Its the May 2-4 weekend as we Canadians call it, technically its Victoria Day Weekend, for some strange reason we get a long weekend to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Birthday.  She’s been dead a very long time now, but I’m not going to knock it! So first I’m going to ask for your opinion, a good, long time TKD buddy of mine is getting married at the end of July and I finally got the wedding invite.

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Long Weekend Stitching, and Fabric Opinions Please!

Lately all I want to do is stitch, stitch, stitch!  Especially on Celestial Dragon, I am just so in love with this design!  The colours are fantastic and the pictures just don’t show how shimmery this dragon is! Also on Saturday Art Deco Spirits got some needle time.  While I was waiting for my Mum at the hairdressers I brought ADS with me and got quite a bit of it done. Today was my weigh in

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I’m In Love With Celestial Dragon!

Wow more than two blog entries in one week?  How can that be?  I keep thinking I need to blog more regularly again.  So lets try again! I haven’t sat down and figured out what I wanted to get done this month stitching wise, first lets cover April’s goals. April Recap Stitch an ornament – Yes Stitch a freebie – Yes Work on Celestial Dragon – Yes May Goals Work on Celestial Dragon Stitch an

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April Review, and May Goals

Wow I am nowhere near as regular a blogger as I used to be! Friday after work Christin and I hopped in my poor (now fixed) little car and drove down to Kingston where we stayed with her parents for the weekend (thanks for the bed Mom & Dad!).  Saturday I was up early (for me!) and even shocked Christin’s Dad by being up, showered and dressed before he was!  I had to head into town to help Ann

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Helping Friends, Borders and Dragons Oh My!

Yesterday I got a wonderful surprise in the mail!  I had won a giveaway on Staci’s blog, a fantastic pair of scissors!  They will certainly get put to good use! I’ve been working on Celestial Dragon when I can and I’m now backstitching (BSing) the knotwork in the last corner.  Hopefully tomorrow I can move onto the last Chinese character : Virtue.  I was asked what was the last character I

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A Whole Lot of BS Around Here!

Today we celebrated Todd’s Grandmother’s 80th birthday.  We wrapped up the day with family photos… I really wish I had thought to bring my good camera.  I took my point and shoot with me, and boy can you tell from the quality of the pictures!!! The whole family from Todd’s Great Grandmother at the age of 97, to the youngest in the family, Liam who is 16 months.

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Family & Stitching

Friday after work I was supposed to pop down to Rebecca’s place in my car to visit and stitch with her this weekend.  Unfortunately my car was making a rather unfriendly noise and Todd felt it wasn’t best for me to make the 2 hour drive.  We think the bearing on the driver’s side needs replacing, the car is going into the shop on Tuesday.  So I’ve been stitching by myself today.

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Stitching By Myself

This week was a write-off activity wise, I’ve not gone to the gym, Taekwon-Do, for a run or even a walk this week.  My cold kinda knocked me on my ass for a few days.  I finally had to take a sick day on Tuesday, as I didn’t have a voice by the end of the work day Monday.  I am feeling better but I’m still tired, instead of wearing myself down further I’m giving my body time to get better. 

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Its Been A Long Week

Its sad to admit it, but after Sunday night Christin and I don’t have any more concernts lined up (at the moment).  My regular readers know that I LOVE rock concerts!!!! Sunday night despite my cold, we went to the Nickleback concert.  I took drugs before hand… don’t worry the legal, over the counter kind.  I can assure you I smelt plenty of the illegal stuff that night!  It was really slow to

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"N" is for Nickleback

Happy Easter to all my blog readers! It was another gorgeous day here in the Ottawa Valley, so Todd and I took full advantage of that going for a 9k walk on the Trans-Canada Trail.  We’re very lucky in that its not too far from our home (just a 5 minute drive), but its somethign we don’t take advantage of.  Today we did, and walked one section of the trail 4.5k in one direction then 4.5k back,

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A Spring-y Small

Friday March 12, 2010 Today was our true “fun in the sun” day!  Our Dominican families packed a lunch for us, we hopped on Wally’s bus and we went to a public beach one used by the Dominicans not owned by a resort.  It was absolutely gorgeous!  White sandy beaches, azure waters, and palm trees.  There was a fantastic sea breeze, we never felt too hot!  The water was just pefrect, not cold but

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Dominican Experience Day 6 & 7

The start of a new month and its time to see how I did with my stitching goals from the previous month and what I’ve got planned for the upcoming month. March Goals In Review Stitch an ornament – stitched and finished! Pick/work on my next BAP – Picked and worked on Celestial Dragon Stitch a gift – didn’t have a chance to get to it Finish blogiversary gift – Finally!  Now to get it in the mail!

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April Goals, March Recap, and an Ornament too!

Thursday March 11, 2010 Today was the day many of us were looking forward to (besides our trip on Friday), our day at the orphanage.  It was another early start for us, with a breakfast of ham and cheese sandwitches (again!) with ketchup and a side of cantaloupe.  It was an early start because they had physical labour in mind for us and it was best to get it done in the early hours of the day.

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Dominican Experience Day 6

Wednesday March 10, 2010 Today wasn’t a super early start, which was nice but I find myself often up by 6:30am (what’s up with that, considering the DR is an hour ahead).  Despite haivng a good nights sleep, I’m still pretty tired today. As been our pattern these past few days it was another day on the bus with our fantastic driver, Wally.  He’s been our driver since Tuesday and he’s got a nice

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Dominican Experience Day 5

Saturday is my 34th Birthday, but last weekend at the Knowledge and Needles Retreat I received my first birthday gifts from my friends! From Beatrice, a lovely stitched cushion for my smalls basketFrom Rebbecca this gorgeous bag, I love bags!From Bonnie (aka : highlighter pimp) new highlighters, and lookie they’re Sharpies! From Fran, my very own personalized sweatshirt with the Knowledge and

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Gifts and Ornaments

Tuesday March 9, 2010 I’ve got so many pictures from this day to share with you. I’ve tried my best to put it into words (which is so hard) so I hope my pictures will fill in the blanks.Today was a long day! We were up around 7, and served a breakfast of ham & cheese sandwiches (with ketchup), and fruit

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Dominican Experience Day 4

When I was growing up, one of my main chores was mowing the yard. We lived on a wooded hill. Part of the yard had to be mowed rather frequently; part of it was only cut a few times a year

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Free Vine and Leaf Motif Cross Stitch Pattern

I’m going to share my hand written journal from my trip with you, I didn’t think I’d get near a computer and I wanted to write all my impressions down, fresh in my mind. I haven’t hand written a journal in a very long time! (I’ve blacked out the student’s faces in my pictures) Saturday March 6, 2010 Boy, Friday was a hectic day! My work day went by in a whirl wind, I received a lot of well

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Day 1 Dominican Experience

Yesterday was an emotional and long day! Leaving the Dominican Republic was so hard, we had really connected with our families and Dominican Animators. We hit the road by 10AM for the drive from San Pedro de Macoris to La Romana and the airport. We were there almost 3 hours early! The plane was late in arriving so we didn’t get up in the air on time.

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Home Safe and Sound

Its the start of another month, I sware just yesterday was New Years! Boy this year is going by so fast! I have so much to look forward to in March. First is my trip to the Dominican which starts this weekend! The weekend after my return is the Knowledge and Needles Timberhouse Retreat.

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February Review and March Goals