August 28th Monday Update

Hello my lovely readers. Let's see what stitching I got done last week...

Monday I actually worked on my Mill Hill Monday piece Camping Out...

Finished the bear section lower right. 2 sections left now. Wohoo!!

Tuesday and Wednesday I worked on Simple Treasures...

Thursday was Book Dragon day...

Friday and Sunday was back to Summer Gnome...

Tuesday I took a day off of everything and stitched my little heart off haha. It was the first day of using my new stitch counter...

I got it for $7.99 on Amazon. Does exactly what I need it to do. It was very easy to get used to. When I move the magnet to move to the next row of stitches bump up the number of steps. Easy Peasy. I had no problem remembering luckily. So no worries about getting use to it. Let's see for fun.

Tuesday - 582 stitches....great day! Wednesday - 175 stitches. Thursday - 478 stitches. Friday - 371 stitches. Sunday - 244 stitches. 1,850 counted stitches. I didn't count Monday. So it will be fun to keep track now plus I can join in the counting challenges finally.

Here in Indiana we broke some heat records last week. Yuck. Today the windows are open and gentle cool breeze is blowing. Who knows what our weather will be haha. Supposed to be hot again later this week. I'm really ready for Fall and Winter haha. 

My WIP tab is all organized at the top. I had it down to 36 WIPs but couldn't leave it there so added the 4 to get to 40 haha. Needed a rounded number. I know I could easily get it to 50 but I'm leaving it there at 40 for now haha. I know one thing. I am in love with my stitching again completely. After looking through it all I'm excited about any stitching time. I just love stitching on this and that and this again nope that. I am just happy. 

We have a big camping weekend coming up. My step mom has a lot of family over for the Labor Day Holiday. Not a lot of stitching time but I am going to try to steal some. A big fun challenge from the Facebook Semi Sane Group is starting on the first called Go Fish. It's my first real different challenge. One letter of the alphabet will be called each day by like 9am. If you have a chart titled with that letter you stitch 200 stitches on it. If not you yell Go Fish and stitch 400 stitches on any WIP of your choice. I'm really looking forward to it. Entries into a drawing every time you complete the daily challenge. I haven't heard some rules. I did hear no time limit. I would assume by the end of the month maybe? I don't know for sure yet. 

Lastly I will leave you with this adorable photo of Spike. One day Jeremiah was brushing his teeth and for some reason Spike decided he needed his support. So Spike is "helping". 2 years ago today is when we went to pick him out. We didn't get him right away. They kept him a few days to do the fix and let him heal. Boy we are so lucky we found him...

Love yourself. Smile. Find your happiness. Stitch! See ya next time.