No stitching last night

I was done with a migraine last night. I started to have a headache at school but I didn't take a pain killer. I think it got worse when I drove during 30 minutes and by the time, I got the kids at the day care: migraine was here ... I even called my mom to help me the kids: I was in bed at 6.30 pm so it's great she was able to help me as Chuy was working until 9.15 pm. So I was not able to stitch either and my bouquet is not quite finished.

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I worked this morning. Usually there is no school on saturday morning but we worked last saturday and this one in order to be off on wednesday, thrusday and friday !!! France has (too? ) many holidays in may !!! YEAH !!!!!!

I don't give up ...

Even though temptation tells me to start my Christmas Stories , I do resist ladies !!! Okay, okay, I don't know how long I will ... You see: the other one is just toooooooooo cute ! :-) Anyway, the bouquet is NOT yet finished ... It takes forever for just such a small design ... I still have to stitch the feather...

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Esteban doesn't want to fall asleep at night (it's been like that since tuesday night) ... I don't know what's going on ... Nothing had changed here. And at the daycare, now, he wants them to feed him :-o He's been eating by himself since he's 15 months old ... He really screams at night: I feel bad because we live in an appartment and I'm afraid the neighbours are going to complain soon. I try to be firm with him and I hope he won't be doing that for a long time ...

I love to get things in the mail !

I am pleased to introduce you to my next new project : Christmas stories from Dimensions !!! It's a small design (a big change for me !!! ). I checked Dimensions new range of christmas products and can I say I fell in love with that cute design? :-)) I had to have it so I ordered it from ebay and here it is in front of me. Now the dilemma is: should I start it right now or should I wait to finish the birdhouse artistry? I have everything to start it: the right fabric: a 32 count white lugana. ( I only wish Dimensions will include a thread sorter in their Petite collections ) I'm afraid if I don't finish the other one first, it may end up as an UFO ... :-(

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So, what do you think? Qu'en pensez-vous?

A progress

Here is a close view of my flower bouquet. I'm not done yet and I'm not sure I'll finish it tonight ...I still have e few details in the leaves. Now we can really see it is a bouquet, right?

Update

I updated my cross stitch album :

http://perso.bellapix.com/chiloetx

Just click on the album you wish to see and then click on each picture and the next one will appear !!! You can also leave a message if you want to ;-) My birdhouse artistry is also upadted !!!

an overall view .

Today it's holiday here so I took advantage and got my camera out to take a large picture of my birdhouse artistry. I managed to take only one and my camera shut down: the batteries are dead. Anyway, I think the picture is good enough and we see all the different parts of that piece. Click on the picture to see it better and bigger. I am now off danger as the flower bouquet won't be touching the bird. Anyway, I'm going to enjoy my day off (and paid) and i may stitch a little bit today. I'd like to finish the flower as I don't enjoy stitching that part a lot (there are a lot of colors change on a small design) .

A bigger picture !!!

Here is the result of my last night stitching. The flower is getting bigger. I still hope it is going to be fine as I won't frog all you see ;-) After the flower, I'm going to stitch the nest or the feather I frogged last time. After the nest, there is another birdhouse that I may lower to get it close to the border. It should 3 nuts but I don't think it is really nice !!! For that I'll have to stitch all the border first !

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I haven't received my next project yet and it's better like that as I may stitch it right !!! :-) I don't think I could resist , except that it is a Dimensions kit and that it is always tricky to stitch as they mixed colors ... I'll show it to you when I'll get it here !!!

A new picture .

Here is a picture of my last night stitching. I succeeded to finish the little paint and I started the flower bouquet under it. But I made a little mistake: I started close to the left bird and if I continue over there, I'll be short a 4 stitches and I'm afraid I'll ARRIVE ON the paint :o So I'll frog all I did close to the bird and continue where close to the paint.

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I haven't been blogging since thrusday because I didn't have time at all: when I start a new class I have a lot of thing to prepare. The teacher took 2 weeks of sick days (she's suffering from depression ) but I may stay there more than 2 weeks. I'd like to: the kids are SOOOOOOOO nice !!! That's s great and pretty rare . I never got a class that nice before so it's very pleasant. The only downside of the job is the commute: 30 minutes drive to go there so I spend one hour driving but I arrive at the school daycare just 5 minutes later than when I work close to home. The road is fine: it is a highway then a freeway so only the freeway is a little bit stuck at 5.10 pm.

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We did free the lizard: I do think he's happier outside than in a plastic box. Wild animals are made to live outside , not inside with humans ;-)

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This morning I went voting. We'll have a new president tonight. At least, it's going to be a young president. That's a big change since all the previous presidents were at least 65 years old. I made my students vote on saturday: the result are : Sarkozy 51 % and Royal 49 %. We'll see if it matches tonight results...

Well ...

No pictures today. I just frogged my feather and stitched the paint a little bit. I'm working 30 minutes from home now so it is going to be hard to stitch at school. I'll have to prepare my class but if I organize myself well enough , I'll have enough time to stitch at night.

PS: the lizard is free !!!

smileys?

well, they look weird ... :(

just trying ...

It does work !!!

Still stitching

Even though I have to frog the feather, I continued to stitch the other designs. I'll frog this afternoon. The feather has to be stitched with one thread over two, so it's going to be easy to frog but I prefer to do it with natural light !!! I haven't really found where I made a mistake but I know the beak of the bird is too close to the brush (with some blue) The mistake can only be in the 2 birdhouses. Now I have to deal with that as I don't want to give up this design and I don't want it end up as an UFO. I'm going to stitch the feather closer to the second butterfly and we'll see if it looks bad or not...

Bad news...

I just realized I made a mistake in the count. I don't know where: I can't find the mistake... Probably with the 2 small birdhouses: as a result the feather is too close to the main birdhouse ... I can't frog everything so I just need to deal with that and manage to make it look all right ... Everything was going too good I guess and I didn't double check myself (even though I try to do it usually...)

what a gift ...

Look at what Pierre brought when he came back from a birthday party. So he went with one friend and his parents to a birthday hike in the countryside. And this is the special goody bag he got... I wonder if I don't prefer candies ...

So what do you think? Do you like our new guest? (we just hope he won't stay too long ... ) Our friend doesn't really think we live in an appartment ... Any advice how to help a lizard survive is welcome !!! (do you believe that lizard already has a Pokemon name ... )

Another butterfly !

A new butterfly and more border ! I really like the idea to stitch the border along with the design. I still need to stitch the third butterfly then I will probably make the feather under the butterflies. I did about 50 % of the chart now.

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I'm already thinking about my next project: I'm dreaming about getting the: christmas stories . It's a gold petite Dimensions kit that caught my eye !!! You don't know it but I'm in love with Santa Claus :D I don't know why I love design with Santa claus but not all santas! No, no, I love only realistic Santas (like the Santa from the Coca Cola company ;) ) I know: I'm weird :D I stitch that one a long time ago (It is an UFO right now: I made a mistake in the count do I need to frog it a little bit around his head...) You can check it out here:http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1169441058049743791JEQPDY I didn't managed to get the image on the blog (it appeared blurred ... )