Jury Duty!

Yes, I am on jury duty call this week. We reported to a county courthouse Monday morning and after the orientation spent the majority of the day in the jury assembly room(s). It's been a while since the last time I was called for this service and I must say that, while it is an inconvenience because things at work aren't getting done, it was very painless! With computers loaded with games, 3 computers with internet access, a room that had board games and jigsaw puzzles and a TV, the county made it very easy to spend the time waiting. I did get called Monday afternoon for a jury pool but wasn't chosen. Tuesday we were told we didn't need to report and yesterday's call to the info line sent me from work to the courthouse for the afternoon (another jury pool and subsequent dismissal). I just found out a short while ago that my service is finished. So ends my 3rd jury duty call for my life-time. I'm proud to be in a country where it is every citizen's right to a trial. It is an honor to serve.

On the stitching front, I got a good bit more done on my SNS project this past weekend. Here's it's current state...

Americana Sampling from LHN
It's a fun stitch and I'm looking forward to working on it more this weekend.

I've also got to tell you about Jan's special giveaway to celebrate her granddaughter's birth! Click on this link - Celebratory Giveaway for the details. She's got a great package put together for the winner! Good Luck!

I've been concentrating on an RR piece this week. It's a 10hr RR and I'm nearly finished with my 10hrs. I'll post a pic when I've got it done - tomorrow probably, considering how little I have left to do to reach 10 hrs! LOL Then I will be going back to working on the Gingerbread Man stocking. I think I may just keep going on it until it's finished - I'm so very close and I think the weekend will see a finish!

Sending all my readers a wish for a wonderful day!!

A Great Weekend and a new start!

I was lucky to have my niece Amy (15) stay with me over the weekend. I taught her and her older sister Bethany how to do ccs several years ago and they have bother just taken off with it, making this Aunt very proud! We visited my LNS (Welcome Stitchery) on Saturday morning and were pleased to find out that the town was having their annual Sidewalk Sale this weekend. The shop had lots of things on the tables out front and while I found one small pattern, Amy found 3! Then on to inside and getting lost in the wonderful world of ccs! We did visit a few other places while we were there, but headed back to my area early in the afternoon because we planned to go see "Up" at the local movie theater that afternoon. "Up" is wonderful - silly, sad, and loads of fun - I highly recommend seeing it!

After the movie, we headed home to enjoy the rest of the day. I did some stash diving to find a new project for this week's SNS stitching time. Since I finished Deftly Wrought last week I got to indulge in a new start this week! I chose the LHN Americana Sampling kit and got a good start on it during the 4 hours I stitched. The kit included 28ct Raw Linen and CCs.


Amy worked on one of the kits she got today. There were 3 kits that she's going to do up as one gift for Christmas. And I was doubly thrilled because it was over 1 on 36ct linen!! You go, Amy!! After she finished up the one kit, she started working on another gift (birthday) and got a good amount done before she stopped stitching as well. She finished the birthday gift on Sunday. She stitched more than I did this weekend! We headed west to meet her folks for the "exchange" and I was pleasantly surprised to see that my Mom came with my DB & SIL to meet us. We had a scrumptious supper at Steak 'N Shake before going our separate ways.

Except for Saturday nights stitching, I've been concentrating on Jayden's Gingerbread Men stocking for the past week and have quite a bit more done. I'm currently working on the last of the gingerbread men, then it's just a bit more of the background and the final b/s (on the last 2 gingerbread men) before I can hand it off to Mom for finishing! Since I didn't set any true goals this month, I may push on and just finish it. I only have 1 other thing that I must stitch on this month (the 10hr RR piece) and it's great to feel the freedom to concentrate so much on one thing!

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

A busy holiday weekend!

While I didn't do anything outside the house, I did enjoy my 3-day holiday weekend. I started out by treating myself to breakfast at the local family restaurant. I had been jonesing for their Strawberry Crepes and I certainly wasn't disappointed. They were totally yummy! I don't eat out alone like that very often, but I had my book and just enjoyed the experience. Then I headed to the Hallmark store to get cards, but also found out they were clearing out their ornament section to make room for this year's editions. I got 5 ornaments for $13!! Thinking ahead to Christmas gifts, that helped a lot! I made another stop at K-Mart and then got gas before heading home. And it's still Friday! LOL

I puttered in my stash room a bit and ran across something that I could use for a baby gift. My dear friend Jan of Only One Ewe Needleworks became a 1st time Nana on Thursday. Alexandra Catherine was born at 12:53AM! I found a cute little pattern and made these up for her.


I worked on Let Freedom Ring the remainder of the day Friday, while watching good old classics - Mr. Roberts, Yankee Doodle Dandy, etc. I managed to finish the bell on Friday. It is the largest solid stitching on the piece and I'm glad it's behind me. I got more done yesterday and will probably work on it again sometime this week. It's 1 strand over 2 on 40ct so I can only work on it for so long before I go cross-eyed! LOL

The big accomplishment for the weekend was getting Deftly Wrought finished during the SNS this weekend. I just love the verse on this, it's what drew me to the piece in the first place. Jan's conversions are just beautiful aren't they? The fabric is 32ct Maple Sugar and the threads are CCs.


I did get to see some fireworks from my front door. There's a small private country club a few blocks from me and they had a fireworks display. They were louder than I would have liked since they were so close, but what I saw was lovely. I did have one of my furbabies freak out with them going off. Surprisingly it was the youngest and the toughest - Bo! He didn't like them one bit! The other 2 slept thru most of them.

It was a nice quiet weekend and a wonderful stitching weekend for me. Now I'm back at work for another slow week, but I can look forward to the weekend because my niece Amy is staying with me and we will be visiting my LNS for a shopping trip! I've already started my list! LOL

Thank you for your kind comments! Have a wonderful week!

Here's the VanTasel house!

As promised, here is the finished manor house on Sleepy Hollow. I did take a picture of the entire piece, but it came out blurry so I'll re-take it and post it later this month. Probably after I get some more work done on the piece. It took nearly 3 skeins of Weeks London Fog to stitch this roof.

Finishing this means that I have only 1 side of the piece to complete. The Old Dutch Church, the graveyard, 1 more tree, and the moon. I should have it finished before Halloween!