October SFS

My grand total for SFS this month is, drum-roll please, $0.  I have every intention of spending lots this coming week though, so next month won't be so pretty. I hope to make use of the $50 holiday splurge given to us and then some.  Now watch, I won't find anything.
So last week was IHSW and though I worked all through it, I still got to hang out with most of the girls on Saturday, but as figured mid week was my best stitching time.
Next week is the fun one though, Cindy will get neglected but I will feel no guilt.  On Wednesday I leave for Kelowna (about 2 hours away) for Skate Canada.  I will spend all day Wednesday shopping and have even found a couple needlework stores, not to mention my hotel is across the street from Micheals. And then the rest of the weekend will be taken up with watching 12 hour days of skating, I can't wait.  I will take the Cabin along for the evenings in case I have time.
So there will be no blog next Friday, I will by busy, with the Ladies short according to my schedule.
Did a lot of black half stitches on Cabin this week











And finished this pages part of the bush and the ridiculously pretty shawl on Cindy




And I watched stuff too.
Sleepy Hollow S02-E05

Supernatural S10 E03 WOW did you see blab blab blab, and wasn't blab blab, of course blab blab blab

Witch Hunt - An old made for HBO movie (old as in ‘94) about a PI in 1950’s Hollywood, he refuses to use magic, even though everyone else does.. It’s a sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell, which I unfortunately don’t have.

The Wedding Planner - Just s fun little romantic comedy, of which a lot seem to start
with the letter W.

War of The Worlds - The new one, never quite figured out if I really like it. It’s very well done, but I’m kind of tired of the single person point of view monster movie thing, though at least this one doesn't include the shaky cam.  On the other hand it has fantastic music, decent special effects and Dakota Fanning is incredible in it. Not something I usually say about a child in a movies, but she does an amazing job at showing pure terror.

35 Up, this series continues to be fascinating

Watchmen - It’s a fairly decent adaptation considering how dense the source is.  This was the first “adult” comic I read, I borrow comics from my brother constantly and this was the first that he handed to me with the disclaimer “don’t show Mom” It came out is 86, so I would have been 15 and Mom wouldn't have approved of the constant swearing, still doesn't in fact, we still don’t show those types comics to her.  I remember Watchmen blowing my mind, I had never read a comic like it before, many since, like V for Vendetta , Constantine (which starts on TV tonight, they better not blow it), The Books of Magic (Adult oriented Harry Potter, started 10 years before Potter existed) and the seminal, amazing, need to borrow it again  - Neil Gaimen’s Sandman,
It seems that it was because of Watchmen that they stopped being called comics and became graphic novels, no idea if that’s true, it just seems that way in my mind.
On another not, Watchmen was filmed in Vancouver, and they built a set that comprised an entire block and then left it there, the block is now used by a lot of the Vancouver filmed shows like Arrow and Supernatural. When I went on the Supernatural location tour we got to go there, cool place and very fun to photograph.

IHSW The Early Edition

It's IHSW and I will be working the whole weekend, hope to get to the hangout with my girls, but it will be a short visit.  However, I did have the last three days of so I did a mid week hermit and stitch, and stitch I did.
Also I go to Skate Canada in less than two weeks (insert happy dance here) and I ended up with the day before off. I had originally planned to drive to Kelowna after work that day, but now I can go early and SHOP, and completely blow my SFS budget if I want because I found the address of two different needlework stores, hopefully they are still there.
But much work was done, on both Cindy

And the Cabin

And watching was done in droves as well

Downton Abbey S03-E5-9 And this is the end of what’s on Netflix, have to be patient now until they put the next one up

Supernatural S10-E02 - Blab, blab, blab blab blab. (I have been told I’m not allowed to blab about what’s going on.

Neil Oliver - Sacred Places of Britain, Vikings is indeed over and now he’s moved on to standing stones.

Sleepy Hollow S02 - E04 Ohhhh Pied piper sighting

Watcher in the Woods - Horror isn’t exactly the first thing you think about with Disney and granted this is

very very light horror, and also a really good but hard to find movie, It came out in ‘80 so just near the end of Disney’s live action family movies. It’s a well put together movie about a family that moves into a old mansion and the something in the woods is haunting the two girls. One of which is Bond Girl Lynn Holly Johnson.

What Women Want - Not this movie apparently, not sure why I bought it originally, it’s now in the “go-away” pile

Someday My Prince Will Come

Someday my prince will come, and he finally has legs so he can now run to me.

And now the exciting news, the NCCIH website is live, Leonore, Krystal and Carla worked really hard on this, I threw in some opinions and stitched the logo, but the majority of the hard work was done by these lovely ladies, NCCIH
It's been a fairly uneventful week for me, Dad went to a specialist and it turns out he didn't break his face too badly and is healing well, of course that means he's getting bored which is a whole other set of problems. Other than that it's been just working in our plague bakery, naturally the one employee with a school age son brought a cold to work with him, so we are all sick now, just in time for the Thanksgiving rush the second busiest week of the year for the bakery
There is some small rocks in the cabin pic that had the same colour as the cabin itself so for Carla's sake I did some actual work on the cabin. Now I really need to stop writing this blog so I can go make ice cream to go along with pies on Thanksgiving.














And of course I watched stuff

Supernatural S10 !!!!!!!!! E01.  It started with a bang, as it should. My obsession continues









Sleepy Hollow S02 E03

Witches of East End S02 E12 I thought this was the last one of the season, I was wrong

Downton Abbey S03 E01 to E04

Say Yes to the Dress - I was sick and didn’t’ want anything important on, and I found a marathon of this, so I watched and stitched and slept, emphasis on slept

Neil Oliver’s Viking - This one took us from settling in Iceland and
Shetland to the end of the Viking Age, I’m assuming it’s the last show.

Bulletproof Monk - I’m not sure why I own this, think I picked it up really cheap, I enjoy it, but not really enough to rewatch it again, might sell/donate it somewhere down the line. Anyone want it?

White Magic - That’s right, I’m finally finished the “B’s” on to the “W’s” starting with this great Warren Miller movie, pretty to watch, but not a good stitching movie.

I'm Running Out of Title Ideas

So the theme of the week was less hours equals more stitching, which I embraced with gusto.  Until Friday when Dad fell again and I waited in the emergency room for 7 hours while he was poked and prodded and x-rayed and scanned. He hurt his face, slightly fractured some small bones in his cheek the the doc thinks he'll be fine and he does tend to heal well. All that waiting makes me think I should have an emergency stitching bag ready to go, though hopefully this is the last time for a long while.  I did find a fun new app for my phone though, Paper Toss, where you just flick a crumpled paper into a garbage can, no time limit you just keep flicking, it was a wonderful time killer.
Cindy got lots done

 As did the Cabin, at some point I will get some more of the actual cabin stitched.

And since it was all going so well, a took a small break and stitched up the NCCIH logo, finally getting to use a small piece of brown fabric Carla sent me. I didn't have a large needle to put in like Carla did, so I just stitched it, and since I didn't have any silver thread I used some pretty grey and sparkling Krenkik blending stuff.

Obviously I watched a lot of stuff too.

Downton Abbey S02-E08 to 

Sleepy Hollow S02 E02

Witches of East End S02 E10 & 11

Neil Oliver’s Vikings E02

Brave - As princess movies go, this one is definitely a little different, and so very lush in the visuals. Of course the Gaelic music doesn’t hurt my feelings either.

Bride and Prejudice - A British/Indian production it’s Pride and Prejudice remade as a modern bollywood movie, great fun. 

Bruce Almighty - To start, I am not a Jim Carrey fan, I don’t care for his brand of humor, though I can handle him better than Adam Sandler, Rob Schnider, Will Farrell and the rest of that type.  I own two Carrey movies, The Truman Show which is one of my favorites period, and this one, that just makes me giggle.  I guess adding Morgan Freeman as God was just the right touch 

The Sky is Not The Limit - A documentary about Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, This seems to have been made just before he left to command the ISS so doesn’t include how he got people worldwide excited about space again, and interesting man, a proud Canadian an a bit of a hero of mine. And in telling his story I also learned a lot more about the Canadian space program.

A Bug’s Life - I remember seeing this in the theatre and being wowed by the animation, now having just watched Brave a couple days ago, it seems very primitive, still beautiful though and like most Pixar movies it has a great story.

Bullet to Beijing - Harry Palmer is a british spy played by the great and wonderful Michael Caine, Palmer is the anti-Bond in a way, the move is understated the people look like real people and it's funny and gritty and  interesting, there are 6 Palmer movies 3 filmed in the 60's one in the 70's and 2 in the 90's.  And Caine is in all of them. This is the second to last and filmed in 93, and is mainly about the problems spies were having with the cold war being over and making them redundant. 

Sept. SFS

It's time for the SFS roundup, spent more than usual this month because of the Sewing Basket (where I get my floss) moving sale, I stocked up a bit more but it was 20% off, so I'm sure you all understand.
My spending went like this

September
Linen $8.78
Floss  $12.20
Total $20.98

But work was light so stitching was achieved Cabin was worked on

As was Cindy












And of course with all that stitching came watching

Witches of East End S2 E09, Oh the main characters died? Of course they did, they always do on shows I watch, can’t wait to see how they get resurrected

Downton Abbey S02 E07

The Sing-Off - To the Finale, wonder if this is cancelled again?





Sleepy Hollow - S02 E01 The new season starts with a very confusing bang.

Neil Oliver’s Vikings - Neil is a archeologist historical documentarien , he has a beautiful voice, scotch accent and great hair, I’ve seen parts of several of his document series on Britain, and now he has started one on Scandinavia and the Vikings, it looks as good as the rest, can’t wait for the next ep.

The Maze Runner - I enjoyed this but they had way more questions than answers, I’m hoping it does well enough for the next book to be filmed, or more likely I’ll just go buy them








Bon Cop, Bad Cop - A rare Canadian movie that was made strictly for Canadians,  not a good one to stitch too as it was completely bilingual, and I don’t know French that well. It’s a buddy cop movie with the murders happening in both Montreal and Toronto, so a lot of culture clash, and it’s about hockey sort of, told you it was really Canadian.

Bottle Shock - A movie about the Napa Valley in 1976 when they started beating the French wines, It’s Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman, that’s why I originally watched it, and it turned out to be a fun fantastic movie.

IHSW recap

So the plan was:
Saturday- day off work, hangout with the girls all day and stitch
Sunday - work, matinee, nap, enter thread into app.  in that order
Monday - work, stitch, nap in that order
And it went fine to start with, hangout was wonderful, one of the few times that all four of us have been on at the same time, though Carla claims I was on my new phone more than I was stitching, but Carla found a great app for my new toy, the Cross Stitch Thread Companion, which keeps track of the floss we have and what we need.
Sunday worked out too, spent about an hour documenting my floss into the app
Monday however is when things went awry, I had just barely got home from work, when Dad tripped and hit is head on the ground, so off we went to the emergency room, he's fine, just some stitches, no concussion, but we spent 2 hours in the hospital so stitching didn't get stitched.  So here is Saturday's progress on Cindy

IHSW September edition

Where did this week go, I can't seem to remember it actually happening. I'd blame work, but it's already started slowing down there. But I did finally get a smart phone, now I'll spend the next month trying to figure it out.  Oh well stitching got done and that's what really matters.  And since it's IHSW even more will get done, mostly during a hangout with the NCCIH crew

So without further ado, here is the progress on the cabin, Jeopardy has started again for the year which means the cabin is finally getting some attention


And Cindy was worked on as well













As for what I watched, not much I think napping won this week

Downton Abbey S02 E05-06 I’m really enjoying this series

American Ninja Warrior, End of whatever season this is, and the against the world show

The Sing Off - I watched Season Three a few years ago and really enjoyed it, then it was cancelled, and then it wasn’t.