Part 2--The Road Trip Home

Late last night I did get some stitching time on Northanger Abbey by The Sampler Girl.

I hope to do more in the next couple of days but on the ride there and back I held Abbie so no stitching accomplished during the travel.

We stopped at a couple of shops and old stores and this book I found at an antique store in the middle of some very old books. Copyright 1987. Mostly French sampler motifs and what a charm indeed! I was excited to find this.

A few glimpses inside the book~~~~~~~

Most designs are enlarged enough to stitch. No color coding included here but the first chapter actually encourages replicating these if possible.

Many, many beautiful alphabets to choose from.

Beautiful redwork samplers.

Just wanted to share a pic at random here. We just got home and after Abbie ran around the house erractically, she got quiet and was found here curled on top of my scroll frame canvas case :0

Quickly to retreat back to a lounging position. She is so tired and so am I.

But we truly bonded on our little road trip.

She says, "To know me.......is to love me"

We went back through Sylva, N. C., a very cute town with a really cool old general store.

With a large Vera Bradley selection and 40% off sale.

A town that is at the bottom of this bliss~~~~~~

Make sure you honk your horn through this.

And then more of this~~~~~~~

Abbie and me.......taking it all in.

We saw lots of icicles on the side of the mountain.

And there was lots of traffic too. It was very hard to take pictures in a moving vehicle.

But then, at times, there were onlookers who suddenly stopped for a picture and almost caused accidents.

The skies were so beautiful that it was hard to believe that a storm would soon be coming into this area.

But the trip went by too fast and now we are totally pooped out but we have several more days to rest......in between laundry and taking down Christmas decorations.

I also will be inserting the CD that came with my camera to read the directions on how to use the camera to get the best pictures. I'm having alot of trouble with many pics turning out more yellow, especially with close-ups.

Another issue is that my laptop, my lifeline, is on the way out. My warranty stops in April 2010 and guess what? I have a connection issue with the cord and the monitor. It blinks now to dim, off and on if I move with the computer. We have to find the warranty tomorrow which means alot of digging through paper work in the basement. I can't live without a computer though, so we will be digging and hopefully find it. This same issue was the demise of my last laptop.

But if I just keep the feeling I got from this view, then tomorrow will be peaceful.