Goodbye 2010!

It's time to say goodbye to 2010.  I was hoping for a good year, but, I can't overly say it has been one.  That's about all I will say about it.  Let's hope 2011 is much, much better.

I have not done much stitching this year and am not making any stitching resolutions for the new year.  Hopefully there will be more finishes in the new year.  My main goal of the new year is to just enjoy stitching again.

Here is my last finish of 2010:

Bedford Falls

by:  The Sampler Girl

Stitched on scrap of 28 ct unknown dyed fabric

Threads:  GAST Evergreen, Holly Berry, Nutmeg, Deep Sea & CC Cloud

Finished as a flat ornament and backed with shown fabric

Trimmed with a bell for Clarence  :-)

2009 End of Year Movie Thoughts

Definite Top 5 of 2010 in no particular order:

Toy Story 3

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part I

Iron Man 2

The Young Victoria

Inception

Other Movies Worth Noting:

Letters to Juliet

How to Train Your Dragon

Tangled

The Town

The Last Song

Dear John

Honorable Mention:

Charlie St. Cloud

Unstoppable

Secretariat

Knight & Day

Edge of Darkness

A Little Disappointed, but Didn't Dislike It:

Twilight:  Eclipse

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Valentine's Day

Biggest Disappointments of the Year:

The Back-Up Plan
The Bounty Hunter

Movies I'm Looking Forward to in 2011:

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part II

Captain America

Thor

Water for Elephants

Winnie the Pooh

Well, that wraps up things for now.  Hope all of you are doing well.  Until next time. 

Here's what I picked out!

Here are the two patterns I picked out from Tanya's drawing:

The Mrs. Lincoln Sampler &

Return to the Sea with Jane Austen


It was a hard choice. I had several patterns on my "wish list". I knew right off that I would choose the Mrs. Lincoln Sampler. After going to DC last year and touring Ford Theater and doing a Lincoln Assasination tour, plus visiting Lincoln's birthplace and boyhood home this summer, not to mention Mt. Rushmore, it was an easy choice. The second choice, however, was much harder. I finally narrowed it down to "Return to the Sea" and it's companion piece "At Home with Jane Austen". "At Home" has been on my list for ages, but I let my hubby make the final choice and he chose the sea one.

I think I have linen for the Mrs. Lincoln Sampler, but need to dig through my stash to find out for certain. There are several threads I need to get for it as well. So, it won't be started anytime soon. Maybe after the first of the year.

Thank you so very much, Tanya!


Here is a Halloween finish:

Design: Trick or Treat (book 112)
Designer: Cross-Eyed Cricket
Changes made:

1. used glow in the dark blending filament for face of jack-o-lantern and on ghost


2. added some beads for falling leaves


3. used MH star charm haning from moon


4. used MH ghost charm on haunted house


5. used black MH bead for spider on broken window


6. used small MH bat charm to hang from witch's hat

I have been working on this for about 3 or more years! It was so nice to finally finish it and be able to decorate with it this Halloween.

Recent movie recommendation: "The Express" - great movie

I WON!!!

Oh, my gosh! I won! I won! I won! I can't believe it! Tanya of The Sampler Girl had a drawing on her blog for anyone that stitched her freebie design "Eat, Drink and Be Scary" and sent her a picture by Oct. 8th. And...I actually won! I was able to pick 2 designs of hers for winning! I can't wait for them to arrive. I will post a picture of my choices once they arrive! :-)

I signed up for a PIF on Janaina's blog and so I am Paying it Forward to the first 3 people that comment they are interested on this post. I will send you something stitched by me within the next 365 days, but you have to make the same offer on your blog and continuing Paying it Forward!

I haven't done much stitching the past week because I have been painting my son's bathroom and new bedroom. He has decided to move from his old room into one of the other rooms in the house. The old room had a large picture window in it and since Hurricane Ivan took out the large oak tree in front of it the sun has been beating into that room each morning waking him bright and early and making his room about 10 degrees warmer than the other rooms in the house. So...time for a change. I will post pictures once he gets his room set up the way he wants. Be prepared though...he picked orange for the color!!! But, really, it's not as bad as you might think. It's a dark pumpkin color, not a bright orange.

Recent movie thoughts:

• Beverly Hills Chihuahua - Cute
• Fireproof - a very good movie with a strong Christian basis. Deals with love and the difficulties of marriage and trying to continue to make it work. Made by the same people that made "Facing the Giants"
• Ghost Town - OK, not great. Parts were very funny, but I expected more. No chemistry between two main characters. At least in my opinion.
• The Longshots - Good family movie. Based on a true story.
• Nights in Rodanthe - Very good. Of course, it's Nicholas Sparks, so bring the tissues. Quite a few differences from the book, but still very good.
• Eagle Eye - Very good political thriller!

A Little Seabathing!

I have a finish this week! It's a free chart by The Sampler Girl that can be found at her website.



I loved how Mary Kathryn did her piece a while back in the monochromatic style and decided to borrow her wonderful idea and do the same. I used threads that Sharon gave me in an exchange this summer for my color. The seashell fabric that the piece is laying on is also the backing fabric. This was my first time making my own twisted cording. I think it turned out fairly well.



Title: A Little Seabathing
Thread: Teal Mist by Carrie's Threads
Fabric: 28 ct. Miracle Mint lugana







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Quaker Style Friendship Sampler

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