Steelers Update

Finished 4 pgs so far. No way I can finish it by the first of Sept. But I am still going to see how close I can get. The kids started K12. So far I've spoken to Brayden's (son,4th grade teacher) and as of yet I haven't gotten a call from Kalista's (daughter,2nd grade teacher). I really hope she doesn't try calling after 3 since I will be out with Hubby celebrating our 11th yr anniversary. Geez, 32 yrs old and married 11yrs. That's pretty awesome!  I finished Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and starting the first book of Game of Thrones.  Time to start getting rdy for my date. Geez a date! Wow! With the kids about we don't get many of those.

Pg 3 of the Steelers piece for White family

Another pg done on the Steelers piece. I still don't know that I will be able to finish it in time but I am sure putting every spare moment I have in it. I just don't think it's going to be enough. But still going to try. I took this off my phone so the colors are not true. But it gives the basic idea. Its gorgeous! I will take the nxt update pic with the camera.  And I'm not even a Steelers fan. Back to work I go.

Comments welcome. I know they were turned off for a while. IDK why an over site on my part. 

Steelers piece

  

I've been asked to do a Steelers project for my husbands SQ Captain for his going away since he got new orders and leaves in a little over a month. I don't know if I can get it finished in time but its like doing a Haed. So far I just finished pg 2 last night. Well more like at 1:20am!  I got this one and 2 other teams from a NCAA online store.

Stitching

The BOO is what my son picked out b4 Cecil left for Korea. He wanted because his nickname is Boo. I finally finished it a few days ago.

The little diet pieces I did out of a magazine. I thought they were just too cute and I need more magnets. Haha, they are not made into magnets yet but they are stitched! They didn't take long to stitch up and I used the fabric my 7yr daughter dyed for them.

I've been working on my Greek Mandala yesterday and today. Making good progress. It's been a while since I worked on it and I'd like to get it finished before the yr is out so I can start the Serengeti Mandala. I'm waiting for fabric for Sleepy Hollow and for the Serengeti Mandala. Seems Silkweavers is taking a long time. A piece I guess was lost and they resent it but now waiting for this big order from them it's got me very stressed that it's not here yet. It's over $100 worth of fabric! I love the company and I'm sure it will get here soon. Or I'll talk to them about it.

A lot going on here and still recovering from surgery.

 We are doing the Autism Speaks 2012 walk in October. Pls help us reach our team goal. I've just only set up the team link so our team members will be joining us over the next few weeks. Any donation no matter how small is appreciated.


http://www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/oklahoma/brenanderson
 http://www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=1016250&team=5082667

Happily Ever After Wedding Record dk pink done

I finished this afternoon. I love the way it came out. I made my own adjustments to give it more of a free feel vs the framed feel it had. It still needs the names and wedding date but those will go on at the very last minute. Now to dye some fabric and stitch one in purple!

I'm stuck having surgery

Well I found out my gallbladder hasn't been working for some time now. It's just a stone holder and has to go and go quickly. But Cecil has a trip out of town and we get to go with him for once so my Dr. ran a ton of tests and we agreed to do it on the 8th.

Updates, a finish, and a new Haed

Me and our kids

 Ok the pics with at Wichita Falls, TX after my sister in law's wedding. We stopped by the falls after the weekend of her wedding was over on way back home to OK. It was a lovely wedding. I"ll have to try to remember the pic of my girl dancing with her daddy when my girl is married! It was so cute!  My girl and her cousin Gabbi were given a set of the brides maids flowers to see at the reception. They are so cute! And my boy making sure the girls weren't getting into trouble when they were off running around playing with the other girls just had to bring them to me to let me know they didn't take them they were given them to play with for a little bit. HAHA! He's such a great kid. 

My handsome hubby with our kids.

Kalista dancing with Daddy.

LK Boo Club

LK Boo Club a UFO. I love the way it turned out but I still need to get it framed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some how I got the pics out of order. HAHA! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gabbi (1 of their many cousins) My son Brayden, and daughter Kalista

My New Haed

 

Haed Nene Thomas Lavender Serenade.

 Nene is one of my favorite artist I have 5 pieces signed and her book. They frequent at one of my Dh's favorite local privately owned shops. But out of respect for the owner who isn't an art seller and of Nene and her Dh's privacy no I won't say where.  When my DH was promoted almost 2 yrs ago he surprised me that instead of paying bills we were going out to pick out art from my favorite artist for the walls instead! I got to be doubly surprised when we Accidentally ran into Steven in the store when we stopped in a shop my Dh's goes to a lot! Steven is a wonderfully sweet man and asked which pieces I was looking for. After talking for awhile, he was very patient with me, I decided on 5 pieces. Steven dropped them off to me and surprise Nene had signed them! And for my Bday last yr DH, the shop owner, ( I won't name his name), Steven and Nene shocked me with a signed copy of their first book! I always have to squee about that bit of luck. I never ever get lucky like that! So for me its truly a special treat!



I dyed this piece for a wedding sampler/record. I will have to do another in purple for another person. Both when done will be wedding presents. 1 however is already late. But she'll love it all the same. Doing the one that is upcoming first. I love the way the color turned out!

Kidney--

Well the medicine I took for my back seems to have caused my kidney to get badly infected. I've been knocked on my butt in severe pain, spent most of Sat in the er. They were on the fence if I should stay or go which to me isn't a good thing for a dr to be. Finally they sent me home and my kids and hubby have been looking after me. Mostly I just sleep and wake to take pain pills and the other pills they gave me.

ATM I'm sitting up but its wearing me down so quickly. I just woke up and I am going to go back to bed with help of my hubby to get me to the bed. Will update when i can. Just too weak.

Bren

Tarot Town Update

pg 1 This is where it was when I picked it back up again sometime in Jan2012

I took this on my iphone in poor light as well so the colors are off haha. But you can see the progress and I didn't want to go HUNT down where the digital camera was hiding. Originally, I only took the pic to txt to my best friend.

I do want to say that I tend to buy Potato colored fabric for my projects that are fully stitched. Potato is or should be more of a lt cream at most fabric stores but without the sheen most creams have so it dont show as much under the stitches when done.  It makes the white thread stand out more while stitching and the dk threads not have that or as much of that bright white fabby sneaking through the threads.

  

all of pg 1, almost half of pg 10, and pt of pg 2. I would have gone further on pg 10 but this is so huge even my huggie I made for my qsnap for HAEDS which is wider to hold more of the extra fab then most can't hold all the fabric! I'll have to make a wider one right now some of the extra fabric is in the way of the sides of the stitching area and I didn't want to move my frame so I started pg 2 instead. When I get the time I will make a new huggie that will hold more of the fab. First I have to get rdy for the upcoming yard sale and well my craft room is storing most of the boxes and furniture for it so I can't get to my sewing machine if I tried.

 Look you can see the clouds! Well I can kinda LMAO! I wish they were more obvious as with some other HAEDs but most HAEDs it seems when you can stand back and look when more is done they become more obvious. I can't wait to get away from the shades of grey and into the colors of this piece. Its actually colorful once you get the clouds done.

Here is a closer picture.