It's Thursday

Well, at least it is getting me to post once a week. 
This will be the last stitching picture for a while as I have a model from Just Cross Stitch. 

This is the first item in Nordic Needle's Hardanger Stitching Accessories Club.  Unfortunately I cannot show you the information about it because all of the sets have been sold and there is no longer a listing for it on the website.  The lid insert for the box was the first item.  The second item is a pocket for the scissors.  It came during the week before the JCS model came; I was only able to stitch a small part of it before putting it down.  As soon as I finish the model, I will stitch the pocket. 

Once a Week Posts??

Well, don't laugh.  It is a lot better than I have been doing.  :-D 

I checked back and I am fairly certain that I never showed you the Gingerbread Mouse from Just Nan.  I was supposed to poke the end of the tail into the fabric just above the button on the bottom.  I stitched the button on so securely that I could not force the end of the tail through the fabric.  I stitched it on the outside and secured it in place in the middle with a Kreinik braid tie. 

I did not have time to stitch it for this past Christmas because I had to take time out to stitch a model for Just Cross Stitch magazine.  Right now I am trying to get as much stitching accomplished as I can because another model is supposed to arrive in a day or two.  I have a very short turn around time so there will not be an opportunity to stitch my own things.  

During the night it is supposed to snow; depending upon how the storm tracks, we could have more or less snow.  Normally this would not be a problem but our son who shovels the walkways at church has his car in for repair work.  The  transmission is kaput and is being rebuilt.  We are all hoping that the work will be done tomorrow because it is extremely difficult co-ordinating the needs of four adults and one car. 

In the meantime, it looks like he will take our car and his brother to church to do the shoveling.  That means we will have no way to get to the health club in the morning.  I will be exercising at home, the best that I am able. 

Happy Valentine's Day - Happy Snowfall

This morning we woke up to new fallen snow.  But, we knew we would when we went to bed last night.  The question was how much would it be?  The answer is not as much as it could have been but it is heavy snow.  It sticks to everything. 

I watched for the sun to come up to try to catch a few early morning pictures.  Unfortunately, it was not a pink sunrise so there was no pink sunlight for me to revel in. 

Missing Again??

Yes, I am back again with no excuses or explanations other than I just was not writing.  I wasn't even looking at the blogs that I follow.  I can now show you the gift that I made for Blackbird Designs Exchange.  I just arrived.  Because it was an international delivery, I was afraid that it might not arrive in good time if I did not send early.  I posted on the first and it arrived today.

Monday mornings I go to school.  I help one of the kindergarten teachers at our local elementary school.  Essentially I give the little kidletts some extra practice to help them develop pre-reading, basic reading, and basic number skills. 

Today was a wonderful day.  While I was working with him, a little boy, one of the youngest in the class, learned to count by 10's and subsequently learned to read all numbers between 1 and 100.  When he caught on to counting by 10's, his face lit up with the excitement of the ah-ha moment.  I will always remember and treasure that moment; it was like a light went on in the room.  After that,  he was able to read all the big numbers and every time, his face lit up with pure joy.