Let’s start off on the high note – today is Simon’s birthday. He won’t thank me if I was to tell you how old he is but he withstood the birthday boy bounce from M! The boys gave him a card and gift before Z & I headed out the door. It’s a Zoku Ice-Cream maker – perfect for the man who has everything. I got it thru one of work’s stores:
Today my Grateful pic just has to be Simon. Not because it’s his birthday but because he has given me so many things to be grateful for. Three of them also on the bed!
This could be the “before” pic too – I have brought an old (1920’s) solid timber door that I plan to scuff up and use for the headboard. The room looks bare without a headboard! Plus I’ve selected a few paint pots to try.
Low note. I am not at all happy with the Spirit piece. I don’t know if it’s the colours (the book might be different from the chart pack) but the fan background is purple for me, and mid/pale blue for others in the group. I’m talking Eeyore purple, the same skein that I used last stitching a piece that currently hangs in M’s room. The chart is also harder to read, as it is colour blocks and not symbols. I know why, it’s to help stop copyright thieves, but it means a few hours with a working copy & a marker and right now, I just don’t have that emotional investment in it. So it went away on Monday & I pulled out Stargazer with the intent to finish her before the end of March.
Stargazer makes me happy.
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What a shame about the pattern. Can you scan it and enlarge the image?
it’s the colour blocks – they are very, very similar but the way it’s designed, if you have the wrong colour it will need to be frogged. Blah.
Happy birthday to your husband and you have three gorgeous children. How annoying about the pattern and the thread colour – that can be enough to put you off stitching the pattern for quite a while, I imagine.
Your Stargazer is beautiful – glad it makes you happy. 🙂