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Nov
15
November showers…
Sue

Bring December babies! :) This past weekend, with lots of help from Kat and a cast of a few dozen others (thank you thank you and you know who you are!!) my home was transformed into a party zone for Jenni’s baby shower. The menu was very straightforward: chocolate, chocolate and chocolate! We did have some veggies thrown in to make us feel better and Mirella made these amazing cranberry-and-something-or-other meatballs and there was lots of fruit for dipping in the chocolate fondue, of course. ;) Speaking of sweets, I do have a picture to show you of the cake and cookies that we had. Both are from Amphora Bakery which makes some totally decadent stuff! The cookies are butter cookies with royal icing. Sounds simple, eh? Well, try one and you’ll think otherwise! The cake is a three layer chocolate cake with milk chocolate mousse in between the layers. Drooling yet? This is the smallest version of the cake and it’s meant to serve 18-20 people. With all the other food we had, we figured it would be fine for the 25 we were expecting. Can you believe we only managed to eat the canopy of the carriage?!? Jenni got lots of practical and, of course, adorable stuff and she’ll be taking all the pictures I took home with her tonight as her dial up just won’t let her download 27.8 meg (zipped) of pictures. *grins* She smiled a whole lot and modeled lots of sweet clothes on her belly. Lucky for me, she also took her singing balloon home which made my daughters go, “Rats!”

And now, this morning’s grumble… Windows deemed that I needed a security update. Ok, that’s fine with me. I was however, in the middle of something when it asked me if it wanted to “restart now.” So, I said, “No, I’ll restart later.” I did some more typing and then got up to finish packing lunches for my twin goobers and shuffle them off to the bus stop. I’m in the kitchen and I hear the unmistakable sound of my computer restarting. “Hey!” I say from the kitchen. “I said I would restart you later. When I say later, I mean MY later, not YOUR later.”

My husband, who’s switched from a PC to a MacBook, is quite amused by my situation, and tells me how I’m owned by Microsoft and scoots his way out the door to class.

There’s some serious thought to be put into switching to a computer who’s latest OS is based in Linux.

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Sep
25
I’m back!
Sue

Back to June, anyway, and all thanks to Mike! We’ve got a new host server and I couldn’t use the same old look so I have a new one of those, too! In the meantime, I also have a new gallery to which I will be uploading old pictures and new pictures. I do have a new finish, but as it’s for a Halloween exchange, I can’t go about spoiling the surprise!

Jenni has a new look too and isn’t it cool? The coolest thing there has to be the new nursery and the new face that we’re all excited about meeting this December!

It’s a short week for me as on Friday, Jenni, Kat and I are off to Hershey, PA for CATS which is rumored to be the last time it will be happening. So we’re off to look for stitching goodies and chocolate, of course!

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Jun
24
Happy Fairy Day!
Sue

If you see a mushroom in your lawn, don’t be smushing it, there could be a fairy taking shelter there!

I’ve actually got some gobbeldygook to blog about today. Tonight I’m treating my sister-in-law (*waves to Kim*) to a concert of one of her favorite groups, Celtic Woman. While perusing her iPod one day, I noticed she had a whole lot of their music. So, when I got the calendar for the summer concerts at Wolftrap, which is about ten miles or so away from me, I confirmed with her that she really did like Celtic Woman, and then ordered a pair of tickets and sprang the surprise on her. That was a few months ago. I have, since then, been threatening to eBay the things since this is one of their only performances in Virginia and the tickets are sold out. She’s been making these “Nonononononono!” sounds when I keep telling her about the really awesome shopping sprees we can go on after I sell the tickets, but she’s not getting into the idea. *looks innocent*

Next up… Mike and Kathie are back in the country and on their way home! Their baby Sheba has missed them lots! Although she’s been quite pampered and spoiled like the queen she is, she has been sitting on our front lawn and looking wistfully up the street for their car and then down the street and her house. Soon baby, Mommy and Daddy will be home very soon!

I have a stitchy picture… I’ve completed half a page (the top half) and therefore, one third of the topmost band of Spanish Rouge.
I’m stitching this with the called for Vikki Clayton silks and I positively love this chart! I did put it away so I can finish Jan’s RR.

And finally, I have an appropriate floss toss to share as it’s Fairy Day. Someone *coughKathiecough* decided that she wanted to stitch “The Night” and that I had to stitch a PR with her, so after weeks of agonizing (and pesting Fudgey) about fabrics, I’ve chosen Silkweaver’s “Wandering Ivy” and here’s my toss!
I’m quite psyched about starting this. BUT, just in case she’s got a Chatelaine start urge, I’ve also got my fabric for Mystery X. Nyah nyah! I lined up all my duckies while she was visiting all the Mediterranean wonders of the world.

On that note, I best go spiff up for the concert… my guess is that I’ll be upstairs, dressed, and have dinner made before my sweet SIL is out of the shower. You can’t hit me, Kim, I still have time to sell your ticket…

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May
11
Me me me, always ME!
Sue

It’s always about me. No, not you, me. No, I don’t mean me, I mean the other me. I am quite disheartened with all the “me-itis” I’m being overrun with. This is, of course, making *me* feel like I’m being just like them. Had enough pronoun confusion yet? *grins*

I site this week’s most annoying example. At our grocery stores, you don’t take your cart into the parking lot. You leave it outside the store and pull your car up to the curb where you then load your bags into your car or, on some days, someone helps you load your bags into your car. Yes, I know I’m quite spoiled when it comes to grocery shopping. Anyway… I was waiting in line and, not wanting to block the crosswalk because, oh, maybe people wanted to actually walk there, I was back a bit not blocking the crosswalk. Well, some *ahem* lady behind me decided that she didn’t wish to wait her turn (even though it was very clear what I was doing) and whipped her SUV around me and squeeeeezed in front of me (blocking the crosswalk) and proceeded to wave me to back up my car so she could open the hatch on her SUV to load her groceries in. I sat there and blinked at her with one of those “you just arrived on the planet today, didn’t you?” looks.

Unbelievable.

There have been a few more “Me me me” instances, but I won’t bore you with them. They range from silly, to stupid to hurtful. What-ever. Mean people suck. Selfish ones do, too. I figure since this is my blog that I can do a little rant now and then. I’m all done now.

So… on to the largest floss-toss picture I’ve ever taken. There’s a new artist at HAED by the name of Jen Delyth and if you like Celtic art, check out her charts! I’ve just bought a new chart called Emergence and I’m trying to decide what fabric to use. With some help from people with more brain cells than I have, it’s been boiled down to an opalescent (I think).
So here’s a floss toss with an antique white (the main color everything is sitting on), a pale blue (to the right) and porcelain (to the left). I’ve also included a picture of the chart in the picture to remind myself that the primary colors in the chart are blues and greens which is the whole reason I had to get the chart right away. Soooooo… thoughts? Suggestions for other fabrics? I’m totally open here.

I also have a WIP to show you… I’m stitching this
for a very sweet lady for her birthday. It’s from Tor Rhuann Designs and is her Assisi Spring Bookmark.

Finally, I’d like to wish all Moms and Mums of babies (those with fur and not) the happiest of Mother’s Days! *HUGS!!* And face it, even when they’re 50, they’ll still be your babies! *grins*

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