A quick update

Well things continue to be busy and out of control for myself and my b/f. While we are doing great things... there seems to be alot of stress as well. It's very stressful at my office right now and I just can't seem to count down the days to my holidays (next saturday they start!) fast enough! During my holidays I may be able to get some good stitching time in so I just can't wait.

B/F and I did more hiking, enjoyed the Calgary Stampede, and tragically watched someone hit a deer this past weekend. The deer did not survive but the people in the car did.
So it's been fairly busy and all over the place.

I did, sadly, have to drop out of my Christmas exchange (we didn't have assigned partners so that it was flexible) with my ILCS Yahoo group. Sad, but I just don't think I can take anymore stress right now and I wasn't sure I'd make the deadline. but I will still finish the ornament and either keep it, or RAK it or something.

At any rate I have a few WIP pictures for you this week...

Judgement Dragons... I am still trying to put in one full night a week on this project. It's going soooo slowly. But here is more progress. I'd love to have Page 3 done by the end of July but that is doubtful. So here's hoping for August.


Can you believe I am still working on this pirate?
I can't... it's progressing though.


And here is the progress on my ornament. I will finish this one up shortly so that I at least have a finish on the books! seems like it's been forever since I had one.


As always thanks so much for visiting. I am trying to get around to everyone's blogs again. I should be able to keep up for another week or so until I leave for holidays.

Back with... LNS Trip and Progress Updates

Well... I had my five days off. They were fun-filled and very busy. Between Canada Day celebrations, a football game, a wedding, a family BBQ, a hike up a mountain and a trip to my LNS it seems like my five days off were more like five days of insantiy!
But they were good and fun so that is alright.
I am catching up on emails and blogs so bare with me.

But I do have some updates for you all...
I had a trip to my LNS with my MIL and BF. My MIL had not been there before and was so overwhelmed. It was great to see her be so excited about cross stitching! She does stitch and I was happy to get a chance to take her there.
And of course while we were there how could I resist but add to that stash! :)
Here is what I picked up:

The next three pirate patterns from Sue Hillis designs and material (28ct Summer Khaki Cashel Linen). One of these is courtesy Lory on my ILCS Yahoo Group! So thank you to Lory!! She also sent me Tools of the Trade that I will pick up supplies next time for.


We did a big amazon order a week ago and got lucky that the items came in on Friday. This book was in the order... so I got it from amazon. It's so pretty! And then some material to go with some of the projects that I tried to photograph as well for you to see.



I love this green so much! And am so happy I picked some up and found a great Halloween pattern or two to do on it. I believe it is a 28ct Linen.



And these two on this lovely hand-dyed, fittingly called Dragon's Mist, it's a 30ct Linen I think.


So that was the trip... and onto some updates of stitching. I have touched all of my projects in the sidebar in the last week. I have updated pictures for two of them that I am concentrating on right now.
The duck...


And the ornament for my ILCS exchange. That I need to get done, finished and in the hands of the moderator by July 22. Gotta get moving on it! :)



Coming up: Well I will be around for about three weeks now and should get some good stitching done I hope (before my next set of holidays). I will have updates on Judgement Dragons and my Papillion SAL next time. I know.. the SAL is late coming up with part 4 which is ok because I'm not even halfway done part 3. I might actually catch up because of it!

Thank you so much for your patience with my being away and as always thank you for your lovely comments! I love all of them!

An Update

So you'll all have to forgive me for being a bit absent. Both on commenting on your blogs (though I think I'm caught up now) and in posting here.
There has not been alot of stitching going on. I've been working some more crazy hours at the office and with the freelance project on top of that it's been interesting... to say the least.
The B/F and I were also at a wedding on the weekend, did a photo shoot on Sunday and are of course back at work today! Whew it just never ends.
However we both have three days off this week starting Wednesday with Canada Day (it's Canada's independance day equivalent). And then its the beginning of the Calgary Stampede here which is a ten day long exhibition of craziness.
So we are looking forward to some time off (another wedding on thursday) and hiking and such.
In all of this I really hope that I get some more stitching done and I will post pics when I can. Hopefully later in the week.
So until then, I thank you all for visiting and commenting. You are all so great! And I will update when I can.