Sweet!

A Literal Teacup Yorkie…

Just a Quickie….

Here’s my latest progress on Beacon House:

I finished that window, started the (rein)deer, and started filling in all that snow. And realized that there is a whole middle section of chart-age between this sheet and the right side sheet. I’m starting to implement floss-saving measures now, even though I have the called-for amounts of skeins. I think it uses less floss to stitch large swathes of color (like the snow) at an angle, rather than horizontal line back & forth. You don’t have to carry over to the beginning of the new stitch as far: at an angle, if you end your stitch correctly, you only have to go up or down one stitch to start the next. Try it!

I made these babies for stitching last week:

Joanne Chang’s Carrot Cake Cupcakes, from her “Flour” cookbook. (This was to satisfy a craving for cream cheese frosting- %^P)

We were also introduced to Deborah’s new puppy, Stella. Such a sweet little thing! She didn’t even make a peep! and soooo soft! Nothing like a new puppy and a cupcake to make a night of friends and stitching just about perfect!

HaHa! Another video!

I didn’t have my sound on (at work- shhh!) so I don’t know how noisy this is. I found it on this blog, which looks interesting.  It was a Blogger Blog-of-Note back in November.

AAAAWWWWWEEEEE!!

Too cute for words!

I say….

That was in a British accent, in case you couldn’t tell.

For those of you who knit (not I), here’s a good one:

Story from CNN.

Those Crazy Canucks!

 

Jane from my stitching group passed this along. Try not to say “Awwwwww!”:

 

Ta-Da!

Behold my September ornament:

Bent Creek’s “Red Wing Blackbird” with colors swapped out for a cardinal.

Now to start October….

Too Hot….

to stitch, to cook, to sleep, to think…

Poor Chickie- her medicine seems to be working. I’ve started the oral medication; she’s only tolerating the oil on her food. It’s a good thing the steroids make her ravenous! Here she is soaking up some fan-age:

She’ll actually have her nose right up to the fan. I tried to get a picture but she moved.

Here’s Quaker Halloween, from last week’s efforts:

I lucked out tonight—I had just put 4 pieces of chicken (poultry, not dog) in the oven as the rainstorms started going overhead. And the lights went out, but only for a minute. Phew! That was a close one!

Crazy Kid…

Look at all the fun she’s been having at the Myopia Hunt in Hamilton:

“I wanna be an eventer!”

Her friend:

This horse recovered from extensive colic surgery about 4 years ago.  I’m glad the two girls have become such good friends and have so much fun on their horses!

Cranky Pants….

I’ve not had a good night sleep in literally a year. I waken somewhere between 1 am and 3, then either stay awake until 4 or so, and/or fall back into disturbingly detailed (yes I remember them!) dreams until my alarm goes off at 5:15 am. Last night was no exception- I checked the clock at 2:23 am. I was hearing an annoying mechanical drone coming from off in the distance, that continued on the WHOLE FREEEKIN’ NIGHT. Sometimes I can hear the MBTA trains warming up at the train yard, but this wasn’t quite the same noise, plus, around 4 am, I DID hear the trains moving about from the train yard to the station, including the crossing bells, in addition to the drone. I seriously was SO close to getting in my car at 3:30 to drive around until I found the source of the noise, and then batter the culprit to death with my aluminum baseball bat. The noise was like a huge vacuum hum.  I have no idea how far away it actually was; the train yard is about 2 miles away, the train station about 3/4 of a mile.

ARRG!!!!I’m getting totally annoyed just remembering it! I was extremely cranky at work today. (And tired). My boss has been omnipresent in the office for 2 weeks straight. He’s had a head cold (poor snookums) and hasn’t gotten back to his gym schedule. We’ve gotten in a bunch of new jobs (YAY! Economy is doing something!), so I’ve been busy, but he keeps back-seat  drafting and today I was ready to whack him upside the head with a drafting scale. Gawd- I needed some chocolate!

The guacamoles presented me with this last night:

A new stitching bag! Just because! Monogrammed! And custom embroidered with a horse! It has a pocket on the opposite side for holding my chocolate or orts.

I worked on these last night at Jeanne’s:

and:

I made Salmon Cakes for my supper (and Diabetic boy). Here are 2 mooches:

Delilah (Shhh! Don’t tell her she’s getting fixed next week!)

And Chicken (with Delilah’s tail in front)

In which our intrepid blogger stitches something…….

CS Quaker Halloween progress:

March ornament (gotta hop to it tonight & tomorrow to finish!):

Ink Circle freebie from the Online Needlework Show. And yes, she is QUITE close to the edge of the fabric.

Em is now on second shift at Smartpak, so I’ve been going up to check on the pony in the afternoon:

“Dinner!!!!!!!!!!”

Miss Fuzzy Nose

Em gets to open up crates of new products to accept or reject shipment, then price & tag for warehousing. She gets to see all the new stuff before it literally hits the shelves.

Hot kitty-ness:

Twitchy thing won’t hold still.

This will be brought back out this weekend………..

Oh Joy!

Look what my favorite daughter and her cabana boy

got me for Christmas:

!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited!

Here are the rest of my gifts:

     

“Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow” is from my barn owner; all the rest is from the kids-“Hello Cupcakes!” and “Bent Objects” AND (!!!!!!!!) “The Pioneer Woman Cooks”, fleece jammie bottoms and a fleece jacket. The jacket matches the camera- HA!

I went to my stitching store closing sale today and got this:

more Thread Gatherers silks, the fabric for CaHRH, plus 2 more pieces, a couple of packages of needles and Deb threw in 2 freebie charts.

Chickie left me a couple of “presents” in the basement. We’re having a little chat tonight about that.

I had a wonderful day- I hope you did as well.

You Can't Have Just One....

Don't even look if you can't handle the cute:

 

French Bulldog Can't Roll Over - watch more funny videos

In case that embedded player doesn't work, try this link via copy/paste into your browser:

 

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8d45ee1177/french-bulldog-can-t-roll-over?rel=player

Just to Tide you over.....

until I make a Real post:

Gratuitous Chicken cuteness:

Looking for handouts!

look at this little guy!

OMG!! Look at those legs!

Illustrations!

Garden Grew update:

Still finishing up on page 4.

Here's a close up of the violet (pansy?)- the leafy stuff I had to move:

I think that's a hybrid bunny/squirrel. There are lots of those little bees all over the design.

Here's the latest on BBD March stocking #2:

I'm stitching it upside down next to the other one because I'm a cheap Yankee bitch.

Emily's new BF out in sunny Californeea made this out of two horse shoes:

Isn't that nice? He should SO sell them & make a fortune.

I went up to ride but had to give Jodi & Ruth a hand with Ruth's horse- they think she has an abscess.  My stomach has been queasy all afternoon, and Axe was napping, and it started raining so I talked myself out of riding.

Mad Dash:

Another doll dress done:

As modeled by my pencil jar.

"Hey! Hey you in there! I need some scratchies and a fire in the stove would be oh so snuggly nice! Are you done yet???!!!Mommmmiiieee?"

I even managed to take Toil & Trouble out today at lunch. I was dreadfully over tired, but couldn't take a nap. Damn Tami Hoag book until 1:40 am last night!:

Haven't finished the "N" in "cauldron", but if you see any typos, now's the time to let me know!

PS-

Haven't mentioned the horsie lately because she's been really good for me- we've been having awesome (for me) workouts, aside from a couple of bitter cold days I just couldn't bear to get on.

Check This Out:

Horse puzzle today at Shockwave:

Daily Jigsaw

I did it in 12:52 for the 150-piece size - see if you can beat me.

Click on the 'Play Free Online" button below today's image; you may be prompted to download a Shockwave applet. I've never had any problems with the software.

Give Thanks...

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. I hope you all enjoyed good food, good company, good weather and good traveling.

Bob came hours earlier than I expected, so I never even got the house cleaned. He did help with preparing the stock  for the gravy, though; and when I came back from a coffee run, Chickie greeted me at my door like this:

 

Isn't that cute? It's like a Christmas turtleneck!

Later, after the tryptophan kicked in:

You thought I was kidding when I said she crawls up my nostrils??!!!

My reward for doing all the dishes:

Flat Apple Pie with vanilla ice cream!

Remind me to post my recipe for Slow Cooker Stuffing- when I went looking for how I did it last year, I realized I never followed thru on posting as promised last year. I was very pleased with how it turned out. Emily called & said the peanut butter filled cupcakes were good, but the filling kind of overpowered the cake - the cake was good, and the filling was good, but they kind of didn't work together. I'm thinking I'll have to hunt for a different type of chocolate cake recipe.

Off to snooze on the couch.

Thank you to all my new in-person and virtual friends!