It's friday !!!!

First I want to thank you for your nice thoughts about Steb. He's really fine but doesn't enjoy the medecine in his nose ... (and I don't blame him !!! )

Margie gave me this award :

Here is the meaning of the award ...

"This blog invests and believes in the PROXIMITY-nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement! Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. "

The rules state that I am to pass this on to 8 other bloggers.

It's always difficult to pick only eight bloggers but it's also fun to share the joy of receiving one award !!!

1 Marita

2 Yvonne

3 Shel

4 TDKquitmom

5 Lauralness

6 Carla

7 Pumpkin

8 Doris

I really hope you will spread the joy of giving, ladies !!! (I hit the publish button before I finished this sentence ... sorry about that ...) 

One fellow stitcher was selling some kits on a bulletin board and I took advantage to buy this cute Lanarte kit for a reasonnable price: (Emma wants me to stitch it for her .) I love the colors !!!

I kept working on the reindeer and I finally finished is body !!! I have nothing against browns but I guess I need happy colors to keep me happy

If you want to know if you are a possible serial killer, do the visual test on Meari's blog !!! (or you may want to avoid it )

Have a great week end !!! 

Gift, awards, progress

Today was a happy mail day for me ! (don't you think it should have an official happy mail day where we'll send each other a goodie? That will be a great idea, don't you think so? ) Well, I won Lady of the mist on Laural's blog !!! And look at what I got: not only she sent me the chart but she also added a very nice solo by Silkweaver Could she have a clue that I have an addiction not only for Santa but also for the Silkweaver fabbies? Thank you very much dear Laural, thank you for brightening my day with your special package

Sally and Daniela gave me this award (thank you for thinking about me !!! ):

Here's a description of this special friends award: These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbon's of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these kind writers. When you pass the award along please include these guidelines. Choose eight friends to share this with. (this is a very hard thing to do actually ... )

So the award goes to Lauralness ,Marita ,Andie, Yvonne , Debijeanm , Carolyn NC , Pumpkin and Jean .

Meari gave me this award (thank you dear Meari !!! ):

A lot of you are creative persons so it's really hard to choose only 7 persons ... And the award goes to ( I feel I'm at the Oscars ) Wendy ( a very creative lady !!!), Daffycat (who create nice charts), tkdquintmom , Ginnie , barbibouille , Srinity , and Doris .

Now, you know what you have to do ladies: spread the joooooooooooooooy !!!

I couldn't resist showing you my latest progress. I guess I'm going to go back to blog everyday now as I cannot resist showing you my daily progress. Thanks Kathryn for the advice for the shading around the characters and objects ; I'm going to try that on a bright day but it really makes me nervous as I never did such a thing ...

No exercise for me today ... My body deserves a rest ... but I can always train my hands stitching, right?

Awards?

Natalija gave me an award on her blog. I'm brillante !!! (does it mean I need to shine my shoes? ) I'm supposed to pass it on 5 people. I know a lot of you already got that one (but I don't remember who ??? ) So I'm going to give to Akila, a stitcher from India who has started a blog not a long time ago (check it out if you want to discover her stitching and her traditions.) Marie deserves it as well as she's a great stitcher (and a Lanarte lover like me.), Andie, ~Tammy, Karen .

Beatrice was sweet to also give me an award. Thank you very much Beatrice, I really appreciate it. I need to pass it to 5 people too. It's hard to choose as you all have been so supporting of me but I count on you for passing these awards to your friends as it feels so goog to be appreciate . So it is going to go to Marita who's been supporting me for a while. Yvonne, Jean, Pumpkin, and Tammy (who, for a long time, I thought she was ~Tammy ). Please, spread the FUN !!!!!!!!!

Now Santa is ready to write his list (better be good, ladies !!! ) Once again I stitched the fun part first so I'm left with the green book. Someone can explain me why Santa's books are ALWAYS green? The book on Christmas stories by Dimensions was green also ...

Talking about Santa's: I really laughed at Karen's comment: "Aww cute Santa. I think you get Santa withdrawal if you don't stitch one version or another of him every couple of months " I think she really knows who I am !!!

How do I feel? Still not my best ... Thanks for your support. It really means something for me

She makes me sweat !!!!

Not stitchingranny who doesn't know she won yet but Leslie Sansone with her exercise DVD's. Thanks to Meari I own two of her DVD's. A 3 miles walk and a 5 miles. On monday and tuesday,I did the miles (without the belt because I let my shoulder rest - even though I do feel better) and today, I did the 5 miles walk with Pierre !!! (will you believe 5 miles is actually 8 km !!! ) Jeez, that was hard sometimes but I didn't give up and my knees are okay - for now ... We'll see tomorrow if they complain. I do sweat with those videos and I enjoy doing them. I know I didn't loose any weight as I tried a pant (size 10) I used to wear before (whatever before means ... ) and even though I did manage to zip it up, I do feel like if I breath, the button is going to explode at someone face !!!

I got an award !!! Two wonderful ladies think I'm fabulous. Well, the award is actually for my blog but I'll take it for me because every girl need to take compliments wherever they are !!! By the way, have you noticed my wonderful parisian look on the picture? (yes, exercise did so good on me lately that I decided to wear a very Obama outfit !!! ) Those two great ladies are Meari ( watch out she owes her own snowblower !!! ) and tkdquintmom ( don't mess with her as she really masters Taekwon Do ) Thanks ladies: I have to admit you are quite fabulous yourself

I'm supposed to list 5 of my addictions. Look at me: do I look addicted on that picture? Maybe a little anorexic though ...

1 - stitching

2- drinking (just kidding) photography (ask Steb )

3 - bargains (can't resist)

4 - junk food (bad, bad girl ... )

5 - travelling (not much lately ... )

And the award goes to :

1 - Barbara

2 - Michelle

3 - Marita

4 - Andie

5 - Marie

It was hard to choose but I count on you ladies to spread the joy of getting an award to some stitchers who didn't get it yet You also know that if I comment on your blog it's because you are as fabulous as me !!!

I'm progressing well on my fuchsias. More than two months on that one and I'm already thinking about my next project. I don't know what I'll pick yet but certainly a smaller one, that's for sure

Detail (looks weird, isn't it? ):