Dove

I gave up on the wing yesterday. I wanted to keep stitching the wing and then, I got fed up with it. So I stitched the right dove, near the little girl. I tried to scan it but I have a problemwith the scanner. I tried to scan something at a high setting and since then , my scanner is not working fine... I don't know what to do as I don't know anything about computer ... I wish I knew though If someone can help: I'll be happy to get any advice !!! The scanner is not working great. I think there is a problem with the software: it's running pretty slow ... At least, you can see the dove

Good news on the painting front: they took down the scaffolding ! Freedom is back !!! YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!!! I won't have my shutters closed all day long. The chili's plants are on the balcony with the tomato plant. They will take less room there than in the kitchen

News

I am really tired of working on that wing. I didn't color properly each I was stitching do I am a little lost in what need to be done Last night I stopped stitching because I felt so bored doing that project ... It makes me loose interest in stitching. I just hope it's just a temporary state of mind ... I think I need to color on the chart everywhere I stitched on the wing and then have several needles ready with the colors I will need because I am wasting a lot of time changing my needle each time for one or two stitches ... Today, I took a picture with my digital camera.

There is a good side on having the family here: I got some of my stash back !!! Yeah !!!!!!!!! I got mainly my leaflets and magazines that I bought while I was living in Texas. It's great to see all my old stash. My tastes changed a little bit and I may sell some as I know there are stuffs I know I will never stitched !!!

They also brought some goodies : mainly for Chuy as I don't eat anything with chile's spices in it

I got my Fabric of the Month fabric from Silkweaver yesterday. I got Periwinkle Mist and Sapphire Sky.

Family pic

This is a picture of Chuy's family taken at the Mount Saint Michel (one hour drive from my home) This is one of the seven wonders of the world. Don't look for me: I'm the one who took the picture

Top row: Enrique: Chuy's brother with the hat. Scott: Lorena's husband. Kike: Chuy's nephew.

Middle row: Elvia: my SIL. Lorena and Julian her 2 y.o. Viviana (Kike's wife)

Bottom row: Xavier (Lorena and Scott's son) 6 y.o., Vivian (Kike and Viviana's daughter) 3 y.o., Esteban , Emma and Chuy.

Have you notice I tried to sort the families by colours? I'll tell you more later. I have a lot to tell of course but I don't have a lot of time right now.

I'm back !!!

I got back my phone line yesterday !!! I don't know what really happened. On thrusday we lost our regular phone line then on friday a technician switched our line with a woman's line ... suddendly I had another phone number... I made several calls to the phone company, explained why our line is important and so on ... Of course, they didn't care and planned for a technician to come on monday... We had given Lorena (Chuy's niece in Germany) my cellular number so she was able to reach me when they arrived here. It was hard not having my internet connection . I think I'm a little addicted

I made some progress yesterday in my angels. They are not finished as you can guess Here is the pic of last night work:

His wing is really a pain. I have a lot of white left everywhere. I'm sure her wings are going to be easier. I'm not quite done on his wing because of all the unstitch part I left everywhere. I have stitched 80 % of the pattern. I can't wait to finish it to stitch something different ... Like I didn't feel well today, I decided to order the two lanarte kits I showed you last time. (still visible on that page) I also added a 32 count antique white lugana fabric for a lanarte kit I own. I want to change the linen fabric for my favorite lugana. I placed my order with Sew and so.

Thanks for your comments while I couldn't write my blog

Lost my connection

Hi everybody

I lost my internet connection because my phone provider switch my phone number with an unknown person. So I now get phone calls for this person but i can't have internet anymore. :-(( I hope they will fix it on monday. Chuy's family arrived and we're having a good time. Pictures whenever possible !!!

No picture ...

No picture today: I stitched just a little bit yesterday because I came back late last night. The progress is too small to show !!! Sorry ! Right now, I'm taking a (short) computer break from cleaning to write this message. My mom took the 3 kids to help me out. I still have to go to Emma's violin class meeting at 6.00 pm ... She didn't pratice much during vacations ... Shttt ...... Don't tell the teacher

Thank you all for asking about Esteban. He's feeling better today. Yesterday, the painters woke him up again by making some noise. So he slept in my arms for another hour. Then he was grumpy for the rest of the day ... I'm glad he's sleeping at my mom today as the painters are making noise again ...

I also want to thank you all for the comments you are leaving on my blog lately. It's really nice to feel the support behind the screen !!! I think I may have given up on the angels without you (especially when I was drowned in the blues ... )

Today is the day for Chuy's family to leave Texas !!! They are going to arrive tomorrow morning to Germany (german time) . I hope everything will go well ...

Three days.

Now things are getting serious: Chuy's family will be here in 3 days. I'm late in my re-organisation of the apartment ... So chuy said it's time to go to stage 2: putting things in boxes and hidden in the our basement room He's a specialist of piles ... I don't want more piles: when he does that I loose a lot of things ... Men, men, men Anyway with esteban in my arms all the time, it's hard to do anything ...

Last night I called Lourdes, my sister in law, my stash partner in the US and the future owner of two cute angels . I tried to see if she knew anything about what Chuy's other brothers are going to send us. I know: you are not supposed to find out what the surprises can be but it's hard to resist Chuy has 4 brothers in Fort Worth. Well, she knew nothing beside one brother sending pictures of his kids. We'll have to wait ...

I am still stitching the wing and I scanned the picture because I don't think we can see a lot of things with a digital pictures. I don't stitch the purple cross stitch and half cross stitch at the same time anymore. It was driving me crazy ... I think I goes faster that way too. I hope to have time to stitch more this afternoon as we have the usual spetember meeting at school this evening. Pierre's meeting is tonight and emma's meeting is thrusday night. He always last until 9.00 pm. Chuy is working afternoon shift this week so my mom will feed and take care of the kids until I come back.

Sleepy !

What a night !!! Esteban is sick and threw up last night. We went to bed at 1.30 am ... I took him to the doctor this morning and like always: nothing obvious: no sore throat, no ear infection ... It's probably a virus ! Am I the only parent who has kids who gets fever only? Esteban is a little heater. Right now, he's sleeping and someone is playing with a drill

On the stitching front. I think I made great progress on the little boy. I made one of his wing (the smallest of course ) and I decided to stitch the white all around the large wing. I even added the backstitches because othrwise we don't see anything !!! I am struggling with the purple in the middle because I have to use one strand of purple but with one symbol, it's a full cross stitch and with another one, it's a half point ... And both are mixed !!! enough to drive you crazy I took my photo with my digital camera because the design is now really too big to fit completly in the scanner. Click to enlarge if you want to see it .

I hate the painters They were the ones who played with the drill Esteban woke up screaming when they started breaking something above his bedroom with the drill. So I spent the next 25 minutes with my hands on his ears he was so scared ... Poor boy: he slept only 1 hour and the fever medecine is not working yet ... If Steb was fine, I would have left but I can't take him out with fever.

Flowers.

Nope, my husband didn't offer me flowers (he almost never does actually ) but I did work on the flower garland last night. It's not going be longer than what you see on the picture. The design is now too big to fit on my scanner screen. I could take a photo with my camera but I can't really take good close up picture with it. I'll try once in a while in order to show a full image of my progress.

If you look at the ticker, you saw Chuy's family arrives in 6 days So yesterday it was shopping day: we went to check for a new furniture for the entrance. I found the one I wanted and will get it this morning. We bought 2 foldable stool chairs and we are going to get 2 foldable chairs as well. It's hard to imagine 9 extras people in this small apartment ... I hope everybody will have a seat During my shopping spree , I also bought 2 pillow covers for my ugly pillows in my living room. They are now covered with a nice chocolate color and are washable - which was not possible with the pillows I have. I should change also my sofa as it got a hole at one edge. Of course, it happened on Chuy's side because my stitching side is still perfect I guess the fabric on the sofa was too thin as I didn't pay a lot of money for it ... Anyway, even though it's embarassing it will stay that way as I can't afford a new sofa right now and sofa covers are very expensive too... After we would have mounted the furniture (which is always very interesting in this household ... ) I will have to continue reorganizing the whole appartment in the hope to have less piles and a mess free desk !!!

In july, I bought a very bedding during the sale time but they didn't have the pillow cases. I bought it thinking I will find some pillow cases that could match a little bit the bedding. But it did not happen. Yesterday, as I was cruisisng the furniture store, I saw MY bedding on display! I couldn't believe it !!! So I rushed to find a sale person (which is sometimes mission impossible in this kind of stores ...) to check if they actually sell beddings. The guy told me they do and I searched all their beddings: and I DID find my matching pillow cases !!! YEAH!!! What are the odds for something like that to happen? Same bedding in 2 different stores !!! Maybe it was my lucky day and I should have played the lotery?