Sept 4th Monday Update

Happy Labor Day. It's been a busy and a HOT weekend. But I am here with an update. Long one today so let's first talk about what stitching I did last week...

Monday I worked on Camping Out Mill Hill for Mill Hill Monday. I got 152 stitches added....

Tuesday and Wednesday I worked on the Summer Gnome. Tuesday I added 632 stitches. Wonderful stitching day. Wednesday 196 stitches. I'm up to Day 9 now...

Thursday we had several friends show up to start the weekend early. My step mom's family takes over the campground for a reunion type gathering. We had less people than normal but still busy busy and lots of fun. A lot of work to get ready but it was a great time. There were like 20 kids running like crazy. They all seemed to have had a blast. This is the perfect place to have so many kids run around. They spent a lot of time in the pond. Since unfortunately 2 of the days were horrible hot. Upper 90 heat index again. So I'm exhausted from sweating. Plus I didn't sleep well. I always know people are up and jump awake to not miss anything haha. But...it was worth it. It was a great time and now it's over. Probably our last big camping bash here. We will have a fun Halloween party but not really much else. Which I'm secretly excited about. More stitching. Lazy time. Haha. We will have some fall cooler temps type things to do around here but still it will be more calm. Plus a few more weekends ahead to finish clearing out the old house. Anyway I'm rambling.

Another thing to share is a really fun thing that happened. I received $100 from a survey company I participate in. So since it was unplanned money I decided to get some stash haul because I mean why not haha...

The new Jim Shore Mill Hill Kits since I found a love for Gnomes lately. I decided I will do them one at a time. I'll have Jeremiah pick which one each time of course. Probably in October. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get them done for the Winter season. No pressure though.

I got our Zodiac Mill Hill kits after seeing a friend work on one. Nice thing Jeremiah and I are both Taurus so I only have to do 2 for the 3 of us.

Enchanted Pumpkin yet another Mill Hill kit. I've had this one on my wish list for years! So it was about time plus with the other Mill Hills coming it fit right in the cart to.

Last two I got the free chart of the month which was a mummy from Stoney Creek. I also got this Irish chart from 123stitch because it was on sale so again.....why not. Jeremiah loves his Irish heritage so I thought it would be nice to stitch for him. So 11 new patterns added to my stash. I couldn't help it. Free money. I ended up only paying like $6 for all of these with shipping. Perfect. It was a fun stash enhancement that we all need sometimes.

Now I'm joining in a fun game for September called Go Fish in the Semi Sane Facebook group. I will explain more about that in my next post though. This one is already long enough I think haha. 

Have a great week. We have a few more days of heat and then it's supposed to cool off again. Hopefully this time for the rest of the year. We keep joking about never turning on our heat because we look forward to being cold finally. Love yourself. Smile. Enjoy your life.