Get on with it!!! :-D

For weeks now I have been telling myself that I would blog about ______ just as soon as it is finished.

I would finish ______ and move on to the next thing, completely forgetting I wanted to blog about it.

Week after week I have done this, but no more!

Yay!

Been busy getting my life back together.

I walked my first half marathon. 

 I didn't finish. 

(before the race all happy and ready to go... there is no picture of after... for good reasons)

 I apparently have acquired the dreaded "Runner's Trots" and experienced gastric distress around the 7 mile mark.  I made it to 11 miles and could not walk one more step.  To be honest, by that last check point I wasn't so much walking as shuffling zombie style.

Thanks to my Knight in Shining Armor aka Beard Face I was rescued from the last several miles, lifted into a very comfortable chariot and transported to the nearby geocache for the day.

Did I not mention?  In August I participated in the 31 in 31 challenge.  I found a cache a day for 31 days.  THAT.

Is much harder than it sounds and took up far more time than I had expected.  It took over my life.  I had to plan my day not only around the dog walk, but around a geocache.  I did combine them but most caches were at least a half hour away and required a 30 minute walk in to them.  By the end of the month I was dreaded the next morning... but!  I did it!  and I'm proud!

The Sampler in Time Doctor Who sampler is finished, and listed on both Etsy and Craftsy and selling nicely.

 I'm very pleased.

I finished, prepped, photo'd and sent off the entry form for the 2014 Embroidery Guild of America's National Show and Tour.

I'm also very pleased and hopeful of selection.

 I have begun a new sampler.  This one is called Sampling the 'Verse and is a Firefly themed sampler based on this historic sampler...

So.  There.  I've been quiet, but I've been busy.

What I really wanted to share with you all is this little tip.

I have a biscornu I have been working on for a friend.  

On BLACK aida.

Which sucks.

But.

I have a trick... :-D

Normally, light over your shoulder, the holes are difficult to see...

 BUT.

Put a white towel across you lap and A LA Peanut Butter Sandwiches...

Holes!!!  

:-D  

Off and Running!

I have finished the embroidery on two items for my store.

But I can't seem to gear myself to start on the third.

Know why?

I do.

Because I don't want to.

Know why?

I do.

Because I found something else that has caught my imagination, clasped its sweaty little hand and towed it off into the enchanted forest of creativity, skipping and singing and making wishes on dandelions.

I spent the majority of  last week in the creative throes of designing a cross stitch sampler.

Using historic elements I have created a geeky stitcher's dream.

I think.

Judging by the reception the tidbits of photo I have shown have received...

I have a hit.

I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed working on this project.

I have spent, easily 8 hours a day, for all of last week working it out, charting it, considering colors...

It consumed me.

It made me smile.

All day.

Even when I screwed up and charted K-9 in his spot upside down.

(okay... to be fair I woke up the next day in a funk that put a kink in my Saturday game, but I really don't think it had anything to do with the upside down element.  I think it had to do with the pattern being completed)

I might have to change my game plan for Crown Street Cottage.

::whispers::  MIGHT?

Yeah.  

So.

I made another cross stitch chart...

This one based on an internet meme I saw that makes me laugh every time I see it.

I worked it out in an evening of Chicken Minutes just to try out a free, downloaded stitch program.

It was also incredibly fun... because, of course...

It all comes back to cake.

Simple.

 No half stitches, no complicated shading.

Yet charming.

I hope.

I'm thinking, what I need now is beta stitchers.

If you cross stitch, have spare time and are willing to work in a timely fashion, leave me a message here.

There isn't any money in it right now, but I will furnish the supplies.