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My Personal Sampler

Administrator — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:29:50 +0000

I received my very own personal sampler designed by Stephanie at http://www.nouveauencore.com/ for Christmas (2008), and have finally gotten everything together to get started on it. I ordered 35 skeins of Vicki Clayton silk (winterberry 1431) and my fabric is in.

March 05/2008

Flower Power – January 26, 2009

Administrator — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:42:02 +0000

Here’s the latest Flower Power picture. I’ve finished one of the columbine flowers, and most of the columbine leaves. Thank God!!!

Flower Power January 09

Administrator — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:40:50 +0000

I’ve been stitching like a mad women on Flower Power now that the Christmas holidays are over. I’m happy to say that what felt like a million leaves, even if it was only 15, are now complete. YEAH!!! I am now working on one of the columbine flowers and it is stitching up much faster than the boring green leaves. I know that it is a flower patch and you have to have leaves to have flowers, but the flowers are just so much more fun to stitch.

Well here’s the latest picture of Flower Power

Time to Start Back Up

Administrator — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:26:22 +0000

Well, I’ve picked up Flower Power and ready to go again. Currently I’m stuck in a pile of Columbine leaves. I think that I only have 8 more to go and then I get to stitch another pretty columbine flower…yeah. I feel like I’m hanging out in a field of leaves.

Week 11 Flower Power

Administrator — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:46:08 +0000

Well not much to show for Flower Power this week. Not even enough to post a new picture. I took a break from Flower Power this week and worked on my Mirabilia, Lady of the Mist

Flower Power Week 10

Administrator — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:25:25 +0000

Well things have been very crazy around here. I’m not really sure what week I’m on now, but I’m going to go with Week 10. We evacuated August 30th – September 3rd for Hurricane Gustov. Which missed us and hit somewhere around Morgan City in Louisiana. Then we turned around and evacuated September 11th – September 18th for Hurricane Ike which nailed us. My house/property received minor damages. For example the trampoline flew away, the swing set was picked up and slammed back into the ground and busted our roof looks a little funny, but we were very blessed! The storm surge stopped just about 2ft from my house. The city to the south of my house has about 3,000ish houses and only 14 were not flooded. The college where I work took on anywhere from 3 1/2 ft of water to 3 inches of water in 7 of 8 of our buildings. My mother-in-laws house had about 2 1/2 – 3 feet of water in it.

We are just now going back to work today normal hours, and our classes are not starting back up until October 6th. Things are a little crazy around here.

During this time I manages to do some work on Flower Power, just not as much as I had hoped. So here’s my progress

Flower Power Week 7

Administrator — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:52:32 +0000

I’ve been stitching like a mad women, with the start of the Fall semester coming up I won’t have much time for stitching. Taking a class will eat up most of my stitching time. So here’s Flower Power with all the coneflower’s, a hummingbird, and a butterfly complete.

Flower Power Week 6

Administrator — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:24:12 +0000

I finally finished the 4th flower and I’m working on finishing up all the leaves and stems. I’m trying to decide if I want to do a hummingbird next or start working on the next patch of flowers. I’ve just about talked myself into the hummers. I can’t wait to see what one looks like with the kreinik floss!

Flower Power Week 5

Administrator — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:03:48 +0000

Well this week hasn’t been very productive. I was all excited at the beginning of the week and completed the 4th flower only to discover when I started adding some of the leaves and stems that I miscounted and placed the flower in the wrong spot. So I had to frog out the whole 4th flower back stitching and all and start over. So disappointing. Now I’m slightly mad at the flower and it’s taking me a little longer to complete it. Hopefully I can finish it up this week and get to the rest of the stems and leaves!

Flower Power Week 4

Administrator — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:45:11 +0000

Moving right along. New for this week is a pretty butterfly, which was stitched over one and another white coneflower. One more coneflower left and I can move on to the next set of flowers.

Gwen ordered her fabric and pattern this week, and this past weekend we went and picked up her thread. YEAH. I won’t have to stitch on this monster alone!!!!