Writing from Arkansas

Hello from Arkansas. We headed out Wednesday morning around 5am. Made it all the way to Rolla, Missouri for the night Wed. Hit the road early on Thursday and made it here to Bentonville, Arkansas by about 3pm Thursday. It was a beautiful trip. We really enjoyed it a lot. Jeremiah was fantastic. Just played and kept himself busy. There is 3 of us (5 including my family) from Indiana, one from Conneticut, one from Vegas, and one here local.

Thursday night we had a class about changing the way you use hand dyed threads. It was interesting. Friday we ran to a few cross stitch stores and did some shopping. It was a great time. I spent Friday evening with Mom and Jeremiah. We ate dinner and came back to the hotel to swim. Jeremiah of course really enjoyed that. Then I stayed up until late with the girls stitching.

Woke up a little early this morning for some more sight seeing. The girls went to Tulsa, OK to see the Silver Needle. I decided to stay here with the family. We went to this drive through safari. It was very neat. Jeremiah of course enjoyed that a lot. We also found a few wonderful Antique Malls and bought a ton of goodies. Mom found a bunch of neat stuff at the first one. I even got some cool things. Now we are back at the hotel waiting for the girls to make it back. We are all going out to eat dinner and having a finishing class tonite. I'm looking forward to it. Tomorrow we are hitting the road to start the trip home. It's been a blast overall.

Geocaching News: We were able to add 3 states to our map during this trip. We got one in Illinois and Missouri on the way. Grabbed one today by our hotel in Arkansas. So that is very exciting.

I miss my puppy!! Okay Okay My hubby too a little haha.

Update

I seen another model I did got published. It's the picture on this entry. This is called Flowers in the Crannied Wall. It's from Rosewood Manor. It's so much fun to see these designs finished. Last time I seen it the piece was just a wrinkled mess.

I also have a HUGE happy dance. I finished another model. This one was for a company called Designworks. I was supposed to be done end of May but with everything lately it got finished June 11th. I was so happy to finish it. With the puppy and our yard/garden I just didn't have the stitching time. So I will be looking forward to seeing it published too. I still have another one in my WIP from Rosewood Manor to work on so I'm happy about that.

I'm working on packing now. We are leaving for Arkansas real early Wednesday morning. One of my fav yahoo groups is having their retreat. I've never been to Arkansas so I'm excited. Mom and Jeremiah are coming along with me. So we are going to have a blast of course. I'm looking forward to stitching with my friends. I also get to do some stash shopping so that's always fun.