Weekend Progress

Thursday I decided to change projects for the weekend. Here is where I left Seaside Stitches...

I really enjoy working on it but I needed a break for the weekend. So I picked up my Christmas Banner. Here is where I got with it...

I have a poor noseless snowman again. He gets a cute little carrot button so it has to wait till the end. Poor guy. I started this one in June. Here is my first post about starting the piece. I'm glad I got some more stitching done on it.

Saturday we went to the tree farm and got our Christmas tree...

This is a picture of Jeremiah putting the star on top with the help of Fred of course haha. After we did that decorating Fred and I ran out and did some Christmas shopping. It's going to come quick now! It was crazy busy so I'm glad we didn't have too much to do. We had another craft day last week and Jeremiah made 4 more sun catchers. Here they are...

You put these crystals in the forms and then bake them in the oven and they melt. Jeremiah had a lot of fun making them.

Oh hey by the way Measi has posted sign ups for the 2015 WIPocalypse. I'm so glad she decided to host it again for next year.  If you are interested please join in. It's a fun reason to blog.

Weekend Progress

Here is the progress as of last night. I didn't get to stitch on Saturday since we ran out to do some Christmas shopping. Boy this piece takes brain power but I'm loving how it looks!

Fred worked Friday so no Black Friday shopping which I was so thankful for. I would rather spend more money than have to fight crowds. Saturday we ran out to Meijer and grabbed a few things. Fred got the outside Christmas lights and stuff up. It's starting to look like Christmas. We are getting a live tree again this year so we are going to wait till this weekend to get it so it lasts. We got all the fall decorations away and are getting the snowman out slowly. Love this time of year! All the lights and fun decorations. Today we went shopping at the kitchen table online haha. Love shopping without the crowds and in my pajama pants haha. Now the excitement of giving gifts is growing. Found some great deals and didn't have to carry the stuff or anything haha. Well I hope everyone has a great week ahead. I'll be back later with more progress on Seaside Stitches hopefully.

I started it!

Even though my belly hurt from all the fantastic food I was able to lift my arm and start Seaside Stitches. Here is my progress. I just LOVE working with the silks. I feel guilty when I have a little bitty piece to put in my ort jar haha. The area around the boat is called chain stitch. I'm pretty sure first time I've ever done that. It went fine after I realized what to do. I looked up a tutorial on YouTube. It helps so much to see someone do it. It was hard to count but it's right. Looks lopsided but I keep checking it and it's right so I'm not going to try to change it now. Today I'm not doing anything so hopefully I'll get even more progress. Just have to get off this computer haha.