Weekend Stitching and stuff

Hello dear friends. I have something stitchy I wasn't able to post about last week...
What I haven't told you about last week is... DSIL came for a visit:) She's been here before, but whenever she comes to the US, she usually stays with her childhood friend/s in San Francisco CA, then mail stuff to us. She's the same DSIL I talked about in my very old post. So what did I ask for this time (besides food, lol)? She bought me transparent bobbins! The ones my OCD mind has been looooonging for (the same ones I've talked pathetically about in the same post above, haha). And of course, some fabrics. She knows I like aida, but there were no 16ct or 18ct from the store she went to. She got me 2 yards of 11 ct of ecru aida which comes just at the right time as "the new stitching convert" is about to finish her Classic Cameo piece (which I will show you later, so hang on to that), and 2 yards of 14ct light blue aida, no white, ecru or other light fabrics in stock. I wanted a large cut for my PS Alphabet series, so I just told her not to get anything that's cut to a smaller size (I'll just get it online:( I didn't take a picture of the goodies yet as we were busy talking and talking (she left for SF early Friday morning and will return home on the 11th after visiting some more relatives in the west coast). I'm going to show the bobbins (and fabric) in the future when my floss storage is neatly organized and ready for the camera:)
Okay, so let's talk progress. The weekend was spent on Christmas Eve:

 Just the usual brown stuff, the trees and sack on the sled.

 I'm going to put this aside for now since light-colored threads are next (aside from the gray smoke and lighter green). Yes, lots of snowy-white stitching ahead which I'm not in the mood just yet.
Now, that wasn't quite worth your while, right? Mine too, so here's a...Start:

I'm stitching Where There Are Bees on a 14ct. white aida:)
And as promised, here's the picture of the new convert's Cameo piece she found free on the net:

The girl is so excited to do backstitch (I kept my backstitch thoughts to myself, lol). She wants to frame it right away for her room. I told her to stitch in the same direction but girl won't listen and said only she will know the difference because it will be in her room --ahh, teenagers!  But not bad eh?

On another note, have you seen the extended trailer of Me Before You (adapted from the bestselling book by Jojo Moyes)? It's been on youtube last week. I've read the book maybe 2 years ago and really, really liked it (I even let a teenager borrow it, as a matter of fact I told him he could keep it last time we saw each other, he's into theater and loves to read). I'm not sure yet if I'll go see it. For the record, to this day I haven't watched Gone Girl (Ben Affleck), because the reviews said there were lots of changes (for the worse), so I just made a (weird) decision to stick with my book memories, sorry Ben:(

Thanks for visiting. Happy Stitching!