NaNoWriMo Is In Full Swing

The novel writing bug has bitten all three of my children this year and each one of them has taken on the personal challenge to compete in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

My oldest son is creating a sci-fi story full of aliens and spaces ships and has set his word count at 12000 words total. He's been spending the first couple hours of each morning so far writing furiously as he works towards his goal of 400 words a day. He isn't a huge fan of writing stories so when he shows me the four pages of double spaced writing it takes him to get there I can't help but smile from ear to ear and cheer him on :)

I know that he's going to need a lot of cheering as he reaches the middle of the month and starts to feel tired of all the writing but he has both his younger brother and sister to keep him going to. They are in a bit of competition with him *grin*. Their word goals are much lower resulting in lower word counts for their days and they have been surpassing their numbers at least three fold and it really bugs big brother that their word graphs on their NaNoWriMo pages are way higher than his LOL.

Are any of your children participating in the youth NaNoWriMo?

Hugs,
Rosina

Count My Blessings Stitch Along

Amy is hosting another great stitch along and this time the focus is to stitch all of the wonderful things that make our lives so blessed :) I was to late to join in her last one but not this time! I am so excited *grin*. The goal is to create a grid of 100, one inch sized squares and to stitch an image of something or someone that blesses our lives inside each of the squares. What a fantastic way to take stock of all that we have, to appreciate it wholly and to realize that what we think is less can quite often be more!

I love the following quote that she shared and it sums it up perfectly:

"I murmured that I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet." -- Persian Proverb

Photo courtesy of Zannestar via Flickr

I've started a separate page on my blog just for my 'blessing' updates so that you can quickly find new entries and photos to my stitch along blocks without having to sort through my entire blog to find them :) You can see it over on the right hand sidebar up at the top underneath the 'Counting My Blessings' logo. Each time I post a new blessing entry I will put up a photo and a link to the original entry there so you can click over and read it easily. Looking forward to stitching along with you and to read more about Amy's challenge visit her blog at Counting My Blessings :)

Happy Stitching!
~ Rosina

Project Quilting

I thought you might be wondering what has happened to all of my crafty posts as I seem to be focusing on the nature challenge everyday.

My craft projects are here... somewhere... perhaps behind the mountains of thread and fabric scraps that seem to be surrounding me right now *grin*. My little shop is booming right now and subsequently it has kept my very busy this week! Definitely a good thing but it has cut into my own creative time :)

I did want to share a link to Project Quilting that is happening right now over at Kim's Crafty Apple. Every other Sunday they will be posting a quilt block challenge where you create anything that is small, like a doll quilt, tea cozy, table runner etc. with that block and then share it with all of the other participants that are playing along :) They are currently doing the Shoo-fly block and I had really wanted to play along this round but it is due this Sunday and I just know I won't be able to get it done in time. So now I will have to be on the look out for the next challenge! I wonder what block they will choose next :)

In the meantime I think I've just about caught up on all of the orders and if I'm lucky I'll get a break over the weekend so that I can get some of the neglected housework done *grin*.

~ Rosina