get what I need. Now it's down to an aisle and a half of stitching.

Finally some stitching for me this week!

I picked At Home With Jane Austen again at lunch today. I went to Bloom and got a salad, then came back and got 15 minutes of good stitching. I opted to swap out one of the colors. I am stitching it with DMC instead of Crescent Colors because I have to save money for vacation and well, I am trying to get out of debt, so the colors don't always pleasantly convert (note to self: if I ever become a designer, I need to make sure my DMC conversion is pretty) and the step is stitched with 807 in the directions, but I thought 932 is prettier and I think it's right.

Stitching with Naked nails tonight

My nails, which are usually some exotic color, are now Malaysian Mist. I sorta felt like being pale for a while. I've noticed, the women I try to model myself after do not stroll around with brightly colored acrylic nails. I have been looking like Anna Nicole Smith lately, and I don't want that. I also had my eyebrows done. Kelly was a little bewildered by the $12 tip. I told her I felt like spending money to be beautful today--two years ago today I stayed off work and met the bastard. I probably should have gone to work. Anyway, I don't want to be depressed today, so now I have pretty eyebrows. I may actually iron a shirt tonight, slap on that really good Maybelline mascara tomorrow, and do flirty eyes. I feel like flirting.

Anyway, back to stitchy for now. I think I have now set a new record for my own personal number of trips to Michaels on consecutive days. I have been twice, yesterday and today. Yesterday was buying for Mom's Fanci That Summer Window Spots, and today I bought for the Easter Sanman freebies. I think I am going to do Spring Planting on Blue, and the little Easter on just plain white.

The 50

This may be updated to 100

1. Finish At Home with Jane Austen
2. Finish Stunning Irises
3. Miribilia Halloween Fairy
4. Bent Creek Patriotic Row
5. Bent Creek Winter Snapperland
6. AOY A Moment’s Rest
7. Like Feathered Wings
8. Summer Ball
9 . Ghost Wind
10. Cat Lovers Too
11. Will Work for Freezer Space
12. Woodland Sampler
13 Halloween Bellpull
14 Stranger in the Woods
15 Raise the Roof-Happy Camper
16 I Like Winter Best of All
17 Is it Spring yet?
18. The Perfect Man
19 A Cat’s a Cat
20 Christmas Village
21 Villages of Hawks Run Hollow
22 Cat for All Seasons
23. Calico Cat
24 Hummingbird Trellis Afghan
25 Winter Quilt
26 Autumn Quilt
27 Spring Quilt
28 Summer Quilt
29 All Hallows Eve
30. Summers To Come (Cricket Collection)
31. Nativity-Mary Hickmott
32. Beachcombin—Salty Yarns
33 Country French Cat
34. Winter Gathering
35 Kitty Cat Row
36 Lost Spirits
37. Winter Sampler—Just Cross Stitch
38. Janlynn Summer Sampler
39 Barnyard Kittens
40. Sandy Orton Autumn Sampler
41 Blossom Harvest
42 To the Sea (pine Mountain Pillow)
43. 4 Season House
44. Bent Creek- Snowman Row
45—WWS The Arab
46—Kit and Boxby—Winter Wool
47—Kit and Bixby—Summer Wool
48—Kit and Bixby—Spring Wool
49—Kit and Bixby Autumn Wool






50—New fallen Snow-Glendon Place
51 Summer Window Spots—Fanci That

My 50

I am working on a list of the next 50 projects I want to do. It is really hard to pick 50. Not because I don't have 50 projects, but because I gotta narrow it down to 50. I am not sure why I am doing this, other than I need to focus, and the fact that I have so much in the pipeline ought to show me just what I need to be buying . Not that this is a realistic or practical list--I mean I have Hummingbird Trellis Afghan on there and it's been two years and I have one square done. BECAUSE I ROCK! One of these daysI will get that out again and work on it. but I want to do that Mary Hickmott Nativity, and Ghost Wind and Winter Stack.

Oh I got photos of the finished Santa's journey.