Myrtle Beach Day 6 / Last day of Fall Fling

We were up late last night. I slept until noon! This evening’s activities were the gift exchange (stealing was allowed again) and the Stitcher’s Showcase.

I won 3rd place in the Unfinished/Unframed category for my “At Play with Friends”! This was my prize!


The evening ended with door prizes and pictures. I traded my door prize (it was some hand dyed fabric that Amy really wanted) for another scissors fob that Lisa (not me) made. I love her fobs!


I was up until 1 or 2 in the morning; lots of gabbing! Tomorrow everyone, except me, will be heading home. My flight is Monday morning.

This has been an absolute blast for me and I WILL be coming back next year, for their 10th anniversary. Time flies when you’re having fun!

Myrtle Beach Day 5 / Fling Day 3

Mary of M-Designs taught two classes today. The first was a Do It Yourself Family Sampler. It was so much fun customizing and designing a sampler for me. I’m almost done with the designing, and will definitely be adding this to my rotation. Oh yes, and it came with hand dyed fabric and Vicki Clayton silk. The first time I’ll get to work with silks!!!


The second class was for ornaments; hand dyed fabric and JAR Designs floss. Love it! And she included the forms and everything else (except the glue) to finish the ornaments. These, too, have been added to my rotation.


The ornament exchange, grab bag and creative stitch contest is tonight. This is what I brought.

I’m figuring it’s not as fancy as everyone else’s, but this is my first year and I had no idea what to do.

Oops! I almost forgot to share my purchase at Counted Stitches. They were out of the fiber grab bags, so I got a chart grab bag instead.



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What fun the grab bag stealing was! I didn’t get to do any stealing but it sure was fun watching. I walked away with the bag from Lisa (not me).



And here are the ornaments I got:

Myrtle Beach Day 4 / Fling Day 2

Shopping, shopping, shopping!

The ladies have corrupted me with Italian charms. See what they made me buy!


Ok. It didn’t take a whole lot of arm twisting. I also got another four in a charm exchange after dinner.

But the corruption doesn’t stop with me! I’ve started a bracelet for my daughter too.

Myrtle Beach Day 3 / Fling Day 1

Busy day today. Registration officially began. Check out this registration bag!

And the piece de resistance!


Sweet, huh?

A lot of running around today. Mostly grocery store and last minute items forgotten for the gift exchange (like the wrapping paper).

The group has corrupted me by introducing me to Italian charm bracelets. I’m hoping my daughter is just as corruptible!

The day ended with candy making class. Peppermint patties, molded chocolate, peanut butter cups, etc.

Unfortunately, I had to bow out early. I am worn out! Maybe I shouldn’t have gone for a workout this morning. After a full night’s sleep, I’ll be raring to go for tomorrow. Broadway and the mall!!

Myrtle Beach Day 2

A weatherman just call yesterday’s rain in Texas “a low system merging with juicy tropical air”. Juicy?!?

ROFLMAO

It looks like Texas autumn weather reached SC overnight, but it’s just overcast today with the occasional sprinkle. I had a good nights sleep, and am a little sore from the plane ride. It’s a good thing my husband was not with me last night. After being cramped up in a chair half the day, I sprawled across the bed last night. I’m getting really excited about meeting everyone. I hope to track them down this afternoon.

Weather channel is reporting a lot of plane delays today. I’m glad I got tickets for yesterday.

Met Amy of Down Sunshine Lane and several other women. Great bunch of ladies! Helped setup the stash room. Here is what I have gotten so far:


I saw a couple other things that I might like, but I’ll wait until later in the week when more people have added to it.

Myrtle Beach Day 1

WARNING: Rant ensued until blood sugar levels rose.

I’m not impressed. After sitting on the tarmac for an hour in Houston, then having to run to make my connecting flight, which was also late (yeah, just enough time to go to the restroom), I arrive at the hotel around 3 pm without having any food since 6 AM. I then spend then next hour trying to get in my room. The keys don’t work. Maintenance is called 3 times before they show up 1 hour later. During this time, I decide to go ahead and find a restaurant close by to grab some food…NONE ARE OPEN! And the corner store? Nope, not that either! A lady at the bus stop pointed me to the hotel across the street that had an open mini-mart. Great, lots of walking, running and lugging of suitcases without food. So I got back to my hotel, waited another 15 minutes (after call #3). Not a good first impression and I certainly hope the rest of the week does not go like this.
It probably won’t; I’m just all sorts of pissy because I haven’t eaten all day.

Yeah! Pizza rolls are done!

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Ahhhhh….
Got a meal in me, unpacked, and taken a shower (the humidity makes me feel like home). I’m definitely more human.

After a good night’s sleep tonight, I’ll let tomorrow be my first impression.

Now to do some stitching and figure out the TV stations…please let me find “Heros” tonight.

Monday madness, 50 project challenge, and other stuff

While meandering throught the 'net, I ran across the blog Monday Madness. It was one of those this blog linked to that blog, which linked to a blog over here, etc. What a nice idea and a great way to start to get to know people, so here goes this week's questions:

1. How do you eat an oreo cookie? I don't. I'm not fond of the "chocolate" cookie. But I LOVE the Uh-Oh Oreo's. Those I eat by opening up the cookie, licking the filling, then eating the cookie halves. No milk.

2. How long does it take you to eat lunch? Depends on what I'm eating. Usual lunch will take me about 1 hour, but I'm stitching while I'm chewing.

3. Caffeine or decaf? Caffeine!

4. Chicken or beef? Moo-Cow!

5. Pen or pencil? Pen, but only if it has those soft grips.

6. Autumn or spring? Ooo, hard one. Both are the rainy season here. I think I'll go with Spring, because it's not the middle of hurricane season.

7. Baseball or basketball? Neither, but to support my son's interests, I pick baseball.

8. 'Survivor' or 'The Amazing Race?' Survivor, but only the first season and the season with Rupert.

9. Come up with one question I can ask our Monday Madness participants in the weeks to come. Which side of the bed?

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Another blog I ran across is HasturTorres' who has issued a 50 project challenge. Basics: No buying new stash until you complete 50 projects (or 25, or 10). Predetermined exceptions allowed. The goal be ing to have fun decreasing your stash. Yet another good idea, so I pulled up my database of stash, and do you know what I found? I don't have 50 charts to do. I don't have 25 that need to be done. Heck, I don't even have 10! I counted up my WIPs and the charts I have waiting to be done and I have 9 (4 WIPs, 3 kits, 2 charts). I could come up with one more chart from somewhere in freebie land, but instead of taking part in this challenge this year, I'm going to cull out my fabric stash. Now that I have a lot of. I'll be going through over the next several weeks and donating what I REALLY don't want/need to the stash room at the Cross Stitch PALS Fall Fall Fling.

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I don't remember mentioning this, but a couple of weeks ago, my husband came bopping into the house after I had gotten home from work (for those not familiar with "bopping", it's like a jig, but with more bouncing) and anounced that he had signed us up for a gym membership. Happy Anniversery to me!!! This is something that has been on my wishlist since we got married, and I had to stop my previous membership, because we couldn't afford it. I'm one of those people who might exercise, if I can find the time, but will exercise if I'm paying for it, even if I have to go at midnight. Okay, no midnight runs to the gym for me anymore, and as for making the time; not as easy as it used to be. But I am going. So since the time we started until today, I've been to the doctor for a cholesterol checkup and the numbers are AWESOME! Total cholesterol is 170. LDL (bad cholesterol) is 90. And I forget the rest and will have to look it up at home. But I have also lost 6 pounds and 2-3 inches in the waist.

Maybe I shouldn't have got shopping last month for new pants.

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I finished Tanager with Tulips last night after supper. I'll hopefully get the picture uploaded tonight. Or sometime this week. So, I'm back to rotating my projects, with the Bakers Dozen RR as the focus. And I'll add in ornaments if I can ever get the family to look at the books and pick what they want to add to the tree this year. Hmmm, I could use the one I picked out for me as project numer 10...