ON THIS EPISODE OF CELEBSTITCHY REHAB*

*First of all, please allow me to vehemently state that in no way do I consider myself a Celebstitchy. I am just not creative enough to figure out some other pithy and catchy title for today's post and for a reason unknown to me I have Dr. Drew Pinsky on the brain.

(Celebstitchy = A stitcher of worldwide fame who brings delight and inspiration to needleworkers everywhere.)

So I did it.

I went upstairs and pulled all of the WIP's that were not languishing on the Island of Misfit Toys and put them on the guest bed. Then I took pictures of them and put them right back into the basket. This basket shall heretofore be known as the HANDBASKET TO HELL.

Oddly enough, I haven't gone off the reservation this time, but rather am quite interested in taking a look at the various projects to see what I might want to play with next. (I guess all of this navel gazing is finally paying off and I have learned to leave my stitchy angst at the studio door. Woo Hoo for progress!) (Is this what we might call a breakthrough?!)

Several of you out there in Stitchy Blogville did posts in which you showed your WIP's and gave some interesting notes on each. I loved that, and think I might do the very same eventually. In the meantime...here's the overall pile 'o stuff:

Not bad for an amateur, eh? To be honest, I actually like most of the stuff in this pic, so I don't think my description of it as the HANDBASKET TO HELL is quite accurate. But the name seemed to stick with me somehow, and seeing how I will probably mood-swing back to peeved at this mess in the next four and a half minutes, I might as well keep it.

I've posted a slide show over there on the right hand side so that you can see each item individually. Forgive the craptastic photographic skills, but Stewey has the instruction book for the camera in his little fort and I'm not allowed to rummage through without his supervision.

I did start something new last night (wipe that smirk off your face, please). It's Daisy Daisy by La-D-Da:

Aunt Chrissy and I went to a NANI guild event at which Ms. La-D-Da her very self taught a class, so I picked this up and thought it was just the cutiest thing ever. Don't know why I hadn't started it before now. This is a kit that comes with Weeks Dye Works 30ct. Tin Roof linen and all of the Belle Soie silks needed.

Today is another beautiful day in the neighborhood and Stewey is hard at work protecting the bird feeders from the marauding squirrels:

"Leave me alone, please. I am hard at work ignoring the squirrels."

As for me...I managed to finish all of the laundry yesterday so I am rewarding myself with a few hours of guilt-free stitching in the Happy Chair. Now if I could just do something about those darn dishes in the sink....

Happy Thursday! Hope wherever you are is exactly where you want to be!