Well...

I have been working on my cross stitch, I have gotten to the point where I started the circle. I have also messed up said circle because I miss counted not once but twice and so it is a little...wobbly. Pathetically I am too lazy to pull it out of the frame and take a picture so I think I will just wait till it is finished for a final photo.

Even though things have been pretty busy at work, it wasn't nearly as bad as last year. Black Friday felt like another one day sale as the whole opening at 6pm Thanksgiving night took away the frenzy of it. I wasn't complaining.

I am a bit of a Grinch when it comes to Christmas, as an adult it has lost it's magic with me with all the ill tempered people and the gimme gimme gimme. We still haven't put our tree up and I just can't bring myself to care. The two things I like are the decorations others put on their houses and the fact I can get a bag of mixed nuts still in their shell :D

So my next update probably won't be till after Christmas. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!

Last Little One

Finished it in record time of two weeks. This will be my last Pokemon piece for awhile. I really need to get the last three ironed and mounted to cardboard so that I can possibly put all four up for sell. I could put them up on the wall in a room where no one would see them but I think they would be happier with someone else :)

Two Weeks Already?!

It really feels like time is flying for me. I had to double check the calendar this morning to see if it really was time for me to make another progress post. Maybe two weeks is to often?

Maybe I will have the center finished in the next two weeks and I can start the circle. Something tells me I'm not going to like the circle :D

Just Keep Stitching...

Finally made it to the skull. I really wanted to do the skull, I feel like it is the half way point for the middle :D I have found that the large black areas around the white parts are the most mind numbing. It makes it feel hopeless in reaching the end. Now I try to switch back and forth from white and black to break it up a bit, seems to be working so far :)

Small Project Done

Finally finished this little guy. The pattern for it is here: Pattern. I felt the sky needed a little more orange then what was in the pattern :D

That whole "done in a month" got blown right out of the water with work picking up and me working almost obsessively on my bigger cross stitch piece. Now that November is here I will practically be living at work -.-

Which brings me to a sad realization, there is no way I can draw a dinosaur a day in November. This coming week I am working a full forty hours and I want to keep up my pace I have set for the cross stitch piece. I know this whole month is going to be like that; if I can I might try one or two dinos but I promise nothing.

On that note, I go to cross stitch so I can take a progress shot and post it too :)

Wordless Wednesday

New Q Snap And Petite Frame Holder

After serious consideration (Because I do not go into any purchase without careful thought) I bought the Q Snap a few months ago and the frame holder just a few weeks ago. I have to say they are both VERY good investments. The Q Snap is easier to hold then a hoop but of course you will still get hand cramps and fatigue. My hands are abused enough as is at work so I looked into the lap frames. There is the petite one which is the one I bought, the Z arm for more distance adjust-ability, and of course the floor frame that the base sits on the floor.

This petite frame is the best thing EVER. I can sit here and cross stitch all day long if I wanted to with no hand fatigue. Best $50 spent on Amazon! Also I can position it so that I will sit up straight and not slouch my back and hurt it. I probably could talk this thing up all day long but to end it here, if you are a serious cross stitch/embroidery fiend, get a lap frame.

So supposedly next month is Dinovember. This sounds awesome and fun but I really don't want to go and buy plastic dinos so I am seriously contemplating doing my own little dino drawing a day thing as my way of "participating". I even have a new dinosaur drawing book I stumbled upon!