More of the 15

I have decided I need to purchase a camera - I just do not like the pictures I get from my phone, it seems I spend too much time editing them.  I bet I can make some sort of adjustments on the phone and on my lighting to make a wonderful difference - but maybe my phone is a phone, and I should just get a camera. Thoughts? I gave my digital to my daughter-in-law, with the thought I would buy a new one for me - but I have kept putting it off and I think it has become a must...

So the weight lose is so far - two weeks been successful.  I celebrate very move down, no matter how small - so I have had two weeks of celebrations - very small but I am celebrating.  Thanks for all your encouragment.

Work is still crazy go nuts...

Stitching - you will quickly notice why I want a camera....



Town of Halloween





Day 8 JCS Town of Halloween

Day 9 I Love Coffee

Day 10 Celtic Beauty

Day 11 Bear Under the Tree

This is a Stoney Creek - Day 12, it looks like I stitched nothing, but there is about 50 stitches

Day 13 - Touched by Autumn. 

Day 14, this is a Wedding Sampler - Joan Elliot, I must take another picture

 

My 15th day I worked on my Belles and Guys - and I will show that off on the 31st.  I have no scheduled rotation - and I probably won't - and there are several of my left over starts from 2012 I believe will be more of a priority.

So I do know after all of this - I don't mind a few wips - but now I have too many. (Well for me).  But I had to try.  And I do like the fact I went through my stash, and fell back in love with several charts I had forgot about - and reminded myself, I can be quiet happy doing all sorts of charts, from several different designers, all different sizes and different levels of difficulty... 

Off to read some blogs.  Hope you are all in a peaceful place

Finally, A Day off

New Boss at work, been a tough month or two figuring out how she wants us to do our jobs.  It has been difficult for me to adjust - but I think I am on an upward climb. I have changed my hours to work at 6:30am - this way I will have two hours before anyone else arrives. I hope to be able to accomplish a lot - will get out early, but even if I have to work late - my late will be 5:30 so it will be better I hope.

I have been off, started back at my weight loss program - I know this is a stitching blog, but it is good for me to post these things - I have gained back 25 pounds - work so hard to lose, so quickly it returns.  I have my first weigh in back tonight - so fingers crossed, I can see a tiny result... Changing my hours I hope will get me to the gym.

Stitching.  Well, doing 15 starts in 15 days was not as easy as I thought - it was fun to go through my stash and pick new starts, and I was so excited to each one, but almost sad to put it down and pick up another with only a days progress.  Also only working an hour on a chart, well I can't get that much done in a hour.  So I am posting a few starts now, and I hope when I return from my weigh, I will post more.


This did not have to be new starts - it could also be current.  But I will show you new first, and create a little gadget on the side of the blog to track my progress on all.  I previously posted day #1.


Coffee Shop Day 2, yes that is my hand taking this picture, I have to figure out my lighting.  There is a better picture of my new starts on my Page dedicated to my 2013 New Starts. 



Day 3 - Dog Bone Wisdom

Day 4 Witch's Pantry

Day 5 Irish Blessing

Day 6 Small Ornament from Mag - I found this mitten as part of a fingertips towel design, there are six mittens altogether, I am stitching all six individually and adding a bit of Christmas blessing to the bottom.  So this is a finish as is.  I will update my 2013 page with these pictures.

Day 7 This is Theatre of the Absurd.  This is the 2013 Freebie SAL from HAED.

Will have an update of the rest I hope later tonight. 

Happy New Year

Stitching Update

 

I did not finish all of my December goals, but it would be a very strange thing if I had.  I did finish my 2nd Snow Belle - Baby it's cold outside, which was my number one goal. 

 

 I am very happy with my progress on Winter by Sue Hillis.  I am so close to being finished, so I hope to be able to finish that off by end of January - but not sure with the 2013 Crazy Cross Stitch Challenge, but stranger things have happened. 

I worked a tiny bit on Santa's Village - and on my other Christmas piece, Santa may sit for quite awhile before he comes out again - but being that Santa's Village is a SAL, and the 2nd part has been released, I will be working a little on it in the month to come. 

 

 

2013 Cross Stitch Challenge - 15 Starts in 15 Days, Day 1 - This is a very old chart - from this late 80's early 90's publication.  I have a better picture on my Challenge Page.  I have decided to do this on black - with DMC 3844 - It looks pretty good - I hope to be able to get a better picture next time. 

My January Goals - to work on 15 different projects one different for each of the first 15 days of January.  Some of these will be left overs from other years.  AND
To finish my Next Snow person  

Peace to All.  I hope this new year brings peace and wonderful blessings to all.