Keebles World

We've been so busy with our spring clean-out that I haven't had time to update how our family is doing since Bam's adoption. Bam has completely changed from the quiet, raggedy-haired kid I adopted! His hair has completely grown in (although he still scratches a lot...he just has some really strong allergies we'll always have to deal with). He's filled out quite a bit and his floating rib is barely noticeable now that he has some meat on his bones! As he's gotten comfortable, his true personality has come out! He's a hoarder of everything that belongs to Zach, he's got a mean streak (but luckily his teeth don't hurt!), and he's very rambunctious, but I absolutely adore him and can't imagine life without him now!!! Even Zach has come around (much faster than I thought he would)...you can't even tell one pup from the other when they sit in my lap (which they do A LOT...one of the reasons why I haven't been stitching much lately...

I did take the pic of my May TUSAL on time, but I'm just now uploading the photo. I haven't been stitching lately, but I have been redecorating and the moment I set up my new shelves in the duckroom, bells started going off. There was so much orange thread in my ort jar this month, I knew the perfect location was between my orange bird stuff!

I have totally blown this IHSW. I have been working on the house like crazy and have just used this weekend to relax. But I did get a new present in the mail on Saturday, so I wanted to take time to go through it and give my thoughts. Those who have been around for a while know how I feel about built kits. I'm still reeling over Mickey And Friends ; the material ripped (and was just overall crappy), Donald's face has way too much pink in it...the list goes on and on. Needless to say, I swore I'd never do another kit that wasn't store-bought again...I might have to eat those words now. I had seen Yiota's Cross Stitch kits reviewed on other sites, I have even looked through their catalog, but I just couldn't bring myself to take the plunge (the horror that was Mickey and Friends will never go away). The opportunity presented itself for me to get a Yiota's Stitch, I picked the kit I wanted, and it arrived yesterday (a very fast ship from the UK I might...

Dy Saturday over at (parenthetical asides) has given me a Liebster award! As per usual, I've been offline resting up after the A to Z Challenge, and I'm still not ready to get back in the full swing of blogging and/or stitching yet. But I will definitely answer his questions and give my own awards in the very near future. Something else is hogging my attention right now... I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!! I'm still in the early planning stages, but the trip is booked and there is much to do before that magical 180 day mark hits me square in the face. This is going to be a strange trip to plan because of the logistics of it. Of course Am and I are going, but this trip is for Mother and she wanted to bring a friend as well, so it's two separate rooms and all the issues that come with it. Disney always insists on putting the park hours out only days before it's time to book dining and it's always a race to come up with several viable schedules in preparatio...

Once again, it's time for a "Reflections" post for the April A to Z Challenge. I went about this years challenge completely different. I decided very early on that I wanted to branch out and not do Disney this year. Since my second passion was British television, it wasn't too hard to come up with the new subject matter. I have a very large collection of British DVD's and I thought there was no better place to plug the best British shows in my collection and possibly learn about new ones! I mapped my strategy months in advance, picked my shows, and even re-watched a few to remind me why I loved them. I managed to write all the posts in the two days prior to startup (which saved me from writing them every single night like I tried to do last year) and I was all prepared to sit the month by reading other people's posts and work on my "secret" stitching project! But after the very first day, the Disney bug caught me bad. I felt like I was ...