Gifted Gorgeousness March

Hello again everyone.  Sorry for not posting about my trip yet it seems I've been doing nothing but working and sleeping since I got back.  I do have some progress to show though.  Yay!  Last month I was about halfway through the first word:

And now I'm almost done with the first word:

I think I may start stitching by page instead of by column so we'll see how it goes.  Sorry it's a short update I haven't really done much.  But I should have my trip report up soon!

I'm back!!!

And I'm sorry to say I didn't do a single stitch while I was away!  I don't feel too bad though because I had a lot of fun.  I'll do a trip report a little later but I have finally caught up reading all of your blogs.  It took a good 4 hours to read everything so I'm sorry if I didn't comment.  Now I'm off to do laundry unless the laundry fairy decides to love me and come to my rescue!  And before I forget Nancy is having another giveaway: http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com/2015/03/spring-fling-stitching-give-away-over.html?showComment=1426096242758&m=1 so go check her out.  I may get in my first post tonight we'll see.

Vacation time!

I'm happy to report im on the ship and we are good to go.  I've got a massage/body wrap booked for tomorrow morning at 8:00.  100 minutes for the price of a 75!  

Ok be jealous ;). See you in 5 days!

Feels Like Forever

It feels like I haven't talked to you all in a long time.  According to my last post it's only been about a week but dang.  Maybe it's all the stuff I've been doing at work and getting ready for the cruise.  I had to get suits from 3 places and ended up buying 2.  I bought 4 off amazon but they all have to be returned because they don't fit.  I did buy a pretty new Victorian corset cocktail dress and a pirate shirt for pirate night though.  Come to find out DH didn't get the time off so there is a chance we will have to cancel the cruise. He can't call in because he used the discount for it and he can be terminated. He says he's not worried and that he'll be able to trade it but I'm slightly freaking.  We're supposed to leave in 3 days.  I think we're going to have to start bribing people.  DMIL comes in 2 days but we won't see her until the day before we sail since she's flying straight to Miami which is a 3 hour drive.  We both have work so we can't leave here until around 7:30 the night before.  I haven't packed anything yet but I have Wednesday off so I can pack then.  

Stitching wise I've been a little preoccupied with my trip so I haven't made as much progress as I would like but I have managed about a quarter of a page.

Since there are letters in the way the rest of the half shouldn't take long.  I want to finish the page on the cruise.  We just bought a new printer that we found a great deal on so I'll be able to print out a page or two so I'm not lugging my kindle all over giving someone a chance to steal it.  Not that I'm expecting that but you never know.  Plus it's hard reading a pattern on it because even zoomed in it's too small and goes to the screensaver too quickly.

Well that's all the updates for now thanks for listening.  By the way if anyone's looking for a good book recommendation im rereading the 500 Kingdoms series by Mercedes Lackey.  They're a new twist in fairy tales.

Until next time,

Keep on stitchin

SFS February

I'm happy to report I still haven't spent any money on stash this year.  I don't have any finishes I can report since I started my project last month and bought it in December but that's okay.  There have been quite a few HAEDs that have been calling my name but I've refrained.  

February spent: $0

Carryover: $25

Total: $50

That being said I have finished another page!  I'll now be starting page 5 which I'll be doing beside page 4 instead of underneath.  

Until next time,

Keep on stitchin!

Gifted gorgeousness SAL February

Hey everyone I'm currently at universal watching barenaked ladies.  It's Mardi Gras and their concert series.  They were good he kept messing with the sign language interpreter and they kept making up songs about the new harry potter land.

But I'm almost done with half of page 4.  I've stitched down past the letters.  The page ends about 5 rows below the letter.

So I'm almost through the M. It's not quite wide enough to go through but almost.

I also got some good news we got a good deal on a cruise since my hubby works at disney so we're doing a 5 night cruise to grand cayman and disney's private island castaway cay starting 3/6.  We've done cruises before with disney and it's great because soft drinks are included and so is the food even on their island and they have tons of adult only areas.  They also try seating you at a table with people like you so it's very relaxing.  We don't do excursions and usually buy spa passes so I'll hopefully have tons of stitching time.  It's our first time on the wonder which is an older ship but has a cool restaurant and my DMIL is staying in the room with us so we'll see how it goes im excited!

Until next time
See ya real soon!

Hallelujah!

Page 3 is finally done.  It was only a half page but I thought it was going to take forever with the confetti.  This does not bode well for the rest of my project.

The color change was nice to get out of the oranges a bit but the orange ended up going down to almost the bottom.  I got the letters for page 4 done tonight which takes up a big chunk of the stitching and it's in one block of color so that helps.  The outline is easy too since I don't have to look at my chart much.  So here's the stitching so far:

I don't think I've told you guys what the phrase is...let's keep it a surprise :)  So I am now on page 4/42 which means I'm still pretty far behind but I'm hoping I can catch up soon.  Instead of doing columns of 20 I'm going to do columns of 30 which is about half the page.  I think this will speed up my stitching since I won't be changing colors as much.

Here's a question for you:  How do you stitch?  I stitch in hand using the sewing method.  I like it because I don't have creases caused by frames and it's cheap but it makes it a little more difficult to hold when I get to the left side since there's more fabric.  I would love to get this next page done in the next 3 days but we'll see.  Page 5 is the next page down and we're going to start seeing the next line of the quote.  Yay!

On another slightly stitching note I do all of my stitching from my computer.  I got a new laptop for Christmas and realized I don't have to use a needleminder because my computer is magnetized in parts lol.

It's hard to see but it works :)

Until next time,
Live long and stitch!