January Nine and feeling Fine...

 ~ Greetings and Warm Welcome Friends ~

to my blog!

January 9...

the hubbub of the holidays are gone, went like a whirlwind, like it always does. I always savor the Christmas Holidays because of the fact that we can stay home, snuggle in and just: RELAX. I love that!

So last Tuesday, 

everyone went back to work, including me. I finish for The Shepherd's Needle - their shop models - Ann always chooses such lovely, creative finishes for her models. She tells me what she wants and I get down to the finishing. I'll let the pictures do the talking.....

 

Lovely, lovely stitching to create lovely finishes. 

I continued on with my 12 Days of Christmas Stitching, personal challenge...

The Prairie Schooler Angel's piece

stitching on 32 ct. black linen 2/2 DMC

I have Charted: Gloria in Excelsis Deo and it will be centered under the 3 angels.

32 ct. Twilight Blue Wichelt 2/2 DMC:

28 ct. White 2/2 DMC, this is from the 1991 Cross Stitch Christmas magazine (Better Homes and Gardens) I have long loved this and had it marked 2023 the year!

My own stocking, on 20 ct. linen 1/2 5 pearl cotton DMC/WEEKS/Classic Colorworks:

With the 12 Days projects all started, I began my rotating through my WIPS. I started with Lavender and Lace - Marilyn Leavitt Imblum's Santa of the Forest. 

Stitched on 28 ct. 2/2 Natural Linen 

I started this the last week in July. Here was after 1 week of work: 

Then a few days more:

By this time (the end of August) Working was getting CRAZY and I lost my mind and my stitching mojo. SO I did one more day and didn't stitch again until November:

Yesterday I picked him back up and managed quite a bit of progress: 

January 8, 2023:

I'll stitch on him maybe all this week, and then choose my next project. 

We got to meet Ian's new girlfriend: Kamdyn:

She's very nice and fits right in!

Then my Ellie and Jake went to see Puss in Boots at the theaters 2 times over the holidays and then Ellie dressed our little Puss as Puss in Boots (ha ha ha!):

That pretty much sums up my life since our last visit. I was beginning to feel a little overwhelmed today thinking about all the work I need to do, keep on track with my gentle stretching and walking exercises daily, my diet, my religious education class I lead.......focusing on me more and work (and everyone else less) that's extremely hard for me. Scheduling, I must remember to always schedule enough time for me into each day. That's a new and novel experience, that's easily forgotten or over thrown for more and more....LESS...I need to remember LESS is good! LOL!

Now I have just enough time on my "lunch hour" to go for my daily walk. 

May you find joy in  your stitches!

LOTS OF LOVE, 

Vonna xxxx