Spooky Spots

So I went back to Spooky Spots. It was slow at first and I didn't think I'd get into it but last night I did. I'm almost done with all stitching and back stitching and will finally get to all the specialty stitches, which to me is the BEST part and the reason I saved it for last. I've already been eyeing my next project. Not sure whether to start SBs Autumn Blessings (there's a specialty stitch in their that seems scary) or on Bent Creek's Spring Snapperland or BCs Snapperville. Of course there are more that I want to start but so far these are my top 3. As always here are some pictures of my progress, I haven't decided if I want to add any other pictures of my growing scissor collection LOL. I got a comment on my space from someone who read my blog that I needed to get out more b/c of my scissor habit lol - some people just don't understand hehe. I'm off to get ready to get out of here, woke up at 4pm and my day is just about ruined - tomorrow it's off to work!

Okies so this is before I started stitching on it yesterday.

This is after stitching on it. I'll probably do somemore tonight. Can you see a difference? I sort of do but don't at the same time.

Ok so just one pic of scissors. I'm taking a quilting class this Nov-Dec as a b-day present to myself :) and figured I'll need scissors so I bought the 8" Amanda's. Now that I think of it I should have bought them in left handed but I've been living in a Right handed world all my life so maybe it shouldn't make such a difference!

Love Robert Gordon!

I am so in love with all things Robert Gordon, it seems like every product is something I desperately want! One problem - their customer service totally sucks. You can't get any answer from emails sent to the website and their agents where I live are useless. I have rung them up and they don't have a clue to which store stocks what. My biggest gripe about Robert Gordon is that I can't find any of the bloody stuff I want!

Here is a photo of the new cupcakes in their range and the cupcake stacker which I hopefully will be able to pick up this weekend (thanks to Shannon and Nicole I actually know where this is!)
Stacker photo was taken by Shannon and features her beautiful decorative cupcakes which she sells on ebay.

Shabby Fu Fu

I just love this online boutique! Everything is quite simply, to die for!
Here are some gorgeous pieces that I have seen on Shabby Fufu recently.

Some New Purchases...

This is why I have to sell on ebay....to fund all the things I buy! Anyway, here is a few things I bought this week.
A gorgeous German? cup and saucer.....
A set of bowls, also German looking...
Some more crystal drops for my chandeliers....
Also, this mosaic trivet I bought a couple of weeks ago which is to go on the wall. It has the pattern I collect "Alfred Meakin Elelgance" used on it.

Addicted to these signs!

There is a seller on ebay who sells heaps of these gorgeous signs with various words and colourways. I have about six and counting!

In The Ghetto

This Elvis song is the one that goes through my mind as I drive through my new 'hood (I am too scared to walk!)
This is the first time in my life I have lived in a genuinely "bad" suburb and it takes some getting used to.
Things I can no longer do -
1. Late night runs to the 24 hour servo for chocolate for fear of getting mugged/ carjacked.
2. Going for walks without the fear of getting mugged/ assaulted.
Well, we had to start somewhere! Hopefully we will be out of here within a year or two.
Looking forward to saying bye-bye to the ghetto!

FINISHED!!!!

Just ironed and put in the snaps and now my Winter Snapperville is officially done! I'm so happy, haven't felt the happiness or finishing something in a while :)

I don't know what I'm going to do next - I sort of want to finish SBs Spooky/Halloween Spots but at the same time I want to start something new. We'll see...
Here are some pics :)

This is a shot of the entire thing.

This is it minus snaps and buttons.

A closeup of the last square I stitched.

A closeup of the first half.

A closeup of the last half.

Certified Crazy!

I knew something like this was going to happen. I am completely obsessed with these stupid Gingher Scissors. I use to hide the fact that I collected these scissors but then some other people in my yahoo group said they collected also and *poof* I've become a crazy person. Whenever I come online I look for them, mainly because I'm looking for the name of my first pair - which I found out today is Leah. You would think ok she's just looking at them but NO! if I see a new pair that I don't have (so far I've found 4) I just buy them and these aren't cheap scissors. I even had a dream about them Saturday morning, I told Kelly and he laughed at me! It's so crazy that I keep looking at this bid on Ebay for the Katelynn's and am too tempted to bid on them (the bid is now over $130) I want to stay home and stitch today but I think I have to get out and stay away from this computer or any computer LOL. No but seriously I really need to stop buying these, I know of one more pair that are coming out and once I buy those that's it - no more scissor for a while. I can already see my next obsession - finding the perfect scissor fobs for them - oh vey!

Early, early!

Woke up about 3.30 am, am off to the swap meet soon!
Maybe some more things like this will be there?
One can only hope!

As promised :)

A picture of the entire Winter Snapperville. I'm starting to think that I'm not going to get this done by the time I go back to work. Maybe I would have if I stitched today but here it is 12:46am and not one stitch in. I've spent the entire day online searching for Gingher Scissors to add to my collection - PITIFUL! I am going to stitch after this though, right after I put in Nip/Tuck Season 2 Disc 4 in to watch. Enjoy the picture - I've also included some of funny Kyle :-P

Kyle likes to lay like this on Kelly whenever we're watching tv.

The flash sometimes bothers him and I'm able to catch picture that look as if he's laughing.

And this is my wonderful Winter Snapperville! Coming along nicely eh?

New Blog

I have got this new blog by accident really, I just wanted to add a comment to suburban turmoil!
I hope to be able to drag my ass out of bed early tomorrow for the swap meet. I need new stock for ebay and much more importantly, more pink, vintage things for my numerous collections!
I am in love with these new cupcake trinket boxes and cookie jars by Robert Gordon. I have all of the old collection and am foaming at the mouth to add these to it!

I'm off from work for the next five days*yea* really four since the first day is already over. I slept and stitched which is always good. I finished the 3rd square (which is really the 4th square) tonight and I'm hoping to finish the entire thing by the time I go back to work. Here's a picture of the square - next time I update it will a picture of it finished (I hope!). Kelly took the camera to work tonight so I had to scan it. I tried to paste both of the scans together but couldn't so the picture is just a crop of the square, maybe tomorrow I'll add a picture of the entire thing. Good night!

In the world of hospital patients...

there is always one that makes you think why in the hell did I ever become a nurse? I usually like my patients, most of them are pretty cool, even my crazy patient that I currently have (which I have to say I love my crazy patient - like I want to bring him home with me in the morning lol.) Last night I got a new patient that was the patient from hmmm if there's a place worse than hell then that's where she came from. Screaming and cursing at me where is the medication she was suppose to get in the emergency room. Everytime I would try to explain to her (in a nice way even though she was an ass mind you) that ER orders are not valid on the floor and she would have to wait for the night team of doctors to admit her she'd cut me off and continue to yell. It got to a point that I had to call the supervisor because she said I'm going to keep fucking yelling at you and being a bitch until I get what I want. At that point I left the room, her roommate was even disgusted with her. Sometimes I wish I wasn't so meek, because then I would really have had her have it. She was a total BITCH!! She was yelling at everyone - I hate people like that. The her medication gets to the floor 30 mintues later and she says she doesn't want it and she wants to go to sleep and be undisturbed, we were like you stupid bitch. She won't be gone before I go back to work tomorrow I don't think but I hope she is. People like her need to not exist.

I mean think about it - if your nice about things people would want to work harder to get you what you wanted. At the end she gave me some bullshit apology. I say bullshit because she goes oh I'm sorry for carrying on like that but you know what I was right. HUH?!?! WTF was that??? I kept walking out on her - I really wanted to strangle her. You get some people in the hospital that really don't understand that they are there to get better and its not a freaking hotel. Some patients after their stay write to complain that they didn't have a view of Park Avenue and were dissatisfied. In the morning she tells the doctor that the she would have slept better if she never took the sleeping pill I gave her and gave me a look, then said I was woken up at 3am and looked at me again. Umm excuse me but you're in the hospital not a hotel and I have to walk in the room in the middle of the night to make sure you're still alive.

I, of course, can find the bright side to everything. The other night I got another PIA patient and she made him now seem like a dream hehe.

Well I'm in pain, after I work alot of days too close together my knee starts to hurt pretty bad. I know I only worked 3 days so far but that's alot in the 12 hour shift world, atleast for me it is. I'm back to work tomorrow and Wednesday then I'm off for 5 wonderful days. I'm telling you those days can't come any quicker. Tonight I'm staying in to stitch and watch some Nip/Tuck with Kelly. No update pics of Winter Snapperville yet. I'm still stitching on the 3rd square maybe after tonight I'll post a picture of it.

Night all - and remember if you're ever hospitalized please be nice to your nurse.

Another sort of finish :)

I got the the Palomino in the mail today and stitched up the little guy's jacket. I decided not to do the french knot on his hat because he looks a little too old for that. I've been working on the snowflakes in the border today. I have 2 more to do then the border is done. I have 2 more hours left until I leave the house and go to work - I want to cry!!!! LOL. Well here's a picture of my sort of finish :)

Last Day

Today was my last day of my little time off from work. Of course I'm tired now that I know I go to work tomorrow. Why does that always happen? I spent the day stitching, I wanted to go get a pedicure but I banged my little toe pretty bad yesterday and feel I should wait (my nail sort of detached itself.)

I have some pictures to share some are pictures I took on 9/11. We took the dog to the dog run and it's across from where the Twin Towers use to be, really nice view. I love that they put up lights where they use to be. Also a picture of Winter Snapperville - I think I got pretty far for today, guess I'll resume stitching on this next week or Friday. Next time I'm off for a stretch will be around the 20th when I'm off for 5 days, I'm already looking forward to my days off and then my vacation in November LOL. I'm off to sleep - enjoy the pics!


These are my new scissors Alyssa and Jamie.

Close Up of the 2nd square I "finished." I was missing Palomino
so I couldn't stitch the guy's coat

My progress for the day.

They have never sat so close together so I had to take this pic, usually Kyle wants to cuddle and Ana walks away.

This was another shocker, I think she was just tired from the park.

And these are my 9/11 pics.



This is of course during the day.

So I guess it wasn't that serious :(

I tried to stitch but Kelly had laundry to do and I decided to help him. I did get some stitches in and here they are...

Probably could have gotten more done but I didn't have

WDW Palomino and sort of got distracted by that.

And this is me stitching :)

Before I sit and do some serious stitching...

I wanted to share another picture of my Winter Snapperville and a picture of lazy Kyle eating. We just got back from the dog run so he's a bit tired hehe. There were lots of dogs at the run today so he had fun. Ana doesn't do to well at the dog run so I left her home. She rather be with the humans and usually gets scared/sad if too many dogs bother her. She won't snap at them but will come running to me and hide. Plus if she's playing with Kyle and another dog takes him away from her she gets angry...she has issues LOL. I do take her sometimes but today was one of those days I didn't.

Yesterday

My 26th birthday was yesterday, it was ok. Every year I feel older and wake up with a new body part hurting me LOL. I didn't do anything special just hung out with my family, stitched, played video games, and went out to the dinner.

This morning I woke up early again and cleaned my room. I'm still trying to decide if I want to stitch or take a shower first. Tomorrow my family is coming over to celebrate my birthday. What was suppose to be a small gathering of cousins turned out to become a huge party :( I hate that it happened, hopefully it won't be too bad. Maybe we can get a poker game going on while the "older" people entertain themselves doing whatever it is they do.

I guess that's all - not much to report really. I think I'm going to stitch first, I have to take my mom to buy another turkey for tomorrow soon so I'll shower after we come back. I'm just sitting in the car so no need to shower beforehand.

TTYL!

Update pic of Winter Snapperville :)