My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/31/17

I hope everyone had a beautiful Christmas and that Santa brought you all you wanted, provided you were on the "good" list!

Our Christmas was wonderful. Jacob was a very happy and surprised little boy and he must have been really good because he received tons of good stuff.

These are of Jacob and I even managed to sneak in one of Matt and Tia

Seems I was pretty good too!

I received new Eeyores, stitchy stuff,

puzzle stuff and new bedding!

 This is Jacob making us an

apple pie on Christmas Eve

Jacob took some of his Christmas money and bought

himself a ukulele and is teaching himself to play.

In other news... there has not been much stitching going on here. I was busy going through my fabric stash and made sure I had some pieces in the sizes I need to get a "few" more starts into the WIP pile.  I joined Stitch from Stash 2018 (Jan-June) on Facebook and wanted to see what pieces I could plan without buying any new fabric! I will have a budget of $20 per month which shouldn't be hard for me to accomplish since I have LOTS of stash! Hopefully I won't buy to many minders! LOL

I did manage to get the Xs all stitched on Day 12 except for the number 12. So tomorrow will be spent doing the stitching on the number and the back stitch on this piece and I guess it will be my first finish for 2018!

12 Days of Christmas

Day 12

Twelve Drummers Drumming

Designer - Margaret Sherry

First Stitch 11/27/17

Progress as of 12/31/17

I made my 2017 ORTament!

If you would like to see all my finishes

for the year you can do that here, 

2017 finishes. 

In closing I would like to wish you all a very

HAPPY AND BLESSED NEW YEAR!

May 2018 see all your dreams come true.

I would also like to thank you all for taking the time to read about my adventures and family and I hope to see you all again next year!

Thanks for stopping by,

see ya next time!

Winterhaven

**WARNING - picture heavy post***

Last night our family went to see Christmas lights!

There is a subdivision here in Tucson called Winterhaven that goes above and beyond when it comes to decorating for Christmas. This was my first visit there and I thought I would share with you guys some of the houses I saw last night.

Now remember I am certainly not a photographer LOL...

The Shrek Family

 Joy to the world!

 Christmas Tree with presents

A Palm Tree which just may

be an Arizona Christmas Tree 

Snoopy has the right idea!

when I saw this house with the bow on top

I immediately thought of Miracle on 34th Street

 

Pretty decorations in the light

and the same house in the dark

 The Grinch!

 I believe it's possible!

 The Meme Snowmen

The Peanuts

The Grinch and his sleigh. 

A beautiful Nativity scene

The Minions!
Stuart, Bob and Kevin

Snowman that looks like he is
afraid to melt in the AZ heat!

 
Supersized Snowman!

This is a really large tree that I just

couldn't get close to because of the crowd.

Santa is on his way!!

I hope you enjoyed the decorations!

Thanks for stopping by,
see ya next time!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates Christmas and to my friends of other denominations and beliefs I hope you have a Happy Holiday however you celebrate! 

This was a non-stitchy week for me...I think I wore myself out with all those ornaments!! LOL I did however assemble my Ortament for 2016!

Thanks for stopping by,

see ya next time!

Weekly Update

This week has been an exciting week...not very productive though!

FAMILY

This week Tia; my daughter graduated from college! YEAH!! She received a Bachelors of Arts in Education with a major in Psychology. I am VERY PROUD of her. It has not been so easy for her because she also works full time and is a single mom to my WONDERFULLY FANTASTIC grandson Jacob. Now her next step will be to look for something in her field and continue on with her education so she can receive her Masters!

WEATHER

What a wild weather week we had in Chicagoland! The weather forecasters had been warning us for days that we were going to get a major storm. They predicted up to 24 inches of snow in 24 hours and for a change ~ they were RIGHT! Go figure...

On Tuesday is started snowing in the early afternoon and never stopped until Wednesday afternoon. This is what it looked like when it started snowing...notice our flowerpots here in our front yard.

and this is what the flowerpots looked like the next morning!

We did end up with about 24 inches and in some places the drifts were 3 feet high or more. This is a picture of what it looked out directly out our front door before we shoveled

and after we shoveled! Then OF COURSE the plow came and buried the driveway again! So our very kind neighbor came out and cleaned the bottom of our driveway and the street with her snowblower!

This is our cars in the driveway

before, during and after!

The dogs were even confused by all the snow! Though the lab managed

to jump over the snow the dachshund was trapped! Poor Cujo... ;)

STITCHING

I did manage to stitch up the last of the LK Christmas Blessings. This week I stitched Family, Faith, Home and Peace.

I already purchased the felt that I am going to use to make them into ornaments. Just need to get it all cut and ready and find my Crop-A-Dile so I can assemble them ;)
This is what I plan on stitching next... SamSarah's Egg Delivery!

READING
This week I listened to James Patterson's Cross Fire but I haven't finished Lee Child's The Enemy yet. I am just about thru with it and hope to finish it this week.
Thanks for stopping by...see ya next week ;)