Twisted Tuesday

In the rush of life, and trying to find the time to go outside the survival mode, I'm looking about like Abbie right now.

 She was found here last night when she thought she could go up the stairs evidently. She looked up and down and then at me, like, "well?  hep me hep me!"

and again

This is not Uncle Paul's house, Abbie!  Yep, this is steeper stairs with no carpet and it's tough when caught in the middle.

She and I are thinking alike this week many times.

She has been all the way up to stair 15 but can't go back down them.

So another gate is in order soon as she would get hurt falling down these.

Once she was found in the guest bedroom under the bed----upstairs. She expects treatment as a house guest!

And so goes my progress with this sampler from the Sampler Girl. Going Away with Jane Austen.

Almost there. The crown I changed color to CC Sassy Brass that I had on hand.

I will have to say this has been carried with me alot this week and not able to put any stitches in it till today. After work, went to the nail salon to get my toesies done and I honestly took the folder organizer in my tote. A first for me to take into a nail salon-- cross stitching in a vibrating, massaging chair. All the girls ran over to see my progress, one by one.

I don't think they understood me when I tried to tell them that cross stitching is a sanity saver.

I popped it out of my Qsnap frame to show them and they were so interested that I almost started a stitching group, right there, with polish on toes, separated by bright yellow flipflops. They even were wanting me to show them my stitching folder/tote where the colors were and so I did and they smiled, giggled and said things that I probably am glad I didn't understand.....LOL

They didn't ask me what "dalla" it was, I thought that was coming next but my feet were so appreciative of the luxury of feet grooming.

Also floss colors came very quickly in the mail. It's amazing how fast they came in the mail!

Abbie says she likes her new fall colors with plum. Did I tell you she HAD to have this fleece hoodie?

The weather is a bit cooler for her at night and she loves it!

I splurged with one of the purple colors by CC Belle Soie Empress

It as soft as buttah

When I get finished with Going Away with Jane, I'm going to dig into a Domestic Violence awareness sampler with some of these purple colors.

In order to get this and work and maintain health and sanity........I have to frequently give her a favorite chewie as she has lost 2 more baby teeth and chewing her "dingie wingies" pretty steadily. But, better that than my stash. patterns. She did officially eat part of a Sampler Girl pattern before and now that she is teething........well.........had to get more chewies today.

And I got my Kindle today!!!!!!!  I so hope the read-to feature is working well. I'm behind on my stitching and my love to read has taken the lead lately. With this, maybe I can listen to audio books!!!!!!!

Just taking one step at a time. I may be going in this direction.

or this direction

But whatever every day's direction is, I hope it's 2 steps forward and 1 step back instead of the reverse.

So much change right now, sleeping very little, but I'm glad to have the Kindle with me to read or listen-to.

Hope your heading into mid-week is going well.

So, where is the oddest place YOU have stitched before?

a nail salon? (I don't recommend it in the vibrating chair)  ;)