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Saturday PhotoHunt: Surprise
The theme for this week’s PhotoHunt is all about Surprise. Given it’s also Christmas Eve, I’m sure lots of folks will be posting pics of the shocked faces of their children opening gifts and such. Well, there’ll be none of that here since I don’t have any children and my cat refuses to open Christmas gifts. 
My take on this week’s theme is definitely all about surprise though. My long-time online stitching friend Erin surprised me yesterday with a lovely little package. When I opened it up, it was this beautiful Temari ornament.
Isn’t it gorgeous?!! Thanks for such a beautiful Christmas surprise, Erin! 
I also wanted to let everyone know that I’ve decided to use my Flickr account to store all of PhotoHunt photos. If you’re ever interested in going back to view them all, you can find the set here. You can also subscribe via RSS directly to my PhotoHunt Flickr set well.
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Another Weekend, Another Finish!
I seem to be on quick the streak lately. I finished yet another piece over the weekend. That makes three finishes for me in as many weekends. Since I have a long weekend next week for Christmas, perhaps I’ll try to keep the streak alive. 
Here’s my latest finish. As always, click the biggify.
Designer: Primrose Needleworks
Fabric: 34-count Oaten Scone linen
Fibers: DMC & GAST
Finished: 18 December 2011
After I finished that piece midday on Sunday, I picked up another WIP from my pile that I’ve not worked on in several months. It’s Needle from the dictionary series by CherryWood Design Studios. Here are my before and after progress pics from the weekend.
Designer: CherryWood Design Studios
Fabric: Graziano Celery & White 28-count gingham linen
Fiber: Tortoise Shell Belle Soie
Stitched 1 over 1
Progress as of 18-Dec-2011
I had a productive week for work and school this past week, too. I passed my final for my project management class. The cool part was that the final was a certification exam, so not only did I pass the class, but I earned yet another professional certification in the process. I am now Project+ certified.
In other news, I received a beautiful Christmas package this week from my dear friend Tracy. She stitched this awesome quote by Oprah Winfrey for me. I love it!! She also made those awesome Thank You cards for me. She creates incredible hand-made greeting cards!
I also wanted to point out a new page listed in the navigation menu at the top of the page. It’s the 2012 WIPocalypse page. You can read more details about what it’s all about on that page. In a nutshell, I’ll be focusing on trying to get in some work on my outstanding WIPs coming up in 2012 as part of the WIPocalypse SAL group organized by Measi. So, be sure to check out the page. If you want to participate, there’s information on that page on how to sign up.
Hope everyone has a great week! Until next time …
Saturday PhotoHunt: Lights
It’s been a long time since I participated in the Saturday PhotoHunt. So long in fact, that they’ve just moved to a new blog. That’s what prompted me to decide to participate again. One of my personal goals for 2012 is to learn more about my D-SLR and start taking more photos. This seems a great way to accomplish that task.
The theme for this week’s PhotoHunt is Lights. I snapped this photo of the holiday lights my neighbor has on their hedge. As always, click to biggify.
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Alex Update & A Gift
I thought I would share an updated progress pic of my Lady Alexandra. I’m still plugging away on her and making some decent progress from my last update, I think.
I also recently received a Christmas ornament from my dear friend Darla.
Isn’t it adorable?! I can’t wait to hang it on my tree in a few months. Thanks, Darla!!! xoxo
I realized I also forget to post last time about what a great time I had last weekend at the beach with Terri and Darla. It was kind of a last hurrah girls weekend before Terri heads off to Arizona in a couple of months. We stayed at the Del Mar Beach Resort on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and had a BLAST! There was plenty of eating, drinking, stitching, and most importantly, LOTS of laughter and good times with great friends! You would think we all would’ve taken plenty of photos since we all blog, but …. yeah, not so much. 
Here are a few I did snap:
We got to visit with Terri’s pups for a bit before we headed to the beach.
Beach time!
Not exactly a sign one sees every day.
Darla & I saw this cool flag print at a diner we stopped at for lunch on our way home.
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Christmas Time is Here
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I put up my Christmas tree today. As some of you may know, needlework is my hobby of choice. I love doing cross stitch and needlepoint. It helps me relax and de-stress. It occurred to me today as I was putting up my tree just how few stitched ornaments I have. Most of the ornaments I’ve stitched over the years have been for gifts. I plan to change that over the next couple of years and stitch some ornaments for my own tree. The very first ornament I put on my tree this year was an adorable little stitched stocking ornament that I received a few years ago from Alison. It always brings a smile to my face when I pull it out and put it on the tree.
As pretty as I think my tree is, I really wish I had less of a generic tree. I love the trees many of my friends have that are a hodge podge of ornaments from their childhood or ornaments with special meaning/memories. I love hearing their stories as they show off all of their beautiful ornaments. I don’t have any of that sort of thing. My mother kept all of our childhood ornaments, and I ended up getting rid of the ones I collected during my marriage after I got divorced. I just didn’t want any reminders of that period of my life, especially around the holidays.
So, other than the previously mentioned 3 or 4 stitched ornaments I had from stitchy friends, all I have are just glass ornaments of no special significance. That’s something else I really want to change as well. I plan to start collecting ornaments during my travels in order to make some new memories for myself.
Anyway, here are a couple of photos of my tree, one taken during the day (left) and another taken at night (right). Even though it’s not the hodge podge I would like, I still think it’s pretty. As always, you can click on either image to see a larger version of the photo.
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