Top Three

Nancy of Chickens & Fine China has a page on her blog when she writes daily three things she is thankful for. I think that's a great idea for a positive mind setting. Here are mine top three for today:

1. Freddy
2. 9+ years with Topaz. We had to say goodbye to her couple of days ago. She came to our life in May of 2004 and left us with many wonderful memories. Now she is on the other side of the rainbow bridge.
3. Blue sky and sunshine

What are yours?

So long my friends,
Evalina

Full moon update

It's WIPocalypse time! I did not stitch a lot this month... shame on me... I worked a little on Ol Harvest Moon

Topaz and I decided to look for some signs of spring

No luck... snow is everywhere and the lake still solid frozen...

except a tiny opening by the docks

hmm... not much room for swans to land...

So long my friends,
Evalina

May Two-Four

Do you know what May Two-Four stands for? It's a beginning of Canadian summer celebrated with two-four case (or two, or three, or...) of beer!

Well, in the Yukon definitely isn't summer yet and definitely you can't find two-four cases of beer. For some reason stores sell only 6-packs and 12-packs. Oh, I miss Ontario! If you don't have friends you can buy just 18-pack but normally the real case of beer must be 24.

I don't think that too many people celebrate Victoria Day (for sure not in Quebec!) but many go camping and having fun with friends. Not me though... We went for a walk. It's beautiful but way, waaaay to cold for camping. (Some crazy northerners camp but they do not know any better).

Ice on the lake, patches of snow on the beach - Topaz doesn't mind at all!

The crocuses are still blooming,

  some kind of yellow beauties were smiling to me

and I even found the first green leaf to be!

I know, pathetic nevertheless, I decided to hermit inside and stitch.  I tried my luck at Brazilian embroidery, I even finished the piece (just the stitching part, I have no idea what to do with it now...)

I also finished 'Great Friends':

Well, weekend isn't over yet, Freddy is just starting the fire (it is so cold today), later he will thru some burgers on the barbeque, and we'll finish the long weekend with Yukon's teenie-weenie 6-pack.






So long my friends,
Evalina

African Woman

You can call me crazy, but that's why I joined CJC again... Well, while traveling through the blogland I came across Becky of Becky Bee's Stitching Hive and she is hosting a BAP challenge.
Wow, I'm not the only one that's crazy! For this challenge I chose African Woman.

I saw this kit a very long time ago. It was pricey so it took me a while to splurge... The while was so long that it was unavailable anymore. I called Gita's  and they say they will try to get it for me. It took exactly a year and that was 7 month ago.

I promised myself not to start anything big this year, finish what I started before and do 15 new little projects from my stash. Well, I opened the package...

finished the fabric edges, put on the scroll frame and the rest is a history

That's the beginning of the challenge.  It should be done by December 31, 2012. The size of Lanarte's African Woman is 15.4"x19.3" (187 x 255 stitches).


For more pictures of my crazy starts visit Crazy Challenge 2012

Topaz

Last Saturday Freddy took Topaz to the vet for the checkup. Her ear is healing nicely but she has a lot of trouble with her collar. She still doesn't eat dog food but finally drinks her water. She has good appetite but only for people food...

In a week vet is removing stitches (if all goes well) and hopefully we can say goodbye to this huge, stiff collar.

So long my friends,

Evalina 

What a day!

I feel like I've accomplish a lot today! This semester I'm taking Business Communication course and I read close to 100 pages from the textbook (tomorrow I'm ready for my first quiz). To tell you the truth, this is my first time taking an English course. When I came to North America I didn't speak the language, any school was to slow for me (you know, I had to speak "yesterday") so I marched to the bookstore and the library and did it all on my own. Now I see how much I have to learn, particularly the grammar. (Please, feel free to point any mistakes that you may notice. It will help me to learn.)

When my brain got "fried" a little and steam started to come from my ears I went to play with Topaz. I feel guilty for not having  much time for our games... She is a very sweet girl and despite her age (she will be 9 soon) she loves to play like a puppy!

And I stitched! I worked on Heart's Secret from Victoria Sampler. I absolutely love this piece. It's done with Gloriana silks and Weeks Dye Works threads. Since it is so lovely to work with it it is very addictive, I can hardly put it down...

If I do well on tomorrow's quiz I will do a little stitching marathon and try to finish it.

So long my friends,
Evalina

It was a good weekend!

After a very long week with long hours at work I enjoyed my weekend more than ever. Of course I was stitching! Here is my Guardian Angel:

I can almost see the end of a first page (1 of 18). It doesn't look like much but there are 5,000 stitches already!

On Sunday I pulled out Provence and work on it for a while. What a big difference going from 22ct over one to 28 ct over 2! It took me a while to get used to these big stitches. On the other hand those roosters are done on 28ct over one and it didn't look so small after all..

Kathy is celebrating Rory's birthday and is having couple giveaways. Here is Topaz, wagging her tail and saying "Happy Birthday Rory!!!" Topaz is a Hungarian Kuvasz and she is a Valentine girl. This Valentine was her 8th birthday. She was born in Alaska and she loves the north (and hates swimming!).

 

So long friends,