Stitching Retreat

I better go ahead and post this while I can still remember it. This past weekend one of the yahoo groups I'm in called ILCS had a retreat. This one was held in Indianapolis, Indiana. So being 2 hours away I just had to go. I rode down Thursday with a dear stitcher friend Annette. There were 8 local Hoosier Stitchers girls and 4 out of state girls. I was glad to see my old friends and honored to meet the new girls. Of course Michelle, Annette, and me got into trouble as always. But we had fun. Stitching was done but not much too much laughing going on. Sure didn't sleep much cause there is just too much fun to close our eyes. Friday we spent the whole day mostly shopping. I seen 2 models I had stitched for Rosewood Manor released as leaflets at the two LNSs we went to. That was an amazing feeling. A few girls took my pictures holding up the leaflets. I had heard rumors about surprise guest Saturday. Found out later it was Karen from Rosewood Manor. What an honor to meet her. I know I was smiling like a school girl. Her husband complimented me on my work. I seriously thought my heart had stopped for a few moments. I have always had a hard time accepting compliments.

Jeremiah was going to come spend the weekend with me but just wasn't quite feeling up to it yet. So mom brought him down Saturday. He was so glad to get to meet everyone. He is still talking about it. Fred came down Friday after work and spent the weekend with me. So it was a nice vacation for us. He even found a local radio club having a get together to attend Saturday night. I was glad cause then we each had our own fun but still was together.

I stitched mostly on one of my Heaven and Earth designs called Bad Hair Day. I just love stitching on it. It's on 28ct evenweave 1 thread over 1. I love how delicate it looks. I also put a few stitches in Hinzeit Shells for mom. I bought several other things to do stitching so that stitching list just keeps growing and growing and growing. But don't we all do that?

So overall it was a great weekend. Plenty of time to do what was fun. Stitching, Talking with Friends, Making new Friends, and Shopping. What more could you want?

New Blog

Well I thought it was about time I branch out to a new blog. Just got tired of the other site. So let's see what I can figure out about this one.

Let's see there is only one way to start a blog. Tell you about me. I'm Katie. I'm a mom and wife. I have a 9 year old son named Jeremiah. I call him j cause it's easier to type haha. My hubby's name is Fred. He is my soul mate and I love him dearly. I'm very lucky to have him in my life. I'm also very close my family and do a lot with my mom and her roommate Betty. They make it possible for us to do the things we do most the time.

Hobbies we enjoy. I do cross stitching. I love it and try to do it at least every day of my life haha. I also model stitch which basically means I get paid to stitch a new design for a designer to take the first picture of. Right now one of my "bosses" is Rosewood Manor. I really enjoy stitching for her. So far I have 2 published pieces from her 1 on the way and 1 in the works. Fred does HAM radio and Storm Spotting. j loves playing playstation and everything else fun. We love traveling and also geocaching. Geocaching basically is a high tech hide and seek. We call it Treasure Hunting and our nickname in the hobby is Treasure Hunting Family. We have found 200 related geocaches so far and been in the hobby since Aug of 2005.

So these things are what you will probably see my write about the most. I'm off for now.