17th Bday w/family

Mariah and her friend Meagan, who came with us to the family dinner because she can't attend the Sat. night party.

Pressie Poo attended the opening gifts ceremony as well.

My family...where's the birthday girl?!

Lex and Darren joking around, as usual.

Homecoming...

No stitching...just pictures of my daughters and husband.

Still here...

It's been awhile, but I'm still here. I haven't done much of anything unless it's related to school or work. I must say I'm totally burned out and I'm looking forward to winter break. I ended up passing my Praxis II English test which is excellent news, now I'm able to student teach AND graduate in May! WOOOOHOOOOO

I really need to plan a stitching day.

Well, that's it for now. Keep stitching, your progress inspires me!

Final Product

Here's the finished lamps. They look good, if I say so myself! YAY!

Lamps

I'm glad it's Friday! I still have to waitress all weekend, but at least I can relax and have time to work on my many projects.

Here's one finished lamp. I was going to make the lamp shades, but I found these on sale and thought with a little fixing up, they'd work just fine. I'm thinking about adding some crystal to the bottom, to dress it up a bit.

Hope everyone has a great weekend...

Flea Market Lamps

I haven't been stitching at all. Instead I use my free time to work on my upholstery projects. Darren and I went to a local flea market and picked up these two lamps for $5!! I plan on painting them black and making Japanese paper lampshades. I've got to get back to studying, the big test is this Sat. at 7 in the morning!

I'm here...

...I'm just not stitching. I haven't blogged since school started. Between grad classes, an undergrad class, substituting, waitressing and mom duties, I rest...not stitch. I've tried to pick my WIPs up, but the CH Sampler just stopped me in my tracks. I'm just too tired and disappointed to work on anything.

Anyways, I hope everyone is doing well! Perhaps I'll have stitchy pics later this month.