A change of plans

I am very happy to say that after working in the yard for several hours each day last Wednesday through Saturday, the bushes are ready for winter! I might still trim some of the trees if the weather stays nice, but the worst part is over. There were four bushes that I didn't get around to last year when my mom's health failed, and one of those is a bush with the worst thorns I've ever felt, so I was really dreading that one. But my husband stepped up, bought a hedge trimmer and got it whipped into shape in a relatively short time--if he hadn't, it would have taken me most of a day to get it done, so that was a huge relief.

I am mostly done with one of the Nora Corbett models, but I'm waiting to hear back about a question so I couldn't work on it after last Tuesday. I hate to take it off the Qsnaps, which I need for the next one, so I decided to start the lab puppy ornament for my friend while I wait for a reply from Wichelt. I was going to stitch the one standing in the water here:

Then last week I went over to her house, and she was telling me that they have to keep their toilet paper on the bathroom counters because Pepper likes to paw the rolls all the way down to the cardboard; of course, I had to stitch the other design instead! I finished the stitching this morning:

Now I just need to finish it so it's ready for their Christmas tree this year, so I'll do that when the mood strikes--it's nice to have the stitching done because that's the part that takes the most time.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do next; I'll either work on Red for a couple of days while I wait for Wichelt to get back to me, or I'll cave and take the almost finished model off the Qsnaps and start the next one. Decisions, decisions...

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!