Happy Wednesday!

Hey y'all,

I hope this week is going well for all of you and that you had a wonderful Valentine's Day.  Mine is going good and I'm getting some things done, finally!  After spending so much time organizing and purging and painting, etc., the creative time was put on the back burner.  Even though I still have a bit of organizing to do, I've been cross stitching in the evenings and doing a bit of quilting during the day.  If I don't get to do something creative every day, I'm not a happy girl. 

I don't have a lot of pictures to share, but will add more soon.  My camera is broken, so I have to wait for hubby to take them for me.  I'm technologically challenged and haven't figured out how to use his.  I don't understand all those lenses and stuff.  I just want to use a plain ole point and shoot camera.  LOL  Anyway, here are few finishes I have.

I so enjoy doing embroidery and redwork, and I LOVE Annies, so this one was so fun to do.  This is my Annie Valentine pillow, but I'm sure I will leave it out all the time.  I mean, it's red and has polka dots, sooooo.....why not?  ;0)

My all time favorite Christmas movie is "It's A Wonderful Life".  I watch it every year SEVERAL times.  My sweet hubby bought me the movie several years ago so I could watch it over and over.  Anywho, these two stitching projects are from the movie.  They are both by The Sampler Girl.  I love her patterns, and these were so fun and quick to stitch.  They were my first stitching finishes of the new year. 

I have a few more stitching projects that I've finished, but they are at the framers. I'll share those when I get them back. 

I pulled Houses of Hawk Run Hollow back out and I'm bound and determined to finish it this year.  I mean, I only started it in 2006.  I would say it's time to be a finish instead of a WIP or UFO.  :0)  I'm also working on Marianne Wren.  I love this sampler so much.  This is my other large project that I plan to finish this year.  In between those two, I'll be stitching smaller things including more Christmas ornaments.  I have to have the satisfaction of a finish every now and then.  If I do a block a month on HoHRH and a page a month on Marianne Wren, I'll have them both finished well before the year is over.  I enjoy stitching them both, so I don't think this will be a problem.  (we shall see!)

On the quilting front I've been cutting and organizing scraps, cutting out several quilt projects and also a few purses are ready to make.  I like it when I have some things already cut out and I can just start the sewing part.  I'm weird like that.  ;0)

Other than this, I don't have a lot to tell you except that we are having the weirdest weather EVER this year.  One day it's 80 and the next it's 50.  No wonder people have been sick. 

Okedoke, back to work for me.  I need to do something constructive today.  Maybe if I just throw flour on my face it will look like I've been busy in the kitchen.  Think that will work?  :0)  Not....

Love and hugs to y'all from Texas,