Happy Monday. I think. It's one of those mornings where I think it's too early to tell. It's dark o'thirty, as one of my good online friends puts it, and I'm just not awake yet.

So, this week I have Three Questions to answer since I missed last week because I was still on vacation (but had already had my answer in mind), and the previous week had something way more important going on (and I'd already written the answer before I learned what was going on, but pulled the blog), so I'll go in chronological order.

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If you could only finish one of the pieces in your stash as it is at the moment, what would it be and why?

Well, darn... that's hard. I've got two pieces in my WIP pile that were gifts, and one that wasn't but is important to me.

Let's start with mine - The Fortunate Traveler... there's something about that piece that calls to me, and the platinum murano I have it on is just lovely!!! I think that piece will be awesome when I finish it, but I have to get to that point - and I already have the frame for it sitting in the closet. It's such a wonderfully intricate piece between the story, the dragon, the border... how could it not be a masterpiece?

Then there's the gifts - one being Shimmering Mermaid, the other being Desiderata. They were both gifts from dear friends - one for Christmas, one as a Secret Stitcher gift. Both anonymously, until I found out who was responsible. I can't possibly choose between the two. It would just be wrong...

So, my answer is... no answer. I couldn't possibly choose.

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What would your stitching confession be?

I have many things to confess:
I don't tidy my backs - they're a mess, but considering a great amount of my works are TWs with lots of confetti, that sort of comes with the territory.

I sometimes don't frog wrong stitches - I'll work around them when I can, even to the point of utter frustration and tossing the piece in the closet for a good 6 months before I can stand to see it again.

I lick my floss - deal with it. If you can't deal with it, well then... learn to deal with it.

I use loop starts *gasp* Run her out of town on a rail!!! Aaaaaahhhhh. Ok. Deal with it.

I think that's all I'm going to confess today because otherwise my stitcher's license might be revoked.

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If you were to stitch something to be passed on to future generations of your family as an heirloom, what would it be and why?

Whoo... that may already be completed. TWs 'Dragon Ride' - a story goes with it. I started that piece (my first truly major one) on Saint Patrick's Day 2000 while I was watching 'Waking Ned Devine' (great movie if you've not seen it). i was thinking of what to name the dragon, and the name Sullivan leapt out at me (from the movie, of course). So I asked the little wing feathering that I had started if his name were Sullivan, and I heard a dragon roar in the distance. In retrospect it could have been a faraway dog growling, or a motorcycle starting up, but then it sounded like a dragon, and that's my story, I'm sticking to it.

Anyway, I stitched up the dragon, calling him Sullivan all the while. My daughter, B (a.k.a. Boo) was calling him Sully, so we think that Pixar stole the names from us, personally (reference: Monsters, Inc for those who don't get it). So, Sullivan gets finished, framed, and a put a little card on the back with the details of when I started, when I finished, and what I had been doing when I started the piece.

DH saw it and when I wondered where we should hang it, he took down a prized piece of Disney artwork and hung that in it's place - where it still hangs today. Now, along the way we've been telling the kids bedtime stories that we make up as we go along. One of the characters in one of the stories is a Princess B who found a baby dragon.... named Sullivan.

With a wealth of these stories behind us, and many others yet to be told I would have to say that our family heirloom is already up on the wall.

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That's it from me today. I think all my blogs for the week are probably going to be short since I'm about to embark on a rather large numbers project. We'll have to see.

Either way, have a wonderful week.