Keebles World

I think, with an extra day off this weekend, I just got too bored of watching nothing on TV and needed an outlet, so I ended up stitching a bit on Monday. My arms got really tired, really fast (and I had a lot of trouble focusing), but at least I did something. It's kind of amazing how hard it is just to pick up stitching after a long lapse...it is more physically strenuous than most people give it credit for. I worked on Faces of Faery 167, by Jasmine Becket-Griffith: I left off here on March 11 of 2018: I made it here after a few hours of work: It does look like I did a lot more than I did now that I can see the two pics side-by-side, but it is a VERY small piece (it will only be 7x7 when finished), so it was hard to tell while I was working on it that I was even making any progress! But as you guys keep telling me, something is better than nothing, right? We'll see how the week takes me and I'd like to say I'll keep going with stitching, especially since ...

As promised, here's a bit of a look at the remainder of the devastation that is still visible from Hurricane Michael. To be honest, I was kind of surprised to see this much trash still sitting around since October, especially down such a wide birth of coastline. I have been going to the coast since I was a kid, seen many a hurricane come through and they always seem to rally in such an amazing way to at least clean up the debris, even if it takes them longer to rebuild. I guess it's a sign of how bad things are in this country that, even after 9 months, this level of ruin still remains. I didn't take a lot of pictures at all, but the full album is here for those who would like to see them. But before we get to the bad, here is the good that is St. George. It was EXTREMELY crowded, and I guess I kind of figured out that I apparently have never been to the beach during the summer before! All my previous trips have been during the off season! Thankfully the crowds te...

If good intentions were dollars, I'd be rich by now! I keep meaning to stitch, other things just keep distracting me. Weekend before last, I spent it scanning in old photos so I could have them digitally and I didn't finish (nor have I scanned any since). At some point, I will have to spend the time in Lightroom cleaning them up, but that's a project for another day. Last weekend, I went to the coast on another one of my world-wind road trips. I went with a school friend who had never seen the ocean and has been asking to go along. I always have this idealized vision of taking someone on this amazing journey to a new place, single-handedly being responsible for changing someone's life by showing them something they have never seen before...but it never seems to work out that way (and yet I keep doing it, the very definition of insanity). Maybe because my first trip to the ocean was life-changing for me and I think everyone will feel that way. One of these days,...

Yeah, I suck. I didn't even try to stitch. I kept saying "toward the end of the week", but then I ended up with a massive headache, one bad enough that I even ended up leaving work early (which I NEVER do for a headache) and then I just never got around to it. I ended up cleaning my house for the first time in forever and doing other things that ate up the rest of the weekend. I did get through all of Roswell, New Mexico (I like the original show better) and the 14th season of Supernatural (yeah, now I understand why Jared and Jensen are ready to let go...even I, the most diehard of Supernatural fans had trouble liking that season except towards the end), so it wasn't a total wasted week. No need in talking about how many times I also watched The Kissing Booth and To All The Boys I've Loved Before (or read each book in the the series)...another OCD thing I'm going through right now. But my Sister reminded me that I haven't posted a pup pic in a whil...