Wintertime

I finally managed to pack away all the Christmas decorations and put out my "strictly winter" stuff. Here is my foyer all decked out for wintertime.

The designs are:

on left...one by me called "Ahh...friends"

on right...top...Peter Rabbit with a snowman (no real title) It is from an old Gloria & Pat leaflet I have had for years

on right...bottom...Snowfence by Raise the Roof

I haven't done a ton of stitching lately due to being busy with work and spending my time once home packing up everything. I have actually stitched a pretty fair amount on my train project, but nothing to really show. It is all still backstitching right now. Don't you hate working for hours and hours, days and days and it looks like you have gone nowhere? Well, that is what that project is feeling like right now. Hopefully I can move beyond this point soon.

Bride's Tree SAL...I have worked a little on my project for this month, but not finished yet. I guess I am close to 1/2 done. Since it is a gift for my husband next Christmas I can't work on it when he is here, so...needless to say it is taking longer than anticipated. Not to mention that working over 1 always takes longer than "normal" cross-stitch. :-)

Hope to have a train update picture posted soon. Happy stitching, everyone!

A Winter Finish!

Well, it's time to pack up all the Christmas stuff and start pulling out strictly winter and even begin to pull out Valentine's as well. I'm still working on packing up the Christmas. May take a while yet to get it all done. Anyhow...here is a piece I stitched early last year and "finished" it just recently.

Title: Ahh...friends!
Designer: me
Threads used: Crescent Colours & Treasure Braid
Fabric: either Cold Winter's Night or Friendship Blue from R&R (30 ct. I believe)
Beads: Mill Hill

I started working on my first piece for the Bride's Tree SAL, but haven't done as much as I would like on it. Still haven't picked up the train. I wanted to stitch some this past weekend, but helped my son put together the last bits of his HUGE history project on the Revolutionary War. Hope to stitch some soon.

I listed on my last entry my end of year movie thoughts. You may not have read them all, but there is one movie in particular that I wanted to point out. It will make you laugh, definitely make you cry, but is one of the best romantic movies I have seen in a while. Go with some girlfriends, by yourself or get your beloved to take you. It is a must see!

The movie is... PS: I Love You