New Year, New Start!

Hi there!  Yes, I finally settled on what I hoped to stitch this New Year.  This is called Hummingbird's Garden by Samplers Not Forgotten.  

I found this at the needlework market last spring and just couldn't resist all those lovely specialty stitches!  Not to mention, my Mom has been on my mind a lot lately.  There are days I wish I could talk to her, and I know she would especially love her two great granddaughters so much.  So I'm dedicating this stitch to my Mom, who loved hummingbirds.  I started this yesterday and I'm stitching it on 40 count Moonstone over two using mostly WDW thread (though I thought I had them all, then realized I needed two skeins of several of them...so I substituted DMC for two of them).  I've never done bargello so this will be a new one for me.  I'm enjoying these stitches!!.  Here is where I left off last night.  

I've read that Blessing Samplers are to be quickly stitched in the first month of the year.  I have no illusions that I will finish this in January but I know I'm going to have a difficult time putting this down...haha.  I still hope to stitch two pages of Let Freedom Ring, and stitch a bit on American Flag this month as well.  While I'm contemplating these ideas, I'll try to fit in a rotation of these.  If you have any ideas, I'm open to thinking about them.  

I sincerely thought things would slow down a bit after the New Year...but I guess not.  I love my husband...but he sure does like to be on the move!  Looks like we'll be undecorating and sorting through boxes this weekend...oh yay.  LOL  Hopefully after the weekend I'll be able to get my goals page up and running.  In the meanwhile, I hope all is well in your neck of the woods.  Happy Stitching!