Life With Jules, and other stuff

To all of my friends in the path of Sandy, (no, not this Sandy although she has been a bit of a “hurricane” lately) please seek shelter and stay safe! A lot has been happening in my life over the past couple weeks. I have accepted a new job and start on Nov 5th! I am still with the State and keep my benefits, however I will be receiving about $7,000 more in salary per year. I am beyond excited and a little sad. I am sad to leave all of my new friends at DOC. Although we will keep in touch and a few of us plan to still get together for card night. I am excited because it is a position working with veteran’s. This is something I have been wanting to do for quite some time now. And now for the WIPocalypse update! I worked on Coming Home for the Holidays in my SAL with Lana. I am sooo close on this one. I need to do the detail work and contact Dimensions for replacement floss.   I worked on Medallions :   I am not too happy about the new skein of floss (Aqua Clouds by Silk’N) as

Butterfly Shamrock Wreath The Cross Stitcher (April 2010) 28-ct White Charles Craft Linen DMC Floss Started: March 7, 2010 Finished: October 23, 2012 In other stitchy news, Sandy decided she would print out copies of one page of the chart for the above design. Here’s the “gift” she left on my printer:       ~~~Until Next Time~~~

Well, I spent most of last week and through the weekend on Butterfly Shamrocks Wreath . Remember this piece? Butterfly Shamrocks Wreath as of 3/7/12   Well, this is what is looked like when I took a picture Sunday afternoon:   I did a bit more stitching on it after taking the pic and plan to work on it a little more tonight. With persistence, I should have it done by the end of this week. I have stalled out on Medallions again. I am a little annoyed with how the color is on the new skein of floss. I know, and am sure, dye lot has something to do with it. I am going to try to use the 3rd skein I have when I finish the Wreath. Hopefully, by cutting it differently, I can get the effect I want. Otherwise, I need to purchase more floss and hope for the best. Last, but certainly not least, a very big WELCOME to my newest followers! I don’t say it often enough, but I am thankful to have you all perusing my blog from time to time.

Well, another 1st weekend has passed and I can honestly say that I sat and stitched most of the weekend away. Lana and I have been SAL-ing on Coming Home for the Holidays all year long. Her idea for this SAL was to get her back into stitching on hers. Mine was to finish it before my dad passed. Well, we all know that didn’t happen, but it will be done before Christmas! Here is what Coming Home looked like after my first few stitches were placed:     Here is the halfway point: Here is where I last left things: And here is my current progress: It’s amazing how far I have come on this piece. It feels good that I am ever drawing closer to a finish. I have found that I am running out of some of the colors (a handful at best), so I will be contacting DMC to see about getting some replacement floss. WOW! This piece is just gorgeous! I plan to do a few more in this collection. In the job front ~ things are looking more and more like privatization will happen. I am also in the pr

Disclaimer: DON’T CRY MAMA ! I was doing the dishes earlier this evening and about fell out. I really expected my dad to come into the kitchen and can’t figure out why. It’s nothing unusual, especially now that he’s gone, for me to do the dishes at least a couple times a week (I don’t dirty that many and can get pretty lazy about it). This past Sunday, Amazing Grace was played during the worship service. I started crying. When I got home, I balled for a good 15 minutes or so. I really miss my dad. I know I shouldn’t, but I have been feeling a little bad not having spent more time sitting in the living room with him these past few years. For my part, it was mainly because we didn’t watch the same things on television. So, I would escape into my bed room and do my own thing. Now, I did sit and eat supper with him, most nights. It was on those nights when he was watching something disgusting (i.e. animals tearing each other apart, fish being gutted, etc.) that I had to leave and ta