Colder Weather

Ran a few errands this afternoon and stopped by the park long enough for this photo.  Would have loved to wander around and take some more but the wind was blowing quite strongly and it was COLD out.  Seriously I was only out a few minutes and my fingers were freezing.  I'm starting to think Mother Nature has decided the week or two of warm weather she gave us was summer and now we're back to autumn and winter again.

Saturday

 Still loving the fabric color but really not sure about the blue in the girl's dress, it seems to clash just like I was worried about.  Tossing around possible changes - another blue? grey perhaps?  Or a total swap to a lighter pink to compliment the flowers?  Really not sure what to do.

Found this British magazine at the bookstore and since there are at least half a dozen patterns I can see myself doing, I figured it was a good purchase.  Most of the designs I really like are by Joan Elliott.

There was quite the difference in weather between yesterday and today. It was 20 C yesterday and today I doubt it got any higher than 9 C plus it was super windy with gusts up to 40 kms an hour.  Brrr, you never quite know how to dress if you're venturing outside at this time of year.  But we can't complain, the snow's been gone for weeks and that's unusual!  Fifteen years ago yesterday was the Blizzard of the Century that led to the Flood of the Century.  Glad we don't have to deal with that this year.

Good Friday

 Wow, talk about supremely unmotivated today.  I didn't even bother to change out of jammies, but then I guess holidays are good for that.  Watched the Barrett Jackson auction from Palm Beach most of the afternoon, did a little more cross stitch - I'm still working on the LHN design and was more than a little surprised at how cheap a lot of the cars were going for.  But then I guess tomorrow is the day the more expensive vehicles will hit the auction block.

Finally managed to find a 'tree' to hang my Easter ornaments off.  I think its actually supposed to be for jewelery but hey, Pier One showed it being used for ornaments on its website so I guess I can do the same.  And it was about half the price of the Easter 'tree's they were selling.  So the price was right as well.  And I can use it for other holidays as well as Easter.  If I get busy and do some sewing I could whip up some small cross stitch ornaments to decorate it with between holidays.

Bus Ride

 Yes, that is a new start you see to the left.  'And the Rain Fell' from Little House Needleworks caught my eye and I couldn't resist starting it.  This is the second try, the first I started on a greyish blue piece of unknown 28ct.  This is a piece of  Ocean Depths opalescent linen from Enchanted Fabrics that I've been hanging on to for year, figured it was about time I actually put it to use.  Not sure if the blue in the girl's dress is going to clash but so far I like the color combos.

I'm such a dork.  Transit was offering free rides on the new Rapid Transit route that officially opens on Easter Sunday and I had to go check it out.  Not like I've ever been on a bus before, I know, but hey this one goes through a tunnel and goes up to 80 kms an hour for a wee stretch.  The bus was totally packed, in fact there was a cameraman at the station from one of the local news channels and when we got on board, there was another cameraman and a reporter standing at the front of the bus.  This is big news in the city LOL, guess that means I'm not the only dork.

Oops

More progress on the Lizzie Kate design.  I still love it even if I've discovered I don't have a long enough piece of fabric to finish the full design. Guess I'll be doing some creative cutting and a few words will have to be left off the finished product.

And yes that is a new start, I'll leave it a surprise until I make a little more progress.  But everyone can feel free to guess ;)

Critter Day

                                   Mac, Hudson and one more sky/tree study - blue sky this time!

Skies

The top picture is the sunset tonight, the other picture is Sunday afternoon's sky.  Love the different moods.

Was up early today so Denny could come over and use my computer - her internet was out - and today is the first day for camping reservations.  That was two hours of thumb twiddling, what a crazy system to have everyone trying to book for the whole summer.  There were probably a couple thousand people in line ahead of her and by the time she managed to get in there were no camping sites available in the size she wanted for the four days she wanted.  Good thing Darrell was on his computer at work trying to book one as well, he was successful, whew!

I'm still plowing along on the Lizzie Kate Double Flip-Its but discovered late in the evening that the piece of fabric I'm using isn't going to be long enough to do the full design - argh!  Not sure how I ever thought it was going to be long enough, it looks like I'm going to have to leave out at least two of the designs.  And of course that annoyed me enough that I started tossing around the idea of another start.

And yup, just before bed I put the first few stitches in.  I.  Am.  Bad.  What the heck, what's one more start with all the other ones I have going.  Photos of the stitching tomorrow.