Moira and Me

I love this sampler.  Love, love, love it.

Moira Blackburn's Scottish Love Sampler

The colors are so much fun!  I love the bright hues.  They're way different than the palette I usually stitch with.  I didn't realize it when I took this picture, but look at my table runner in the background.  It's something I bought recently and it's bright, so obviously my tastes are changing. For like, the millionth time.

Border close up

So, just to remind you, this is a sampler for our anniversary and just under the alphabet it will say: "And I will love thee still".  I'll stitch that in its proper place if I still like Dave by the end of this sampler.  Or I could rechart it to say: "I haven't killed you yet", which would also mean that I still like him.  But if he's really on my nerves, I may stitch: "Sleep with one eye open".

(Dave knows I'm just kidding.  He's the best.  Really.  The guy's a prince )

This is a busy time of year for me, as it is for anyone in the bookkeeping or accounting field.  But I'm pretty fortunate because 9 months out of the year my schedule is super flexible.  I'd be a total wimp if I couldn't deal with three months of inflexible work.

But still, my mind wanders as I work. Like, I think about wanting Moira Blackburn to give me her cell phone number so I could text her every day when things pop into my head.  I would ask her to design samplers for all of my whims and needs.

(But then I'd probably end up on Judge Judy as the defendant in a stalking case.)

My mind wanders to samplers I want to stitch and bloggers I want to read and friends I want to stitch with.  I think of road trips I want to take and shops I want to visit.  I think of storage options for my beautiful stash and ways to organize and reorganize it.

And then I have to scream at myself, "GET BACK TO WORK!"

Hey...that would make a good sampler saying.  I could stitch it and put it by the computer monitor......Oh Good God.  It's hopeless.

I hope you all are having a more self-disciplined day than I am.