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Emma actual birthday !!!

2009-07-09T08:38:00.009+02:00

Last time, I forgot to tell you that Emma's birthday was actually on july 8 th. We did her party on saturday because school finished on thursday and I was afraid if we would have waited too long that all the kids would have left on vacations.

Thanks for your birthday wishes for her. She's such a sweet girl. I can't believe she's 9 already ... We did celebrate her "real" birthday yesterday at my mom's. The cake was a strawberry cake very very delicious (to die for to be exact !!! )

She didn't expect her grand ma's gift: a radio set with Hello Kitty on it !!!!!!!!!!!!! I now expect no more fighting between Pierre and her for the radio !

It was definitely a Hello Kitty day yesterday !!! She's also got her first watch.

She really had a good day !!!

Now, you will have to enlarge to be able to see my wonderful 1 over 2 progress. Yes, because I suffered people stitching that 1/2 ! I tried to stitch two days on 1/2 and yes, I did suffer because I don't find any pleasure stitching with one thread only ... Unfortunately, I have more Lanarte kits that use 1/2.... Not all Lanarte designs have 1/2 though. I understand it gives something more to the finished piece but it's a real pain for me ... In the future, I'll try to avoid a piece that require green stitched on 1/2 !!! So last night, I gave up on the 1/2 (oops ... ) to have a lot of fun stitching on 2/2. Why do I progress faster on 2/2 ? Can you explain me why?

I'm still late at commenting on your blogs. Sorry about that but it's hard to find time with the three kids at home all day long ....

Emma's birthday !!!

2009-07-05T16:54:00.015+02:00

No, I didn't disappear suddendly from the blogging world. We were very busy preparing Emma's birthday (understand making pinatas). Chuy was supposed to start the pinata making on june 1 st but obviously he was " a little" late because he only started them last monday .... So all week long, he was gluing while I was cutting yards and yards of crepe papers ...

Anyway, here are some pictures of the party:

First, the kids played a game so they could all be together.

Then, the fun begun: breaking pinatas !!! We had three this year again: a ice cream cone, a soccer ball and a Hello Kitty. I even thought of taking a short film to show the fun.

The kids really enjoyed the Hello Kitty pinata:

Someone was wearing his colors on the fourth of july:

But this year, the pinatas were too thick and some grown up help was needed to manage to break them (see the movie below):

Then, it was time to blow some candles and I snapped this sweet picture of my two youngest:

Emma was very happy with all her gifts (Hello Kitty and the little Pet Shop characters are always a big hit with her!!!) :

And for those who only love cross stitch, here is a picture of my latest progress (tuesday niht I guess ...). I'm stitching the leaves and I have all the boring background to stitch (you know how it goes: 1/2 ) ...

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a sweet comment. I always treasure them !!!

Couldn't resist .... Are you going to blame me?

2009-06-29T18:55:00.009+02:00

First I saw some pictures on this blog and I had to get it !!! I especially love these two charts from my all time favorite designer: Veronique Enginger!!!!

This strawberry jam chart (don't you love the colors? )

And this birdie chart (of course, I also love the colors !!! ) :

For me who loves realistic designs, it's pure bliss .

My squirrel is here !!! I know I said I'll stitch some ecru colors on 1/1 but I forgot ... oops !

Family news:

I feel I ~~deserve~~ want a break from school / kids activities. Good news: vacations are on thursday for Steb and Emma and on friday for Pierre. (I know! Pierre's school have such a weird schedule ... ) Pierre and Emma are going to go on vacations with my parents for 10 days (they are going to visit my brother and his family.) Then we'll go to Paris, the five of us, at the end of july for 4 days. We got a very good deal to rent a hotel appartment through Chuy's company. I registered Emma to poney camp for a week in august. (those are so expensive here but the company where Chuy work is big and they offer help for poney and sailing summer camp so we took advantage of it !!!) Chuy is going to have whole two months of "vacations" thanks to the bad economy ...

Stash day !

2009-06-27T14:25:00.007+02:00

So if you haven't heard it yet, Michael Jackson is dead. Pierre told me some kids cried in his secondary school. For me, it's a little weird to think those kids cried as they didn't grow up with his music like we did ...

Did you know a study about happiness has been conducted since 1936? I like that conclusion: " In the study, those who spent too much alone time ultimately struggled. The happiest subjects in the study were those who sustained meaningful, healthy relationships with friends and family. One can never give enough hugs, say enough "I love you's," and send enough "I miss you's "You can read all about it here.

Sale season has started here (to bring more happiness to the stitchers !!!) so I took advantage to buy some cheap charts and a kit. I bought a chart that represents Madagascar, an island from where my sister in law is from. (yes, my brother and I could have married locals but we chose to marry exotic birds )

I also bought this kit that I always loved. I plan on stitching it without all the lettering. The colors are lovely !!!

A lot of sttichers have been selling their stash lately.

One sold this chart and I fell in love with this little scarecrow guy:

Another one was selling some Madame la fée charts (half price from the original price !!! Usually there are more expensive than that when bought used.) I chose "ballade d'autumn" that you could translate by "fall walks")

and "25 decembre". This design had been released not too long ago. I saw it being stitched on a blog and it looks very nice. Of course, all pictures are clickable!

And my squirrel is getting more and more greens and browns. Yes, I'm surviving all these green ... for now !!!

Tomorrow, my parents, Pierre and Chuy are going to try to sell our used stuffs to that could be called a garage sale/ flea market. Of course, Chuy really misses the american garage sales because it could be so cool to sale stuffs from our garden !!! I'll go there to have lunch with them with the two little ones.

Have a great sunday !!!

Mutant rose

2009-06-26T21:05:00.006+02:00

Yesterday I took a picture of the rose with my hand next to it. As you can see it's really the size of my hands (yes, this is my lovely hand that you see here Sorry I didn't have time to go to the nail salon and this is the digital watch I got when I was 11 years old - still working). Never knew they made mutant roses and sell them in supermarkets !!!

Now both of my two roses are looking down as we got a big storm and ALL of my flowers really suffered from all that water.

My squirel is growing nicely and slowly!

I would love to tell you more but I don't have a lot of time lately. Tomorrow, I'll show you my new stash !!! Stay tuned ladies !!!!!!

If I show flowers

2009-06-23T18:51:00.013+02:00

I should get at least 35 comments right? As you may recall, the house is brand new so we have the right to "play" with the garden and plant whatever we want. So I planted three roses bushes: two roses and one yellow. I got them for cheap at the supermarket so I was not really sure how they will look once they will bloom. All I wanted was to get a scented bush. And look at this amazing flower: it's huge !!!!

Look at the size next to Emma's hand. It seems everyday it gets bigger and bigger. Today it was the size of my hand. ( I really need to measure it because I never saw roses that big.)

I would have never guessed it could be so huge because at first, it looks that way:

The color is really lovely:

Steb decided that the neighbor's dog named "pal" could become his best friend so he decided to blow bubbles to him. As you can see eveybody is busy doing what they do best

My squirrel is trying to look his best for you ladies !!!

Tomorrow is the first day of sales season but Emma is going to sing in her last music class and Steb has his music show in the afternoon. I also need to not skip Emma's last violin class because for a strange reason I have the feeeling the class is already over ... oops! I also tend to forget that my dentist appointment ison thursday but for that one, I know why: I hate dentist appt

Father's day !

2009-06-21T11:45:00.003+02:00

Google is celebrating father's day with two different logos depending on where you live (but not google USA - don't know why.)

Australia is celebrating its first day of winter while my part of the world is celebrating its first day of summer .

My squirrel got the message and is saving nuts for next winter !

More words tomorrow ... (and pics as well !!!)

Saturday

2009-06-20T14:34:00.005+02:00

Saturday morning was pretty busy: Pierre had school (next year it's going to be on wednesdays instead !!! Yeah!!! I think we have only one saturday left !!! ) Emma had a violin class because her teacher couldn't give her the class last wednesday. Chuy had his driving class. So I played the taxi driver most of my morning ...

I started the fun colors on my squirrel: well, there are only 3 shades of red but it's a nice break from the the browns and ... green ... When I look at the chart I feel like an HAED stitcher (understand few unnoticeable progress ) but when I look at my stitching and compare with the finished picture, I feel I'm making good and steady progress . Go figure ...

Tonight, we are invited to go to one of Emma's classmate for dinner. We almost never go out for dinner so it's going to be an interesting experience (but no stitching tonight I'm afraid ...)

Thursday already? Wanna see stash? lol

2009-06-18T14:10:00.009+02:00

If you want to see a beautiful finish, go to Yvonne's blog to see her beautiful piece. I think she made the perfect match between a design and a fabric. What do you think?

I wanted to blog yesterday but didn't find time last night. It doesn't help that lately I've been having lots of ups and downs (more downs than ups actually) I hate feeling that way and I hope it won't last too long ... Pierre got sick and had to stay home two days. Today he went back but complained he had a headache. With him, I don't know if it takes advantage of kind of being sick to not go to school and do anything or if he's really not feeling well. Also, low temperature worries me as that's the way his leukemia started. If he continues he will get a blood test but I learned not a long time ago that a blood test dooesn't necessilarly show something. He's also teething: who would have thought a 12 y.o. will be teething? Not one, not two but three molars are piercing which causes him pain (he's also very sensitive to pain).

I was checking Ebay last week and found some Lanarte kits that were on the "buy it now" list. I couldn't resist when I saw this rare kit:

This wreath is OOP and very hard to find and usually goes up to 45$ - 50$ (or more) . And I was able to buy it for a very reasonnable price. The fabric is evenweave (my favorite) so I won't have to change it !!!

Then I saw that one:

I hesitated but it's another OOP hard to find kit that I have hardly seen on Ebay (or it was illegal copies). It also has an evenweave fabric to please me !!! Will you believe that I sent my check right away but forgot to add the shipping price The seller sent me an email saying : " thank you for your fast payment, it's too bad you didn't add the shipping!" What an embarrassment .... She had sent the kits anyway. (she's lucky I'm an honest person, right? I sent her another chack the same day ) I'm so happy with my purchase and may stitch the wreath (I love the happy colors) as soon as the squirrel is finished.

The squirrel? Here it is:

I think I almost completed the squirrel itself but it's not close to be all finished as the whole piece is stitched. I usually stitch pieces where there is always some kind of unstitched parts. Not this time (I guess it makes me feel the pain of the HAED stitchers )

Tomorrow, Steb goes to the zoo with his school. I tried to volunteer to go with them but all the spots were already taken . I hope everything is going to be fine ...

By the way, all images are clickable

Sunday - 3 weeks until kids vacations

2009-06-14T11:11:00.024+02:00

Do you have trouble coming to my wonderful blog lately? Maybe Internet Explorer is the problem. Cindy F couldn't come to the blog until she tried with Firefox. I use Google Chrome (I won't see any videos with IE because I chose to keep IE6 to use with blogger) and I like it so far so you may try another web browser and see if it works better.

I thought I was a world champion with Chuy's weird stuff but it appears I am only a runner up after all! (make me feel better in a way ! ) Check Kathryn's blog: her husband has an interesting collection ( but I think it's better to avoid certain rooms at night !!!

On saturday, it was the school annual carnival. It started by the kids choir where Emma sang:

Esteban also sang a song with his classmates. It was about hikers comeing back from the moutain (they had to wear sunglasses, hat, short, backpack)

My favorite picture of him that day (yes, he was wearing his dad hat) :

Emma danced the french can-can and really enjoyed herself !!!

She even tortured her body:

After the show, the dames started and Steb was very happy to win something to blow bubble. He had a lot of fun !!!

And you won't believe it: I won this basket full of organic and fair trade goodies. I had to guess the weight of the basket. The lady who was carrying the basket kind of helped me win it as my first three guesses were a little but wrong

I thought: I'm going to try filming a little bit of the show with my camera to show you my babes. Well, I took a vertical picture right before and forgot to turn the camera so if someone knows how to turn the whole thing , I'll be very grateful ! Thanks. Anyway, here they are (watch out for your neck !!!

My squirrel? Here it is after a week of stitching:

I think I won another world competition !!!

2009-06-09T09:44:00.019+02:00

Ohmommy challenged us to show what strange stuffs our ~~cave men~~ husbands brought home (but first, you really need to see what she's going to have in her living room wall !!! ). But I feel, I'm going to win the world's competition once again ....

Because for me it's this bludgeon and I'm not kidding (actually I don't even know the real name of that thing ... )

Detail (wonderful wood reproduction of the real thing ):

I couldn't believe it when it brought it home.

This is how the conversation went:

I asked: "what did you buy this ~~hiddeous~~ thing?"

Chuy: "I didn't buy it, the guy gave it to me!"

Me " Of course, he GAVE it you, he must have been so happy to get rid of it ! But why in the world did you take it? "

Chuy: "well, I like it !"

Well, I like hot guys but I don't bring them home ...

So Madame Ohmommy, do we have a winner here or should I pack the bludgeon and ship it to you to display next to the barracuda? You may even start a museum

Now I hurt my knee bringing it from the basement where the hiddeous thing went back right after our photo session !!! Don't tell Chuy: I didn't mention to him that the whole internet will think he's weird

And for those who want to make sure, Sid is really gone and has evolved in a squirrel, here is a pic :

You may want to go over Virpy's blog who just got a baby boy !!! Congratulations Virpy !!!!

Twins?

2009-06-08T20:38:00.008+02:00

Do you see any ressemblance? Am I the only one who notice a striking similarity between Sid and my squirrel in progress?

But I already progressed and soon, it will be a real squirrel :

Mother's day !!!

2009-06-07T16:36:00.018+02:00

It's mother's day here and I think I won the contest of the ugliest gift ever received for mother's day ( and I'm talking about the world competition here people !!!! ) I didn't win alone and I want to thank the substitute teacher from hell for her help! Whitout her, nothing would have been possible and I wouldn't know the joy of having to decided where to put this ~~horror~~ masterchief ! I have to admit that the dark color is what I need to brighten my day, every single day and the newspaper sheets does give a modern art look to this ~~horror~~ masterchief. Thanks again substitute teacher from hell! By the way, you won't be surprised if I skip your end of the year gift, right? Do you want to see this ~~horror~~ masterchief?

What it is? It's a canvas where there is newspaper and what is supposed to be fruits are glued.

Steb's teacher did a little better. She made a card and she took a picture with a poem on the side. She managed to have Steb looking at her He's not smiling but he looks at the camera!

Chuy got me a DS game so I can do my Beyonce on my sofa and pretend I understand something at rhythm !!!

We got a winner from my last post: Lori guessed it right (she was the only player !!!) : Obama came to my city and we were all only allowed to see him on TV !!! Chuy wanted to go to see him but he understood he was mission impossible. Even the people who greeted him were people who had been selected ...

This sign was all over town:

Some pics of Obama's arrival:

Today, after a lunch at the restaurant with my parents, we went to one of the english military camp. WWII collectors organized that kind of camps every year. My dad is a WWII collector and he's friend with his people.

I probably have the weirdest husband in the world: he said "hi" to an english veteran in french !

I think it was my opportunity to ask if what we say about scottish is true ... Did I? Didn't I?

And yes, in the middle of all this excitement, I did stitch a little (I know it does look like the character in Ice age it's scary, isn't it? It's even hard to imagine it's going to be a cute squirrel !!! ):

Guess which

2009-06-04T17:50:00.007+02:00

Very Important Person is coming to my corner of the world on saturday? (june 6 th) Let see who will find out first Let me tell you it's going to be a big mess around here that day as a lot of roads (including the freeway) are going to be closed ... And I, I need to pick Pierre's up at school on saturday morning ... Let's hope I can reach the school !!!

I got new stash to show you. You know I love Madame la fée designs (but not her prices ) so when I saw a stitcher was selling some of her stash, I couldn't resist buying two used charts. Madame la fée is a new designer so it's still hard to find her charts used. I chose "la potion magique" ( Lori )

and "Jeux d'hiver".

You may like to see Madame la fée new design called "histoire de pommes" or "apple story".

I'm still stitching on my squirrel tail:

Introducing my new project !!!!

2009-06-02T18:39:00.017+02:00

So I am a weak person who want to escape boredom from a pink project ... Soooo, I dug in my stash boxes to choose my next project and try to find the project that won't bored me after two weeks. I also wanted a medium size project. Sooooo ..... I chose Nibbling beechnuts by Lanarte ( I really need to reduce my Large Lanarte stash, right? ) but now I'm not so sure of my choice ... But there is no turning back ...

I'm stitching it on the fabric from the kit. I'm guessing the fabric is a jobelan. There is only 40 colors (and yes, I think I can handle the greens !!! )

And here is my first start: a small brownish thing !!!

I took a picture of my snowman with my camera so you can see the real colors:

Thank you all for your nice comments on my finish: you made my day. I also want to thank you for your support when I don't feel very well, especially when I'm not so good at commenting. I really appreciate it A LOT !!!

I also took a picture of my fuchsias. I stitched the very light ~~boring~~ pink ... I can hear you from here: I should not give up (again) on the fuchsias and I will say, you're right I need to find a way to finish them so I may choose one day in the week to stitch on them.

Personal message to the bird (s) who has (have) a stomach bug: my car is NOT your private restrooms !!!

Happy ?!?

2009-05-31T18:55:00.003+02:00

How is your disco ball? Not too dusty I hope because it's time to take it out of your closet and start a happy dance with me because we have a finish here (click to enlarge !!! You may see the snowflakes that were supposed to be french knots that I don't master at all and that ended up in regular knots !!! I didn't put a lot in the sky as we barely seem them : so what to bother, right? ) !!!

I know what you are going to ask: what's next? Well; I don't know ... Really ! If you have checked my cross stitch stash in my gallery, you know I far from being stash deprived but that's somewhat the problem: too many choices ... See, when I choose a project, I want to make sure, I'll finish it so I carefully choose my projects (I check the colors: are they happy colors? is there a lot of greens? ). I'd like to pick another Lanarte but I still feel guilty about the fuchsia (and yes, last night I DID stitch on my fuchsias !!! ) I could finish the fuchsias but the task seems humongous ... to say the least ... Maybe I should?

And if you want to help a stay at home mom, go here !!! Thanks for her !!!

Want to do something nice today?

2009-05-30T21:18:00.003+02:00

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I need a DNA testing !

2009-05-28T10:47:00.008+02:00

Really. Last night, we were watching a news show where they showed a report how body piercings can be bad for the health. I thought: this is going to be an educational moment with my kids like: don't do that or your belly button is going to be eaten by a bad bacteria. As soon as the report started, Pierre, 12 yo, said very happily: I want a piercing in my ear ! A what? Yeah, I want one in my ear ! And this just happened the day after we had a talk about how tattoos really hurt, especially boys who scream when their 4 year old brother barely touch them .... Because tattoos use needles that have to penetrate IN the skin in order for the ink to really really stay there and there is no magical cream that can take the pain away ... And this come after wrestling fashion has invaded his world ... He now workships Rey Mysterio and Jeff Hardy : I told him he should workship mathematics instead but he doesn't seem to agree with his wise mom ... So, if in 6 years from now you meet a woman walking near a tatooed pierced looking weird 18 years old wearing a tee shirt with a wrestler on it, don't pass your way: it's going to be me ... (special thanks to the legislators who passed a law that require parents to sign for kids under 18 yo who wants a tatto and a piercing. I'm going to write them to see if they can do something for the wrestling for underage kids ). Now, I'm going to google to find a DNA testing somewhere ... (I honestly doubt someone will have wanted my sick newborn but I have to make sure, right? )

Emma is home: she has a cold so we didn't send her to school this morning. I didn't mention it before but school is not as nice as it used to be for her as she now has the substitute teacher from hell. The kids hate her, the parents don't like her either ... Let's be positive and think there are only five weeks left before summer vacations start ...

How I feel? I think I'll try to follow Barbara's advice and write down the positive things in my life on a list. Difficult to be positive when after only three days of work, Chuy is already on week end and will be off next week ...

I stitched more boring blue last night. I was complaining how boring it was to Emma and she said " it's you who bought it" Well, I know and next time, I'll use a hand dye fabric (and I'll whine about stitching all the white )

BLUE

2009-05-26T18:31:00.003+02:00

I can't think about a better tittle today. I still feel a little blue. I don't want to bother you with that but I really hope to be myself soon as I hate feeling that way The other night, I couldn't sleep, my personal computer in my head was working hard with negative thoughts. At one point, I decided to change gear and think about the positive things in my life: I found only two I had to think really hard to find more positive things ...

How is my stitching? Blue as well because I'm done with the fun part and am left with the boring to me 1 over 2. So the whiney me is back !!! The task seems huge of course and sooooooooo boring .... I actually stitched the upper right corner to give me some encouragement ... I haven't finished the lower part of the snowman (it's also stitched on 1 over 2 ... ) And do you know what is left on the fuchsias? 1 over 2 part as well ... Do you see a twisted pattern here? So who wants to come here to stitch that awful 1 over 2?

Personal message to the person who stole my sun: give it back NOW !!!!!!!!!!! ( the rain destroyed some of my flowers ... )

When staurday feel like sunday !!!!

2009-05-23T13:42:00.006+02:00

I fell in love with these two beauties: I just love the colors and I think I have the perfect fabric for them !!! I checked what is needed and there are a lot of beads I don't have so I'll wait ...

I almost hate my neighbors: my kids love to play soccer but Steb tend to shoot in the ball a little too hard so the soccer ball ends up to the neighbor's yard. Yesterday, Emma asked the lady to send her the balls (3 were in their yard) and the lady told she was not going to always send them back. I even witenessed her little girl going to her house with Steb ball (the first one his grand'ma offered him as a baby ... ) When Emma asked for this ball, the lady replied that if she finds it, she will send it back ... I don't know you but if my child takes someone's else stuffs, I won't let them play with it ... And I don't see why it bothers them to send back the balls over the fence ... Wouldn't they be happy if I send them back their soccer balls if one day, their little girls send one over here? People can be so complicated sometimes ...

I didn't stitch backward last night and if you enlarge, you will see I even stitched some boring background !!! Yeah to me !!!!!!
Yesterday, Google was celebrated this american painter I didn't know and who reminds me Renoir but unfortunately I forgot her name ...

Today, I'm in a sad mood. I thought I'll stitch watching Miss Potter and actually the movie was sad and put me down ... I guess it's one of these days when you don't feel well and a little thing put you really down ...

Long week end

2009-05-21T15:27:00.005+02:00

I know it's thursday but we are all in a long week end that has started yesterday for the kids. Today is a holiday and tomorrow there are no school and almost everybody has a day off tomorrow as well !!! We are really enjoying this long week end. Then we'll have 5 more weeks of school before summer vacations !!!

The weather is great so we took advantage to build our flower bed. We got a real good deal on a concrete border so even though we are renting, we decided the investment was worth it. I'll try to show you tomorrow how it looks. We even decided to grow our own flowers with the kids. Emma and Steb love it and some are already growing which make them very happy !!!

I'm stitching backward again ... I didn't find one mistake: I found two! So I frogged and the little white birdie disappeared ... I have to restitch it the right way this time!

Tuesday night:

Wedenesday night:

And Mr Google celebrated the find of the maybe missing link:

It's monday again !!!

2009-05-18T13:36:00.006+02:00

Today I decided to add Twitter to my blog. I'm new to Twitter but I find it fun to be able to write little things about my daily stuffs. I don't have any followers but as soon as I registered, one person asked me if I wanted to follow him/her to watch videos of Brittney Spears naked ... Well, no thanks, I barely stands her with clothes on so I have no desire to see her butt naked My nickname was already taken (apparently by a german woman ... ) so I had to choose: Chiloe_ .

On sunday, we went to a fancy restaurant to celebrate my grand'ma 88 birthday !!! The restaurant was really nice but fancy so even though we warned Pierre that he may not have his fries, he was showing the whole world how unhappy he was about the menu. I don't know when he will stop being so difficult ... We tried so many things like warning him before we go but it seems nothing works ... I know it's probably hard for him too to not be like his brother and sister who seem to handle life better than him ... Of course, they didn't suffer two different life threatening illenesses so it's hard to compare their life's journey ... but Pierre is hard to understand and we are so tired of his behavior ...

Here is my grand'ma getting her birthday cake prepared by the restaurant. She didn't expect it and even though she didn't really want anybody to know, she was delighted ! After the restaurant, we all went to see the place where she was when the D-Day started during WWII and she was very close and 9 month pregnant with my aunt. My grand'ma was always a cold person when I was growing up and only during the last couple of years she has stopped reproaching me stuffs from the past ... unfortunately, it's a little bit too late ...

So did I stitch this week end ? Yep, I did !!! I added a cardinal; stitching some reds was a nice break from the browns but of course, it didn't last long until I went back to stitch browns again ... You may have noticed I stitched some backgound because I try to avoid you my future whines

It's friday !!!!

2009-05-15T20:19:00.010+02:00

First I want to thank you for your nice thoughts about Steb. He's really fine but doesn't enjoy the medecine in his nose ... (and I don't blame him !!! )

Margie gave me this award :

Here is the meaning of the award ...

"This blog invests and believes in the PROXIMITY-nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement! Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. "

The rules state that I am to pass this on to 8 other bloggers.

It's always difficult to pick only eight bloggers but it's also fun to share the joy of receiving one award !!!

1 Marita

2 Yvonne

3 Shel

4 TDKquitmom

5 Lauralness

6 Carla

7 Pumpkin

8 Doris

I really hope you will spread the joy of giving, ladies !!! (I hit the publish button before I finished this sentence ... sorry about that ...)

One fellow stitcher was selling some kits on a bulletin board and I took advantage to buy this cute Lanarte kit for a reasonnable price: (Emma wants me to stitch it for her .) I love the colors !!!

I kept working on the reindeer and I finally finished is body !!! I have nothing against browns but I guess I need happy colors to keep me happy

If you want to know if you are a possible serial killer, do the visual test on Meari's blog !!! (or you may want to avoid it )

Have a great week end !!!

Adventure in Chiloeland

2009-05-14T19:39:00.005+02:00

Here, kids don't have classes on wednesdays so on tuesday night we decided they could watch our local "idol" until the commercial break. Steb stayed with us as well but he was not really interested by the TV. He was playing on Chuy laps when suddendly he fell over and bumped his face on the coffee table. I heard a big noise His nose started to bleed. That was scary. Pierre started to panick and cried (he doesn't really stand to see blood. When he had his blood transfusion, the nurses always covered the blood pouches with foil paper.) then Emma cried too. I called the emergency line and the doctor told me his nose was probably not broken as little ones don't really have a nose bone yet. The bleeding stopped and we put him in bed but we woke him every two hours to make sure he was fine. Since Nathasha Richardson death, I take head traumas (even little one) more seriously. It was hard to wake up but I fell better checking on him during the night: better safe than sorry ... I took him to the doctor on wednesday and he was fine. The doctor gave me a medecine to help his nose heal. What a scary adventure ...

That night, I didn't stitch but last night, I stitched again on the reindeer. ( I admit it: I'm getting tired of the browns ... )

Chuy is on "vacation" ... again ... Well, he doesn't have the choice as the company is closing for a week because of the bad economy ... Another bad news is that his summer vacations are going to start on july 1 st until the end of august ... scary ...

I'm a spoiled little brat !!!

2009-05-12T17:41:00.007+02:00

Not so much brat but spoiled for sure You may have noticed I didn't blog as regularly as before. I don't why ... maybe I lost my blogging mojo or maybe the garden took my blogging time. Anyway, I'm late at showing at what I got in the mail lately !!!

I won a giveaway on Shel blog! It was for a lovely popppy kit from a magazine. I was the very happy winner and look at what she sent me: a snowman chart that I already saw on some blogs and I always loved it! Of course , Shel didn't know it but I couldn't have been happier !!! Thank you Shel for the little surprise !!!

Then Pumpkin surprised with a little and inexpected gift. She read on her comments that I've never stitched with silks (I can only imagine the softness of those threads going trough the fabric !!!) Well, she decided to change that and offered me two flosses for me to try! Isn't she sweet? I secretly think she loves to play with my address (and I secretly love it to tell you the truth !!! )

Michelle was giving away some old magazine and I asked for the Cross stitch and needlework magazine: she was very nice to accept to ship here. Thank you Michelle, I really appreciate it

I also won a giveaway on a french blog. Melinette sent me a very nice, I thought I took pictures but couldn't find them so click here to see what I got. Merci Melinette !!!

I learned how to underline something as there are no shortcuts on Blogger (I thought you might be interested as well !!! ): To underline text, place a u inside <> in front of the word you want to underline and /u inside <> after the words you want to underline. These are html tags... which specify underline, you need to use html to underline text.

And last but not least, my snowman. The reindeer is not as exciting as the snowman so I'm having less fun stitching browns and grey but I won't give up !!!

Thanks for your lovely comments and support! I really appreciate it !!!