Online Needlework Show

Well having a deliberately quiet day spent mostly dozing (when not being jarred awake by Hip hop music and the sounds of children screaming to be heard over said hip hop) I decided to have a wander through the current Online Needlwork show.

I found a couple of designs I would like:


Camus International

Countess Designs Celtic Medallion Chart

Countess Designs Rose Cross Chart



Cross Eyed Kat

CEK-031 Dragons Welcome

CEK-022 Pawcasso: Blue Room

CEK-018 Labyrinth

CEK-024 Maze



Cross Stitchery Shop Designs

SSD-C82 Is it my eyes?

SSD-C73 Sentimental



Designs by Lisa

DBL-C51 What part of

DBL-C58 My own little world

DBL-C62 Black Beauty or Something in Red?



Dessins DHC

Tattoo Cat 1

Tattoo Cat 2

Black Lace



Enchanting Lair

A Dragon's Lair

Cookie Dragon

Believe



Forever in my Heart

FCS-11 Most of my Money



Funk and Weber

S1101 Silent Night

S108 Night Howl

S109 Lovely Night

S110 Night Lights



InkCircles

Dogwood Square



Keslyns

Forest Snowflake



Liz Turner Diehl

HG011 Historical 17th c. German Garden

HG 16th Century English Knot Garden



Minerva Designs

Art Nouveau Peacock

Art Nouveau Butterfly

Winged Serpent



Picture This Plus:

Ocean Daughter

Wild Fairy Light

Crystal

Smoke

Firebird

Fire



Pine Glen Designs

XS-202 Cross Stitch Addiction

XS-103 Cats in the Garden



Stitchin'spirations:

BS-1101 Garden Traditions - Brandon

BS-1106 Garden Traditions - Albemarle

BS-5101 Getting Lost in a Blackwork Maze



Stitching Pretty
Presents:

Eloquent Christmas

Swirling

Begin it




SzuLet Creations:

SLC0002 Royal Butterfly

SLC0023 Purple Majesty

SLC0022 A Lady's Fancy



X's & Ohs

LL-BW Be Wise

LL-GG Kindness is the Greatest Gift

LL-LY Love yourself

I guess I might have to actually pare that list down somewhat - my credit card simply doesn't have that kind of amount on it - and we *do* have the C-word coming up ....

Mel's Health - latest update

Well according to circumstantial evidence - I have bronchitis.

An
elderly male customer was walking around the library yesterday and said
"that's a nasty bout of bronchitis you have there - what are you taking
for it?" Turns out said elderly gentleman is the local GP. He naturally
wouldn't prescribe me anything as he was in the library, I wasn't in
his surgery - but he did advise me to take to a chemist and get a
strong bronchial medicine made up.

Then
on the way home from work last night I stopped in at the garage near
work for the first time and fueled up Salem. Had to wait in a queue
before being able to pay for my fuel. When I got the front of the queue
they guy behind the counter said "Nasty bout of bronchitis you have
there!" I must have looked startled because he went on to say "You had
a flu or virus type thing about two weeks back? Same here. First bout
of bronchitis I've had in 22 years. Seeing about one in 10 customers
sounding like you right now - all had this flu thing a couple of weeks
back".

So
having been told twice in one day, I toddled off down to my local
chemist and chatted to him - and had a few coughing bouts etc etc. And
he ended up making up a specific cough medicine for me. apparently its
the strongest he can legally give me (it contains no codeine).
Apparently he added something into it to open up my air passages, I
hadn't even known how laboured my breathing had gotten. He advised me
to always drink it after eating a meal and never exceed the recommended
dosage.

Well
I got home last night, I cheated and chucked a frozen dinner in the
microwave, wolfed it down then drank my cough medicine and immediately
had a coughing fit. As time went on last night I was still having
coughing fits but they were lessened. It was only a little progress but
it was progress.

At
midnight I took a second dose and went to bed .... and coughed until
1am .. and I was feeling very very miserable. Then I slept.

And
awoke this morning breathing normally. And I laid there, listening to
the radio and not moving and marvelling that I was breathing normally!

And
then I got out of bed and starting coughing and haven;t stopped. And
for the first time since last Friday I'm finally starting to bring
phlegm up again. I waited until it had turned to dry coughing again,
had my bowl of cereal and have just taken another dose of cough
medicine.

I'm
about to head for a shower and see if I feel up to driving to work. I
think I could do work, but I'm not too sure about driving myself there.
I'll see.

Anyway in summary, I think I've finally found a medication that will slowly work and get rid of this cough.

I also have an appointment scheduled with my own doctor for next Tuesday afternoon.

Sunday update

Well seeing as it appears head cold = frogs, I haven't done much stitching this week.

But anyway here's what I managed to accomplish ....

For those who can;t see in the blogs, here's a pic in my webshots site.

My cat Trubby

Because I've been asked a number of times, here's pics of my cat Trouble ..... LINK



Hugs

Mel.

Trouble Cat

And who followed her around and put cushions in all her new favourite spots ...

Seeing as I'd been asked repeatedly, here are pics of my Trubby. The first one is when we first brought her home from the RSPCA. The other pics were taken a couple of months ago.

Whhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

the world doesn't need illicit chemical substances!  We have cough syrup!

Wheeeeeeeeee !!!!

OK  here's where I ruin my street cred and admit that I have *never* touched illegal substances.  Ever. 

But what I'm feeling now on this cough syrup - must be something akin to what some of those things can dooo ......

And I'm at work - and I can't walk straight ....  la la la ....

Oh I'm going to be so embarrassed I've admitted all of this tomorrow!

SNORT!

Mel.

Liz Turner Diehl

Oh dear! Gina is a bad bad woman !!!!!

Bad Gina!

I want *all* of these! I must have *all* of these - NOW!

http://www.lizturnerdiehl.com/cgi-bin/general.pl?garden&Historical-

Mel.

Mel's update

Well after the neighbours all night party on Wednesday night (well until 3am Thurs when the cops came) I stupidly went to work Thursday. Had a mini breakdown due to stress, sleep deprivation, hormones all the rest!

I didn't say anything at work but Alison thankfully fabricated some excuse and came out to see me - so she helped a bit. She gives good hugs! Then my lovely kitchen witch rang that night and advised some very good TLC suggestions. So after some pampering and a full night's uninterrupted sleep I was almost back to being myself again!

Went to work Friday and Saturday. Was going to go to DancingKauri's on Sunday but woke at 6am yet again by the damned neighbours and a very sore throat and a fever. Went back to bed. Emerged late afternoon to a pounding at the door. Paul had come for a visit - and for a change he had actually hopped on all the buses (on a Sunday no less) and got himself over here. Silly twit didn't actually check I was going to be here before he turned up though !!!

Anyway, he made me lots of cups of tea, and some dinner and even went so far as to push me into the bathroom and he re-coloured my hair. Then pushed me into bed and cuddled me all night.

Do you think he's trying to make amends?

Anyway I've woken up this morning - the fever is gone, most of the fogginess is gone, I still have a residual headache and a very sore throat. Oh and lots of snotty mucous!

I'll kick Paul out of bed in an hour or so, drive him home and then go to visit DancingKauri for lunch and take her PTP fabric I just *know* she's been hanging out for!

So no stitching update I'm afraid. I'm still so very tired!