YAY!!

YAY!! My Millenium frame has arrived. This was a gift so I didn't break budget and I was becoming quite worried because it was ordered on New Year's and I have  never had an item coming from another country. I am in the US and company is in UK so I was making myself a bit frazzled. It arrived and I immediately put a project on it and beginning stitching and thought "Wow I have got a lot done" and then looked at it and had to say 'Oh Sh`t I messed up my counting" started counting and notice it was in the beginning and have to frog every stitch. I had that happen last night and I also write on my pattern and have to buy a new one... grrrr. I will be making a photocopy in the future to write upon. Hope everyone has a great stitching weekend.

Finishing February

Hello... I thought to check in and let you all know that I have bought a skein of floss this month. I have been working on my faerie and haven't finished much more of it. My husband and I have been playing monopoly instead of my stitching. I have enjoyed spending the time with him and a little less stitching right now is okay. He will be under the hood of his truck soon enough, the weather is improving.  I won't see him then, lol. He is working Sunday so maybe I will do some stitching then. Have a happy day.

Blessed Imbolc Stitching

Blessed Imbolc 

I hope everyone is enjoying this day, I am working on my Snowdrop Fairy today. I am a VERY slow stitcher still, I make a lot of mistakes... between reading a pattern, and putting stitches in I somehow goof up, lol. On a brighter note, I am learning how to un-stitch quite well. I have been doing okay with using a hoop but sure wish my millenium frame would arrive. It is a gift and I am so excited about it. 

I have done really well with staying in budget, and am glad that I am doing this. I am taking the money and using it differently and trying to save a little more here and there. I am planning a trip to Half Price Books this coming week and will be checking to see what they have for selection of pattern books. 

I also do papercrafting and  have a couple of gifts I am working on at the moment. I have put myself on a budget there as well so that I can use up some stash there as well. 

I am thinking about combining the two and trying to stamp an image onto my fabric and cross stitch the design. Has anyone tried this? What results did you get?