For Someone who should be studying....

I get a great deal of crafting done? Actually I was rather diligent yesterday. This evening is a very different story. Todays final I actually had a shot of making a better grade if I worked really really hard at studying. Tomorrows final no matter how good i do i have the same letter grade, I just can't fail the final or I'll lose my letter. So I'm not too terrible concerned about tomorrows final.

After I got home I had some quiet time with the scissor holder. Alas I'm sick of orange and had to take a break from it. oh wells.


I decided to clean my sewing machine area. And being that it was cleared off I decided to do some sewing. I made another square for the In Bloom block of the month. As much as I love block of the months I'm good at finding the pitfall of a pre cut pre packaged one.... the opps i shouldn't have done that error. the error that can't really be fixed and you just have to adapt. The block isn't suppose to look like this it's my attempt to fix a problem. Don't worry the top isn't messed up it's just that the blocks are too big for my 12 x 12 storage stuff so I hate to fold them up so I use hangers to keep creases out of them. And since I don't want any marks from the clamp things I fold scrap muslin to cushion it.

However after that interesting ad lib I think it's time for bed.

More stitching...

and not much studying. I really need to get my act together. Just a heads up though, between needing to study, I'm migrating to my mom's house this weekend. So a fair amount of packing is involved there. Mac will be home for leave soon, and the baby will be here shortly after. So just a warning posts may be far and few between, and most liekly will have a more family theme to them.

But in stitching news I did so some stitching this weekend. I'm still doing the which screams at me the most method. I'll probably switch to a project a week method but haven't decided. Anyways this is the progress on Celtic Christmas:

However I got a little tired of all the red so I switch over to the Viking Sampler. Alas even with gridding I goofed on stitched placement so next time i go to work on the bugger i'll have to start with some undoing of stitches oh well. I had that sort of day yesterday.

I also couldn't resist starting something small and new. It didn't help that last weekend I found the a box of DMC variations on clearence and felt it was too good of a deal to pass up and bought it. But atleast it will be a practicle project. It's a scissor holder. A freebie that can be found here. I'm using DMC 772 and the variation DMC 4120. Minus the few (okay many) goofs that required a great deal of undoing of stitches it's turning out nicely. I really do need a scissor holder, while working on Celtic Christmas I kep losing the scissors. Once this is done i'll be able to loop it onto on the the scroll knobs... well that's the plan if it works is a different story lol.

A sense of accomplishment

So I got loads of stitching done last night on the Celtic Christmas! So this is what I started the evening with:
And this is what it looks like after having Galdiator and Beutiful Mind play in the background.
And this is what it looks like off the scroll frame! It might actually be done in time for Christmas!
Next week is finals, but I think if I buckle down the week after I might get a good portion done! and then I can start thinking about which Celtic Lady will be next on the scroll frame.

Block by Block

I'm so loving my pregnancy. I have just a few weeks to go. There's an on-line group of mom who are due the same month as I and most are wanting it to be over and the baby here. I'm actually enjoying it. There has been uck but it's been managable, and where most of the other mom's to be actually had someone to help them out, I've been helping keep morale of my deployed hubby up.

That said one thing that I've had a case of is insomnia. I had it prior to being pregnant so i'm not that concerned. It does mean that I've done some mild stitching since if i can't sleep might as well be "productive."

And so I worked a wee bit more on the Rune Sampler. 1st pic is what it looked like when i started. The second is what I ended on. As you can see i didn't get very far. Many because my mind was going a hundred miles an hour trying to convince me to start a new quick stitch project. I wont permit myself another quick stitch this month, even though i feel oh so productive when i finish one. No i need to make a good summer time dent in all my long term projects. Since baboo is due next month I haven't a clue how much stitching I'll have time for.

To appease the "something new" feeling I did opt to tuck the Rune Sampler away and work on my Celtic Christmas. I have all five charts for the Celtic Ladies. I've been working on Christmas since 2005 eep! I think I figure out why i've been dragging my feet: it's all one colour. The thing I look forward to with the seasons is that they aren't all one color. And boy are there some lovely color conversions out there that really make me hurry up and finish. But I only got two blocks worth done before the sleepiness kicked in.


No stitching was done this evening. I had a project I needed to work on for class. Next week is finals and that always is a double edge sword of good and bad feelings lol.

Here's to the time and attention span for some stitching tomorrow!

Brought to you by the letter Z... or is it R?

Worked a little on the Celtic Rune Sampler. Completed "Algiz," which means Protection, assistance, defense, and or warning. I had to undo stitches because i miss counted on the next rune, So i decided that i was going to put down a grid. Thus not much got done tonight.

Finished "I Do"

I'm rather happy with how it turned out. I hope you don't mind my use of the floss as censory. I had to think really hard on how to go about that and still make it look pleasing to look at. But what is covered up are our initials and our wedding date. Such a happy sampler!

Welcome to My Blog

Blog, Five years ago today, I went to the grocery store it get a half gallon of milk. He was my bagger. He offered to bag the milk and I declined. He walk the milk out for me, I laughed at him saying he did not need to. He asked for my number, I lied and said I did not have a cell phone. We got to my call and there sitting in the driver’s seat was my cell phone. He put his number in and told me his screen name. I did not intend to call him, but I had no qualms with having something to chat on-line with, so with a screen name that was just too outlandish to remember I ended up calling him.

We have both grown up these last five years. Gone through tests and rigors that some people may have thrown the towel in saying it’s not worth the effort. People grown when people go through transitions in life, as a couple you have to recognize that people in fact change and it’s the ability to still cope with the changes that get you through.

We went through the transition of high school to college. Together we made the decision for him to join the military. We dealt with being in school here with him stationed states away. We survived a yearlong deployment. We joined hands in holy matrimony. We are expecting our first-born. We are in the middle of another yearlong deployment.

We spent the first two years of courtship seeing each other every single day. It was a rough transition once he joined the military. In the past three years, added all together, we have seen each other for 8 months worth of days. Long distance relationships are hard work and not for the faint of heart.

Therefore, to help usher in a new year to our courtship, I am starting a little blog. Geared mostly to be a place to highlight my hobbies there may be a couple snippets about my goings-on’s. I’m not sure how personal I’ll get, this post was rather personal but surprisingly not as detailed as it could have been.

Don’t be surprises to find backdated entries. As I’d like to document things when they happened and I’m betting that happening and documenting might not always coincide.

Don’t work entries probably wont ever be this long. Thank you for stopping by and please come visit again.

Mrs. Mac

Salute to Fathers is Complete

In case you can't make out the letter it reads: "Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a daddy"