Red Thread progress and the hope of a new fur baby

I finally have a picture to post of the Red Thread piece. Now that I am working on it, it is coming along rather quickly. I'm hoping to get a lot more of it done before January as I will be starting a SAL with my DSIL then. Since she seems to have electric fingers, it seems that I will be stitching only on the SAL piece just to keep up with her. Our SAL pieces will be two different ones from Blue Ribbon Designs. She will be doing Six Bats and a Witches Hat while I'll be doing
Letters, Leprechauns, and Luck. They will be sizable projects (at least for us) so I imagine this SAL will last for at least 6 months. I'm sure that I will rotate in a few smaller pieces just to keep from getting bored.

I woke up the other morning feeling like Mr. Black really needed a playmate. Gracie is sweet and kind, but just won't play with him. I'm not sure if it is just that a girl's idea of play doesn't quite jive with a boy's idea of play or what. At any rate, Mr. Black likes to chase and wrestle. Gracie does not. She's content to curl up with him in a sunbeam, but she won't play with him. She won't even play chase with her little mousies if he is also going after them. In short, he intimidates her. To make a short story long, I ended up seeing this sweet white kitty at my local Chow Hound. She is already a little over a year old, however, she is very playful and enjoys being carried around on a shoulder. This won her big brownie points when I pulled her out of her cage and discovered that. I put in an application with the Humane Society as they are who owns the animals displayed out in the stores. Hopefully, I will find out tomorrow if we will be adding another fur baby to our collection. Her hair is a bit longer so I will need to vacuum much more often. The humane folks named her Gaby because she talks alot. Now my Gracie talks all of the time, especially if you get on the phone or turn off all of the lights to go to sleep. I hope the two of them together isn't a bad idea.

Good luck to everyone on their holiday preparations,