Bent Creek Stashing

Bent Creek Stashing
Originally uploaded by xstitchnmama

This was picked out as a project for DD#2. She picked the threads which are Crescent Colours and the chart is Humbug by Bent Creek. The design origanally called for very dark colors, but DD changed all that! I love her eye for color!!!

Back In the Land of the Living

Hi All,
     I hope that this month finds you all well.  I am doing just fine after a time with no power due to a $1000 dollar power bill.  The power is back on now...(YAY)...but now I have to wait for the repairmen and the plumber to come snake candle wax out of my bathtub drain and fix the hole in the closet wall that they made trying to reach the pipe yesterday.
 I guess I'm going to have to explain the candlewax huh? 
     It seems that DH decided that the candles that we were using to light the livingroom were not giving off enough light.
So....he proceeded to add paper to the candles to achieve the desired effect.  (This turned out to be a good idea for all of about 3 seconds.)  While DD#1 and I watched in horror and DD#2 ran for the door; (she wasn't taking any chances) the fire in the glass grew to heights that I just knew would set off the sprinklers.  After much yelling on my part and insistance that he "knew what he was doing" on the part of DH.  The glass that housed the candle charred and cracked...forcing him to admit defeat.  This ment that he went running into my bathroom with the whole mees on one of my best baking sheets and dumped the entire catastrophy in my TUB!!!!  As if this was not bad enough, he then proceeded to turn on the faucet and and douce the flames with WATER!!!!!!!
     Fire safety rule #1  Oily candle + Large fire = Oil Fire
     This means that is water is used to try to put out said
     fire;there will be and was a FLARE!  What DH should
     have done was to use salt in his efforts.
     HE FORGOT!!!!!
     Do I really need to tell you that when we got the fire out there was wax EVERYWHERE!!!!  Do I???  DH had to scrub the wax off the walls and floor of my tub.  In doing this however, he didn't prevent the floating wax from going down my drain!!!!!!!   Where it has since hardened into a mass of unkown proportions and now requires the ministrations of a plumber, two repairmen and maybe a priest.
     So...here I sit, amid a sea of laundry...waiting and folding.

In stitching news...I am still working on the M Sherry piece that I had the finish on last month.
I am sad to report that there has been more f\rogging going on than stitching so I have no update photo to post.  I hope to get back to work on it soon so that I can have a finish for this month.

Stitches and Love,
Frishawn
   



    

First Finish 2010!!

Here it is...my first finish of 2010!  "Crossword Hedgehogs" from Margaret Sherry by way of Cross Stitcher Magazine's Sports and Hobbies series.

I put that last stitches in this little beauty at 9:42 pm last night.  I am stitching this on 18x27 Country French linen 32 ct.  This is also the first finish that I have had on LINEN!!!!!!  There will be more finishes added to this fabric.  I have the next chart all ready to start and I will start that tonight.

Here I am in Atlanta at my favorite stitching heaven "Abcedarius" in Marietta Ga. This was one of the highlights of my trip, although I did not do any HARD stashing. I just picked up a few odds and ends.
The kids had tons of fun visiting with all of their cousins, aunts, and grands. I thought I would get a ton of stitching done, but sadly that was not to be. There was NEVER enough light. I really missed my pink stitching lamp.
The whole time that I was gone, I was pining fir what I thought was the warmth of home. Wouldn't you know that when we came back Orlando was in the middle of the longest cold snap EVER. (It's still going on BTW) BURRR!
So in short, there are no stitches to show in this update, although there will be very shortly. I hope that this post finds you happy and in great spirits.

Computer!!!

I know that I have been away for a while...AGAIN! This time was not my fault. The hard drive on the computer died and the poor baby had to go in to be serviced. Then after that my desktop went to the big landfill in the sky as well. So I was computerless!!! Ohhhhh the horror!! It is not over though, because DH lost the restore disk that would put Windows back on the computer so that all can be right with the world. So we are now on the Linus system...which is like riding a ten-speed on snow tires. I'm sure that it can be done but I would not suggest it. I called Toshiba yesterday and they said that they could replace the disk for 19.95. As much as I want that disk I know that as soon as it shows, the other will as well.

And The Award Goes Tooo....

This is the award that I was given by Beth of "Crossed Purposes." She said that I had to give one to 8 other people! Only 8.....ohhhhh boy!

I would like to give this award to...

Mary-list mum for Cross Stitch Addiction who is forever coming up with fun stuff to do.

Beth- aka "Stitching Queen" for staying up with me and making me stitch more.

Mel-for being one of the coolest ladies that know!!! she is truely a stash queen.

Mariann-for our wonderful chats which help me make sense of a world that doesn't.

Vickie-for reminding me to be happy everytime I go to her blog!

Claire-list mum for BAPXS the first group that I joined on the net. You are truely a wonderful lady.

Jennifer Stuart-Just for being "da Bomb" and naming me YODA!

Tiger Lady- cause you are my bestest friend ever and I love ya!!!!!

Bad Bad Bad!!!!

I think this picture says it all...not only have I not stitched in three days and counting; I have had the audacity to commit myself to two SAL's! Have I gone MAD!! I would have to say YEEEESSSSSS. "Lovey" (you know...the thing that I haven't stitched on in about three days) keeps glaring at me. I have to do something about that TODAY! I can't take it anymore.
To top things off, there are MORE SALs in the works in Cross Stitch Addiction-that is the group of really BAD people that keep coming up with more stuff for me to do! (BAD PEOPLE) "Stitch today I must." I hope to get something done by the end of the week or at least have enough done on the things that I am working on so that this picture no longer applies.