Saturday, January 22, 2011

Fun stitching day!

I had a fun day today! I met Melissa, Amanda, and Michelle at Ginger's for an impromptu day of stitching and chatting. I always enjoy these opportunities to talk to other stitchers so much. They speak my language!

I brought my Victoria Sampler gingerbread house to work on, and Amanda mentioned that Thea had another piece to go with it, a Christmas tree that she was teaching in a cyberclass. For $200. Ouch. I hemmed and hawed and did it. It's something I really want, even though I don't have the money with Matt being unemployed. But I'll try to be good in other areas to make up for it. I'm going to cancel my subscription to City of Heroes, which I don't play anymore (I love the game, but I've run out of things to do).

No work on the backstitching of Maggie yet. Soon!

Books: Amazon has a bunch of free books for the Kindle, which I discovered with Carol's help. I found a lot that I think I will like. That should help the pocketbook some. (To find them, check Amazon Popular Classics and Promos, and then sort by price. Be careful because not all are free.)

5 comments:

Michelle said...

I had a great time yesterday! So glad we finally got to meet in person. That tree is seriously cute - no way could you pass it up. It will be adorable with the Gingerbread House!!

Alice said...

How nice to have a face to face meeting with stitchy friends, even though they do enable you. There is always a way to afford what you want when you are willing to tweak the budget... like free books for Kindle, hurrah!

Z said...

I do my best to help :rofl

Seriously - it was great to meet you and I really enjoyed the day.

Dani - tkdchick said...

Get togethers are just the best!

Jo said...

Sounds like a lovely day - I enjoyed meeting Amanda at the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching show a couple of years ago!!

Maggie is looking fabulous - I'm sure when you get started the BS won't be too bad. And that tree is AMAZING....