Daughter's Pattern Finished!!!! :)

As you can tell, the posting more than once a week has not happened so this post is a bit lengthy but when I only update once a week, that happens!

Well it has been a good week and a bad week!  I started off this week sick and in bed with a stomach bug of some sort!  It was horrible but I am well now!  If I have not commented or my comments have been very short this week, that is why.  It took me two days just to get caught up on my reading of your blogs!  

My dad and step-mom's dog died.  Now this was not just a dog but instead one of their children.  They discovered she was diabetic and was in the hospital for about a week.  They vet was not able to ever get her stable and they ended up loosing her.  That was very sad!!  And let me tell you, I may be turning 33 later this month but I am still and always will be a Daddy's girl and it just killed me when he called me to tell me and was crying!!!  I hate for my daddy to be hurting!!!

Anyway, now lets get to the goood stuff!!!

 God has been awesome this week (as He always is) as far as making sure that my family and I are always taken care of!  We were very behind on our mortgage payments as well as our electricity.  We were getting close to losing our home and getting the electricity cut off but God came through!  We were able to get the money we needed to get those two things caught up!!!!!  Where did I find the money . . . well lets just say that I work for some awesome people!!!  Another good things is that we got a new back door, thanks to my dad!  We needed a new back door very badly as the entire bottom half was missing!  LOL, it was horrible!!!   

I finished my daughter cross stitch that she designed. She just loves it and so do I!  It turned out really good.  Not bad at all for her first cross stitch to design!!  I think that she done a great job on this one!  She has a couple other drawing that are really great that I want to stitch really badly but this is the one she wanted for her birthday!  She drew one last week of a girl praying (non-anime) that I really want to stitch.  Anyway, without further ado, here it is:  And by the way, Yosh means Ok. 

I also received 2 more ATC's from the WOCS ATC birthday exchange.  I now have three and should receive 12 in all!  Thank you Nikki and Claire!!!  I love them both!!
My brother who lives in Alaska is getting married soon!  Well actually they are already married by law but they are now going to have their wedding and honeymoon at the end of May.  So, I ordered (with the help of my mom) a little something to stitch for his joyous occasion!  I received it and the material yesterday.  I really do not know much about her, my brother's new wife and what her likes and dislikes are so I picked a pattern that is just a nuteral wedding sampler. Here is the chart:

I have also received some great stitching inspiration from Sharon over at One Life To Live. I just love her walls! I think that her walls just being covered in things she has stitched is awesome! I want that in my house. As it is, I only have a couple things hanging on our walls. I always stitch with a certain purpose in mind. What I mean by that is that there I have never stitched something just totally because I liked it!!! There has always been a reason behind it, such as a gift or made for a special reason! Did you know what I mean? I am not sure that this is making sense but I know what I mean! LOL Anyway, I have always adored Sharon's walls! So, I have decided that I am going to start a rotation and start stitching some items that I want to hang on the wall just because I like the pattern!!!! Some weeks I only get a couple hours of stitching time so I think what I will do is one week I will stitch on what I am stitching for the wall, the next week on something else and the next week on smalls for gifts and then start over.  I will see how that goes!  So, I am planning on starting this piece in this next week!  I am going to first have to get online and see if I can order the 6 or 7 colors of floss that I didn't have.I think that is such a cute design and I just like it!  So Sharon, thank you for your inspiration!!!

Now, one more thing before I go.  Stitching for a Cure is a blog that Donna has created!   I would love for you to all make sure and visit her blog if you have not already done so.  This is a year long project to help save lives.  We are stitching ornaments to decorate a tree that will be raffled off in Nov 09.  All the money raised is going to go to the American Cancer Society!  So, if you would be interested in stitching and ornament or two or three for this tree, please visit this blog!!!!

I have also been working on updating my wish list a bit.  My dad told me that he wanted to spend some money on me for my birthday on just stitching goodies!  So I told him how awesome he is and I have been searching online.  Since doing that I have come across a few things to add to my wish list.  I think that I am going to have him buy me all material!  That is all, just 18 ct Aida material!  Since I do not have a store near me that sales stitching items it is hard for me to get material sometimes and I would love to be able to have a small stock of it for when I need it. So, if anyone has a bunch of 18 ct Aida they want to sell, let me know!  :)

Last but no least, I want to thank you all so much for visiting my blog and for those who leave comments!  I love getting the comments!!  I try to respond by email to everyone's comments but this week that has not happened!  So just know that I received your comments and I appreciate every single one of them very very much!!!

That is it for this time around!!  Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter that is filled with tons of blessings!!!!

Happy Stitching and Easter,

Cindy Mae