stitchy updates

 I finished up my Love Quilt Square on my Saturday stitch.  It was so close when I got home I sat until it was done and found a quick alpha for my name and city.  It's so dang long!  I just stitched each letter and didn't map it or I might have adjusted a tiny bit and it would have been centered 2 squares on each side.

Ferret Friday progress.  We went out to eat at Maggiano's and hubs wanted to stop a few places.  So I grabbed my stitching since I hadn't done anything on it all day.  Got a bit of the brown and some more of the jewelry box.

Yesterday I stitched on Monopoly finishing the bit of white I had left and filling in some orange and then realizing there was no way the orange was going to meet up correctly.  My options will be to rip out all the color entirely or rip out the bit of orange and see if the white will fit and stitch around it.  It won't be exact but as long as I can make the white square fit it should look decent.  I have to keep looking at it to decide what I want to do.

I was going to make brownies for Thursday because I had seen a recipe for Chocolate Stout brownies that looked very good. But they take 2hrs and 10 min :p  Might be the Duncan Hines out of the box again.

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.

eek don't let me slip back into old habits! TUSAL Report

Ok here's my TUSAL for the month.  I like my orni.  It makes it look like there are a lot more orts than when I did my rectangular rainbow tribble maker.  They might need to get tapped down.

I was hoping to stitch with my friends at Shoney's but when I called at 7:30 they were leaving because there was some other group in the backroom doing a meeting and they didn't want to disturb them :(  Maybe next week.

Not blogged for a bit but I've still been stitching on my Love square though I haven't touched the Dolly Mama's.  On Saturday I bought the 18 count material to do my Monopoly board to scale.  I started on Monday which marked a year since my Granny had passed away.  I hope to find 3 charms to put on the board: her, Pawpaw and their son Brian who was 9 when he passed from Leukemia.

I don't have anything planned for this weekend.  Tomorrow I will stitch more on the ferret and maybe scrapbook.  My Aunt and Uncle and their kids went down to FL to see my parents and will be coming back this way on Saturday so I may go out to eat with them.

Since I broke down and got a can of Dr. Pepper I will now be up all night so I'm debating on scrapping or stitching.

Mental Floss magazine posted a brief article on their fb page of 11 people that overcame disabilties.  One was this woman, Peng Jiangya, in China who burned her hands as a child and with no hands has learned how to cross-stitch and is hoping to sell her pictures to tourists.  Amazing video of how she stitches.