Finally!!

Last weekend my boyfriend and I went on an overnight trip to Moncton, NB, and I went to Because You Count.  That was my first trip ever to a Needlework Shop, and let me tell you, I was overwhelmed!  I could have spent all evening there.  This is what I ended up buying:

2 more Prairie Schooler Santas.  Years 2000 and 2003.  LizzieKate's 6 (fat) Men and some 28 count Sage Jobelan to stitch them all together on.  And 2 pieces of linen for some Halloween ornaments I am planning on stitching.  I started the 6 (Fat) Men but have run out of thread, which I am planning on picking up on Saturday.  

I also finished another page of Peter Rabbit

 And I am now working on Cars.

Happy Stitching Everyone!!

Time to vote on Lizzie Kate quote

The quote I submitted is a finalist!  I so hope I win!  Go here to vote.  You can pick up to 3.

The quote I submitted was "Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened" ~ Dr. Seuss

Lizzie Kate Contest

Right now LizzieKate is having a contest.  Here is what their blog says: "Ready? Here's how it works!
We're looking for sayings for the next group of 3 Inspiration Boxers. Submit your ideas until March 9. Multiple sayings may be submitted. We'll choose our 10 favorites (with a little help from our friends) and post them on the L*K blog.

Then for the next week or so, you can VOTE for your favorite inspirational sayings. We'll give prizes to everyone who makes the "Top 10" list and more goodies to the 3 big winners. The Top 10 list will all receive new Inspiration Boxers (and other goodies) and the 3 "big" winners will receive Inspiration Boxers and an additional $50 of Lizzie*Kate designs of their choice."

How awesome would that be?!!!  You can go here to see previous Boxers and go here and leave a comment with your saying.  Don't forget to leave your email address in the comment.  I love LizzieKate designs and have stitched one, which you can see here, but I would love to do more, I have my eye on quite a few once I get some of the stuff done I have on the go now.  Good luck everyone but I hope I am one of the winners!

The dog ate my pattern

                                            

The above picture is the cross stitch I talked about awhile ago.  The one where I lost the pattern and the only conclusion I can come to is that the dog ate it.  I don't feel bad blaming her because she has eaten many things over the last 10 years and on this particular day there was other evidence that she was enjoying a meal of things she shouldn't be eating, so I am very sure she did do it.  If I remember correctly, she was into flyers, so my pattern could have gotten eaten along with the flyers.  So if anyone happens to have this pattern and wouldn't mind if I borrowed it to finish this I would love that.  It has various fruit along the bottom, a large pineapple in the middle and I am pretty sure it says "Welcome" along the top.   

 And this is some progress on Peter Rabbit.  It is quite slow going but I am very happy with it so far, but since my babes is almost 1, he will probably be 10 before it is completed.  I don't think a 10 year old is really going to appreciate this.  haha.

So this happend ...

Yup that is my 10 month old boy with a busted lip.  Poor thing, he went to bed normal and when I got him this morning this is what he looked like.  I don't know how he did it or why he didn't cry.  I would have cried!

And you should always include a pic of the big brother.  Here he is concentrating very hard on helping me fold some laundry.

And this is my newest work in progress.  It is for my oldest nephew.  He picked out this chart.  I hope he continues to like pitbulls as he gets older because it will be awhile before he will be getting the finished product!

Happy stitching!

A new Signature

I now have my signature (well not mine a computer generate one) at the end of my posts and if you would like to learn how to put one at the end of your blog posts go to Funky Junk Interiors.  She has a tutorial on how to do it and I made mine in about 5 min.  She also has lots of other neat things and I have been pinning her stuff like crazy.

DIY Battery holder

My junk drawer is a disaster.  I have a bad habit.  I like to save things, such as, napkins from take out, rubber bands, twist ties, bread tags etc.  None of those are really bad things to save in my opinion but my problem is I just chuck them in the junk drawer, forget about them until I need one, which by that time they have migrated to the bottom/back of the junk drawer never to be seen again.  The same thing was happening with the batteries.  My oldest got a kids digital camera for Christmas.  He has not been able to try the camera out yet because we didn't have any AA batteries, that is until I cleaned out the junk drawer.  He now has 50+ pictures on the camera.  

About a week ago I actually took the drawer out of my cupboards and put it on the kitchen table.  There, now I had to do something with it.  I started, then realized I need little dishes to organize all this stuff, so the drawer went back into hiding, until today.  I had to do a load of dishes in the dishwasher and used the last Cascade pack which had come in this great dish.  I have been eyeing up this dish every time I start the dishwasher.  Today as I emptied it out it came to me, that should fit in a drawer and it is big enough to hold my batteries.  

So out came the scrapbook letters and ModgePodge and away I went, with the help of my 4 year old this is what we did.  We put the stickers on, then 2 coats of ModgePodge.

 I tried to peel the stickers off the side but they were just ripping in little tiny pieces so I may just wrap some pretty paper around it or I may just leave it.  When it is in the drawer all you see is the top anyway.  

It fits almost perfectly.  See the bottom long green sticker?  See the left hand side of that sticker?  That is the almost part, the drawer and I had a little fight while getting dish in.