WIPoclaypse April

 I started on the Iguana bookmark yesterday.  I found out I won a free pattern from Funk and Weber and it's the week to donate bookmarks.  So I better get busy!  I did a lot of that at work today, I had this piece so I'm stitching over one and I think I need to find me a smaller needle.  I also need to get reading with them!  I still haven't participated in the book group except I think when they were discussing The Graveyard Book.  I had all ready read that one.  Right now they're reading The Help, that may be on the Hot Reads at the library so I may have to pay for it.  Currently I finished a book about Glock, I'm reading a book called Moby-Duck.  It's about how the author tried to track down a lost shipment of children's toys.  Then I have the Graphic Novels Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.  Even if you don't think you're a Graphic Novel person you should read these, they are an autobiography of her life growing up in Iran during the revolutions and the wars.  I think the last book ended in the 80's when she was being sent away and then Persepolis 2 is about her return, I finished the first book but haven't started the 2nd.  Tomorrow at work my friend is bringing me a copy of The Hunger Games since I don't seem to get around to reading it on my husbands tablet.

 I've stitched a bit on Dolly Mama.  I was hoping to do Amazon April over at It's Geek to Me's Blog and stitch on my Dragon piece but the best time to do that is weekends and it looks pretty full.  I may need to work ot hours on this and next Friday.  Saturday is the MS Walk if anyone would like to donate to team Cook Bacon I'd appreciate it.  My friend Bacon and I will be walking 2 miles because that's her limit ;)  I also signed up for the one in my town but I found out that's the weekend that hubs and I were going to Chattanooga for a special event at the Aquarium.  A new exhibit is opening and they are having a member event.  We don't have to stay Saturday but I don't want to feel rushed getting back and I don't have anyone else walking with me in that event anyway.  Bacon's not going to drive that far, it's far enough to get to Nashville.

I haven't been posting Dress Up Day pics because they are too repetitive.  I did like this outfit though with my layered stockings.  You can see a bit in the picture that the fishnets are shiny.  I needed a purple shiny day to give me a boost.  Work is :p and it's my fault, I failed two of my surveys.  Bah humbug but it'll get better.  OH and last weekend we went out to Opry Mills because they had just reopened and I got a dress at Old Navy so I'll take a pic when I wear that but it's too casual to wear to work.  Granted I'll end up wearing my plaid baby doll dress to work if I go in on Friday 13th ;)  Also, some women need a memo that leggings are not the same thing as pants.  I was complaining to my boss but they aren't enforcing the dress code as strictly as they said they would.  Then some of the people on my team were wearing them too and even though they were curvy it still looked OK, but there was someone I saw today that I just thought "Did you look at yourself in the mirror before you went out?"
Ah well, It's also the start of the Stanley Cup Finals, in Hockey.  First game was tonight and my Penguins lost to hubs Flyers in ot 4-3.  Which wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't been up 3-0 at the end of the first :p  We need to do better!!  I should be stitching my hockey stitch while watching the game then huh?  I think it's been two finals that I've stitched through now and the thing still isn't done!
Well goodnight and sorry for my rambling ons.  I need to get better at posting so I don't have so much to say in one go!

April Fools!

Well more like March Fools!  I hardly got on in March.  I did all my Dress Up Days but I just didn't get pictures and its all the same outfit over and over.
However this Saturday I went on a little spending spree and got some hose clearance on Target, sweater ones for next winter and some solid ones.  I paired it up with the purple hose I got from Charming Charlies a few weeks ago.
 
Then I did stitch on my ferret on Friday while watching The National Parks documentary on Netflix.  I ran out of brown and had to go to Michael's to pick one up.  I thought I had a 50% coupon at home but I guess it expired and I didn't print it in time.  Did get 40% off another box to organize my room with, when I went to Hobby Lobby I found the same thing but cheaper :p so I got a different style.

Today starts Script Frenzy, I'm debating still.  I've done NaNoWriMo where you write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.  This is a 100 page script for anything, movie, play, graphic novel.  I only seem to write in November, between the cross-stitch and the scrap booking (which I haven't done much of) I don't make time.  I've made more time for riding the bike since it's nice out in the morning and I go to the gym after work Mon-Wed.  I now have one of the guys helping me with exercise so maybe I'll actually lose weight rather than stay the same. (probably help if I stopped drinking Dr. Pepper)

Dress Up Catch Up

Hubs and I went to Atlanta over the weekend and even though I brought the portable with me I didn't up load pics :p  Also, the only pic taken of the 2 of us was when we went to the Aquarium and we didn't buy the pics.  The only pic I got of hubs was a weird shot when I got him petting the sharks and rays at the Chattanooga aquarium.
So here's Friday, Sunday, Monday and Today

 I wore that hat all weekend. I had my butterfly dress and jeggings with a brown turtleneck for Friday.  Also, wore my yellow sketchers for comfort rather than my sneakers.  Think I got some odd looks but :p on them ;)

 New hose that I bought on clearance at Charmin Charlies.  Which reminds me I have pics in my phone of some necklaces that I liked.

 bad photo :p

March 1st Dress Up Day and Monopoly

I wore my blue dress from Target today and my black stockings.  Found my Owl necklace in the car later so threw that on too.

I stitched Monopoly while watching Margin call on Tuesday and Wednesday (with audio commentary)  I had most of the blue done so I had done blue on a little bit of the edges and then did all the black.  The second time I started filling in the Jail to have something other than blue and black to stitch.
I liked Margin Call, you may have heard of it if you watched the Oscars.  It was nominated but I heard Woody Allen's movie won.  Margin Call was an interesting story about a trading corporation in the hours that it realizes that everything is about to go to pieces.  Before the Door productions produced it and the writer and director was JC Chandor.  Zachary Quinto is a member of Before the Door and got it together and was one of the actors so I kept looking up and staring at the screen while I was stitching ;)  They had a great cast for this movie, everyone did a superb job.

Dress Up Day 15

And now I am done for this unless I just really decide I want to wear a dress.

Can't really see how shiny the shirt is or the texture on the tights.
Tomorrow I get to go to a friends and have a nice day stitching.  Found out at work we have a training and since it falls in my lunch I'd have to go after it.  So hopefully they can push it up so I can leave at 5 instead of 5:30 since it makes little sense to go to lunch come back for 30 min and then leave. 
Also, this Saturday will be meeting them again so I'll seem to have the good start for the hermit stitch weekend.

Dress Up Day 14

Did change out the black jacket for my red one and didn't wear the scarf out but I didn't get a picture when I bought it and I was cold this morning.   I hope everyone had a pleasant Valentines Day.

Dress Up Day 13 and crafty goodies

 I did put on hose, my nude fishnets.  They have holes in the toes now and might have to be got rid of soon :(

 My progress on my Love Quilt Square and I'll soon be done with the Dolly Mama border on Catmas so I'll have to plan out the border on Crap now I have to wrap.

Bad photo of my creative Lo :p which is a highly uncreative LO done really quickly to get it in before tomorrow.  Now I have no idea what I'll do for D.

Dress Up Day 11 and 12

 Yesterday There was a Hockey game so I stitched some on Rivalry.  Realized that some of the 2 over 2 stitches were not done with 2 strands of krinek so tried to go back but couldn't really tell the difference.  Ah well.  Wore all black and it was really cold when I went out and I didn't get a scarf so bought one from Walmart for 2.50  didn't get a  pic but it's black with white and gray polkadots.  I actually wore a "pink" necklace!  A friend brought us these Rose Stone necklaces that only come from a certain place in Asia, it's very pretty.

 Today a little casual but it's Sunday, business causal is only Mon-Fri!  I did some stitching on my quilt square and watched an episode of Star Trek The Original Series.  Hubs is catching up on Bones so might join him and stitch some.

Dress Up Day 10 Ferret Friday

 Got a good amount of progress on the body today.  Getting really tired of brown, and I'm about to run out of one so will need to buy more.

Didn't go out anywhere today, but managed to look cute while cleaning the bathroom.  Stretched something wrong in my back though :p  Then hubs and I watched Bones while I stitched.  He's still catching up on the 2nd Season.  Tomorrow I might pull out some movies and stitch the Dragon.  I do need to read and get these books back to the library.

Dress Up Day 9

Well can't see the hose but they're probably the same brown ones I wore last time. 
Didn't get to eat with my friends today, I was finishing some stuff up at 7:30 and didn't log out and got a customer that took a while so they were leaving when I called my friend.  So went to McDonalds and got home to find out hubs had made his lasagna :p   ah well I know I'll have good dinner tomorrow.
I'll stitch some of my Love Quilt Square since I decided I deserved a Dr. Pepper (way to undo the 2 days I went to the gym this week) and now I'll be up all night :p

Dress Up Day 8

I hadn't worn this blue shirt for a while.  The skirt has ridges in it and I didn't feel like paring up another pattern so just went for solid black hose. 
I finished the purple border on my Dolly Mama Merry Catmas and might finish the black border tomorrow.  I'll need to plot out the third border if I'm going to have to start that border at work next.  I have some progress on my Love Quilt Square now that a heart is almost filled in with purple.  At least now I'm using the correct colors.

dress up day 6 and 7

 Yesterday I had to take my own pictures.  These hose can only be worn with this skirt because of a run on the side.  I keep my hose until I can keep them no longer!

I had set up the movies to take my picture but then heard the air compressor stop so I went out and filled my tire with air.  Hubs had come downstairs so I had him take my pictures.  Yeah don't let the man who stayed home from work because he has sinus problems take your picture.  Actually the picture when he felt well didn't come out either. :p  He's usually a great picture taker.
And now to find some little clips or something to watch or maybe play pogo games till it's time to go to work.

Catch Up

On Friday we got rid of my computer tower and then got me a portable.  So changing everything around I didn't get the old hard drive loaded with my old pictures.  But it is nice to be able to take the computer out into the living room and be with my friend to look up quilling techniques.  I think we made more mess than anything and nothing was finished.  She took her pieces home to finish later and I was still playing around making spirals :p 

 Friday was a two skirt day.  I had originally worn my long denim skirt but selling my computer meant going up to Nashville so we went out to eat at Maggiano's.

 Then Saturday was the day I had my friend come over and we went and hit the craft stores and then came home to quill.  Or at least try to!  I was determined to learn to do a decent spiral and now I have to figure out what to do with all of them.  I also used my quilling comb to make an angel.  My friend laughed because I spent 5 bux and she said she could have given me her onion holder.  I told her I had looked for one of those but could never find one.  There were a few places that had it cheaper but whatever.  
This is also the last time I will wear these hose :(  I loved this pattern so much I kept it with holes but it go to the point where I was trying to pull them up every five seconds. 

 Today is Sunday so I can wear my other denim skirt as business casual is only Mon - Friday.  I'm taking my stitching to work because my coworkers say that last year on Super Bowl Sunday it was dead.  I'm bringing a little kit with me to reteach a friend.  She used to do it but she got frustrated when she would make mistakes and gave up.

Speaking of mistakes I'm about to hate my LOVE square!  Geometric pattern was kicking my butt I had started on the dark yellow color and kept going with it and trying to fix it and counting and recounting.  Finally figured out I had messed up where I started so the bottom parts of the rows had to go.  :p  So once I got the first row of diamond pattern figured out I switched to a different color and stitched in the light background and then the purple t pattern in the heart.  So hopefully now I have where everything goes!  I need to look through my bag and find another pair of scissors for my friend to use.  I hope everyone has a great Sunday.

Dress Up Day Feb 2nd and cross-stitch

 My new dress from Target and my new hose by Vera Wang that I got at Kohls.  I layered them with my solid blue to make the pattern stand out a bit more.

A pattern that wasn't in my WIP but I decided to do a Love Quilt Square for a little girl that wanted Hearts, Flowers and the word Love.  Trusty stash of Calendar patterns to the rescue!  Couldn't find one with all three but I really like this one.  It's due July 1st lets see if I get it stitched and sent out on time.  Last quilt the Joy was done and sitting on the washer and was sent out right before the due date :p  I have a few min so I might have time to start going through floss before work.
Yesterday I did more of the border and marked on my fabric lightly with pencil to find the end!  I need to bring a little packet of pins or something to mark these things.  Especially the Crap now I have to Wrap one because that one doesn't have the same check pattern as the others.  It's solid then check and solid again.  I also did some back-stitching on Best Stressed while watching Robin Hood.  Still can't find the beading needle that fell into the couch.

Dress Up Day and Progress

 First a page I did for the ABC's of Me challenge at Colorful Creations

 Since I was buggering people from the UK who thought I was going sans underwear I've changed my title to Dress Up Day ;)  black dress from Target, my epic stockings and a colorful headband.  Can't tell in the pic but it has some black netting.

 I was playing a pogo game and my Mom stopped in the chat to say there was a package for me.  OH that's what the box in the living room must be?!  Yeah hubs didn't say anything and I didn't investigate.  Here was this lovely warm jacket.  I couldn't fit the frame standing but it's nice and long and fits just right!  Thanks Mom!

 I sat with that box in the living room while watching Doctor Who and stitching a bit of the red sweater on Merry Catmas.  I don't think I've gotten anything else done on the Best Stressed.

Getting down all the DVD's to stack to take my picture reminds me I need to stitch on my big piece.  My friend posted that her 10th anny was coming up and mine will be 2 years from now and this piece needs to be done by then!  I started it around our 2nd anny, I don't think it got stitched on much when we moved to TN at first.
I haven't gotten any bookmarks or ornaments done but I guess with my other stitching it wasn't such a good idea to think I could get all that done.  Will try for at least paper bookmarks though to take to the library.  I have done something crafty all but one day of the month even if it is getting 5 stitches in during breaks.  I'll make a better round up list like I've seen others doing later, I need to get to work!
OH and on Monday I saw One for the Money with my friend from work.  Great movie.  If you've got $10.50 for the ticket go see it!