x's and o's

Making Valentines and a big mess.

Reading a Valentine card from Nana Wendy

Heart shaped pizza. Yum.
Happy early Valentines.

Crazy idea #1-3

Crazy idea 1: Started April 9Th 2009 & finished February 1st 2010. This was a serious undertaking for a beginner. Most people would start off with an actual pattern and start off with something tiny like a 5x7 sized project. I jumped off a cliff with this one. The finished size for this embroidery is 14x19. As the months passed on my enthusiasm for completing the project completely faded. I would work on it a little every night while watching a little TV. Then the next week toss it in my ever growing "half done project" basket by the side of my bed and pick it up weeks later. Now that it is finished, I want to start another. What is with that anyway? Embroidery post-partum? Tony started sketching me another scene to start soon. This time I will use 3 strands of floss instead of 6. This hopefully will make the stitches look much tighter and cleaner. I wanted this to hang in Brayden's room to match the quilt I made him. I have not decided on a final hangling place yet. Tony is making me a lovely frame out of Koa that is gluing up( along with belated Christmas projects to his parents). I might need to hang it in a grown up space for a little while first.

Crazy idea 2: A few weeks ago I picked up several yards of fabric at a yard sale that someone was selling at a yard sale. I have been wanting a new quilt for our room for years. I refuse to put back on the pottery barn luau quilt on our bed for another spring and summer. Tony hated the quilt from day 1. So, I ordered this pattern last week and hope to incorporate some of this fun fabric into some of the circles within the pattern. I like the fabric but a little of this color palette and style goes a long way for me. Looking forward to brushing up on my roto cutting skills on this one.




I am off to run to my parents house ( 3.7 miles door to door) to meet up with Tony and Brayden. Hopefully the run will help off-set the upcoming super bowl mega calorie food fest. Plus I seriously need to begin training at some point for the rock n roll 1/2 in June....crazy idea #3.......