How much is too much?

I have been feeing guilty as of late. For a couple of reasons the first my daughter, she keeps telling me I have too much stash.  So I ask you how much is too much? Second reason it seems like I'm not getting much stitching done.  I have tried very hard this year to not buy stash, but it's hard. These darn designers keep putting out really great stuff.  So what's the solution?  I plan to go through my stash and put some things on eBay and again try to stitch more and buy less.  Do you have suggestions ?


Merry Christmas!
And of course Happy Stitching

Cindy

PS sorry I haven't finished a thing lately:( maybe next week.

12days to go

I am very sad to say I have done very little stitching.  I have done a couple of other things that you will have to wait until after Christmas to see, but you will.  I am just trying to get through the holidays quietly.

So on the note....
Merry Christmas!

Happy Stitching!

Cindy

Thanksgiving weekend!

I am wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving early, because after today I will be spending my time one of two ways, cooking or stitching.  I work with a wonderful young lady who volunteered to work Friday. I am so grateful she did this.  I am hoping I get to spend some quiet time with my hubby, no doctor visits.
My hubby is doing much better and we are very thankful for everyone who has been there for us. All the good thoughts, prayers, listening and care taking has been wonderful and we thank everyone!
I'm curious what might you be doing this weekend besides eating.  Are you shopping, stitching or visiting?

I will start cooking tomorrow after work hopefully finish everything but the turkey.  If I'm lucky I will be done early and I can stitch some before bed time. Then on Thursday cook the turkey, eat, clean up and stitch.  Friday thru Sunday I plan on eating leftovers and stitching.  I think you see a pattern.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Stitching!

Cindy

From vacation to hospital!

Hi friends!
Last week my husband and I went to Charlottesville, VA for vacation.  We stayed in a bed and breakfast for the first time. I recommend it was amazing!  To explain quick back story, my daughter and husband decided to start training to run a half marathon, I'm just trying to run a 5k.  Ok so on with the vacation story.  My husband started a training program, you run so far one day something else the next and slowly increase to the mileage you want to be at.  On Tuesday he went for a run from the bed and breakfast.  It was cold and a bit hilly, he has cold weather gear for this.  He started slowly and a bit of the way down the road he became short of breath then dizzy.  He returned to the bed and breakfast complaining of shortness of breath. He and I ran down the symptoms, he said it was just because he hasn't ran like that for awhile. So we went on our day. A wine tour! A driver picked us up drove us to a few wineries.  The bed and breakfast fixed a picnic lunch, amazing food.  We returned from our tour, I was a bit tipsy to say the least.  On Wednesday, we went out on our own for a few sites and yes more wineries and breweries.  Hubby did say I'm still breathing hard.  I said we could change our plans but he once again decided to blow it off.  So we toured and found ourselves in Waynesboro, VA, where I found an amazing cross stitch shop called the Cross Stitch Station. I shamefully bought more stash, but not nearly as much as I would have liked. I did practice self control.  Husband was becoming more and more uncomfortable. We returned to the bed and breakfast for the evening. On Thursday we were returning home, hubby said I think I should see my doctor. I called from the road. The doctor's office said they couldn't see him until NEXT year, strange right?  So I called my doctor they could see him at 1pm. So we hurried back to Chesapeake. The doctor gave him a great check up. She ran some blood test and said she would have the results of them by evening time, for him to go home a rest. She called about dinner time at said you need to go to the emergency room pretty quick. We dropped everything.  In the emergency room they did a CT scan of his chest, results he had several blood clots in his lungs. They get there by a blood clot for somewhere else in the body releasing and passing through the heart a spraying the lungs.  He was admitted monitored and then transferred to another hospital to have a lung catheterization.  He spent two days hooked up to about sixteen different things.  This is now Monday morning he is breathing better.  They took everything out but the blood thinners.  Later Monday they moved him from the icu to a regular room. He was feeling much better.  I got to bring him home on Tuesday, Thank God!  He has to be on blood thinners for a long time now. But he is still here to take them.  The doctors said he was so very lucky that when it passed through his heart he lived.  I know this was a long post not about stitching but I needed to trying get things out of my head.

Few tips... Have things checked out that are not normal for you.  Hubby has no reason to have theses clots, he doesn't smoke, no family history, no trauma, no long plane rides, and not does not practice a sedentary  life style.

Thanking God for his blessings!

Cindy

Weekend stitching

This weekend was a WIP weekend for a Country Cottage blog I belong to.  I started Needlework Shop yesterday morning.(first picture). I stopped a little while ago(second picture).  I really enjoyed starting this piece.  I can't wait to pick it up again.  I'm hoping to work more on Halloween Fairy this week but we are on vacation so I don't what kind of time I will have.  Next weekend is a Little House WIP weekend I have a few of those I would like to get moving on too.  So we will see what is next.

Happy Stitching!

Cindy

Update

My hubby watched Monday night football last night. Yes I know it was Tuesday.  He recorded it.  He is a huge Seahawks fan. And they never play their games on TV, except Monday night football.  We also go to bed early because we get up for work before the sun gets up.  He watched I stitched both of us were happy.

Happy Stitching!

Cindy

Okay 'day three'

I put day three in quotes because I did start the Halloween Fairy more than three days ago.

But I have not had the time to stitch since last Monday, until yesterday.  My grandpuppies finally settled down enough for me to stitch.  Puppy sitting should not take all that much but you need to understand, my grandpuppies are three Labradors, one yellow and two black. The two black, Layla and Bella, are just over a year old. The yellow one is Maximus, the best dog ever!  If we could clone him everyone would want him. He is a very laid back, loving and we'll mannered.  Layla and Bella not so much.  They are still very much puppies, running, wrestling and very few manners.  On the good news is my daughter is working very hard and if she wasn't I don't even think about how they would be.  Okay so enough of the puppies on to stitching.  I worked very hard on the Halloween Fairy yesterday.  I also gathered a couple of other things I want to stitch.  I join a couple of new blogs. One for Country Cottage and the other for Little House.  I love both the designers.  I enjoy stitching what they design.  I may be fast at it but I enjoy it.

I heard a sad story last week that I need to share... I was talking with one of the members about how I love to cross stitch.  She said I tried that but stopped. I asked why she told me the person teaching asked to see the back side of her work.  She admitted it was messy. I said so what. But she said the teacher made her feels so bad about it, that she never picked it up again.  I asked her if before that did she enjoy it, she said yes. I told her to try it again I would help her and it doesn't matter if the back is messy or neat it is all about how you feel when you stitch.  

So do you agree? Comment and let me know what you think.

Happy Stitching!  

Cindy

Oops almost forgot here's a pic of Halloween Fairy