Have a one day start and finish. It's part of the SMO Four Season Fatties SAL. Sandy posted Summer and I managed to get it done in one day. I am really enjoying this SAL and I will admit to camping the board looking for Sandy to post it. Hey, it's not very often you look forward to Mondays, yea? Anyhoo, here's my work for this afternoon. It's hot off the Q-Snaps (like, literally 2 minutes ago that I put the last stitch in! :P). I was lazy and used a button for the birds, but I like the way it turned out. I will probably stitch this again, and when I do, I will probably stitch the birds in the nest. :) First a re-cap on the mats so far: Design: Four Seasons Fatties SAL Designer: Sandra Dering of SanMan Originals Fabric: 28 count white evenweave (possibly Lugana) Overview notes: Part one Fibers and Fabric: Fibers: Main border in DMC 310 Spring wording used Crescent Colours Summer Spray, border in Anchor 242 Summer wording used Crescent Colours in Cupid, border in Anchor 246 Fall wording used Anchor 359, border in Crescent Colours Tangerine Winter wording used Crescent Colours Blue Moon, border in Crescent Colours Grannie Annie. Part two fibers used: Bunneh in DMC 938 Inside of Bunneh ears, heart and butterfly under the letter S in one strand of DMC 605 and one strand of Kreinik #092 pink Flower petals in Anchor #118, center of flower and second butterfly in Anchor #292, stem in Anchor #209, grass in Anchor 244. Kreinik #001 silver blending filament for butterfly antennae. Backstitching in DMC 605, one strand Part Three Fibers Used: DMC 310 for black stripes on bee Anchor 310 for branches, 244, for leaves, 359 for nest, 295 for yellow stripes on bee, 147 for heart on bee. Glisten Gloss Metallic in #SP01; silver for bee's wings Accoutrement: Mill Hill beads in #62031 Old Gold; Just Another Button Company bluebird button Well, it's late and I better head to bed. Need to clean up my desk area from where I've been stitching and get ready for bed. :) --- Respectfully submitted, C.
The Hubmeister and I went down to the Strip to take part in Earth Hour last night. On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people around the world will come together to call for action on climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. The movement symbolizes that by working together, each of us can make a positive impact in this fight, protecting our future and that of future generations. Last year, we watched from a distance, but this year, we decided to go down to the Strip to take part and basically make a Date Night out of it. I am sooooooooo glad we did. It was a trip to take pictures of the Strip before and during Earth Hour. It was eerie to see all of the lights go out like that.
Here are some of my favorites:
These two were taken as we were walking down the Strip to the walkway between the City Center and Planet Hollywood:
This is what it looked like at 832 PM PDST:
Kinda freaky, huh? :)
I have tons more pics, however, Flickr has a limit as to how much you can post per month. I will upload some more tomorrow and post a link to the album. (That and I'm just too lazy to do it right now :P).
And, this being Vegas, after the lights came back on, I managed to catch this little Moment of Zen:
To save someone's bacon. How do I know this? This is how the length of floss I needed, to travel (at least) two states, in four days for a total of 673 miles. Many, many thanks to my good friend Shannon, who popped some leftover Crescent Colours Bandana in the mailbox for me so I could finish my 4th of July Quaker Heart. Total number of stitched needed to complete the project?
Brace yourself!
Fifteen.
Yep. FIFTEEN.
Anyhoo, here it is with all of the stitching completed:
Design: 4th of July Quaker Style
Designer: AuryTM
Fabric: DMC 28 count natural linen
Fibers: Crescent Colours Antique Lace, Wavy Navy, and Bandanna
Did some other crafting today. Made a birthday card and some fancy schmancy pins. I took a tchotchke that the Hubmeister bought me a while back and turned it into a pin cushion to hold the pins I made. CooTour at it's finest! :D
Anyhoo, here's some pics of my work:
Birthday Card:
Pincushion with pins:
Hope everyone has a great weekend this weekend. I think The Hubmeister and I are going hiking, so I am sure I will have pictures to post at some point.
Dyed some more fabrics the other day. Decided to use aida this time, and I like how it turned out. Used two different colors and one is an overdyed. Here's a pic of my work:
On the left the color is heavy cream, on the right Kahlua Cream overdyed.
Managed to get some cross stitching completed. A tiny angel was worked up in about 15 minutes.
The SMO board was down for a few days this week, and boy, did I sure miss it! When it finally came back up, Sandy posted the second part of the Four Seasons Fatties SAL. I stitched it up last night and here are the results. The Hubmeister wanted the Bunneh in brown and to me, that means a chocolate color in the Spring time :P.
It could have just been me, but on the original chart, there were not any gaps between the sections, IE, between the bottom of the Spring section and the top of the Autumn one, however, when I stitched up the Bunneh, I noticed there was a single row between the two. I don't really mind, as I *LOVE* the way this turned out, but I kept thinking I was missing something. (Not unusual for me! :P)
Design: Four Seasons Fatties SAL
Designer: Sandra Dering of SanMan Originals
Fabric: 28 count white evenweave (possibly Lugana)
Overview notes: Part one Fibers and Fabric:
Fibers: Main border in DMC 310
Spring wording used Crescent Colours Summer Spray, border in Anchor 242
Summer wording used Crescent Colours in Cupid, border in Anchor 246
Fall wording used Anchor 359, border in Crescent Colours Tangerine
Winter wording used Crescent Colours Blue Moon, border in Crescent Colours Grannie Annie.
Part two fibers used:
Bunneh in DMC 938
Inside of Bunneh ears, heart and butterfly under the letter S in one strand of DMC 605 and one strand of Kreinik #092 pink
Flower petals in Anchor #118, center of flower and second butterfly in Anchor #292, stem in Anchor #209, grass in Anchor 244.
Kreinik #001 silver blending filament for butterfly antennae.
Backstitching in DMC 605, one strand
I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille!:
Today is chores day today, so I best get to it. Hope everyone has a good day today, and remember to keep that sense of humor. It's critical! :D
A while back, I may have mentioned (or not!) that since I was turning 40, I wanted to try some new things. The purpose of this was to get out of my shell and get to *doing* things, rather than reading about other people doing them. To get out of my comfort zone. Blah, blah, blah, you get the idea. :)
Yesterday, I decided to hand dye some fabrics that I had laying around. I gathered up some evenweaves and a pen and pad and various other supplies and got to work. I had also thrown in some plain old DMC just for giggles and dyed those as well. I had an absolute blast doing this, although, I need to perfect the dyeing of threads so they don't get so tangled up. :/ I will be on the lookout for tools and what all to make this job easier, and with a bit of luck, I can Alton Brown the thing and make up my own rig. :)
Anyway, here's the results of my efforts. I dyed six pieces of fabric, two skeins of floss, and slapped together two floss cards. They aren't the fancy ones, but eventually, I will get around to making those. Please let me know what you think! :)
PS: Quick note, I know the fabrics aren't serged and trust me, I have a serger on my Christmas list this year. If anyone can recommend a plain old one that isn't too fancy-schmancy, I'd love to know about it! :)
Notes:
Fabrics from left to right: Café au Lait, Mocha, Guinness Foam, Sour Mash.
Flosses in Heavy Cream and Ivory.
Floss cards: on the left, cotton print fabric in purple flowers. On the right, dark green velvet.
I am trying out Flickr and so far, I'm really liking it. Hopefully, it will allow me to ditch the crappy Webshots and make for a more pleasant experience without all those God forsaken 'interactive' ads for Delsym and cleaning products! :P
Well, I am off. I have lunch to make and I need to get ready for my Prep class this afternoon. Hope everyone is having a great day!
This was a one day start and finish, although, I started rather late in the day yesterday due to my allergies giving me absolute hell. The Valley has gotten rather more rain this year than in quite some time, almost 3.25 inches so far this year, and things are a-blooming as if on fire. Which makes for lovely flowers and such, but sort of keeping me indoors. Such is life, eh? :)
Here's the latest. I am quite enjoying my current rotation of finishing a UFO/WIP, starting a new project, go back to a UFO/WIP, start another project. It's satisfying my startitis while getting back into my finishitis. :P
Anyhoo, here's the stitchy notes and a pic of the finish:
Today is the the day of the Vernal Equinox, otherwise known as the first day of Spring. Far from being an arbitrary indicator of the changing seasons, March 20 (March 21 in some years) is significant for astronomical reasons. On March 20, 2010, at precisely 1:32 P.M. EDT (March 20, 17:32 Universal Time), the Sun will cross directly over the Earth's equator. This moment is known as the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. For the Southern Hemisphere, this is the moment of the autumnal equinox.
Translated literally, equinox means "equal night." Because the Sun is positioned above the equator, day and night are about equal in length all over the world during the equinoxes. A second equinox occurs each year on September 22 or 23; in 2010, it will be on September 22 at 11:09 P.M. EDT. This date will mark the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern (vernal denotes "spring").
These brief but monumental moments owe their significance to the 23.4 degree tilt of the Earth's axis. Because of the tilt, we receive the Sun's rays most directly in the summer. In the winter, when we are tilted away from the Sun, the rays pass through the atmosphere at a greater slant, bringing lower temperatures. If the Earth rotated on an axis perpendicular to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, there would be no variation in day lengths or temperatures throughout the year, and we would not have seasons.
Modern astronomy aside, people have recognized the vernal equinox for thousands of years. There is no shortage of rituals and traditions surrounding the coming of spring. Many early peoples celebrated for the basic reason that their food supplies would soon be restored. The date is significant in Christianity because Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. It is also probably no coincidence that early Egyptians built the Great Sphinx so that it points directly toward the rising Sun on the day of the vernal equinox.
The first day of spring also marks the beginning of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. The celebration lasts 13 days and is rooted in the 3,000-year-old tradition of Zoroastrianism.
To celebrate, I am posting Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring). Blessed Ostara to all of my Pagan and Wiccan friends! :)
So, I have a finish and an almost finish. The almost finish, I ran out of thread. Many thanks to my friend Shannon who is saving my bacon and sending me some Crescent Colours Bandanna in order to complete the project. The other is a CCN piece that became a UFO for whatever reason. Stitchy notes and pics time! :D
Fibers: Crescent Colours Antique Lace, Wavy Navy, and Bandanna
Finished:
Design: Daisy Sampler
Designer: Nikki Lehman of Country Cottage Needleworks
Fabric: 28 count unknown green jobelan (possibly Watercress)
Fibers: DMC B5200, Weeks Dye Works Holly and Honeysuckle, Crescent Colours Frozen Margarita and Bramble Bush
Began: 04.30.08
Finished: 03.19.10
I've pulled some more UFO's out of the closet and am working on those. IIRC, the Four Seasons Fatties SAL resumes on Monday, so I will have that to do as well. If Sandy starts off with the Spring section, DH has requested a brown bunny, instead of a pink one. I'll have to find a suitable brown to stitch said bunneh when the time comes. :)
All good things must come to an end, as they say. This unfortunately includes wonderful trips that you take out of town and never want to stop. DH and I managed to cram a LOT into the two and a half days we were in San Diego. Unfortunately, this also means that while we were out and about, my allergies caught hell for it and now I am paying for it. Ah, well. I've never minded the morning after as long as I've had the night before, eh? :D LOL! We went to the USS Midway, dinner with his sister and her family, the beach, the mall, the zoo and managed to somehow or another find time to drive around his old stomping grounds from when DH used to live there. Had an absolute blast, natch. DH took me to dinner on Sunday night, for my birthday. We went to the Studio Diner , which was featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives . DH had been there before and the place did *NOT* disappoint. I had the open faced turkey sammich with a Gone Bananas! milkshake and this is what came out: It was totally epic and I thoroughly recommend going there to eat. All in all, a five star weekend for sure! :) Managed to get some stitching time in on the drive there and back. Yesterday, I finished part one of the SanMan Originals Four Seasons Fatties SAL. Me being me, I can't leave well enough alone and I changed the colors that were used. Here's a pic and the stitchy notes. Again, this is a member only pattern, so you have to sign up for the message board in order to get it. Design: Four Seasons Fatties SAL Designer: Sandra Dering of SanMan Originals Fabric: 28 count white evenweave (possibly Lugana) Fibers: Main border in DMC 310 Spring wording used Crescent Colours Summer Spray, border in Anchor 242 Summer wording used Crescent Colours in Cupid, border in Anchor 246 Fall wording used Anchor 359, border in Crescent Colours Tangerine Winter wording used Crescent Colours Blue Moon, border in Crescent Colours Grannie Annie.
I decided on the coloring on the fly and I like the way it turned out. I am considering using some seasonal type buttons in the corners, but I will wait until it's finished first. May as well take my time and enjoy it. :) Hope everyone is having a good day. I'm off to find some meds for this screaming headache I have. :/ --- Respectfully submitted, C.
A quick update before I have to scoot out the door. Stitched up another quickie yesterday and started yet another project. Seem to be on a roll here. :D Anyway, there really isn't any stitchy notes for this one, because I have no clue where I got the chart, nor do I know what color of floss I used and I do not have time this morning to look it up. I will see if I can't find it on Monday. DH said we may be leaving today for San Diego, and I sure hope so! :) Anyway, I loved doing this one. It's quick and cute and oh, so French. I'm thinking about stitching it on all sorts of things now.
Design: les clefs et une abeille
Designer: unknown for now
Fabric: 28 count white opalescent lugana
Fiber: Access Commodities Soie d'Alger in unknown color
Hope everyone has a great weekend. I'll be back on Monday with pictures of my birthday weekend! :)
I had emailed Pamela Kellogg of Kitty and Me Designs some pictures of my finish from this post. I was quite honored and flattered that she responded to me to tell me she liked what I had done. I had wrote back last night asking her how to handle any requests that I may get regarding the chart. It is my custom to put any relevant designer information in my posts and stitchy notes. As I had told her, it was so long ago that I got that chart, I have no clue if it was free or not! I had asked her if she wanted me to just send folks her way, because the chart itself merely says, "Copyright 2007 Pamela Kellogg Kitty and Me Designs". Not wanting to step on any toes, I asked how she wanted that handled and today I was cruising my blogs and came across hers. Lo and behold, she had mentioned me and my emails to her! I feel so flattered and so honored that she mentioned me. If you like, you can visit her post here . She's also re-posted the chart, so grab it and remember to post a thank you! :)
Next is a tiny finish I had on my Mom's birthday yesterday. It was quick and easy and it's not really helping my startitis, but /shrug. Wattayagonnado? Anyway, here's the pic and the stitchy notes:
Design: Tiny House
Designer: Diane Williams for Little House Needleworks
Fabric: 28 count mushroom lugana
Fibers: DMC 309, 434, 712, 924, 3051, 3052, and 3371. (#309 was substituted for 3777 which I did not have).
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DESIGN WAS FOR DISTRIBUTION FOR THE LHN/CCN YAHOO GROUP MEMBERS ONLY!!!
Well, I need to go. I've been doing random chores off and on all day today and I need to study for a bit.
Sunday, I was in a cleaning up the house mode and extended that to my computer. Like my craft area, sometimes my computer gets a bit disorganized and I can't find things. While I was shifting things around to their proper spots, I came across a old free gift design from Pamela Kellogg of Kitty and Me Designs. I thought it would make a good design for a bookmark for the SIGNED copy of JD Robb's 'Born In Death'. So, yesterday, I got out the spare DMC leftover bags and went at it. Managed to stitch up a bookmark and a sachet bag in an afternoon. The sachet was pre-finished from Charles Craft and what a pain in the ass *that* was. OY!. My hand was so cramped, but it was totally worth it. I used lavender essential oil on cotton balls to stuff the sachet, so it wouldn't stain it. I think my mother will love it. I got her quite the goody box for her birthday. :D
Anyway, here's the pics and the related stitchy notes:
Design: Good Luck Robin
Designer: Pamela Kellogg of Kitty and Me Designs
Fabrics: Pre-finished white sachet in 14 count aida and 14 count ivory aida, both of Charles Craft Fabrics.
And to round things out, a recipe for hot chocolate. I am a fanatic for hot chocolate and am always on the lookout for new and exciting recipes. Enjoy! :)
Depths of Sin Hot Chocolate
Start to finish: 15 minutes
1 c. milk
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 soft banana
Pinch of cinnamon
Pinch of salt
3 ounces semi sweet chocolate, finely chopped
3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
1/2 cup marshmallow spread
In a blender, combine milk, cream, banana, cinnamon and salt. Puree until very smooth and thick.
Pour milk mixture into a small saucepan and set over medium heat. Warm the mixture, whisking constantly,
until it just barely comes to a simmer. Add both chocolates and the marshmallow spread. Whisk until
completely melted and smooth.
Ladle hot chocolate into demitasse (expresso) cups. If desired, top with a dollop of whipped cream.
Makes seven servings.
Hope everyone is having a good day. I'm off to the grocery store and more importantly, Gamestop. Final Fantasy comes out today and DH asked me to go pick it up for him. I'm gonna be a FF widow until Saturday when he takes me to San Diego for my birthday. LOL, I suppose it's a damn good thing I have stuff to stitch and World of Warcraft to to play and studying to do, eh? ;)
It's another rainy Sunday here in my section of Clark County, Nevada. It's supposed to rain off and on until Thursday, but we will see how that goes. I don't mind so much as I find I do a lot of cleaning out and organizing with it gets like this. Since I have finished some projects, I need to put up the DMC that I have used and get out my project for SanMan Sunday. I've chosen Summer Side, which Sandy very generously gifted me with over the holidays on the SMO message board. It's a really easy stitch and I am looking forward to stitching it on my own hand dyed fabric.
Here is the card that I've put together for my Mom for her birthday. Another fun stitch from Sandy at SanMan Originals.
Design: March 2010 Calendar (Member Only pattern, not for sale or trade)
Designer: Sandra Dering of SanMan Originals
Fabric: unknown count of cream and gold evenweave
Fibers: DMC 700, 701, 704 and 712
Accouterments: Irish Green satin ribbon from Michael's. Card Stock from Diecuts With A View in Spring Green Parchment.
Time for more organizing and more stitching. I need to get together my projects for the road trip DH is taking me for my birthday next weekend. He's taking me to San Diego for a long weekend. Hopefully we are going to the San Diego Zoo, which I've always wanted to visit. :)
I wish it was a Willy Wonka Wonktastic Friday, as that would at least involve chocolate and a better mood from my person, however, wonktastic refers to the 28 Ct Graziano White Milan Linen from Italy that I am working with. I am currently stitching on JBW Designs 'Cherries'. The original was done on a Melrose linen which has woven threads which fall between all of the squares. It was then made into a pillow.
Rather than try and procure the Melrose linen squares, I decided to stitch it on the 28 Ct Graziano White Milan Linen, which was actually earmarked for another project I decided not to do. I wanted a really summery feel to the piece, however, this linen is driving me straight up a tree. This piece is the wonkiest slubbiest piece of linen I have ever had the misfortune of stitching on. And in addition to that, it also obtain rub marks from the Q-Snaps less than three hours after I initially began the project. Oh, *YAY*. As a result, I took some scrap fabric that I had left over and buffered the snaps on the frame with them. I wouldn't mind so much, but the bloody piece of fabric cost me 10.50 back in the day, and it's really not that large of a piece. >:(
Oy, Oy, Oy! Oy, I say!
At any rate, here is my update:
Design: Leaflet #115, Cherries
Designer: Judy Whitman of JBW Designs
Fibers: DMC 523, 935, 963, 3363, 3685, and 3688
Fabric: 28 Ct Graziano White Milan Linen
I am not sure what I am going to do about the empty spaces where the woven bars would have been, but I'll cross that stitch when I come to it, eh? ;). I have 'Summer Side' all kitted up and ready to go for SanMan Sunday. Hopefully, I will get a chance to sit and work on it a bit.
Well, I best be off. I have chores that need doing and this afternoon, I have 'The Duchess' and 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' queued up for my viewing pleasure. I have some Orville Redenbacher's Kettle Korn that I will be noshing vigorously during my cinematic afternoon. :P
Taking a break from studying to screw around on the intarwebs, because, well, that's what the intarwebs are for, no? Posting captioned pictures of cats and social networking, yea? :D
Yesterday was apparently, tying up loose ends day. It was also SanMan Sunday. Some of the ladies of the SMO message board have chosen Sundays to stitch on any SMO projects. I finished off two SMO's and a LHN that had been sitting for a bit. I'm happy to have them completed. I put the Cross Eyed Cricket that I had been working on back in the Q-Snaps and I will be working on that from now on. It's over halfway completed, so I hope to have it finished soon. Then I can start on a present for DH, Maria Diaz' Seafarer's Globe from a UK magazine. I have a hideously expensive piece of Legacy Linen by Picture This Plus to stitch it on. I got all of the DMC threads for it this morning at Michael's, however, they did not have one of the colors I needed, so I will pick that up later. I am waffling between using Kreinik braid and Rainbow Gallery's petite Treasure Braid. The design calls for DMC Light Effects and I'd rather have major dental surgery than to stitch with that crap. I haven't really used PTB, however, there is some in the Checkered Love kit by M Designs. I may wait on the stitching of the map until I've had a chance to try the PTB out.
Well, here are the finishes, that were finished last night, 02.28.10.
Finish #1:
Designer: Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks
Fabric: 28 count light cream Monaco evenweave
Fibers: Crescent Colours House Wine, Hickory Sticks and Bean Sprout, DMC 434, 644, 676, 937, and B5200
Note: Substituted CC Hickory Sticks for the called for DMC 3371 as I did not have 3371 in my bags at the time. (Usually, it's the other way around...DMC for specialty threads, LOL!)
Finish #2 and 3:
On the right:
Design: Snow Much
Designer: Sandra Dering for SanMan Originals for SMO Members Only
Fabric: 28 count opalescent lugana
Fibers: DMC B5200, 305, 601 and 3806
On the right:
Design: Kiss Me February 2010 Calendar
Designer: Sandra Dering for SanMan Originals for SMO Members Only
Fabric: 16 count (I think!) pale pink aida
Fibers: DMC 318, 415, 602, 603 and a tiny bit of Kreinik blending filament
Here is the current WIP. Please bear in mind the lighting is not good today, so the picture isn't the best. :/:
Design: February Heart from CEC Leaflet #240 Peace
Designer: Cross Eyed Cricket
Fibers: DMC 224, 500, 503, 822, 3032, 3033, 3721
Fabric: 28 count Monaco, hand dyed by me in a color I like to refer to as Dark Honey Ale :)
Here is The Next Big Thing. I swear I love the planning and pulling of mats better than i like stitching at times! I really get into changing the threads and fabrics to make a project uniquely my own. :P
Design: Seafarer's Globe from the UK CrossStitcher magazine #187, June 2007 edition
Designer: Maria Diaz
Fabric 28 count linen by Picture This Plus in Legacy
Fibers: DMC
In the above picture, you can tell that the 3031 is the odd man and is the one that Michael's did not have. I will pick another one up at Joanne's or maybe Stitcher's Paradise later this week. I managed to somehow snap one one but TWO of my beloved platinum needles by John James and both were my favorites. Le sigh.
The Hubmeister and I watched the heartbreaking loss of the US men's Olympic team to Canada in hockey for the gold medal yesterday. The US played their hearts out and I am proud to say, it wasn't a 'Gimme' for the Canadians in the least. Luongo gave up two goals, and BOTH were entirely his fault. Maybe now the yapping will cease that Marty is 'washed up' and a 'burned out has-been'. Luongo is naught but 30, but consistency has never been his forte. I noticed that when the Canadian players were being announced as they were being given their gold medals, Luongo was summarily booed, while Marty was cheered, despite the fact that Marty was pulled after the Canadians suffered a loss to the US in the preliminary rounds. Intéressant, n'est pas?
Two US players were of particular note during the game. Thanks to NJ Devil Number Nine, Mr. Zach Parise, the USA managed to hang on until an OT could be played. Thank you, Mr. Parise, for giving the US hope and that was one HELL of a goal, 24 seconds before the end of regulation play tying the game 2-2, forcing a sudden death OT.
And of course, much thanks and gratitude go out to Mr. Ryan Miller, of the Buffalo Sabres who was backstopping for Team USA. Without you, Mr. Miller, Team Canada would have run all over us, like a John Deere in the middle of harvest season in Iowa. Team USA could not have hung on like they did without you and some of the most awesome goal tending I have ever seen, and that includes my beloved Martin Brodeur. You played your heart out and made the Canadians earn every last goal, right down to the wire and for that I thank you. I am proud that you played and started for Team USA and silver medal is nothing to be ashamed of. I saw the disappointment and heartbreak written all over your face and oh, how I wish the US could have scored the goal first! You did more than your best and for that I thank you. After your performance, while I may be a Jersey Devil girl forever, I am a Ryan Miller fan for life. :)
For Mr. Miller:
Hope everyone is having a good start to their week. I've screwed around long enough and now need to go study some more. :P
