I finished Tobi's Garfield yesterday! It worked out perfectly; the mailman dropped off a few new models right as I started putting the date on this. Talk about timing! This is probably the happiest happy dance I've had in a long while, since I finished Skeleton Crew in May. It's for me (at least my house), and I don't have to worry about seeing if they'll hang it in the shop. Jymi likes it, and he thinks Tobi will love it. I asked him for framing suggestions, and he had some! That's not like him. He suggested an orange inner mat, with a black outer mat, both very thin, and a white frame. I was thinking no mats, and a simple, medium sized black frame. I'll take it in Friday, and play with some things. The framing special starts in a week and a half, but I can go ahead and type it up as a quote. Then when I go in after it starts, all they have to do is change it from a quote to and order. It gets very busy, so I want to get in an out quickly.
I went to the shop Saturday. I took in my Lizzie Kate ornaments, and my Hob Nobbs. The owner wasn't there, but the office manager said they just had to hang it in the shop. So I picked out a frame and filled out a model slip.
I also decided to take hom my Spooky Fence home for Halloween. They asked that I bring it back after the holiday. My year has been up for a couple months, though, so whenever I decide I want it all to myself, I can have it. This piece is very special to me. It was alot of firsts for me: first time really using overdyed threads, Just Another Button Company buttons, and the first time I picked out and typed up an entire frame order be myself.
Here's a closer picture of the stitching. I am very proud of it.
I got a new set of models yesterday in the mail. I'm halfway done already. I hope to put it all back in the mail tomorrow, since our mailman doesn't usually come until four. So I've got all day today, and most of tomorrow.
Our lunch out with everyone Jymi works with, Thursday, was wonderful. He introduced to his partner, who told me sho loves working with him. Jymi told me later that she refuses to work with anyone else. He also told me he'd been demoted. He was working in decontamination, but his superviser wanted to hire her sister, so she knocked Jymi back down to utilities. That's why he's been so miserable. He didn't tell me because it happened while I was going through all my stuff with losing my job, and he didn't want to depress me any more. That's why he's beome so miserable. Poor thing. He's now also been eleven days smoke free. I'm very happy for him and very proud of him, but I'm not allowed to tell him. He does great as long as I don't remind him.
We spent lots of family time together this past weekend. Friday evening, the four of us sat down with a bowl of popcorn and watched Hoodwinked. It was very cute. The boys loved it. Saturday morning we watched The Wild and ate poptarts. I had gotten it out of the DVD vending machine, and they only let you have them for one night. Sunday we went to the park. The boys had a blast. It was a very nice weekend.
Anyway. I've got models to stitch on. Maybe I should have breakfast too. That sounds good, too.