A little progress...

On Mirabilia's Under the Friendship Tree. I am making this for my mom, so it will be like me and my sister. I am planning to finish this before I go to the Philippines for a visit so I can give it to my mommy. She hardly cross stitches anymore as she is starting her little 'crochet business' and has no time. I am converting the skin and hair to match ours. =)

It's stitched on Enchanted Fabrics Margarita Flair opalescent lugana, one of the prizes that Lori sent me from when she had her anniversary contest. It was also hubby who picked the fabric in my stash, since I am eliminating the tree and extra whatnots that made the design a little busy for my taste, that way the focus is on the little girls itself. Hubby also thinks that the fabby will look like they are playing in the grass and vowed it's perfect!

I haven't gone very far, but I had some progress done from when i took a picture of my floor stand. I love how brilliant the colors on the girl's dresses are. They are really beautiful. ;)

And before everything else is forgotten. Thank you to everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday. I really appreciate them and it truly made my day yesterday. Thank you! thank you! =^_^=

My new toy...

Yesterday hubby bought me a stitcher's wonder floor stand from Michael's, with our 50% off coupon it wasn't that bad of a deal. So yeah, he came home with it and i was super excited, and then i went and started to stitch on it and...dissapointed!!! It was frustrating! Honestly, i thought it meant to rotate 360 degrees as in the whole scroll, but it gets caught with that U shape thing and no it doesn't rotate, it stops halfway which makes it very hard to access the back, and then hubby explained that the 360 degree rotation must mean the base of it's neck..Oh duh!! Now i need to keep pushing it upwards to do just that!!!

Today, hubby dragged the whole family to home depot, he went and picked up some wood, sandpaper, a saw and a new drill, then when we came home he made me just what i wanted, a new scroll holder!!! Or better yet...i would call it an upgrade! I am so happy, it is so much better, and he made sure it is big enough so i can fit even a bigger size fabric without a struggle. I love what he made, it's so comfy and it cost us very little! He also did an excellent job, it almost looked like one you can buy from the store.

Here is my new stand..

I love it! What you see here is also my progress on Under the Frienship Tree. There isn't really much to see yet as i had very little time to stitch recently. But I am super excited about my new stand I just had to tell you all...It was a lovely surprise from hubby, especially that there is a part in there that he made by himself. I just love him to pieces!!! *^-^*

More gifties...

Today I received another early birthday presents, they are from Ericille and Debbie (ladyofstitches). They are such nice people. My birthday is not until June 25th but these things I get in the mail that are totally enexpected is just overly heartwarming, it makes me feel so good that i have friends eventhough I haven't met them face to face, because I honestly don't have friends around here where we live, no family either, except for hubby's family and relatives. Mine are on the other side of the world and I haven't seem them in almost 3 long years. Sad, but life must go on... =)

Anyways, here are the goodies I got from these 2 beautiful ladies.

The pic says it all...I just love Lilly as soon as i saw a picture of her. Lilly is the gift that Ericille gave me. The beads and the fabric are from Debbie, its an opalescent lugana the color is called "Huntress". I phoned hubby at work as soon as i saw them, and he was excited for me as well, he understand very well how lonely I sometimes get, everyday is a you know "adjustment"stage for an immigrant LOL. What a great day it is...I am so pleased to know that there are still uber nice people out there. It makes me feel very special...

Thank you everybody for the love. When my birthday arrives and you will greet me, I would feel uber-uber special then too... =)

Awww, i'll be a year over quarter of a century... :D

Wow!!

My bestfriend who lives in Japan gave me the biggest surprise of my life! She sent me an early birthday present and I was just psyched outta my mind!!! When i opened the door to pick up my mail, there was this box sitting there and I was just very ecstatic when i opened it, it contained 2 sets of Yukata (Japanese Kimono) one for me and one for my son. OMG!! I was so shocked, it brought back memories of when i was young, we would have United Nations Day in school and I am always Miss Japan LOL. My son loves his yukata he tried it on as soon as he saw it, I will have to take pics of him later, he looked like a little samurai. =D

Here is our pair of yukata's, aren't they just beautiful?? Now this halloween, I will surely wear it and imagine that I am a geisha. LOL.

I just love that butterfly obi belt...It's so pretty!!
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This is my beautiful japanese god-daughter Maiko chan. She is so precious and adorable..

Thank you Christine for my gifts, I am so thrilled! You are the bestest best friend ever!! =)

Finally...

A happy dance! Poison Ivy is done WoooHooo!!

I finished Ivy last night, man, she took forever...I've never met anyone with such little body clad in so much dress!!

She is my poison ivy version (yada, yada like a broken record LOL). I did change a few things about her...(off to copy & paste the explanation harharhar)
So here goes..."I feel she did not have form/curve so i eliminated her back, pulled up her skirt and continued her wings. I also changed her skin, hair and dress colors (which now i think she looks more like a walking flower ). I also gave her what i would like to call 'glass slippers', it's actually just a blend of RB-PB10 and of her skin color." *bow*

I love how she turned out. She did not exactly have what i originally planned colors for her 'the hot pinks' It just didn't seem right to me at all...frogging horror!!

P.S. The Love of my life. =^-^=

Happy Mother's Day.

To anyone who is a mom...I wish you a very Happy Mother's Day!!!

This is for you... The Woman. I hope you will take a moment to read it.



p.s.
Thanks to my sister for sending me this beautiful story. Now i got the chance to share it with you guys. =)

7 Things about me..

I've been tagged...For the first time! By Megan, I don't know how to play this. But I hope I do this right. =)


It is about 7 things about me. Rules first!

Here are the rules: Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. You need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they have been tagged and to read your blog!

Megan dear here you go.

1. I don't know how to cook.
2. I grew up under the care of a gay cousin (while mom and dad goes to work). Until i was 8, I called him 'mama'.
3. I was very evil while i was little, i was the pickiest eater in all the universe, I'd throw food at my gay cousin if I did not like what he cooked for me.
4. OCD about house cleaning.
5. I have 3 piercings on my left ear and 5 on the right. My mom did most of them, except for the 5th on the right, i pierced it myself. Ahh..High school days...
6. I am addicted to World of Warcraft & anime's
7. My sister and i never got along well until lately, when we realized we aren't little girls anymore.



Now my turn to tag...Andie, Carolyn, Carol, Rachel, Juls, Dana, Cheryl

New WIPS

After I finished my custom family name design, I started Once Upon A Time by PR. I wasn't really sold on this design at first, but once i saw some1's finish, I knew i had to have it! I started this some nights ago, I can't remember when...All i remembered was how much I had frogged her hair because I am converting her into a brunette. I'm no red head, and never will be! This was very hard to convert as the colors were very scattered, from reds to browns...I guess that's how red hair is when the sunlight hits it. (?) I had frogged her hair for like the 5oo'th time!! Just kidding...About 5, really! First conversion I did the hair came out too light...Nope, doesn't look like mine at all...The second time...It was too brown!! And then there's not enough black...and so on and so forth...I finally decided after all that frogging that her hair color looks so much better than 'all the' before's, It only took me a week and a half to finish that same amount of stitching on her hair alone! She is also going to be tanned...She's going to be me. LOL

I am also converting the prince's shirt to green, hubby's request. He said it can't be him unless it's wearing green. I guess he can't relate unless it wearing his favorite color...Your wish is my command! The fabric is SMF Impressionism. It was also hubby's choice amongs't the stash of fabby's i have. Converting the PR's are a little tricky, it isn't like the Mirabilia's where it follows a certain color combination on the color card. But there is always first time for everthing. I had fun!




Then, on friday my order from SMF arrived, specifically it contained my fabric for Mirabilia's Pixie-Ivy. It's Gitta on belfast. It's yummy!!! I couldn't resist so i set Once Upon A Time aside and started her on Friday night. I'm going to convert her dress colors, I played with her on photoshop and got the colors, I liked. I'm going to then call her "Poison Ivy". As you can see, I also converted her hair... She's a real cutie. This is going to be my second time working on belfast, i had noticed that the belfast always stays kinda soggy in the middle, no matter how much pulling or rolling i do, so I thought of something to keep it drum tight, I got a couple of those binder clips and pulled the sides with it using rubber bands. Gotta be resourceful, there is no LNS or perhaps none in all of california that could sell me those stitching clips on a whim! Yay!


Here is also my last WIP. I swore to myself I will never have more than two. But i guess 2 1/2 WIP is ok, this is quite small, plus it did not need a scroll (because it won't fit on any size). It is my fairy celebration from PR. It was also a frogging horror, because once you miscount you can't tell where without going through it row by row, due to the color, I had frogged her wand about three times, and not only that, I hate the hoops, it's ever so hard to do anything two handed, I usually put it in between my legs so i can stitch 2 handed, but after a while my legs fall asleep. This is the reason why I'm not very enthusiastic about stitching this one, due to the hoop issue. Sorry, but hoops are yuck! But no choice...no choice...



p.s. Please let me brighten your day. =)

A Happy Happy Dance!

Yay! I finished my Custom Family Name Yesterday. After over a week of it sitting there gathering dust, the threads finally arrived and I made it to the finish line. This is again, stitched on SMF 28 count lugana Putty. I love how that sun turned out. I used DMC varigated tropical sunset on that one, it's really lovely.

Can't say much, my son is freaking out. Hope everyone will have a good weekend.

WIP Updates

I decided to take pictures of my WIPS. I had not taken any since i started, and this will give me an idea of how much I had...and of how much more I need to do. I am loving the look of those bamboo's. I decided not to use my own hand dyed flosses because I encountered weeks dye works website and they have so much color selection it's foolproof! They also have a really nice catalog-like thing of their whole collection. It took me days to finally decide which ones are closest to the dmc's the design called for...I had so much fun choosing, i thought i was in a candy shop. =D

The calligraphy is yet to be frogged, I am trying to work my way down as I am loving the tension the SMF fabric is giving me. It is by the way stitched on SMF's Putty lugana. I love how it gives the design this old look.

My second WIP is PR's Fairy Celebration, this one is being stitched using WDW thread as well, it's called spring bouquet, and i love how the color variation is giving the fairy sort of an enchanting aura. This one is stitched on SMF Gnome cashel. I knew when i received the fabby from one of Mindy's "random" choice sale on ebay, it was going to be perfect for the fairy, and I just love how it looks. I haven't gone very far yet as I am struggling with the hoop, not even my smallest scrolls will hold the fabric horizontally, so i ended up using a hoop.

I am happy with the results I am getting. It's my first time using SMF fabbies & stitching with variagated threads and I am so loving the experience. =D