The Betsy Ross Experience: ornies

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Christmas Gifties

Oooh...lots of little Christmas gifts going out the door! Each year I resolve to get all the ornaments & goodies done months ahead of time & each year I end up throwing things together at the last minute in not-quite-the-way-I-imagined. Damn you, procrastination!!!

The first pic here is a little ornament and a loaf of YUMMY cranberry bread for one of my work friends.

Ornament from JBW's Advent Calendar

Fancy Work's Nature Sings from 2005 JCS Ornament issue

(Our tree makes me so happy. I just want to stare at it for hours)

JBW's Starry Night

Here's my bit of progress on the Mystery Sampler from Blackbird Designs. I'm partway through the 2nd section & I'm having a lot of fun with this one!

Thanksgiving week stitching

I pretty much went off my stash diet this past week - it all started when I saw the Blackbird Designs Mystery sampler & fell in love with it. So I now have parts 1-4 and the fabric (WDW "Straw) and threads to finish it. I wonder when they'll release the last part? As I went to pick up my needle, I noticed that the alphabet has no "I", I wonder if that's an oversight, or a common sampler thing I just don't know about. (c:

Since I was there...I might as well also get fabric & threads for the Beatrix Potter SAL that will start in January. I picked R&R Creme Brulee & WDW Lancaster Red to do that one with. I'm really looking forward to starting it.

Over the past week, I also worked on CDC, finally getting to the bottom right corner. And I did two of the JBW Advent calendar pieces, which I'm going to give away as ornies. I have a bow charm for the wreath, but can't find it right now!

Autumn is here

It was a beautiful fall day here - the leaves are falling and the colors are really pretty. I love spring and fall, unfortunately they always go by too quickly! Here's a pic from the yard and thru the window in our family room:

I did finish a couple more ornaments this weekend:

Fancy Work - Nature Sings

2005 JCS Ornament Issue

JBW - Starry, Starry Night

1998 JCS Ornament Issue

So for my goals for October were mixed, but I'm happy with what I got done:

Finish top border and small circles on Cirque Nope
Finish big center circles on Cirque Nope
Complete filling on both lambs in "Outstanding in their Field" Nope
Finish "Toi et Moi" Yes
Complete stitching on at least 2 Christmas ornies Actually, 4!
Start a new big project Yes, Mirabilia's Adia
Put together Gentle St. Nick Christmas stocking Yep, it's done
Get iTunes to Airport to LR speakers working Yes, and it's so nice to be able to play music and not watch the boob tube (c:

This "goals" thing seems to be working out for me! So for November:

Finish top border and small circles on Cirque
Finish big center circles on Cirque
Complete filling on both lambs in "Outstanding in their Field"
Complete stitching top of Adia's dress
Finish 3 more ornaments