Signs of Autumn

Started a new project from the British Cross Stitcher magazine.  Eventually it will be a couple of flamingos and I'm going to make it into a wall hanging.  Not sure which room it will end up on, but its super brightly colored and I can't wait to see it all completed.

EEK!  Are those fall leaves on the ground already?  It seems as if summer has disappeared practically overnight.  But if I think back to this time last year, I guess we're right on schedule for a little fall color. I remember taking leaf pics last year near the end of September.  Really crossing my fingers and hoping we have as nice an autumn as last year, it was in the 80's in October.  The older I get the more I appreciate the warmth sticking around!

Picked up this great turkey for my Thanksgiving table at Michaels.  It was either 4.99 or 2.99.   I guess its supposed to be a sugar bowl but I doubt I'll use it as that, it may simply wind up as a decoration on my dining room table.  Love it!  They had it in several different colors including green but I thought amber was the best.

Ahhh, what a good natured dog Mac is.  Just testing out a few ideas for her Halloween portrait LOL.  She looks like she approves!

UGH

                                                                  

Here's Little Miss Sunflower by Little House Needleworks all completed.  And the UGH is because I saved the house (the largest amount of stitching) to do until last.  I stayed up until the wee hours last night trying to get it completed, I could have sworn it was supposed to be done in a lighter color but I doublechecked the legend and nope, I was using the right color.  Did I bother to check the cover pic, nope!  I can read!  Its the right color.  Soooooooooooooooo I continued stitching away with DMC 950 even though I thought it looked a little too pink.  But hey, I didn't design it and the legend told me I was using the right color.

I finished it tonight, all proud of myself.  And as I took it off the Q-snaps revealing Little Miss Sunflower herself I noticed the vast difference between her apron and the house color.  Sooooooooooooooooo this time I grabbed the cover pic and had a look.........

And discovered I stitched the WHOLE HOUSE IN THE WRONG COLOR. Its not supposed to be done in DMC 950 its supposed to be done in ECRU.  It is too pink considering its supposed to be basically off white.  ARGH!

That'll teach me to doublecheck, turns out the symbol for DMC 950 was a line with a squiggle in it and the Ecru symbol was a straight line. My only excuse was it was late last night and I should have called it a night and gone to bed and finished the stitching tonight, as it happens I did anyway.

SIGH.  That'll teach me.  But I'm leaving it for now. I got some new stash yesterday and I want to start one of these designs.   I ordered them from a new ONS to me: Stitch and Frog,   I can't say enough about the service and quick delivery.  Usually it takes a minimum of two weeks for any orders to get to me up here in the Great White North but I got this order from Marty in just over a week, whoo hooo!  You can be sure I'll be ordered from her again and if any of you are looking for a well stocked ONS that offers great service I'd recommend Stitch and Frog to anyone!

'Thomas' is calling to me and you can bet I'll be double and TRIPLE checking every time I have to pull out another color of floss!

Road Trip

This afternoon's road trip took me through the south western part of the province and you can see it was just a little overcast.  It was just a little windy as well and every time I jumped out of the car to take a photo I wasn't sure if I would wind up getting blown over or not.  Would love to blame the wind on Hurricane Isaac but that's probably not the cause LOL

There's a few places I regret not stopping at to take some photos, there were two red barns that would have been great but I did manage to find a couple of other barns later in the journey.

It rained lightly a few times but nothing too much to handle, thank goodness.  The roads were pretty deserted as well, but it did help that I was on the backroads most of the time.

Almost missed this bridge, it was on a road just off the main highway I was on, but found a place to turn around and bingo, got a shot of it :)

The White Horse was where I intended the photo tour to start, but instead it wound up being the final destination in today's photo road trip.  Now tonight its on to watching the Nationwide Race from Atlanta and stitching some more on LHN's Little Miss Sunflower.  Progress pic tomorrow!

Labor Day Weekend....ALREADY?????????

                                     A new start - Little House Needleworks 'Little Miss Sunflower'

Bargefest this evening.  Ummm totally missed the performance but did get to spend a little while wandering around the site.  The incorrect schedule was at one link I looked up so we got there expecting to listen to John McDermottt sing with the symphony orchestra and instead saw everyone leaving.  Turns out the show started at 730 not 915 like the schedule I looked at said.

But tonight is the second full moon of the month, something that only happens every couple of years and I managed to get a couple pics of it!

Also took a drive down River Road after dinner.  The light was wonderful and the river was like glass! Perfect for some snaps!

Cool old building!

Tonight's sunset was really amazing, the sky was different shades of pink.  Most likely due to smoke from forest fires to the west but pretty none-the-less!

Sunset reflections on the river

Can't believe its already Labor Day weekend.  Where has this summer gone?  Where has this year gone???  I swear its sped by even faster than I ever can remember a year going by.  I think I'd prefer those long summers I remember having when I was a kid, the ones that just seemed to go on and on and on.  

Remember those?

Here's to a weekend of rest and relaxation and fun!  It might be the end of summer but Mother Nature hasn't figured that out yet, its supposed to be nice and warm and hopefully sunny.  Looking forward to it!

It's Finished!

Six Bats and a Black Cat by Blue Ribbon Designs from the 2012 Just Cross Stitch Halloween issue.

Excuse the wrinkles

Had to move the Qsnaps around this weekend to get more stitched.  I had lots of stitching time while I let the bad blister on my foot heel.  Just wasn't in the mood to go out with slippers on instead of regular shoes, LOL.

I think I'm in the homestretch with this project now, the rest of the border should go by fairly quickly, at least I'm hoping that's how it goes. Have to admit I'm itching to start something new!

Ouchie!

I admit, I wore slippers out in public today to run to the store to get some batteries for my camera.  I've got one heck of a blister from walking around without socks while wearing my sneakers and could barely walk yesterday cause it hurt so much.  Its a little better today but couldn't comfortably wear either the sneakers or my sandals so I said to heck with it and wore my slippers.  Thankfully they look enough like shoes that no one gave me a second glance LOL.