Well Mooch has the right idea…absolutely nothing! I just love his attitude, don’t you?

Some of us are still working, some of us don’t get a vacation and some of us don’t even take a vacation at all! I see back to school sales already for notebooks, backpacks and clothes shopping in the malls and outlet stores and I just want to say, where the heck did this year go to already? A dear friend of mine is leaving for the Outer Banks this weekend and mine comes up in a few weeks! Stay tuned as I am in countdown mode…

I think a vacation in what ever form is a wonderful idea. It gives your body and soul a chance to rest and rejuvenate. Even my blog took a vacation! You come back to work all fresh and with batteries recharged. I remembered when I worked at the restaurant, I would take a mini vaca of about 5 days and stay in, not to budge to see the outside and have my own little stitchathon! Lots of food and drink was stocked up before that and I would just have a grand time as I stitched my fingers to the bone.

So actually my vacation lately has been stitching on what I want to stitch on and not what I should be stitching on! I have these 3 ornaments that I picked up at Needlepoint of La Jolla during their Christmas in July sale. The purple and green ones are from Susan Roberts and this is the one of the rare occassions when I stitch the background first! Boy was the color matching a tough job. For the green one I went from Splendor to Soie d’Alger back to Splendor to Needlepoint Inc. Silk…well afterall I am a silk snob! but you know what the purr~fect green color was? DMC floss! yes floss! Now the purple one was even a bigger challenge as I went through every purple thread known to us. What did I finally settle on? and older Splendor in my stash, since the newer dyelots had gotten too red and it wasn’t rich enough of a color. I just didn’t like what I was finding, period. And whew did I breathe a sigh of relief as…I had just enough thread left on that card with so little to spare!

I wanted to stitch the backgrounds on these ornaments first for 2 reasons…I will be doing some beading in the center and that is easier in this instance to stitch the background first. The second reason is I haven’t been stitching much, so the zen of stitching basketweave would get me back to my regular stitching.

The Noel ornament is a Patti Mann canvas and even though I stitched this years ago and all in Kreinik, now I want to do it all in beads!

you think I will be able to find the colors that I need?

Even AlleyCat was in the stitchy mood! and until next time…keep on stitching