I really need to be doing something besides surfing the web. I’m actually enjoying it, I seem to find all sorts of wonderful things out there. So why am I just now finding it? Stitching related mind you, why now when I have to pay retail? Well first off, I have loads of time to sit here and snoop, second I don’t have my mother coming back into the  office wondering why I’m not up front keeping her company. Guess I answered that question.

I discovered Gay Ann Rogers, and a very cool shop in France as well as one in England and if I ever win the lotto I’ll be doing a lot of shopping there. I also seem to be drawn to canvas work lately. I just migrate towards it and can’t seem to figure out why?

My parents first shop was a needlepoint shop here in Colorado Springs, I had a real job then so I just hung out there after work. But even then I did more cross stitch than needlepoint. Also, doing the decorative stitches on needlepoint canvas was sort of a new thing. You did it, but mostly is was the regular continental stitch. So here I am back at my roots so to speak. Actually I love the stuff that has all the geometric designs that just beg to have decorative stitches used on them. I can hear the begging and pleading now all the way down here on my computer.

So what am I working on? Hmmmm let me think, I’m still trying to complete Martina Weber’s Alpine Garden. I was trying to get that done before winter, but now I’m just hoping it happens before the end of the year. Actually I’m not doing that much stitching at all. I’m not comfortable in my surroundings to stitch. I miss that table in the front of our shop. I had so much stuff around me everything was easy to find, it was right there, now I have to go look for stuff. I am not really comfortable in my seat in the family room, so I might have to move to a different location and listen to books on CD again like at the shop. Forget the TV!

And while I brought it up……have you noticed the really awful TV available during the day? OMG I had no idea it was so bad. This is not really a slam to the TV guys that do the programming, but more a comment on how out of the TV loop I have become. I do have several favorite shows and we record them every week and I do try to watch them during the day now. The downside of that is by the time the weekend rolls around I have nothing saved up to watch and I’m stuck trying to find some way to entertain myself. This is where the stitching would come in, but as I said earlier it’s just not comfortable. I could get up and clean the house, brush a dog or do laundry, but somehow that seems like I’m supposed to do that in addition to stitching. Oh well, I’m also messing around with that snowflake as well as my very first needlepoint design. Been trying to get the B&C to show me the photo post on here thing, but no luck so far. Maybe tomorrow, I’ll get both the designs up here and any comments would be appreciated. Let me know if I’m headed in the right direction. That’s the feedback I used to get at the shop.

Since I’m not dog showing it this weekend, and I am no longer going to a shop every Saturday, I think I’ll make cookies. I can not remember the last time I made cookies here at home. I found a recipe that I used to make when Andy and I first got married and as I remember they were good and easy, so I’ll start off with that. Then I want to try my hand at truffles. I have all the stuff to make them, just been procrastinating in doing it. I might even have to fix a real dinner for a change. I really need to get back into that habit.

Well, so much for tonight. With luck I will get the photo thing done tomorrow and then I can do the bolg dance of joy. I might even be able to show the progress I’m making on the stuff I’m suppoed to be stitching.