Between my Dad being in the hospital all week and taking care of my elderly Mom, I simply haven't had much time to update or do anything else for that matter. I am just popping in to drop off a picture of a sweatshirt design I did last year and a really cute video of Clay Aiken for last summer's Jukebox Tour. Enjoy!!

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Here is a picture of the completed Rose Heart pattern. I'm still not thrilled with it and if I stitch it again I'll make some different color choices.
My dad is back in the hospital so I made a new pattern last night to take with me so I can talk and be productive at the same time. I'm doing geraniums this time. I don't think you can tell a great lot from the pattern since I haven't even started the black outline yet but what the heck, I'll post it anyway. *g*

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Here is a picture of the project I started on Sunday. I had to take my dad to the eye doctor yesterday so I always take a project with me to work on while I wait. He ended up having a cardiac episode and so I spent some time at the emergency room with him. I got a lot of stitching done as you can see. I'm not sure I like the colors I used but my mom loves it so I expect I'll give it to her when I finish it. It happens that way sometimes, I used a stained glass pattern and tried to give the colors the same type of "feel" as the glass but it just didn't work the way I hoped it would. I'm taking dad to the cardilogist in a few minutes so I'll probably finish this today.

Speaking of finishing things, I cannot believe that June is nearly half over and we STILL don't know when Clay Aiken's new CD is being released. I am getting beyond impatient now. Clay, darlin', you promised us the first half of 2006. Times up!! Come on, give with the information!!

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The last week has been busy and frustrating for me. I had two job interviews and still no word back from either of them (arghhhh!). Between job interviews, I ferried my dad to doctor appointments and my mom on errands. I then got the bright idea to try and make a pattern of Clay Aiken to punch and have tried all sorts of ways and means but I'm not satisfied with anything I've come up with so far. I even d/l a trial version of a cross stitch design program that you can import photos into but it's just not working out the way I invisioned (lol, does anything ever?). In the meantime I made a simple bluebird design for my mom that was very easy to work on while, say waiting in a doctor's office. She picked out a blue shirt almost the same color as the bird to put it on and here's the finished product:



I might have been more productive this week if I hadn't also gone to the library. I got a craving to re-read Anne McCaffrey's Petaybee series. I own some of my other favorites of hers like the Freedom, Crystal Singer and the "talent" series. I love to read and I'm bad to bury my head in a book and not get much else done when I have something good to read. I'm almost finished with book two with two to go and I read fast so I'll be back to stitching early next week. Now if I could just figure out how to do justice to Clay Aiken in stitchery. Hmmmmmmm, maybe I'll find another project to do and think about it some more. In the meantime, wish me luck in the job hunt, ok?

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,Anne McCaffrey

I have a good friend that loves and raises horses. I finally found a cute design to do as a present for her. The best part was it has very little detail so it was really quick to do. I just started it a couple of days ago and finished it this afternoon.

It's amazing the variety of things you can think of to punch. Letters are another quick and easy project. Just pick a font you like from a word processing program, print the size you want, transfer to fabric and punch away!

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