Surprise !!!!!

Disco ball alert ! Disco ball alert !!!!! You are not going to believe it but we have a saturday happy dance !!!

Yes I did finish BOoo !!!! At last !!! I know you can't retain this little tear because you know what it means, right? New project coming soon !!! Of course, I didn't stitch all the shading that didn't really show (what for?) but I did add some backstitching on the candies ... To really enjoy the true beauty of this baby, please click to enlarge. (please, disregard the spider web that doesn't look like a spider web: it got a little weird in my scanner.) Who can guess what's next?

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Conversation between Chuy and I about how we always find nice people to help us out in Paris even though the parisians have the reputation to be rude people.

Chuy: " I wonder what they see in us?

Me: Pity? "

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Passport story, part 2:

Pictures are always needed to renew a passport and with the new security features on the passports, they have to be a certain way, right? When we went to take his pictures, the photos came out with a dark grey background. We told the lady, the background was too dark for his passport and the lady told us it was in conformity with the law and she added that is it was not fine, she will give us the money back. So when we went home, Chuy called back the ambassady ( understand consulate ) where he's been told again he needed a white background! So he called another picture place and the guy asked: is it for an american passport? Nope, mexican but it did exist !!! So we went there and this morning, we went to the first place to try to get our money back. Of course, the guy didn't want, saying once the pictures were taken, they never give the money back. He said, the pictures are what it's needed for here and he doesn't know whay is needed for a chinese passport! Chinese? Excuse me, I'm not chinese: I'm mexican! replied Chuy !!! It's not the first time Chuy is mistaken for a chinese ... A blue eyes chinese must be pretty rare though ... Anyway, he pointed to the lady who was listenning silently and she had to admit that she had told him he could get a refund. He did get his money back !!! (and he almost didn't believe me when I told him "good luck for this fight" before he went there !!! )

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Barbara wants to send me to the Snowman Addictions Anonymous meetings but she didn't leave any links Seems like recovery is not in the near future

Personal message to Tkdquitmon: yes, you're a stinker !!!

Have a great week end

Look who's back!

Yes, Vera is back to say a little hello and yes, I tried to be alittle creative playing with Flickr toys. The last time you saw the sleepy princess was on october 2008 (check the stamp ) If you remember well, this is my "on the go" project so I stitch her only when I have an appointment.

And this is her on wednesday (yes I wrote a little sentence to motivate myself !!!! ):

What about BOoo? Well, I have started a spider web (hard to stitch ... ) and I keep stitching the shading but I realized it is pretty useless for the candies so I may only stitch the shading around the back letters. (click on the picture to enlarge !!!) Thus, I may finish it just on time to start the snowman that I ordered in my weakness ... I'm weak! I'm weak! But none of you tried to stop me !!! Shame on you !

Tomorrow, we are going to get up very early as we have to take the bus at 6 am to got to an amusement park... The batteries are charging, I bought a new memory card so we are almost all set !!! Unfortunately, the weather doesn't know we are going to an amusement park tomorrow so it's raining and raining ... It's not as exciting as Disneyland was last year ... Let's hope we'll have some sunshine !!!

My man got a new toy ... and yes, it's legal !!!

We finally bought a lawn mower and someone had a little fun playing with it today. Yes, because, even a lawn mower needs a little of assemble which always result in a sparkle in the men's eyes! Assemble, tools, who needs instructions? The weather was great (almost like a summer day) and it was really to cut the lawn.

Steb decided to help his dad ... cutting the grass by hand !!!

Pumkin was wondering what was left to my BOoo! The whole sky: if you check with the previous post, you will see what I stitched. I'm not done yet as there are still some confettis left. The I need to stitch ALL the shading and two spider webs.

Vacations have begun !!!!

The kids are on school break for two weeks !!!!!!!! That's a necessary break as we are all tired from the daylight saving time switch we did last week here ... Unfortunately, Chuy's company closes for two weeks ... Bad news ... So he's going to be on vacations as well. We don't have a lot of plans for these two weeks but we are going to go to an amusement park with Chuy's company (like we did last year but I'm not sure it's going to be as fun as Disneyland was !) and we need to renew Chuy's passport.

Thanks to those of you who prayed for Luke but it would be great if you could go to this website: 500 prayers for Luke to write a prayer for him.

This is what Shannon, who created the blog, is doing:

"I am doing both of the following with all the comments:

1. Put your name on a blue star (Luke's favorite color is blue) and taking them to Luke's hospital room and hanging them on the wall so that Luke will have a visual reminder each day that he has his 500 prayers.

2. I am making a booklet for Luke with all of the names and prayers and bringing it to him to have in his room as a tangible reminder of his 500 prayers."

So click here to leave a paryer! Click !!! Thanks for him and his family.

We got two winners who guessed right about what the three kits have in common! Ginnie and Lauralness noticed that the green is minimal in the THREE kits !!!!!!!! I, I didn't even notice that when I ordered the kits; I actually noticed it when I downloaded the pictures on my blog. Of course, I'm very happy! Congratulations ladies: you really know what I hate

Black, I mean BOoo!: I have finally finished the border !!! Yeah!!!!!!!! Now, I need to stitch the sky and have fun with all the black and dark grey threads ...

Have a great week end full of stitching time

Long post

If you have some time, you could over to pray for Luke, a little boy, who got leukemia last year. After a bone marrow transplant, he was better but last week, they learned his cancer is back. Luke is lucky to have a brother and a sister who are both a match for another transplant (It is rare actually to have 2 siblings who are both a match.) For instance, I don't know if Emma and Steb could be a match for Pierre but we do have Steb's stem cells (from his umbidical cord) stored, just in case ... This family's journey is going to be hard so I hope a lot of you will go to his blog to leave a prayer for him. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for your kind wishes for my dad surgery. He's at the hospital right now. Let's hope everyhting goes well ...

Last evening, Emma had another show with her music school. This time, the kids from different classes performed. You should have heard a little pianist who was playing extremly well after only two years of learning. BUT the kid IS passionate about the piano and I'm sure his parents don't have to tell him: go and practise your piano ... If I forget to tell Emma to pratice, she won't do it on her own ... Emma didn't play as well as she had the other time. This time, she was on a stage (she loved it!) but she was a little bit stressed out by all the people who were in the audience. Talking about the audience: I'm always surprised as how some adults do misbehave while the kids play on stage ... They talk, check their phone and so on ...

I got a nice mail day today as I received new stash !!!!!!!!! A french online store had a great sale. I ordered 3 kits, which were 60 % off each, and the shipping was 1 Euro only. Too good to not indulge a little bit. So what did I get?

A dimensions kit that I always found lovely. I never buy any Dimensions here but with the sale, they were the same price as in the US. It's a small one that I plan on stitching on a small hand dye fabric.

I also got two Lanarte kit (my weakness ... ) Peonies are one of my favorite flowers.

Do you notice these three kits have something in comon (beside being flowers )? Lets see who find the right answer !!!

As you can see, I finished all the black in the frame and I added some orange on the left border. I'm going to keep stitching the border before stitching the sky and the shading. Usually, I already think about my next project but not this time. Maybe guilt is taking over my brain and that's a sign I should finish my fuchsias before starting anything new ...

News!

First family news:

My dad felt a lump where he got his surgery to remove an inguanal hernia. So this morning, they went back to the hospital where he got a sonogram. Well, the hernia is back ( and big: 7 cm) and the bad news is he has to have another surgery on thursday ... He's devasted as he didn't expected to have another surgery and he's not the kind of man who loves medical stuffs. He doesn't really know how it could have happened; maybe during his sleep ... Let's hope everything goes well ...

Look at what we got back:

Yeah: I finally found the Hannah Montana wig Emma was supposed to get for Christmas !!! She was literally !!! And you won't believe where I found it ... with my cross stitch fabrics When we moved, I put all my Monaco fabrics stored in plastic tubes in one bag and I guess I thought the wig was in a safe place with my precious fabrics (except after that I never imagine the wig could be there and it was all along in my bedroom .. )

Stitching:

I'm still working on the border It's really boring and I really feel I'm stitching a racing flag ... When the broder will be done, I'll have to stitch the blackish sky and all the shading. I did find two colors I could use but I'm not 100 % sure of myself. Maybe I'll have to add some backstitching if some parts of the design don't pop up ...

Thanks again for stopping by. I am so behind in my blog reading and commenting. On sunday, I tried to comment more and I hope to get back to my former routine soon