December 3, 2008

AKK! I got my posts all mixed up! That's what I get for opening my Advent Gifts 23 hours before making my posts! The needle minder was my Day 3 gift. Day 2's gift was Thread Heaven, which I don't stitch without! Thank you, Amy! I'll try to keep my days straight from now on!

Anyway, I didn't do any stitching today. I haven't made a stitch since last Friday, except for trying to put together a mattress pincusion on Sunday while Mom and I played cards.

I spent this evening watching tv, sad to say. First, I caught Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I know it's on every year, but I still love hearing Berl Ives sing! It's just one of those shows you have to watch every year. Like when The Wizard of Oz came on when my brothers and I were kids. It didn't matter how many times we saw it or how much the Wicked Witch of the West scared us, we just HAD to watch it when it came on television!

After Rudolph was over I watched this week's episodes of NCIS, The Unit, and The Mentalist from my DVR. I have a bunch of movies I recorded last week on TCM, so I'm slowly getting through them. My favorite so far was Darling Lili, where Julie Andrews plays a German spy during WWII. Rock Hudson co-stars. I loved it! That's one that's not getting deleted, so I can enjoy it again and again.

I hope you're having a more productive stitching week than I am! I won't be around much tomorrow, as I'm heading to Mom's in Elkton for the day. I have to introduce Kasey to Mom's dog, Jake. Please send prayers and good thoughts that he accepts her! He and his buddy, Gretta always hated other dogs, but I'm hoping now that Gretta has gone over the Rainbow Bridge that Jake will be okay with Kasey. I think that once he tells her he's the boss and she says "okay" things will be fine. I told Mom I wanted to introduce them while she's at work because I don't want Jake to have anyone to guard, and I didn't want him on a leash because he's defensive on one. I will let you know how it goes!

This blog is chock-full of beautiful needlework. There are freebies spread throughout, so browse to your heart's content! The freebies are downloadable as PDF's, which is very nice. At the top on the right, click the flags to change to the desired language, as she writes in French.
http://alarttex.wordpress.com/

Another page of freebies, this one from Aurelle, can be found here:
http://aurelle.over-blog.com/5-categorie-848077.html
It's also in French, but you can Google "Google Translator" and put the webpage address in the appropriate box and choose "French" to "English" and it will translate everything for you, although I pretty much understood where the links for the charts were without translating.

Happy stitching, everyone!