week for cross stitch and giveaways

I'm so week I admit it, I swore to myself that I wouldnt start any new cross stitch patterns until I had finished at least one of my large WIP before starting any new ones. I was trying for the rose drama completion but the urge to start just over came me :P


this is a stacked jack-o-lanterns bookmark pattern that I got out of a craft magazine at some point in time. Not sure which magazine it was but the designer is Robin Kingsley. It's just so cute






At some point I plan to make a halloween afghan with small halloween patterns. At some point I got ahold of a black aida cloth afghan, probably in some ebay lot I bought. I bought a few more small halloween patterns at a cross stitch store I just discovered. Hopefully I now have enough to make the afghan:)



And also Victorian motto sampler shoppe is having another give away, this one for over dyed floss,, i've never worked with over dyed floss but I image it would make for some really gorgeous cross stitches.

head on over to the give away which is here : http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com/2012/01/hand-dyed-floss-give-away-from-motto.html

WIPocalypse # 1

I've actually stitched quite a bit this month :) I finished a little christmas ornament earlier in the month called gingerbread boy he started out with one green heart and one red heart completed and i worked the rest this month






and i made good progress on my large project drama rose, most of the vase is new stitches



I'm enjoying working on my cross stitch projects that i had basically just quit working on.

blegg!! on 2012

bleh so far 2012 is not shaping up to be any better than 2011. started the year single then spent the end part of this week sick. I do believe I have a cold which sucks because of the fever. I hate running a fever it makes my body ache, and give me a hell of a headache and when i run it for more than a couple days I always end up with bronchitis so now i need to go get an expectorant cause my chest is congested. then to top it off my new sunday person that i've been trying to train apparently had a panic attack at work. :( the manager and everybody else kept giving her conflicting instructions and rushing her and basically just confusing the hell out of her. so she ended up calling me every hour or so till she just ended up freaking out and I had to go help her. turns out she wasnt as bad off as she thought but everyone was just freaking her out because they all kept trying to get into her business but no actually helping her out in anyway. the owner is goin to try to give me a whole day with her where no one will be calling her to work other positions or trying to get her attentio. I told her that if i get her for a whole day to inform all her people that she's not allowed to have phone calls that day because she will belong to me and me alnone

stitch give away (not mine) and dresses

Victorian Motto Sampler shoppe is giving away some spice bag kits that are absolutely adorable here : http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com/2012/01/primitive-black-crow-spice-bag-kits-my.html (you'll probably have to cut and paste the link cause my blog is giving me issues with adding links) that I would really like to win, if not I may have to go to her ebay shop and buy some after I get paid. not only do they look like they would be fun to stitch but I think they would probably go great with my SCA stuff, which I barely have any of yet :) speaking of I got my first dress for the event I plan on goin to this month and its exciting. unfortunately since it was premade its a little short on me so I'll eventually have to get an underdress to wear under it.
What I didn't expect was the machine stitching that is showing which I will have to cover with some trim, but I guess that just means I'll spend less time working on my cross stitch this month.










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a little christmas in january

A little bit of christmas for the begining of 2012. :) I just finished my first cross stitch of the year. It's a small christmas ornament called "gingerbread boy"





found this little partially worked ornament when I was digging thru my stash looking to see what patterns I have and needed a break from my current large project so finished it off. Took 2 days and now to decide wether to go back to "rose drama" or to pick up one of my other projects that are currently unfinished. what a good way to spend my day off. stitching and digging thru my stash. so many patterns to decide from.

random house

while using stumble! I stumbled on this pic of a house in the mountains,, i think i wanna live here the scene is so gorgeous








when using stumble upon I frequently find pics of picturesque places that I would love to visit or live. If I ever win the power ball I will definately be travelling and probably eventually settle in some random country. Oh if wishes were horses with wings I could fly away from a boring life.

WIPocalypse # 1

While digging around in my stash to see which projects I wanna start next I found 2 more WIP that I started and never finished





this one is a little ornament called gingerbread boy from a company called needlemagic, Inc










this one is called Water Dragon from Janlynn I started this one years ago, I think I stopped stitching on it because I miscounted some stitches, but I'm not sure if that was the reason or if I just wandered off into another project














I currently have 3 WIP cross stitch projects going on I hope to finish at least one of them before i start another, but my attention span is so short I'm not gonna hold my breath on it :P


this one is called universal unity, if i ever finish it it'll be the biggest one I've ever done













this one is called Mai, she will be beautiful if I ever finish it












this one is called Rose Drama and is the one I'm currently working on, I'm hoping to finish this one before I get distracted and move onto one of the others, but will not be holding my breath













I have a fourth that is a wizard that I opened and sorted the threads but never actually never started that will probably be my next to be started.

List of current cross stitch patterns:
1) Mai - by dimensions
2)universal unity - from dimensions
3)rose drama - from creative accents
4) water dragon - from janlynn
5) gingerbread boy FINISHED YAY!