A New Project

Today I finished The Shoe Shopper for my last blog post. So logically I started a new project. I started "Dream" from the "Once Upon a Time" series by Little House Needleworks. 

My finished The Shoe Shopper. 

My start on Dream

Dream is my first adventure using silk thread. It is kind of exciting, although I am worried that I will run out of  one of the colors of thread. The silk thread is so nice and smooth its amazing to work with. At over seven dollars a skein I won't be working with silk much. 

This is what Dream should look like when it is completed. 

I have a few other blogs planned for this week among all the craziness which should finally die down after this week. Hopefully I'll get a few more posts up this week though. 

Project Update + Chirstmas

I am home for Winter Break. YAY!!!! It is no secret that I love to craft, unfortunately it is hard to take my vast collection of beads back and forth between home and school. So for this break I decided to bring home some cross stitch. I brought home three patterns which I hadn't even started and Secret Crush which I had the border left on. One of the patterns I brought home I have the floss and fabric for, the others are part to a series of three that come with the floss, my mom is amazing and let me raid her stash for fabric (she gave me three pieces so the whole series will be on matching fabric). My mom also helped me cut the fabric and will help me frame them when I finish them.

Secret Crush by The Trilogy is done and waiting to be framed!

A partially completed, The Shoe Stopper by JBW Designs. It is hard to see but it is done on sparkly white fabric. 

My mom also made me some Christmas presents that were just too cute not to mention. My brother and I both go to college in areas with better shopping than at home, so this year my mom enlisted our help for her shopping. She had me get my grandmother a fine fragrance lotion from Macy's, a Barnes and Noble gift card , and an Old Navy gift card. I needed a new pair or two of jeans but she didn't want me to buy my own gift card so instead she did this. 

 The Cute Envelope with the Sparkly Star.

The card she made with the amount for how much written inside and singed from her and my dad. 

My mom has also been into decorating wooden boxes. She paints and waxes them and then stitches a piece for the top. She made a beautiful one for my aunt, which you can see here, for her birthday. I loved it so she made me one out of the same pattern book for me. 

 The top of the box.

 A view from the side.

The inside of the box. 

The rabbit scissors she included in the box. 

I love the box so much. It is amazing. Since I have talked about my mom quite a bit in this post I will include a link to her blog, The Hoopless Stitcher, which is a blog about her adventures in Cross Stitching. 

Boots

I finally found a pair of boots! I have been looking for a pair of boots for months with no luck. I knew I wanted relatively no heal, good support and in a cognac leather or faux leather. I found a few pairs that I like but they were either all out of my price range (I'm a broke college kid) or didn't fit my supper muscular calves (I've been snowboarding since I was a little kid), but I finally found a pair. My mom told me to check  jcpenneys again so my friend and I did yesterday, and these are the boots I found...

This is what the inside of the leg looks like

 This is what is seen on the outer side. 

They are the Liz & Co. Alex in Cognac Croc, and they fit me perfectly. They are made of genuine leather which I was really excited about especially after I saw the price. ($65) I love them so much when I tried them on I was so excited that the fit I was jumping up and down. 

I picture of the on from the front

A Picture from the side

A close up picture from the side

I so excited about them and so happy with them I have been wearing them everywhere and probably will wear them for most of the week. 

Packing for College

Its that time of year again. Time to go back to school. Being a college kid that has a significant distance to travel (about 6 hours) I have to pack everything. To do this I took over my brothers room (he stayed and worked at the college he goes to all summer). This is just the start of my packing which tends to take a really long time. Hopefully I will get most of it done tomorrow so I have time to do a few last minute projects I've been planning. I'll have pictures of my dorm up hopefully next week the goal is to do that on Monday.

GIVEAWAY!!!!!!

I really really want to do a giveaway. The problem is, I don't have and followers to give stuff away too. I have quite a few things planned for this, and I really hope I can do one relatively soon. I would be willing to do a giveaway when I hit 50 followers. I have a plan with some jewelry, made by me, some of my favorite beauty items, along with some other fun items. If you are interested in a giveaway and hopeful future giveaways, follow my blog.

Surgery

Had surgery this morning. It went well, took about 90 minutes. It took me a little while to wake up in the post op holding room. I've been up for most of the day after surgery with a few naps. For being at a hospital I figured getting gluten free food would be easier than it has turned out to be. My mouth and throat are REALLY dry. I have some minor incisional pain especially on my left side but its not to bad. I'm spending the night in Children's because of the long drive home but will be leaving tomorrow morning, hopefully early, its always nice getting home. I'll blog tomorrow and hopefully with in the next week I'll get my H&M haul up.

P.F. Chang's and Surgery

I'm in Milwaukee for the reversal of my Nuss Procedure tomorrow. We left a little after noon and got here around 4:30ish. We went shopping when we got here. My mom and I went to H&M (my favorite clothing store ever) and to Boston Store to look at shoes. Afterwards we went to our hotel room and unpacked the car and decided where to go for dinner. This can be a rather complicated process with me being Gluten Free. So I started looking up menus online. I really wanted Chinese food, so I started with the P.F. Chang's website. I went to the menu page and they had a whole Gluten Free sections, at this point I decided we were going to P.F. Chang's.

The Entry to P.F. Chang's at the Mayfair Mall.

One of the Horses by the door. My parents said I couldn't get one because it wouldn't fit in the back yard. 

What was left of my plate before I ate more. (It was really good)

Gluten Free Caramel Mango Chicken.

The Plates at the end. 

The Gluten Free Chocolate Dome Cake with Raspberry Sauce, Fresh Raspberries and Strawberries. Which I brought back to the hotel to eat.

Just over two years ago I had the Nuss Procedure performed to straighten the indentation in my sternum (Pectus Excavatum). I was having massive amounts of pain before had and my parents and I decided I needed to have the surgery done. I was in the hospital for five days after surgery. I had very few problems with it till this past Thanks Giving when it moved causing pain where the bar is. So it is time for it to be taken out. It will be done tomorrow at Milwaukee Children's Hospital and I will hopefully be going home on Wednesday. 

The x-ray of my chest from November. It was put in at an angle and moved only a little bit.