Seems like forever and a day!!

It has definitely been a LONG time since I've updated this blog and a lot has changed in my life since I last posted. Looking back I see I last posted on January 9, 2012. I had just finished my first semester in nursing school. Well, since then I have graduated nursing school and I have now completed the first 10 months working as a RN at a local long term care facility on their short term rehab floor. In my last blog, I commented about starting Cirque de triangles, well I haven't finished it and in fact it is put away trying to figure out what to do on it. The puppy mentioned in that last blog decided when his jaw was finally un-pinned, that he was upset by being ignored while I studied so he chewed a whole in Cirque... I'm trying to decide if I'd be able to repair the whole or do I just start over (I was over half way finished with it). I have had many more starts and finished since I graduated. Little things here and there but I've now started Mandala II by Tilton. I also have a kit by Dimensions that my kids and husband gave me for Christmas started and I'm working on "Save the Stitches" by Elizabeth Almond from Blackworkjourney.co.uk that she posts parts for monthly. I'll post photos when I can as google and my phone aren't playing well at the moment...

Another new year

Well, I see by looking back it has been almost a year since I last posted on this blog. A lot has happened in this last year. I have been accepted to nursing school and this past December I completed the first semester of nursing school.

We also suffered through losing one golden retriever to hemangioma cancer and almost lost our new golden retriever puppy to an attack by another dog that left the puppy with a broken jaw in two places.

Here it is January 9th and I have finally completed Cirque de Circles by Ink circles (Tracy Horner)... I also started Cirque de Triangles. Who knows when I`ll finish it with studying for classes but it is started!!! :-)

Start of Spring Semester

I never could understand why they call it Spring Semester seeing as you start in the dead of winter...

Anyway, my spring semester at Manchester Community College has begun. I've been to my math (algebra) class so far. The semester started on a Thursday (why in the middle to end of the week I can't fathom?!?!) and I don't have any classes on Friday so math is the only class I've been to so far. It is going to be an interesting class. The professor has warned us that we will be covering a week's worth of information in each class seeing as it is a combined course of Basic algebra and intermediate algebra in one class (it is also 2 1/2 hours each class! and she let us know we would be in class for the ENTIRE 2 1/2 hours!).

During the winter break I did get some stitching done on my Cirque de Cercles. Actually quite a bit more than I thought I would...

I'm posting three different pictures of what I've been up to...

This first one was taken on 1/11/2010...

This one was taken 1/15/2010...

and this last one was taken on 1/24/2010...this is about 1 1/2 pages complete of the 6 page pattern...


Most of my stitching time now that classes are back in session will be on Monday evenings when I have an hour that I'm sitting at the ice rink while my daughter takes skating lessons. There really isn't a space for me to study there and it is easier to stitch while sitting in the "bleachers" with my headlamp around my neck for light vs trying to juggle books, pads and pencils to do math...

Thanks for looking and I look forward to updating my progress again soon...

Happy New Year!!

Welcome to 2010!! Doesn't seem possible that 2009 is already in the history books.

It was quite a year for my family. Father in law sick with yellow fever (luckily he survived), son transferred schools, daughter moving on to middle school, my decision to go back to school after being out for over 20 years.

Having gone back to school has definitely cut into my blogging time not to mention my stitching time. I have found some time to stitch here and there but it has definitely been a minute here and a second there...

I finished Cirque de Carreaux in early September and started Cirque de Circles. Here is a picture of where I stand on it at the moment.



As I said, not moving as fast as in the past but making some progress.

As far as my classes, I just got my grades for the Fall Semester and I stand at a 3.82 GPA. I got an A- in my Anatomy & Physiology class and an A in my Intro to Computer Software class (how to use Microsoft Office 2007 Products).

My goals for 2010 include taking General Biology, General Chemistry, Math, the second half of Anatomy & Physiology (and doing as well on them as I did this first semester) and applying to the Nursing Program at Capital Community College. My stitching goals include working on projects when they fit into the rest of my life and possibly having one or two finished before the end of the year. I also plan to get the projects from 2009 (Blackstone Fantasy Garden and Cirque de Carreaux) framed (although I may hold off on Carreaux until I have finished Circles and Triangles- which I received as a Christmas gift- so they can all be in the same type of frame seeing as they are all going to be stitched on the same fabric with the same floss)...

Best health and wishes for all for the New Year...