Lost camera and giveaway

GAH!

I can not find it anywhere and I have progress to show! How very frustrating..

I have an older chart from Patricia Ann Designs - Honeysuckle Courtyard that I would like to send on to a new home - see pic here - if you'd like it, please leave me a comment and I'll have my daughter pick a name out of a hat. It's a lovely design, very delicate.

Love

I can't stop kissing him.... This face is very distracting, as you can see by the pile of laundry behind him.

"Of female arts" was actually worked on last night, just a wee bit of progress to show:

Also - Makhi is a very relaxing stitch with endless x's of DMC 799.

Has anyone seen Revolutionary Road? I'm considering watching it tonight - it looks good.

Have a great evening!

Holidays

Been away.

Husband's overseas relatives - x9.

Small cottage.

Loud relatives.

No stitching in 7 days.

I think I'll go lie down quietly with a cold cloth and I'll see you in the morning.

(Lovely, lovely Georgian Bay however. I'll never tire of her rocky shores.)

Eh?

Happy Canada Day!!

Fobs and lobs......

Here's the fobs I won from Laura 

too cute!

Updated Makhi photo:

And now - the Strumpet comes out - I can not remain faithful, lo though I try.... see this?

A week ago it looked like this:

I was using a thread that I hated. My local LNS owner (who now knows me pretty well...) knew that I had put this away and correctly guessed that I had put it away simply because I hated the thread so much - she suggested an alternative and now $50 later (gulp) I have hand painted silk that I am over the moon about (that's it in the before photo - it's like a really wonderful 13 year old cheddar next to Velveeta - no offense to those who like that product..... well, on second hand - dudes take offense, that stuff is nasty.

As of today, both hooligans are home for the summer. The littlest hooligan had his first hair cut, and promptly fell over giving himself a black eye which enhanced the hooligan factor.

As for the lobs - well, it is Wimbledon week after all......... Stay cool!

Linky Goodness

Thanks to Cindy F. I think I've figured out how to add links! Thanks so much.

So in honour of my new skill I thought I'd share a few of my favourite sites:

hilarious cakes

fellow Canadian knitter - truly a national treasure

a lit podcast to craft by - Heather's podcast is really, really great.

I'm always looking for new sites, what are some of your favourites?

An older finish

My projects are so large that sometimes I need to remind myself that I do actually finish things. This is Landmark's Kazakh that I finished about 6 months ago. There are 12 patterns in this series and I have 10 of the patterns. Makhi is the second one that I'm working on. They are easy to stitch and really beautiful. As they are a set, I'd really like to match their frames, so it'll be awhile before that happens!

Update on my LHN - I salvaged the roof as it was two squares short in the right direction if you know what I mean. So, I added two more rows to the left side and ripped out the red and windows. Sadly I was using a really nice WDW in "Brick" - and I didn't think I'd have enough to re-do the house, so I switched out to the DMC which I don't like as much but it'll do.