Oct 9th Monday Update

Only 2 projects this week but I'm happy with my progress on both.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I worked on October from Season 2 by Hands on Designs. Thursday I finished it up...

1,384 stitches in this little design. Honestly at first the row of faces bothered me. Then I noticed the theme in all of these is a repeating type pattern in this section and I understood. I guess originally I thought it was supposed to be a design on the pumpkin. I LOVE the white pumpkin. Just beautiful overall design of course haha. I can't believe just two more to do and this set will be done! I think I've stuck with every month in the month they were supposed to be for. That makes me proud. I am toying with a different idea for a monthly design next year. We'll see.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday I worked on the Halloween Minis by Artecy. I started the cat face...

I'm doing this one symbol by symbol and I really enjoy that. Easier since it's a smaller design. So this week was 2,397 which was a little more then last week. Even though it was only 2 designs this time around.

The semi sane monthly challenge I'm in is a puzzle solving type. Each puzzle has 20 pieces and each piece we stitch 1,000 stitches to earn the piece. Then we solve the puzzle. 2 entries earned with each puzzle solve. We are on our 2nd puzzle now. It is fun but not near as much fun as last month's Go Stitch challenge. This one has a lot more planning and math involved. One nice part is we have a team of 11 stitchers working together. My blog friend Faith and a lady who we both know in the real world is on the same team as me. 

Guess what Jeremiah got last week??? A phone!!! It was time. Plus I found out with his health insurance he gets a fantastic phone with a fantastic package for free. So that's extra nice. Can't turn that away can we? He's trying hard to get used to it. He seems to be enjoying it. Even getting on Facebook more. I'm really proud of him. He gets in moods where he feels like he doesn't have friends. Hard to believe that when he posts something and gets so many comments and likes. Goober. So he's enjoying that part. 

Saturday we had fun attending a charity BBQ event. They raised at least $7,000 they said. Maybe more with donations. How neat. The charity buys Christmas presents for low income families. A great organization it sounds like. So we were happy to pay back. Plus we got a delicious meal and enjoyed our time out. 

Things are really chilling down. We even had to turn our little heaters on. We are building the winter shower house this weekend. I'll try to remember to share photos this time around. It's perfect and stays nice and warm for us. I'm happy things are slowing down. Now I can settle in a do my winter stitching haha. I have so many fun ideas of what I want to do. Now to get my fingers to cooperate and stitch faster on all the things haha. 

Okay well have a great week. Love yourself. Smile. Enjoy life.