And the Nominees Are…

As many of you know, I have been watching all of the Best Picture winners as part of my 101 Things in 1001 Days list. Of course, this time of year is always important to me โ€“ the nominations and the actual Academy Awards, but this year it will mean I have another film to add to my list. The nominees were announced, and here they are for Best Picture:

Babel

The Departed

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

The Queen

I have not seen any of these, but have heard good things about them all. My good friend, Sherri, and I are having a girlโ€™s night out tonight and we are going to see The Queen. I am really looking forward to it. Plus, there will be Mexican Food โ€“ my favorite! Iโ€™ll let you know how the film is. And, then I will watch to see which one wins for Best Picture, so that I can add it to my list! We have Gentlemanโ€™s Agreement at home to watch for our next filmโ€ฆ.maybe this weekend.

In stitching newsโ€ฆIโ€™ve been all over the place. You may remember, that I was stitching on Queen of the Needle as my โ€œon the goโ€ projectโ€ฆ

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Well, I stopped working on it, it order to work on thisโ€ฆ

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All my threads havenโ€™t come in for it, so I started working on thisโ€ฆ

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Seeโ€ฆIโ€™m crazy with the projects. I decided since it was the middle of January, that Iโ€™d best get to work on my February sheep blanket (by the way, I have heard that with the release of the last three charts, they will be discontinuing the sheep and his blankets โ€“ so get them if you want them!). Well, my threads that I ordered on January 1st, still have not shown up. So, I have stitched all that I can stitch on my little blanket until they do. So, rather than going back to QOTN, I decided Iโ€™d work on something small. I pulled out the next (third in the series) Shepherdโ€™s Bush ornament to stitch on. This one is Shepherds Watched. Hopefully, my thread will come soon, and I can get that February blanket done.

Thanks to everyone who left kind words in the comments โ€“ I really really appreciate all of your support and thoughts. If it werenโ€™t for the idea of this being an interactive space, I would just stick with my journalโ€ฆbut I love blogging and the opportunity it affords me to hear from all of you and share my thoughts and projects. Thanks again!

Walk to Rivendell: birch grove (total miles: 13.5)

I am grateful for all the comments you left!

12 thoughts on “And the Nominees Are…”

  1. Each of your pieces are coming along nicely. I’ve had days like that too where I bounce from one thing to the other.

    Enjoy The Queen. I’m so behind on my Acadmey Awards movies for this year.

  2. I just read about the discontinuation of Wooley and his blankets, so I was going to write to you, but it sounds like you are already on top of things. ๐Ÿ™‚ I love all of your projects. As long as you finish them, it doesn’t matter how many you have going!

  3. You have a lot of projects going…just like me ๐Ÿ™‚ I have startritis…what about you?! Seems like you get yours done though…I have finishitis too…LOL!

  4. Nice projects ๐Ÿ™‚ I have days that I go through 4 or 5 before I get “inspired” *lol*
    Carol tells me that you got the fabby for Mermaids of the Deep Blue (same as her’s) … mine’s on the way … wondering if you would like to do a SAL for it?

  5. I’m having a day like that where I can’t get to work on anything!

    What a shame they’re going to discontinue the sheep and blankets. I think he’s so cute!

  6. Michelle-We watched Little Miss Sunshine last night. It was funny, dark, sorta twisted. We enjoyed it. The Queen is on my “want to see” list.

  7. Have fun at the movies – I haven’t seen any of them either; in fact, some of them I hadn’t heard of. I guess I’ve been living under a rock!

  8. The Silver Thistle

    The Queen of the needle is on my ‘to-do’ list. It looks lovely on the gingham!

    How was ‘The Queen’?……….it’s on my ‘to-do’ list too, lol. I’m a big fan of Helen Mirren. I just watched her in ‘Elizabeth’ which was about Queen Elizabeth I. I can’t remember but I think it was a BBC dramatisation rather than a film. Either way…it was brilliant!

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