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High 5 for Friday!

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High Five

LISTENING: I’m having a David Bowie moment – today is the anniversary of when he retired Ziggy Stardust.

READING: wanting to read The Fringe Hours by Jessica Turner (blog: http://fringehours.com/) and Anchored by Kayla Aimee (http://www.anchoredhopebook.com/) but in the meantime, there were new releases this week from Kristen Ashley, Jaci Burton & Jill Shalvis to read.

PINNING: not much – just a couple of things for my One Little Word. I did look back to some of my first pins & thought – hey cool! Now I have Mase’s birthday theme. And I think I should print this Batman one out & paint it on canvas for Bran’s room!

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CRAFTING: absofreaking nothing. I know – and I am supposed to post my NZ RR piece today. That won’t happen; I’ll do it Monday and only take my stitching with me tomorrow for the huge gap between the boys’ games.

DOING: procrastinating. I have some legal stuff to do today and a presentation to hone, and I don’t want to touch either. Sigh.

I would also like to report that I haven’t had chocolate at work for three days. I’m not sure what this means but it can’t be good.

WIP Wednesday & June Goals Revisited

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Not much progress at all, what with family drama and commitments 😦

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If I could have a solid few hours stitching just to get the leaves complete I’d be happy, but posting deadline is Friday. I’ll need to put the threads aside to finish when this one comes back.

So the June goals were:

  • Complete Ali’s April & May prompts for One Little Word FAIL
  • Print out the last 10 days before Christmas & journal to complete my December Daily for 2014 FAIL
  • Complete my portion on Debbie’s RR (mermaids!) which will probably also double as my Small COMPLETED!
  • Complete the hair portion of Persephone (it’s a lot of confetti, more than I anticipated) COMPLETED!
  • Layout & complete my portion for the new New Zealand FB XS group RR (only four to a group, fast) PARTIAL
  • Complete Med Mermaid’s tail beading FAIL – but only because Mason wasn’t in hospital this month – so potentially a win!

July Goals will be fairly even:

  • Complete Angela’s RR portion (are you smiling still A?)
  • Complete Ali’s April, May & June prompts for One Little Word
  • Print out the last 10 days before Christmas & journal to complete my December Daily for 2014 (only five months before this starts again!)
  • Complete the skin portion of Persephone
  • Plan Mason’s SIXTH birthday

I’m not expecting the International RR parcel to arrive until early August now so a bit of a gap there – phew! I need to carve out some time to just journal & get the OLW album up to date and that DD album finished.

Yay, it’s Monday

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As in, this weekend was a killer! I’ve come back to work for a holiday 🙂

On Saturday Zac was injured in his league game. The person tackling him bent his fingers back, and the result is a broken 5th proximal phalanx – or the first bone of his right little finger. He’s casted just to protect him from knocking it around but as it’s the championship series already, this is probably the end of his league season both for the club and for school. Neither of us are impressed, but it’s an accident. I can let you know that the White Cross A&E has a better selection of kids’ reading at St Lukes, with better magazines at Henderson. Should have had my eReader with me!

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On Sunday we went out to Pakuranga league club for the delayed Under 6 Gala. We only had the minimum number of players but I had a ball. These six are a great group of kids, and the family groups are funny & genuine. A big change from last year! We didn’t win the Best & Fairest trophy but I think they gained a lot of confidence & I was proud of how they played.

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So as a result, not one stitch in any WIP, which is a worry as I have to post my NZ RR this Friday. I can see some late nights in my future! And rather stupidly, I have TWO copies of a Mira on the way, as I thought one online shop had forgotten my order…so if anyone wants a copy of Mermaids of the Deep, please email me. Sale or Swap for one I don’t have is fine 🙂

Also for fellow stitchers, Chiara raises some interesting points: https://thegreytail.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/real-stitchers-dont-steal/

WIP Wednesday

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Having finished with the Fairy I’ve been working away at Stargazer’s beading. I didn’t stitch over the weekend, as we were busy/I was tired, but after some frogging and matching, I’m really happy with what I’ve now decided on. I’ve used Mill Hill 16010 for the largest, 02010 for the white and 00161 for the remainder.

 I have roughly 3 weeks before the next RR piece arrives, so plenty of time to finish this. But what do I start next?! I so want a new start, rather than finish the last

Stargazer as model stitched

Stargazer as model stitched

My version of Stargazer

My version of Stargazer

 

 

I also picked up two more charts, and sold a couple myself. I have (on the way) the May fairy and the OOP Once Upon A Time. I’ll change out the roses colours on OUAT – blue is wrong on too many levels! The May fairy will stay as charted and likely be as model stitched.

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WIP Wednesday is a finish!

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Yay! Yes, if you’re familiar with this pattern you’ll see that I chose not to stitch some portions of the design (like the background) & I’ve converted all the Crescent Colours to DMC, and then changed out the Mill Hill beads. But that is my usual M.O.!
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I also only half – stitched the wings, and only in the bottom direction. That’s to give it texture. I was going to stitch the top arm in Kreinik #4 032 for a shiny look but it didn’t look quite right.

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This is off to the framer on Thursday. Should be back in time for the MIL’s birthday in June!

EDITED TO INCLUDE CONVERSION:

Letters from Nora – C conversion
Crescent Colours/Classic Colorworks DMC
Cobbled Peach 819
La Tierra 840
Cloud blanc
Vintage Violet 553/793
Hickory Sticks 898
Whatley Woodlands 420
Deep Fennel 3817
Heatherleigh 3756
Eves Leaves 745
Bejewelled 502
Ye Old Gold 680
Old Blue Jeans 3799
Lettuce Leaf 3813
WING Cloud B5200
Backstitch skin (1 strand) 3031
Backstitch other (1 strand) 3799

First of May, first of May…

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I won’t complete the line from an old Jilly Cooper book in case it offends anyone, but today is (for me) one of those earworm days. I also have the same experience on the 4th, only it’s Luke etc saying “May the Fourth be with you”.

I know. You really needed to know that.

I thought I would trial listing my goals for the month. If I crash & burn, it’s likely to be the last goal list, but here goes nothing.

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  • Complete Ali’s April prompts for One Little Word
  • Print out the last 10 days before Christmas & journal to complete my December Daily for 2014
  • Bead the night sky on Stargazer (which is only 4-6 hours at the most!)
  • Start & finish the C fairy for framing; it’s the MIL’s birthday in six weeks so this is priority!
  • Complete my portion on Jacqui’s RR (hoping it’s leaving Scotland today/tomorrow) – second priority
  • Chose & stitch a “Small” for the Smalls SAL

Nice to do’s:

  • Finish the stitching & beading on Mediterranean Mermaid
  • Sort out what my next big Mira will be

So that’s just three starts this month (one being a Small, and one being not much bigger as our limit was 2500 stitches) and hopefully four stitching finishes. Sounds doable.