February 20, 2023....

 ~ Warm Welcome to my blog ~

It's been about a month since my last post....

sorry about that, sometimes I get caught up in life. 

What has happened in the last month?

Well....back on the old lifestyle of low carb and fasting. I think I have finally lost all the Christmas gains....

I was down in my back for 2 weeks.... muscle spasms. I get these every so often and when it happens....not good. Always takes me out for a couple of weeks. 

I've been....

finishing of course, but my plan to not take as many clients and not work 7 days a week has been going well....trying to stay true to me. I am blessed with many GOOD and REPEAT clients that have been with me for years. Seems a large percentage of the time when I take new clients it doesn't work out so well. I've decided that it's going to be a real rare occasion that I take new clients from her on out. Not to say I won't, but I want to honor those people that have been with me and have stayed true to me. Easy to work with and I know that they follow through. 

I also have done some stitching....

I was honored to finish for a client her set of 

Thread Milk Statehood Splendor Series

She wanted them as ornaments and as I was finishing them, I thought what a wonderful way to commemorate our family vacations by stitching the states we have visited. SO, I decided to stitch Maine and I added the year 2022 to it as we just visited there last summer. Here it is all stitched up:

"ME - State Splendor Series" by Thread Milk on 28 ct. Vintage Country Mocha using Classic Colorworks 2/2

Then I stitched and finished up: Mill Hill's Charmed Santa Series II This is "Noel Santa". I have all 12 from these two Mill Hill series Charmed Santa's Series I and Series II. I hope to stitch several of them this year. 

"Noel Santa" by Mill Hill on 14 ct. Perforated Paper 3/1 DMC using Mill Hill Beads

I also finished the stitching on my "Jolly Squirrel" by Pigeon Coop Designs:

"Jolly Squirrel" by Pigeon Coop Designs stitched on Zweigart 32 ct Stormy Gray using DMC 2/2

Here are a couple of WIPS I've been working on:

"Father Frost" by Mill Hill on 14 ct. Perforated Paper DMC 3/1

"Solitary Skater" by P Buckley Moss on 28 ct. white DMC 2/2

That's all the stitching I've done so far in February...it seems such a short month. . . that I don't get much done. We still have a week and half, maybe I can get some more progress on something :)

Today is President's Day so....

Keith is off work and we are going to go out to lunch, a very rare treat for us! I'm excited. I've been planning for a week what I'm going to order - ha ha ha! We like to go to Cheddar's restaurant, it's a nice, clean restaurant with good food at a great price and nice size portions. We love it! Hits all our bells!

We also are planning our summer vacation today....

we have decided to go to Colorado and our bucket list is to hit as many National Parks as we can before we die. So....we are hitting: Rocky Mountain National Park, Black Canyon National Park in Gunnison, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. We will be staying in the state of Colorado for around 12 days. It's always exciting to plan a vacation!

Well that does it for me for today!

I hope this finds you all well and enjoying your stitching and life. 

Until next time....

love and hugs in stitches, 

Vonna xxxx