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  

Moving right along!

SING WITH ME!!!!

Movin' right along in search of good times and good news,
With good friends you can't lose,
This could become a habit!
Opportunity knocks once let's reach out and grab it (yeah!),
Together we'll nab it,
We'll hitchhike, bus or yellow cab it!
(Cab it?)

Movin' right along.
Footloose and fancy-free.
Getting there is half the fun; come share it with me.
Moving right along (doog-a-doon doog-a-doon).
We'll learn to share the load.
We don't need a map to keep this show on the road.

(Hey Fozzie, I want you to left at the fork in the road.  Yes sir!  Turn left at the fork in the road. Keeeermiiiit!  I don't believe that)

Ahem.  

Sorry.  Got a bit distracted by the title!

But.  The title and song are a good indication of how things are going around this place of late.

The second week of marathon training went well.  The distance was five miles and I did it around my favorite coastal village, Walberswick.  However.  I have come to the conclusion that geocaching on my distance walk days is a bad idea.  With all the starting and stopping it will do nothing to build my endurance for keeping up a race pace over longer distances.  Sad, but if I want to keep Spunky's backers happy we need to stay on track.  I'll just have to geocache on EZ days!  

Nutrition was harder this week.  Found myself going over my calorie goal, but still inside what I was burning.

(calorie goal is 1570, but I can add the amount of calories I burn in a day if need be)

That doesn't help with the weight loss, but I did not gain any back, so I'm still happy.  It was harder this week to work out so much.  I was hungry alot, so took good care to eat good things and be mindful and not just snack on what I could grab.

This, the third week is going much better.  I'm hoping for another loss this week.  It could happen.

As for other things!

I finished all the embroidery projects I had completed!  There were seven in total!

This one is finally completed and hanging on my wall!

And these!  

Three of them have already hit the post office and are winging their way to their lucky recipients!

oh... and let's not forget this sweet little thing!

So.  Now I find myself with one project open... the black work castle.  I'm not particularly pleased with it, but I keep going out of pure stubbornness  and the knowledge that I'm very critical of my own work and it very likely, once finished, will be lovely.  

This modern black work stuff is a learning process. 

 Unless I want to copy someone else's work or use a kit.

Something I might resort to if this doesn't work out well.

Here's the progress.  

Sometimes I see depth, sometimes just flat and busy patterns.

Anyway!

What I really wanted to ask you all was this...

While finishing and packing up all those goodies I began to wonder what I would do with all the projects that are now lining up in my head.  Sure I can gift them to all my friends, over and over and over... but...

I began to wonder if I shouldn't open an Etsy shop.

I've gone there.  Shopped there.  Looked at other embroidered offerings.

I think my stuff is as creative.

As unique, if not more so.

I've thought about it so much I even settled on a name.

"Crown Street Cottage"

Now. 

What do you think?