Monday Update

My Monday to-dos are finished. This post is the last thing I need to do before I can get busy stitching on the Sea Turtle Mill Hill SAL with Amanda from Cross Stitch Angel. So let's get this posted.

Last week was another great stitching week. I love these winter stitching months!! I showed you my progress on the Dragon Eye WIP from Monday and Tuesday already. Then Wednesday I got started on the Lizzie Kate January Flip-It Stamp. Guess what...

Finish #2 January 12th

January Lizzie Kate Flip-It Stamp

Stitched on 14ct Oatmeal Aida

Threads are Suggested DMC

Started Jan 9th. Took 4 Days.

It's another finish! Plus Rachel it's another finished finish. WOHOO! 2 for 2 right now. By the way the snowman shows up better in person. White on Oatmeal doesn't photograph well I noticed. I think it looks great on my shelf unit I'm trying to decorate for each season. I told Mom I was going to steal her Nautical January pillow for the picture and she said No haha. Anyway here is my shelf right now all decorated for January...

Sunday I put another day into Wish Upon a Starfish...

For those who happened to catch my YOW list grew to 50 haha. Let me explain I had 2 pieces that we haunting me wanting to be added to the list for my focus pieces this year. I wasn't about to have 42 pieces on my list haha that didn't seem rounded enough. Plus I will have 24 finished pieces if I finish only the two monthly sets. So if I had 50 things on my list I would have to finish 25 to call it a successful YOW (Reminder the goal is to finish at least half your list by December). So that's totally achievable. I also noticed a few others in the YOW challenge used the Under the Sea SAL each section as a WIP. So I spread those out to 5 WIPs instead of 1. Added Ocean in a Bottle, Salt Water Taffy, 2 more Durene Jones 3D Oraments like the one I finished before Christmas, and 2 Hinzeit Tiny pieces I got at the PA Retreat in an exchange. So that made it an even 50 and I was finally happy with my list. I got the album uploaded to the Facebook group before the 18th deadline and I'm ready to mark off those WIPs!!! So hopefully no more pieces will haunt me. They will have to wait till next year's YOW list. Thanks for following along with my insanity haha.

Saturday we ended up getting 4 inches of snow. Better than getting missed like what happens most time for me. I'm a snow lover. It's just beautiful outside. Supposed to be coooold all week so we are staying inside safe and warm. Sounds good for my stitching time. So I'm a happy girl. Plus we got some good news this morning. Fred (hubby) got time off approved for our end of April vacation we are taking and he got a bonus. So that will be unaccounted for money to put toward our vacation. Double Wohoo!!! It's a good day and hopefully a great week. Hope everyone reading this gets some good news too. We all need it every now and then don't we? Have a great week!