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See the new blog!

Hi everyone! I have made a new blog. The address is Stitcherinaz.blogspot.com Please check it out and join as a follower again. I would appreciate that. Also I hope you'll keep the old blog in your list. As soon as I can I will look you all up and follow again. Thanks!

A little this and that!

Hi all. Well I see blogger is making changes again! I'm having trouble making a post or uploading any pictures. Darn! I had a lot to show too. I don't know when I'll be back. I'm going to have to fix some sign in problems that I did through my phone. If I can fix that I may be able to make a post through my phone. Although I do t want to think of it, I might have to find another way to blog! Not happy! Take care all! I hope to be back sooner than later. Stay safe and healthy!

Somethin's burnin!

Quick, tell me what song my title is from and the singer/singers. Be the first and I will send you a little something! Leave your guess below in comments.

It has been hot hot hot here. Last week we got to 102 for a couple days and it's been the high 90s

the rest of the time. Come on Fall!!

I have a couple Christmas ornament finishes..

Merry Moose Wishes, found in the JCS 2012 Christmas ornament issue I'm 

pretty sure! I think it has been a WIP since 2012! Haha. I left off a few

things like a star button on the top of the tree and a stitched curlicue 

coming off the last S on Christmas. I love it! I wish I knew what fabric 

I stitched it on. It's a linen with an oatmeal-y color to it. 

My next finish is a recent WIP from last year..

Winter's Eve, also from a JCS ornament issue but I don't know which. I've tried

since yesterday to make this new post and surprise, the stars finally aligned

this morning to post. Gotta love technology! So I wasn't prepared. I don't know

what the fabric is but it's a pewter like color with variegation.

So I have once again joined the Haunted Harvest 2020 exchange and I have begun

stitching my main item. I have changed a few things on it but need to buy a wooden

box to mount it on but to also line up the stitching so it'll fit. So I'll take care

of that next weekend on a trip to Hob Lob. I'll show that next time I post.

Since Blogger is behaving, I'll show a few pictures of a Mother Daughter 

adventure my daughter and I took on July 4th.

You can see the red rocks of Sedona in the distance. We took a back road to Jerome, AZ.

It's a ghost town just over a mountain from me. This back road is dirt all the way.

I have most of my pictures on my phone and I'll transfer some over to my iPad and continue

the pics on another blog post. 

Just as we get into Jerome is this old mine. Either copper or gold. Below that with

the buildings is the Gold King Mine, a tourist stop of old buildings, lots of old mining 

equipment, a little gift shop, and demonstrations of woodworking and blacksmithing.

We've been here before but we just looked atound the gift shop. This time we paid the $7 each

to go in the back. Interesting place. It really was a mine and in the middle of the

whole place is the shaft which goes down over 1,000 feet. It is blocked off with 

warning signs though. That's the thing with Arizona with its rich history of mining. The

hills and mountains are dotted with abandoned mines. The state has gone around

and destroyed the openings of these mines but I think there are more to be found.

We wanted to have lunch in Jerome at the Haunted Hamburger, a burger joint so

named because when they were rehabbing the place, their too,s would go missing

and show up somewhere else. Their fried pickles are to die for!

That's it! I hope this new post has found you all healthy and doing well. I am fine.

Remember me telling you about a cousin who was hospitalized back in March 

with Covid 19? Poor girl spent 3 weeks in the hospital and she is still on 

supplementary air. She is the reason I wear a mask. Stores are all beginning

to require masks anyway.

Don't forget to take part in my quiz. Leave a working email if you would.

Take care and be safe!

Progress, ideas

Hi all! Hope you're all doing well! Outside of a bout with sciatica, I'm doing good. I couldn't stitch for awhile due to arm pain leftover from a June 5th weedwacking episode. I'm amazed that I still have pain from that. Anyway, I've been able to stitch every other day. I have some progress, and some  new start ideas. Let's go!

Frosty Forest by CCN. It's been warm here so I thought a wintery design would be delusional.

Here is how it looked before..

I would like to finish that one block this month and maybe do a block a month.

No finishes but I do have new start plans. Here they are..

The middle project is an old Ewe and I Christmas sampler and the subrosa design I

still need a few more flosses. But these are what I'd like to start soon.

I recently bought a few needle minders. You'll get a chuckle out of these!

 Haha!

That's it! Here's to all of us keeping safe and healthy. Arizona's infection 

numbers keep rising and it's getting worrisome. I keep doing my part with the mask

and hand sanitizer and washing hands.

Take care!

Post!

I just sat here thinking of a title for 15 minutes and Post! is all I could think of!

Hope you all are doing well! I have a new job that I started 3 days ago and I'm enjoying my 2nd day off. It's been a long time since I had two days off in a row! My greenhouse job was a 6 day a week slog! The greenhouse job ended June 4th. I sat home for 1 week and then found this new job. So I consider myself lucky!

Arizona has really opened up from the virus stay at home order. As a consequence, Arizona has now become a hotspot for virus infection. Not good. So we still have to practice social distancing, all the precautions to stay healthy.

Stitch-wise, I have a finish!

A Brittercup design from a JCS ornament issue. I'm not at home posting this so I don't know

which issue or the name of the design. It was a last year new start though. Lisa M at Black 

flies and Snow flies blog was

stitching a Brittercup design too so I stopped stitching on the Tombstone design and picked

this WIP up. I blame it all on her! Haha. On a mystery linen with DMC substituted yellow

and red and over dyed floss for the blue, green, and black stitching. I have really been 

admiring Brittercup patterns lately and might do up all their kitty Christmas designs.

After I was finished with the above, I pulled out this Halloween freebie WIP..

by the Primitive Hare called The Kitchen Witch's Lab. It's on saltmarsh green linen with 310
black and a Valdani over dyed floss. I have started to take an interest in my stitching which is good
news! Means I'm getting back to normal somewhat. I could've waited until July 1 to file for unemployment but I need to work now! So that alone has helped in getting me back on track.

We had a family tragedy a couple weeks ago. A cousin's son was boating up at Lake Powell. It's a huge dam created lake straddling the Utah/Arizona border. He dove into the water and never came back up. His parents spent 4 days in terror wondering what happened. Authorities found his body 4 days later. So it's been a couple weeks of emotions with services completed last Saturday. So June has been a not so good month with me being laid off and the death of Dustin. I'm looking for the rest of this month to go smoothly.

That's it folks. Oh I wanted to comment on a few comments left on the last post. Catherine/diamondc, I cannot imagine working 12-13 hours in a day. Eight hours were quite enough for me! Carol..you are such a sweetheart and I had to laugh at your story of breaking your toe and breaking your water! That's quite a memory! Sue said her great aunt and uncle lived not too far from me in Wickenburg. It's an hour and half drive from me I think. It's a great western kind of town not too far from Phoenix but far enough to escape everything bad about a city. Thanks to you all for commenting which I read every time.

Take care everyone and stitch and stitch! Please stay healthy and safe. See you next time!

Stuffing

Howdy from a very blustery, warm central Arizona! Yes, this is me, from the Lost and Found Department! I hope you're all healthy and happy. Just where have I been?

To tell the truth, I think Covid-19, and working 6, 7 days a week has knocked the stuffing out of me. I don't have corona and my family and friends are safe as well. I think it's all the working and stress of not becoming infected, not to mention a gnarly case of insomnia, that has done me in. I work at a large greenhouse 30 minutes away that was deemed essential as food crops such as tomatoes, herbs, chilies, onions, squashes, etc. are being processed in addition to planting and maintaining annual flowers. I start work at 5:30 am and wake up at 3:15 am to get ready, 6 or sometimes 7 days a week. I am tired! Tired of waking up that early but it gets so hot in there so that's why the early hours. I take Advil PM or Tylenol PM to help with sleep because my mind doesn't stop at night. Very frustrating. I need to get myself off the PM medication and find Melatonin or another way before getting actual sleeping pills. I'm trying to stay away from those. All this has affected my stitching. This job ends soon as it's seasonal so there's the stress of looking for another job or if we qualify for unemployment benefits.

So let's talk stitching! This past week I finally stitched some on Tombstone Angel by Carriage House Samplings. Here's the before picture..

and here's my progress..

Not an amazing amount of progress by any means but at least I'm stitching!

After I finish stitching in color on that right medallion?, it's onto the angel. 

I have the outline of her face now. I have basically become a monogamous

stitcher! Never thought it would happen!

I have been stashing a little too. The Shepherds Bush kit on the left is something 

I have pined for for a while. A whole kit with silks, and 32ct fabric.

I'll have to be careful stitching because there are no full skeins of silks, just strands of silks.

Good Company on the right is also an ocean/sea theme. When will I start these? When I return to

normal. No telling when that'll happen!

Does anyone else use Bloglovin'? I've been getting about 2 or 3 followers a week. I hope most

of them are legit and not scammers. I apologize to anyone who is following and is a stitcher.

Thanks for hanging with me! I will just keep plugging away on Tombstone Angel when

the spirit strikes. By the way, because off the hours I'm working, my broke pinkie toe 

has lost the bruising but is still swollen a bit and is not looking real good. I ice it and

wrap it good before work but yeah. I'm looking forward to when I can really put my foot

up and let it heal!

Take care and stay safe and healthy!