Marvelous Monday Update 4/27/09

Can you believe it's the end of April already?!? Time does fly, doesn't it?

WEATHER
What a crappy weekend. It was overcast and rainy all weekend. There was even thunder and lightning Saturday night. It looks like I'll have to mow the yard this next week due to all the rain we've been getting.


STITCHY STUFF
I must've been a good girl lately, because I've been blessed with another RAK! Sue from ESC sent me an envelope of lovely goodies! The two charts were on my wishlist :)

Peony in Vase by Pinn Stitch
Home of a Needleworker Too by Little House Needleworks

I just love the Mary Engelbreit notecards and note pad! They are just the cutest things! Sue also sent an 18x26" piece of 28ct Laguna hand-dyed fabric from PictureThisPlus in the color Sterling. I've never used fabric from PTP, so I'm looking forward to it! Thank you, Sue, for being so thoughtful and generous!

I've stitched another side of the Quaker Cube:


I also had a finish over the weekend!
Mona & Miles Ornament
Designer: The Sugarplum Express/Janlynn
Fabric: 14ct white plastic canvas
Fibers: DMC
Embellishments: Wire hanger

I debated on whether or not I wanted to frog all the stitching I had done on the scissor case I started a couple weeks ago. At that time, somehow I'd skipped over two rows of specialty stitches and started stitching the cross stitches instead. What to do? What to do? In the end, the perfectionist side of me won and I decided to frog it all. Then I started the diagonal queen stitches, which are flip-flopped every other one. First row went OK. Second row, I flip-flopped the first two only and then stitched a BUNCH all the same direction. Ack! So, I ended up frogging most of the second row. I did about 1/2 dozen more and I had to frog AGAIN because I did a couple the same direction. LOL By this point, squinting and trying to do the stitches had given me a headache. So I laid down for a nap! If you're wondering what I'm talking about... take look at the photo (it's clickable for a larger view) of the scissor case. At the very bottom are the diagonal queen stitches in ecru.

Edited: A few have commented on the scissor case "finish". The photo is not my finish, it's the photo used on the kit. Mine is just barely started. I used the photo to illustrate what I was talking about.

Lastly, my newest "small" WIP project: Oriental Kimono by Joan Elliott

2.5 Hours of Stitching

GIVEAWAY
Valerie, the Fog City Dweller, is celebrating her 4-year blogversary with a giveaway. She's doing a giveaway on her blog until May 1st, so hurry on over and see what she has to say!


DATING

Hold on to your seats... I was asked on yet another first date! It was a very pleasant surprise to have dinner with a man who not only can have an intelligent conversation, seemed polite, thoughtful, open and honest with replies to questions, and even had questions of his own! Dinner was a 3.5 hour ordeal… LOL, I’m kidding about the “ordeal” part. Time flew by so fast and neither of us minded the “getting to know” each other conversations.

Funny thing about how this date came about. Most of you know I use a dating website... This man actually contacted me a year and a half ago on the website. I remember emailing him a bit back then, and he said we talked on the phone once (but I don’t remember it). I’m not sure why we didn’t meet way back when. This week, he saw my profile on the site again and emailed me: "I can't believe someone hasn't snatched you up yet. I figured someone would've made an honest woman of you by now." Something along those lines. I responded back by saying something like: "One would think so, but alas no." LOL From there, we chit-chatted via email a while and he asked me out to dinner. He really had a good attitude about us not getting together a year or so ago, saying that we were both in different places and who knows why it didn’t happen then.

At the end of the date, he gave me three white roses. He called me shortly after we parted ways to make sure I made it home OK, and to reiterate he had a really good time. He did ask me if I’d like to go on a second date. We both agreed we’d like a second date. So perhaps there will be one?


YUM-YUMS
Yesterday, I made homemade lasagna. What do you think? Doesn't it look scrumptious?!