Country Garden Stitchery

In keeping with my 2011 goals, I have been digging through some of my oldest patterns and kitting them up with the intent of stitching them. 

This is one of those patterns.   I remember picking it out many years ago because I loved the bright cheerful colours.  The finished piece is a scissor fob, the unfinished piece will be a needle book, and there is a pin cushion to go with it too.  The Designer is Country Garden Stitchery and the pattern is appropriately called "Needlework Accessories." So far it has been a quick an easy stitch with only a few mistakes.  I didn't bother frogging one in the scissor fob and I'm sure you'll be able to pick it out quite easily.  I was stitching the final border when I saw it and it would have caused a lot of thread issues on the back if I tried to pull it out. 

So, some of you might have noticed my blog title change.  I don't go on about my mistakes a whole lot on my blog because I make them way too frequently and it would be a very boring blog to hear about ALL of them.  But someone here hears about them all the time as I get frustrated.  Yesterday, I guess I walked away from the computer still signed in to Blogger and someone thought it would be funny to change my blog title to "Karen's Colourful Corrections."  They've been telling me for ages that this is the more appropriate title haha. 

I was called in for some over time yesterday and decided to go in for a short 4 hour shift.  We're going away in a couple of weeks and the extra money will come in handy.  But I have to say I'm still in vacation mode and I'm not sure how productive I was.   I'm not supposed to go back until Sunday.

I'll leave you with a link to the beautiful new eco-friendly complex that was finished recently.  It is located only a few minutes from where I live.  It is complete with an indoor walking track, indoor skating rink, and a gorgeous outdoor swimming pool with two slides and four lifegaurds (at least that's how many lifegaurds that were there when I was there the other day).  There are several conference rooms inside as well.  The playground isn't finished just yet, but it looks like it will be quite large as well.  You can see some pics of it by going to http://www.kennebecasis.com/p/qplex.html .  This used to be a small recreation center where I spent MANY hours at when I was a kid.  They kept the old soccer fields, outdoor walking track which is around one of the soccer fields, and the baseball field as well.   

My son and I walked 4km on the indoor track the other day.  It's nice and cool inside because it's around the skating rink.  The rink and the walking track are free for everyone to use and the pool is only $3 per person. They even built a dog park accross the street from it.  The grand opening will be on Canada Day.