This is my Skeleton Crew. I started it last November, and have not worked on it much since Ddecember. I am stitching it on 28 ct. Heritage Cashel Linen for PTP. I was not entirely happy with the piece because of the big pink spot, but I am now fairly sure I have it positioned so that it looks like moonlight coming through the hole in the bottom of the ship. Fingers crossed.





This is my Avatar. I started this last June, and he kepts becoming my sceondary project. He will be the only thing I work on as soon as I finish Skeleton Crew. For a while, the thought of working on him made me want to cry. But I finally think I'm getting over it. I was just so sick of clouds and white thread. (Bear in mind I was rotating between these clouds and the sails on Skeleton Crew.) He is done on 28 ct. Crystal Meditation Cashel Linen from PTP.




This is my Toys And Games Room Stocking. I've had this for about a year. It keeps coming after Avatar. I have done some, but not much since last June. I hope to have it finished by this Christmas for T. since this will be his fifth Christmas. I made the Music Room Stocking for D., but I started it for T. As I looked at the two patterns though, I realized the Music Room suited D.'s personality more, and the Toys And Games Room fit T. better. This is on 25 ct. Mushroom Lugana.









This is all my progress on Dragons By The Fire Stocking. It's done on 25 ct. Gold/Cream Lugana. I started it Christmas Day for J., worked on it for about a week, and that was it. I was rotating back to it, but decided to go back to stitching one at a time. So it is at the bottom of the pile. I hope to have this one done by Christmas, too, but J. will be 26 this Christmas, so it's not like he's getting anything in his stocking anyway. It's just my family's tradition. The first issue of Cross Stitch and Country Crafts came out the month and year I was born. It had the Northwoods Christmas Stocking, and my mom made it for me. From what Ive beene told, people wrote in to the magazine and requested they make more stockings like that one. So the next year, they made a new one, which my mom made for my sister. And they made a series of nine. Well when my neice was born, my mom made one for her. And then one for my nephew when he was born. While she was working on my nephew's, my brother-in-law pointed out he'd, "been in this family longer than either of those two kids," and he wanted a stocking, too. So my mom made him one. My mom no longer cross stitched when I had my boys, so I picked out two to make for them. Now when I had to pick out one for J., all that was left was the Kitchen and the Stitcher's Studio. Neither one of those was "manly enough" for J., so I picked Dragons By The Fire, since we both love dragons anyway.
And this is Cross Eyed Kat's Snowfight: Red. This is one of the Fantasy Faire '06 designs. It took me about a week and a half. He was alot of fun to do. He's done on 28 ct. Crystal Fog Cashel Linen from PTP. I will finish him into an ornament as soon as I do a few more of the Fantasy Faire charts. I'll do all the similar sized and shaped ones at the same time. I get the boards cut at work by someone who knows how to cut them. I don't mind the stretching and the sewing, but not having to cut the mat board takes about and hour of work off each ornament. But I don't want to bring her one ornament at a time and ask her to cut two boards.
And here are my other recent finishes that I haven't put up pictures of yet:

The first two are Dinky Dyes cats. Tis The Season is done of 28 ct. Crystal Willow Cashel Linen From PTP. Harvest Time is on 28 ct. Crystal Moonglow Cashel Linen From PTP. The frames are eight inches square. I bought the cotton threads that I could, and only bought the silk colors that didn't come in cotton. I don't think I will ever do that again. The silks are so nice and the feel so good! The second picture is Lizzie Kate's Happy Hoppers Pocketbook kit. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, so it's sitting in a drawer right now. It's done on 28 ct. Spring Cashel Linen from PTP, which came with the kit, and is more green in person. The last pictures are two ornaments I've finished finished. They are Dragon Dreams Christmyth freebies, on 28 ct. Raw/Opalescant Cashel Linen. I was going to try to finish more of my Christmyth ornaments this month, but I have to do my Lizzie Kate's instead. But I probably won't have any more of those to do until May, so it's all good.

As for my diet stuff, I did good yesterday. I stayed within all my ranges, did my push ups (15), my sit ups (75), and walked a 15 minute mile. Today I do strength training exercises (groan), but I enjoy my walks. No one whining, "Mommy, I want ....," or, "Honey? What are you making for dinner?" I'm trying to lose weight! I'm making ME a pb&j. What are YOU making for dinner?