Happy Dance!

Hi all! Long time no see. Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful, those of us in the U.S. I cooked our usual traditional dinner. I might do a ham next year. A coworker and his family did a seafood Thanksgiving with lobster, crabs, and whatever goes with all that. Another coworker did all Mexican food. I guess it doesn't matter what food you have as long as you're all together with your loved ones, whether that be another person or a whole house full!

The cross stitching blues continued on and off the first 3 weeks of November. When I felt like stitching, I grabbed what was near me at my stitching spot and that was Trick or Treat. The work below is from the last 4 days as I felt the joy of stitching come back. I just finished adding the beads for the cats eyes and the jabco cauldron button and it is DONE!

I used the called for 32ct vintage Winter Sky Belfast from Lakeside Linens and all the called for overdyed floss. The picture is a bit wonky. It sure is cute! Finally, I did not run out of floss! The house took a lot of time with that spider web on the right side just put in this morning. I may add a bat button or two to the sky above the kids. That space below the porch of the house kind of bugs me though. This is from Praiseworthy Stitches and they use a lot of specialty stitches in their designs. See the lighter red/pink 'bricks' in the house? Those are supposed to be Kloster Blocks but to me they are like satin stitches. Couldn't get why the blocks when satin stitches sufficed. I tried to follow how the spider web was graphed but I ended up just doing my own thing. I really like how the cats eyes glow. 

Here is how Trick or Treat looked October 13th..

Yay! Funny, my last post I was saying I was getting a bit tired of Halloween stitching and here I finish this!

Trick or Treat was the only stitching I had since Halloween. I'm always stitching so this dry spell has me wondering what's going on. I also picked up a 2nd job and sometimes I get home at 7 or even 10 so that has put a huge dent in my stitching time. 

It's crunch time for me to finish a gift to my daughter, 6 Grinch ornaments that say Stink Stank Stunk so I picked up a Grinchy fabric on etsy along with a pretty Christmas tree fabric..

Haha, that is so cute! The fabric I stitched on matches the Grinch's face. I need more mat board because they will be hanging flat ornaments. My daughter is putting up her tree next weekend so I need to get my crap together and work on them.

Today I hit up Joanne's for their sales. I was after fabric, Halloween and Christmas. True to character, I bought more Halloween fabric than Christmas!

Not only will I use these as backing fabric for future Halloween ornaments, but I have ideas stewing in my head for next year. 

Here's a few Christmas fabrics plus fat quarters which were only .79 cents..

I also picked up a few Halloween sale items for next years Halloween exchange.

That is the gist of my stitching!

However, I have plans for December! On the 1st and running the entire month, I am stitching on Christmas Garden by BBD and here is what I have right now..

Last worked on December 30 2017. I would like to get the whole right side in and begin the middle section. I also want to stitch on a winter piece in December.

For 2019 though I've decided to work on old WIPs for 6 months or maybe the whole year. Christmas Garden will be one and will continue to be stitched January 1. My last post of December I'll reintroduce the old WIPs that I will work on for one week each. No new starts for me in 2019!

I have an exchange piece due in Pennsylvania the first week of December. I need to FFO the ornament and I'm awaiting a few things I ordered off Etsy as extras. So I'm headed to Hob Lob tonight for mat board. I don't know but along with the stitchy blues, it's been hard to get motivated. So I need to light a fire underneath my butt and just do it!

Not a long log post by any means but I do feel my stitchy bug coming back. December 21st is my 8th year of blogging and I'm sure I'll have a giveaway. It'll probably be gift cards again as last time I had a giveaway with charts, fabrics, and goodies, one of the winners never got her stuff until January! Tis the season for postal service slowdown. So be sure to look for that. I will come back to post again the 2nd week of December as I'll have FFOs, and exchange goodies to show....I think!

Thanks for stopping in and visiting! See you all in December!