I'm Home !

Safe and Sound ! I had my surgery last Tuesday as scheduled, took longer than thought. Couple of glitches, such as my heart stopping. My doctor says it is a known fact that when they touch the insides of someone they "faint", they got me back to a normal blood pressure and heart beat, tried again and all went well. It looks like I had a polyp (or 2) and everything was growing around it. I'm told all looked okay, still have to wait for the pathologists report, but I have a good feeling this is all it was.

The nurses were nice. The food was so so, the sorbert, jello and pudding were good, as were the oatmeal, soups and hard boiled egg. The roast beef with gravy on bread and chicken stew were something else :(

I thought of my Dad more than usual this week and how he endured his many many stays in hospital and without a doubt he pulled me through mine.

Thanks Dad, you are forever in my heart and always on my mind.

Whatever

I really wanted to show you my stitching that I have been doing. I have a number of different finishes, from LHN Simple Joys and a couple of her ornaments to Blackbird Designs Small Token and Bird in Hand, with small freebies thrown in to whatever, no really Whatever by LK. I plan on finishing this one as a small pillow and placing it on my couch where I can look at it while I watch TV and stitch. It's exactly how I feel in my life now.

Last Oct. I had a pelvic ultra sound done with a lab note to have a follow up one in 3-4 months.
That was done at the end of January and it's been one doctor visit after another since then. What should have been a simple office procedure has resulted in me having to go for surgery. Oh and it's the second surgery. Last June 10 I had day surgery (laparoscopy and D&C ), which was not successful, so this has resulted in me going for a complete hysterectomy the "old-fashioned" way. Tomorrow Sept. 21st is the day and I get to stay in for a couple of nights. which I DO NOT fancy doing. So, if you can please send some good thoughts my way, I would really appreciate it.

Not sure if I will be able to use the stairs when I get home, so may end up sleeping downstairs in the guest room. Since my computer is upstairs, it may be next week before I can blog.

Oh and why is it I can't show you my stitching, with all this on my mind and other issues, I just have not been in the frame of mind to take pictures, in fact I havn't been doing much other then stitching, eating, playing games and more eating.

Well it's now 10:30 and since I have to be at the hospital 6:30 in the morning which means being ready to go by 5:45 I better get to bed. What I would really like to know is why I spent two hours at pre-admin last week and still need to be at the hospital so early when surgery is at 8:00 a.m.

WHATEVER !!




PS: some weeks ago I was gong to post a video, but delted it. how do I get rid of that little box saying it was deleted ?

Alphabet Tree

Blue Ribbon Designs (Free pattern)

16 ct. Cream Adia

Haystack, Red Delicious from The Gentle Art Autumn

package (not sold separately) and DMC801

Leaf on back is from the Reader's Digest Big Book of

Cross-Stitch Designs

This was my first pillow finish, I won't be doing another any time soon. :)

Life Unexpected

Ever hear of a TV show called Life Unexpected ? I hadn't till today. They are in their second season and were filming at Trout Lake. I did take many more pictures, but they didn't turn out.

They had a playground set up with kids for the background, but the actual scene they were filming was hard to see.

The weather is gorgeous, not as hot as it has been, which is nice. I need to get out and sit in it more, as it makes me feel so much better, even if it won't cure any of my problems.

I haven't been blogging much, but have been reading your blogs and leaving comments. It's not that I don't have any stitching to show, as I do and lots of it. I'll try and get some picutres taken and post them.

Happy Canada Day !

Party On !

Last night Tiger was laying on the floor, looking out the kitchen window and making that sound, should I bark or not .

The neighbors were hosting a party and I'm guessing did not know it :) There were so many more squirrels, but it was so hard to get a picture out the window or maybe they were camera shy. There is a black squirrel that goes up and down our lane on the wires and plays catch me if you can games with Tiger. I'm sure he was there, but all the others were grey.

Small Finish

Tree of Life from Periphaeria Designs

32 ct. Flax Fields R&R

Silk floss by HDF

This little fob took 2 evenings to do, from start to complete finish. I've mis-placed the tag for the floss and can't remember the name. The front is a freebie and the little bird on the back is from the Blackbrid Designs Honeysuckle Manor book. The scissors are Elizabeth I from Klemscott Designs .

A Trio

Bluebird by Blackbird Designs

32 ct. Flax Fields R&R

Crushed Berry by Hand-Dyed Fibers

Spring by ??
28 ct. white Monaco

Pastel Rainbow by Hand-Dyed Fibers

Quaker Flower by The Workbaset
40 ct. Attic Lace Lakeside Linen

Caribbean Eve by Hand-dyed fibers

I'm a new fan of hand-dyed fibers in silk. My first stitch with them was the Quaker flower and I wasn't crazy about it. Could be that it was 1 over 2, but the end result is good. Next was spring, which if anyone could tell me where this free design is from I would appreciate it. Oh and I just stitched the word not the little flowers on it. My third was the Blackbird design and that convinced me. I have more different colors to try, will probably do some small little pillows.

I have a new picture in my header that I took at Trout lake last week. You really had to be there to see this, but believe me it was funny. Mother and her babies were swimming around and there was a big puppy there, and he went after them, she got her babies away and the next thing you know the father duck comes over and gives her heck, it was quite of the site, both were quacking and flapping their wings at each other. I'm guessing she won as he left and she continued her swim around with the babies.

Sew Blue

Design by iStitch

28ct. white Monaco

ThreadWorx #1016

If you look at the pattern, you will notice I left off the alphabet on the top, but did use the numbers with my initials on the back.

Pretty Lady

JBW Designs - French Country Dog

28 ct. Ivory Annabelle

Cherry Wine Sampler Threads By

The Gentle Art

I'm always telling my Tiger that she is a "Pretty Lady", so thought it would be appropriate for the back.

Spring Flowers

Click here . The page will be black, left click your mouse and have some fun ! Hope you enjoy it.

Happy Easter

Liberty Primitives & Needlework

14 count Spun Sugar from

Sassy's Fabby's with DMC

Snowy Pines

LHN Ornament of the Month

28 count Flax linen with DMC

He's Back

The other day I noticed the eagle was back. This is very unusual as he only comes for about 2 weeks in February.

Last night we had a bit of a storm, windy and raining all night long. This morning it was fairly nice and then BAM poured rain like there was no tomorrow. This lasted a couple of hours and now has stopped and the sun is trying to come out.

I went to Michael's this morning to buy some DMC to finish off a couple of things. This is when I got caught in the rain storm, not nice.

So now I am off to put those last stitches in so I will have something stitchy to show next time.

PS Soon after I posted this, the sun disappeared the rain started and we have lighting and thunder...crazy weather !

Apples

Little House Needlework

40ct white linen

I started this one, maybe a year ago and had the border and the word Apples done. A couple of days ago I was looking for something and came across it and decided it was about time to finish it. My first cube finish and I'm really not pleased with it. I was stingy on the needles and didn't get the stitched piece as snug and straight as I should have, I rushed it too much. Oh well it's staying home and going to sit on my kitchen island to remind me to eat my apples.

Happy St. Patrick's day

Crow

Primitive Betty's

32 ct. unknown with DMC 310

For some reason when I saw this I felt the need to stitch it right away. It seemed to take a long time, but in reality it was only a couple of days.

I have a couple of St. Patrick day items I would like to stitch, but would never get them done by tomorrow, so I am going to see what I have for spring. Speaking of Spring, ours has seemed to disappear. I'm finding it rather gloomy and colder than it should be.

On a rather sad note, I just got an e-mail from my LNS that they will be closing April 30th, after 35 years. Not sure why they are closing, if business is bad or it's for personal reasons. Right now all sales are final, but I'm guessing there will discounts soon. Guess I'll have to stock up on some stash :)

Shamrock Biscornu and Fob

Here's another cute design from Nic Wray of Linden Bee Designs

I stitched these on 14 ct. white adia with DMC and yes those scissors are from Yuko. I was very surprised at how sharp they are. I'm very pleased with them.

Spring Snow

It was bad enough that the wind kept me up half the night, this is what I woke up to this morning !