Sunday Stitching

Thank goodness for three-day weekends, although I can't say I was very productive. I had so many tasks laid out for this weekend and somehow managed to avoid every single one of them other than stitching, including finishing rebuilding my laptop after replacing my hard drive. I used all the storms we had as an excuse not to work on my laptop, but as for all my other projects, I have no excuses other than pure laziness.

But, on the plus side, to say I managed a bit of stitching would be the understatement of the year! I'm pretty sure that with another three-day weekend next weekend, I'll be able to finish Rainy Wedding by the end of the year. I left off here last week:

Finished the top row on Thursday night:

And by tonight I made it here, almost done with page 6 (although it's going MUCH slower now because the confetti is heavier):

There is only a full page and a column left and I will be all done...or at least done with this part of the project. I still have to stitch their names and wedding date on a separate piece of fabric. I haven't decided what font or what kind of thread I want to use yet. Guess I need to do some serious thinking about this week too.

I'm kind of kicking myself for letting this project sit around for so long, I could have be finished last New Years...damn that hindsight! I'm hoping that if I manage to focus on it enough during this upcoming week, maybe I'll have the time to get to all those household projects I put off.

Plus, I've ordered the missing threads and fabric for the three new projects, and I hope to have time next weekend to get them ready to start Jan 1. Between winding bobbins, scrolling the fabric, and adding grid lines, that it itself could take an entire day. So here we go with the final week of 2015!

Happy 13th Blogoversary to the worst blogger ever!

Yep, I'm still here. This is the first time I've touched any blog in months. My focus has been in the "me" world. I have a new therapist and it's still early days, but I'm doing much better both mentally and physically. Work always sucks, so that's already a dead horse. And both pups are still hangin in there. My last post was probably the last time I stitched or at least my last Instragram post was. Maleficent still isn't framed, she's still in her ziploc baggie on the kitchen table. Bad me all around. I'm getting worse at this whole social media thing, what little I do. My job is tech burnout, so by the time I get home, the only tech I touch is my TV. The thought of creating a blog post or human communication in any way is just too much. I do have two vacations coming up, so that's exciting, right? I haven't felt like sharing, so very few people around me know about these. The first is a birthday trip to Boulder, j...

A to Z Challenge - B

PART 1 - JANE AUSTEN ALPHABET-COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BRANDON A much better hero than Edward Ferrars in my opinion PART 2 - MY DISNEY COLLECTION-BOOKS Obviously the age limit on books means very little to me: Do magazines count as books? Well, they are on the book row and they are Disney related, so there you go! There are several more shelves of these and they get more movement than anything else because their weight tends to kill bookshelves rather quickly. It helps to shuffle them around upon occasion to give the poor shelves a breather.

A to Z Reflections Post

I'm going to try not to be as wordy as previous years (but no promises). I did two challenges this year, my Jane Austen Alphabet Cross Stitch project, which is now complete: I haven't gotten it framed yet...heck, I still haven't gotten last year's framed either, so there is no telling when it will get done. Thanks to my friend Tiff for her suggestion of the blue fabric over the brown...she made the right choice I think! There is really nothing more to add on my second challenge, My Disney Collection, other than I have realized that my OCD apparently isn't strong enough to focus me in one particular direction. I like to think I have a Duck Room and a Princess/Villains room, but it's more like a Duck/Stitch/Parks room, a Mickey Bathroom, a Disney-themed kitchen, a living room filled with various objects, and a Princess and Villains bedroom. I don't think as a whole, they look so bad, it just looked a bit hoarderish when I divided them up into categori...

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