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Saturday, May 23, 2015

I don't know where I've been...

Month: May
Spent: $27.67
Earned: Not participating

It is Memorial Day weekend in the States, so I thought a collage was in order.  This is my family during World War II:


On the left is the home front, my Grandparents, my Aunt Linda and my Dad. On the right from top left to bottom right, are my: Aunt Hazel; and, Uncles Dale, Bob, and Dick (thanks to my cousin Dewey's Facebook page for the photos).  My Dad went on to a 30-year career in the Army.



So, when I last blogged (a month ago!!!), I had great hopes of keeping up with all my check-ins and tearing through the stitching. Um, yeah, not so much. I would love to tell you that I was working on something with great socially redeeming value, but honestly, I have no idea what I was doing that took all my time.  That is not totally true, my parents came to visit a couple of weeks ago - Thanks for coming Mom and Dad!!!

I will not be able to catch up on all the check-ins I missed, so will get the ones that are due soon. The first is
Simple and easy - try to stitch from your stash as much as you can. Each month you get a $25 budget (I'm tracking in US Dollars but you can convert to your local currency) and what you don't spend does roll over. Well for the first time in a long time, I bought something this month!!! It hasn't arrived yet, but I am going to count it and will show you when it arrives. So for May:

Balance forward: $100
Budget: $25
Available $125
Spent: $27.67
To June: $97.33

I had three new starts from stash:

This is Rosewood Manor's contribution to The Sampler Life's SAL. It is stitched with the DMC conversion:

A couple years ago, I stitched 99 by Ink Circles for my son. During the stitching I showed my DNephew the photo and h really liked it, so I started one for him this morning. It is stitched on 32-count Vintage Buttercream from Lakeside Linens with DMC.
 


And finally, while my parents were visiting, my Mom was going through her stitching bag and asked if I wanted to stitch this for her:
 

It is Just Nan's Swan Lake. It is stitched on a 28-count Dark Teal Green cashel with DMC and the included beads. Technically it's not my stash, but it is a start from stash.

On other stitching.  I didn't get Santa's beard on Santa's Magic by Mirabelia, finished as I'd hoped, but I did get from here:

 
 
To here - I very much dislike stitching with Wisper thread!!!:
 


I also put a bit of time into Christmas Presence from HAED.  He went from here:


To here:


And finally, I'll do my check-in for:


I am using my blocks from The Sampler Life's SAL as my Smalls SAL each month. I showed the finished block above, and here are all four blocks together:


The weather for this weekend is just too beautiful (upper-70s/low-80s, very low humidity, light breeze - pretty close to perfect) to spend much time inside, so I'm not sure I'll get too much stitching done over the next 2 days, but Monday is supposed to start being summery which means hot, hazy and humid - no fun for working outside, so maybe then.

7 comments:

Linda said...

Awesome stitching and update Susan.

Linda

Robin in Virginia said...

Great WIPs and the Rosewood Manor small is super looking. Enjoy your weekend!

Robin in Virginia

Heather said...

Great stitching I can't wait to see what you bought!

Pull the other thread said...

What a great update. Love the photo collage. Your stitching looks amazing.

Justine said...

Looks to me like you got lots done! I can't believe you are going to stitch 99 bottles again - you will have to call it 198 bottles! That's dedication.

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

Great update, you seem to have done quite a lot considering how busy you've been.
The Sampler World sampler looks lovely so far, the colours go really well together.

Leonore Winterer said...

Time's flying, isn't it? You still got some nice stitching done, I love how Christmas Presence is growing and I'm really looking forward to see more of your new Just Nan start ^_^