A little late on the TUSAL update and one of my prizes!

Hi all!! Happy Family Day weekend to all my Canadian friends! Hope it was wonderful! Well I will start out with my one day late TUSAL update:It is coming along nicely! It had a little boost from a fight that my floss and I had. The floss won and ended up in the TUSAL vase instead of in my project!
I haven't gotten a lot of stitching time over the last little bit. I spent most of my time working on the baby announcement for my BIL's baby. Not the greatest picture, sorry, but it is coming along pretty good. The stitching looks like it ia all over the place, but surprising the back actually doesn't look horrible...yet!
This week I would like to focus on my HAED. It is also coming along, slowly but surely. It takes a bit more concentration so that I can keep Mr.Frog away!
And as a great start to this week, I received on of my blog contest prizes. Angela stitched up a cute little Lizzie Kate pinkeep for me as my prize for guessing her mystery stitching project. It is so gorgeous!! It is especially great because it is my first blog contest win and my very first pinkeep!! Thanks Angela, I absolutely adore my prize!! Here you go, now you can all drool as I did when I saw it!!I hope everyone is doing well! Thanks for reading my blog and enjoy reading all of yours too! Have a great week!!

2010 list of projects

WARNING!!! This is a long post, simple easy to read but long!
Okay, I think I have finally figured out what I am going to be working on this year. A couple massive long term projects, a couple medium sized and some unknown small ones to keep my motivation up throughout the year. So for my BIL's baby due in June I will be doing the Baby Express Birth Record. Here is my progress so far:


And then for my BIL's wedding I will be doing First Love Wedding Record. The wedding is in October so I want to get a good start on the birth record before I dive into the wedding pattern.

Then I have my HAED project that I mentioned before. A Purrfect Morning is soo cute and I want to do it for my mom since she collects angels and I know she will love it. I am realizing though, since I do want to work on other projects, and I have 3 young children that I need to pay attention to, that September 2011 may be a bit too short of a timeline, considering the intricacy of the HAED patterns. We'll see how it goes! I have a small (I do mean small)start on this project, here it is:


I have the Xitch SAL too, which is the other massive project, but I am wondering if it is too big. I think I will keep working on it slowly and maybe the excitement will come back. Probabyl not a good sign that I am losing interest so quickly after starting it...

I am very tempted by the LHN ornament of the month series. They are so cute and I may have to add a couple of them into my rotation. They would be great Christmas gifts!! I would also like to practice some different finishes, at the top of my list is a scissor fob, so that will likely be the next small that I do.

I have been lucky in blog-land over the last month. I have won two giveaways! I was soo excited. The first is a Lizzie Kate pinkeep from Angela's blog and the second is an issue of JCS from Julie's blog. Thanks to these lovely ladies for the contests and once my winnings arrive I will post some photos!!

Oh and last but not least, speaking of giveaway's, head on over to Elaine's blog for her fabulous Valentine's giveaway!

Thanks for reading, hope everyone is doing well! Happy stitching!

Jennifer's Giveaway

Head on over to Jennifer's blog for a beautiful Valentine's giveaway!