Two Finishes in One Week!

This is definitely a first! Two finishes in one week! I stayed up late last night and finished up the Buzz Lightyear!

I will return to working on Dragon Knot but will also start a new HAED, The Mad Tea Party! But on e of my problems now is that I have a growing stack of finished projects that I have done nothing with! I need to start framing or finishing them into pillows or whatever so I can give them to the person it was intended for!

Great Weekend

I've been working on Buzz. He's 75% completed. I am hoping that I finish him up by next weekend! Then all I will have to do is finish him as a photo album. Maybe this can be an Easter present? Hmmm, I won't put a deadline on it because I will never meet it then! LOL!

This weekend was super beautiful here! Sunny skies, warm weather, not a cloud in the sky! I was able to take Duke to the dog park two days in a row. On Saturday he was so well behaved and played with the other dogs. On Sunday, he decided he was going to be a grumpy old man and be by himself. Should any other dog come by him, he snapped at them. We only stayed about 40 minutes. But in that 40 minutes he managed to get super duper dirty so he was whisked to the bath immediately upon our return home. He spent the remainder of the day, when not sunning on the patio, on the back of the couch.

The weather was so nice so I took the opportunity to start doing some spring gardening! I went outside and cleaned up my patio area and planted a bunch of new flowers. These are only some of my flowers on the patio. Many of them are from the past few years, having survived even the freezes of the past winter! But I have a few new ones. It was fun getting dirty. I so rarely do that.

LIfe Update

Wow! Time has been flying. It is the middle of March already! I feel like the world is just moving so fast these days! I've been working so much on different conventions that I sometimes don't know what day it is! But hopefully things will be slowing down and I can start focusing on things like reading, stitching, getting ready for spring!!!

I finished up a convention this past week that I had been working on for the past 3 weeks. It was a big one but since I wasn't the lead coordinator on it, I enjoyed it even more! But I have to say I was a "meanie" at times due to the amount of work stress going on! I have to thank my wonderful Sailor for putting up with me and being my support through it all! I don't know how I would have gotten through it without ya!

I found out this weekend that my cousin was accepted into MIT! Wow! That's a huge achievement. While he is happy with that, he is holding out for Stanford! I can't even imagine! I did well in school, all A's, but not well enough to even be looked at by either of those schools!

Getting excited about my trip to see the family in May for my cousin's graduation. I haven't been "home" in about 10 years. That's way too long to have gone with out a visit!!! So I will be making up for it. My mom, my sister and I will all be there. I can't even tell you the last time we were all there together at the same time. It will be great fun to see the grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins again!

I hope to start having more updates on stitching to share. I am currently working on two mainly, Dragon Knot and Buzz. Although, I just might bring some other projects into the mix! Don't want to be bored!

Saturday Indulgence

Typically on the weekends I spend my time catching up on housework that I neglected throughout the week and stitching. Today I took some time for myself and indulged (meaning spent money) on myself!

I started off with a trip to Hobby Lobby where I purchased some material for a new project. I am going to make my nephew Parker a Buzz LightYear photo album. I thought this was really cute! So I checked my materials and I have all the DMC threads. Just needed the material!

Then I went and took a stroll around an open air shopping center in town. Went in a few shops, just browsed, got some home decorating ideas. Then went to the movies. I saw Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Don't let the title fool you! There is actually a love story that runs through the whole movie. A tragic one that does not end happily but nevertheless a love story! I saw some pretty good previews also! There's this horror movie coming out soon "Haunting in Connecticut" that I can't wait to see! The preview alone made my skin crawl! I can't wait! (Yep, I'm a horror movie fan! Big time!)

Upon leaving the movie theatre, discovered that the temperature had dropped about 20 degrees! I was not prepared for that!!!! I had on jeans, t-shirt and flip flops! It was quite frigid and raining! The temperature dropped to 54 degrees! I ran across the street to California Pizza Kitchen where I had a yummy grilled vegetable foccacia sandwich for lunch! Then on to Barnes and Nobles were I browsed a little bit more!

On my way home I stopped at the convenience store for my lottery tickets (can't win if you don't buy!) and indulged some more by purchasing Ding Dongs! Yep! I haven't had one of those in years! It's been so long that I can't even remember the last time!

So overall, this Saturday has been very pleasant!!! And it is not over yet! I have plenty of hours to do some stitching and tonight I will watch the men's LSU basketball team play #15 Xavier on tv! Geaux Tigers!