Officially Spring!

Good Afternoon Everyone!!

I have been wanting to post but I didn't want to bore you with the everyday stuff and not have pictures to share.

Today is officially the first full day of Spring!! It is chilly outside but it is oh so sunny and standing inside looking out, it looks great. Hopefully by the end of the week, the weather will warm up a bit (according to AccuWeather).

This morning while waiting for a load of laundry to come out of the dryer, I decided to finish up DS's graduation announcement. I was at the point where I had to do the Smyrna crosses surrounding "Follow Your Dreams" and I couldn't do it in hand in the car. They just weren't laying straight. Also I had planned to use metallic DMC and that was not cooperating so I changed it to Kreinik Blending Filament and I am very happy with the result. Here is his graduation announcement in all its glory (with the wording taken out for safety reasons):


Here is the information on this very special gift:
Graduation Announcement for my very DS
April 2006 Stoney Creek Magazine
Stitched on 28 ct. Paradise Sky from Silkweavers with DMC and Kreinik Blending Filament and two Mill Hill gold beads
Colors changed from magazine to his school colors. The blue and gold is his current school and the red symbolizes his soon to be high school colors (red and white)
Started: February 1, 2007
Finished: March 21, 2007

I am so happy this is finished. Now the hunt will be on for the perfect frame and mat and I still have 3 months til I give it to him. I have never been so ahead of the game for a gift.

Now after I fold the next load, I will pull out my next car project and start that. It is from a UK magazine and it will be for my bathroom. I can't give the particulars because I can't find the magazine. I have to give a shout-out to St. Anthony to help me. I did find the floss and fabric but no magazine. Hopefully it turns up before I have to get to school to pick up the kids. I have been enjoying my stitching in the car. :)

I did pick up Tesori the other day and I am almost finished with Trentino. I plan to finish that and the next region before I move onto another WIP which is Coffee.

Well I better go have a talk with St. Anthony. Have a great day everyone!!

I Do Stitch!!

It has been such a long while since I posted any kinds of stitching pictures. Then again, I really haven't been stitching til now. Anyway, here is a progress picture of my car project which is DS's 8th grade graduation announcement. I am jumping around as I want to do the personalization first since that is what I charted out. So here is a sneak peek of what I have been up to these days in the car while waiting for the kiddos to get out of school. This is from the April 2006 Stoney Creek Magazine but I have changed the colors to our school colors (the blue and the gold/yellow). I also plan on doing the 2007 which will be above the personalization in red. The red will symbolize the school colors of DS's high school. So all around this is a very personal project and one that I am enjoying stitching. The fabric doesn't come up really well but it is called Paradise Sky and is from Silkweavers. It is a pale blue with some slight mottling. I love it. Hopefully the next time I show it too you I can play with the coloring a bit to see if I get a good representation of the color.

DS has decided on which High School he wants to go to and we will register him on Sunday. It was supposed to be this past Sunday but it was postponed because we were getting the snow, ice and sleet crap yet again. So come this Sunday it will be official and I for one am glad this decision will be behind us. I swear I was close to having a nervous breakdown leading up to DS's decision. Now we will just be a lot poorer than we already are because he did pick a Catholic High School within the Archdiocese. But I do know a lot about this particular high school and DS will be getting an excellent education at this high school.

For today I am trying to get back on track after last week. That means mega laundry and I have to go to the food store and a few errands later. Right now I am waiting to get at least some of the laundry finished and put away so it won't be a burden come tomorrow when I want to get some housecleaning done.

Have a great day!!