Cherly's Bouquet and other Happenings

It's continuing to be a bit crazy for me.
One of our snakes, named Kihone, was at the vet hospital for the weekend. We picked her back up yesterday... we have to give her a shot and take her back at the end of the week. It's not looking like great news for her... but *fingers crossed* that she pulls through. (we have three snakes total).

In and amougst that of course I'm still battling meds and stuff. See the surgeon on Thursday, be interesting to see what he has to say. I'm still on the veggie diet and stuff for now. I tried chicken again on the weekend and it didn't go all that well... so gonna stay veggie for a bit (even though I do kinda hate it).

But on to the reason you are really here... STITCHING! :)
It was the HAEDless Stitching SAL this weekend on the HAED BB, so I worked on Cheryls. I love working on this piece. The colours are really coming together for me.
Here it is so far:

I'm getting really excited about this coming Saturday. My LNS is holding another 12 hour stitch at their location. Remember that one in December when my car was stuck cause it snowed so much and I couldn't go? Well... this time there is no snow forecast *knock on wood* So here's hoping I actually get to go!! :)
I have been continuing to work on Dragons and will post a pic later this week if I get a chance.
Also... I think it's almost time for another giveaway.
I have more stash to giveaway for sure. So stay tuned in the next week or two for one.

As always, thank you so much for your comments!

Page Finish!!! (Also HAED Stashing & health stuff)

Well I have done it. I finished the most recent page I was working on on my Dragons piece.
I am pleased that I got it done as quickly as I did (even with my huge break because of hospital and surgery). I do want to keep trucking on this piece... so more updates for sure on it to come (I want to finish at least three more pages this year!)
Here is a pic of the page I finished:

and here is the whole piece to date (camera skewed it a bit again sorry, it is straight in real life I swear):

I have some exciting news... I won a Bingo on the HAED BB! So I got to pick on full pattern as my prize. I chose "Fly me to the Moon" from Josephine Wall. Here is a pic:

And then... they announced that they are having a one day only 30% off sale for St. Pattys. Soo... I used some more birthday money to take advantage of it and got two more patterns. (I know I'm supposed to stop stashing, but they were so cheap, and B/F decided that I should cause I've been feeling so crappy). So I got Linda Ravencrofts "Dark Queen" and Johnathan Earl Bowers "Invariance". (Love Johnathan's work and he's Canadian so love supporting him). Here's pics of them:
Dark Queen

Invariance

You can of course check out all their awesome patterns and items at (I couldn't get the photos to link up... damn new editor, it's frustrating to be a designer and not be able to make blogger know what I want sometimes)
www.heavenandearthdesigns.com


In other not so good news... I am having some issues. I have pretty bad acid reflux back again. I can taste the acid for the last few days in the back of my mouth. And the clinic where my specialist works out of has not gotten back to me about my appt that is supposed to happen at the end of the month. (they tried to tell me it would be in May, except my meds are going to run out at the end of March and I have the same problem still... so we probably need to up or change meds). this really frustrates me because my discharge from the hospital says they would call me last week to fix it all up and get appts, but when I called yesterday inquiring about it the girl seemed to know nothing about it. *sigh* I really hate the medical system sometimes. Here's hoping that gets worked out. EDIT: So the clinic got back to me just before I posted this... and have changed my meds slightly. It was a complete gong show to get this going and I am not very impresssed. But I guess it is better than nothing. So *fingers crossed*.

Sorry I can't share all good news... but hey, page finish and new stash. I can't complain too loudly I figure. ;)

Thanks to everyone for your comments on my latest posts. I really appreciate them. I am struggling with the new diet still (and still getting acid reflux and pain) so that is frustrating. But fingers crossed that we are gonna get somewhere, in a timely fashion I hope!

Dragons Progress (and more health updates)

Well... the good news on the health front is I am back at work.
The bad news is that I have a few funky side effects from the meds. But we are working through them.
Also being on a vegetarian diet is hard and kinda sucks. We are slowly adding meat back into my diet, but fatty things have to remain gone indefinitely as well as coffee and coke. :(
But I'm not dead yet, so we'll keep on trucking. lol.

In good news... I worked on some Dragons. I am determined to finish this page (which had a goal of end of Feb, but then I got hosptalized). So I am not working on anything else until I get this page done! Should be end of the week I hope!

Excuse my slight bit of laziness for not taking it off the scroll rods but time is precious right now with meds, new food and being more tired than ever. So I just took a pic of the current page top.

As you can see I am very close. Maybe even tonight! But probably late this week.

I am very sorry I have not been getting around to comment on everyone's blogs. I am going to try and get around this week. However I am a bit overwhelmed to try and catch up from four weeks! So forgive me if I only comment on more recent posts (like the last week or so).
As usual thank you all for your lovely comments and well wishes. I appreciate them all so much. We are managing. There is still a long road to go but at least I am not in the hospital anymore.