She's Back Again THIS Soon?

That's right! :o) I somehow located my smokin needle again. Whew! I was quite worried there for awhile. It must have been DH or Brie that hid it on me. LOL!

As you can see, or at least I hope you can, the front of her dress is now complete -

Now that just leaves the back ruffles of her dress and then all the cross stitching will be...DONE! The not-so-good part? The beading :oS And there are 'lots' of beads. LOTS! I will persevere though! Just make sure you guys keep on top of me ;o)

I wanted to do a little experiment to see just how much detail I could get from my stitching. Terri has done wonders taking such awesome close ups of her work but this is as good as I could get so far -

Still not close enough though :o(

On Tuesday night I went out with the girls, where we did another craft, at the Clay Cafe. If you've never been to one, they have all kinds of ceramics and each individual piece is priced. You pick the piece you like and paint it. If you're not done in an evening, you can come back again and again at no charge until you finish your piece. Once it's done, they'll fire it for you :o) The first piece I picked was a cute little dog that I painted like Brie -

This is the before it was fired picture. When I pick it up next week it will be all nice and shiny and the colors will be more vibrant. I'm going to give this to my Gram :o) I figure she'll get a kick out of it and she'll have fun showing it off to her friends. Since we (Katie, Faith Ann and I) each have our own little 'girlie' painting sets, this is going to be a regular get together. Now to decide what I'm going to paint next...

I've decided to make a change to one of my Blogs. I had a Wish List Blog but that has now been changed to the Market. Here you will find my wish list, via Kaboodle, but...you will also find some goodies that I have up for sale :o) If you are interested in anything, either email me or leave me a comment with that particular item. Make sure you scroll all the way down the page. For those of you who have not been introduced to Kaboodle, all I can say is that it's 'awesome'! Just sign up, follow the directions and start adding to your wish lists :o) Everything is in one spot and it makes things much easier for friends and family to shop for you.

As far as I know, DH and I are still planning on heading down to Maine tomorrow. The weather forecast keeps changing so I have no idea what we're going to be in for. I know we both just have to get away for a weekend, without the furry kids. My computer will be staying home so I won't be back until Monday. I know I'll have a ton of Blogs to catch up on so please forgive me if I don't make a lot of comments. I hope everyone has a good weekend and see you next week :o)