Stitchers are so thoughtful!

A fellow sticher Christine has a son attending university at Queen's, in Kingston Ontario where I work.  We have met a couple of times and she contacted me before Easter to see if I would create a little something for her son as he wasn't coming home for the long weekend and drop it off.  I had a blast buying for "three" boys this year and then I added in some good things like apples and granola bars.  Secret Bunny was a success.
This week, a package landed on my desk at work, and I have to be honest, I didn't even look at where it came from, just added it to the "to do pile" that seems to grow overnight.  As I was cleaning my desk off for the weekend last night around 6pm, I came across the envelope again and threw it in my computer bag to bring home.  I just opened it and look what was inside!

Lots of lovely things!  Thank you Christine - you didn't need to send anything but I appreciate it all the same.

It is Saturday afternoon here - we have done the football game for this week already - I got sunburnt out watching.  The third load of laundry for the day is calling for me to hang it on the clothes line so I must run.  Here are the two projects that I've put some time into - not as much as usual and not as much as I would like but life goes one.

I have two parts of  5 (I think, could be more) that have been issued in the SAL I decided to take part in.  I love the design and look forward to having it all done to hang on my wall.  The designer has much more done, you can see that here.

And here is where I am at with "SUMMER"  in the SAL with my group of travelling sisters :-)

Busy times here - a new roof on the cottage, hubby back working shifts, lots to do at work, the oldest in football and of course spring always brings lawns and gardens again is leaving me less and less time to stitch.  Oh well, nice weather means more travelling with my "sisters", which I look forward to each and every year.

Lieu Day

While I was travelling to Texas in January, I accumulated a day in lieu...and seeing I have trouble using all my holidays in a year and Cameron has to have a tooth extracted this afternoon I decided today would be a good "lieu day".

Some housework and stitching this morning, maybe some cupcakes and supper for my three boys this afternoon.

Here is where my ICM (Ink Circle Mandala) Spring is as of this morning.

The lost post...Week Four ICM SAL

I posted this last week, and looking today, Blogger is still attempting to post it!  So the short version of the post is - here is where my Spring Mandela was last week...and I will post again this evening or tomorrow with an update.

Week one - ICM SAL

So a week into stitching and I think I've done well.  The next two weeks are action packed, one getting ready to go to a conference for work and the next, travelling to San Antonio Texas for the conference.

So, happy stitching everyone...I'll see you on the flip side.

Day One - ICM SAL

A group of stitchers started a new stitching project today, Ink Circles Four Seasons Mandala.  I started in the center of "spring" and here is where I got to today.  These are stitching up faster than I thought.  This is my first attempt at 40 count linen and so far I'm enjoying it.  My friend Clare (no blog) thinks I should attempt 55 count next!