Moving blog-house again...

Alrighty, we've finally installed Wordpress on our server, so my new blog is finally home at Coramico. All my old posts are there - including a bunch I didn't make here - and it's all purdy and stuff. Come and visit!

SBQ

Q : When comparing large projects versus small projects, which do you get more excited about finishing?

Well, I love completing anything, but I definitely get more happiness out of completing a big piece. Like my Pamela Kellogg mystery that's framed and hung by the couch - every time I look at it, I think of how happy I was to finally finish it :)

Getting soooo close on the dolphins - finished the top water part and the right side of coral, currently working on the white on the dolphins. Hopefully I can finish it this weekend :)

Cool storage idea for floss

This is awesome! If I used bobbins, I'd totally be whipping out the floss and linen RIGHT NOW, never mind all those Christmas presents!

Check it out!

Organization

I've been thinking a lot about cross stitch storage lately, mostly because I've been discovering cross stitch stuff all over the house during my mad fall decluttering spree. I saw this on Carol Duvall, and while they totally beat my giant plastic drawers I currently keep my cross stitch in, they're much more expensive. $30 for an MDF cube? $60 for one with two drawers? Sheesh.

Anyway, I've started separating all the magazines/charts I have into wanna-do / no-wanna-do piles. For now, all the stuff I don't want to do is getting shoved downstairs. Hopefully, I can start trading away some of the leaflets at least in exchange for some shiny new supplies.

Not much new going on in my stitching - you can actually tell they're dolphins now, which is nice. Hopefully it'll be mostly done by next weekend.

Eek,

Well, the dolphin's rather annoying to work on - eek, dark blue aida! - but I've been plugging along on it. I think, to break up the monotony, I'm going to let myself work on the Autumn Wreath after I do a certain amount of work on the dolphin each night. I love beading, so it should keep me cross stitching away!

HD!

Woo-hoo! Finally finished that final Halloween freebie. I haven't scanned it yet - I have a couple of things sitting around I haven't scanned yet, so I'm hopefully going to scan all of them a little later tonight. Pictures later :)

SBQ

If you have stitched for a while, can you usually pick out the DMC colors you need from memory when you go to your LNS? (For example, you know that 610 is a brown.)

Occasionally - I know, for instance, 310 is black, 666 is a red (I'm sure someone at DMC thought that was really funny), things like that. But no, I wouldn't have know 610 is a brown from memory :)

Still...no...new...finishes...

Still working on the Halloween freebie, though I have several good reasons. #1) I GOT A POWERBOOK LAST NIGHT!... 2) I'm redesigning/restyling my webpage in CSS... oh, and I GOT A POWERBOOK LAST NIGHT! Oh, and too much work for class, including a 5pg paper due tomorrow that I really need to spend the rest of the day working on, and then my final Digital Media project, and then the last couple of labs for Network Security, and then the instructional module for Instructional Design.

So, uh, POWERBOOK!... yeah :)

October Goals / November Goals

Alrighty, since it's November 1st, it's time for some goal re-evaluation.

October Goals
*- Wedding Sampler for Glenn's dad (FINISHED!)
*- Mill Hill's Autumn wreath (All the cross-stitch is done, but not the beading)
*- Christmas present for Vickie (dolphin) (Started at least)
- Katamari Damacy (my own pattern :) (Getting closer....)

In light of that, my new November goals are...

November Goals
*- Finish Christmas present for Vickie (dolphin)
*- Finish up Christmas sampler 2004 (most french knots)
*- Finish Mill Hill's Autumn wreath
*- Start Christmas Present for Gram
- Prarie Schooler Autumn Sampler

LOL, mostly I just pushed all the unfinished stuff into November :). Well, I will have a week of Thanksgiving break that I anticipate spending most of my time stitching, so hopefully, everything will get done this month!

Candy!

Well, got quite a bit of stitching in today - one of my classes was semi-cancelled, so I ended up with 1.5hrs of stitching time on Katamari Damacy. Still slogging away on the background. I also put some time in this morning on my halloween freebie I started the other day. Glenn and I are planning on watching Rocky Horror and possibly the Charlie Brown Halloween special tonight, so hopefully I'll finish it up then.

Hope everyone's enjoying their candy!

Finish :)

If coramico's working again - and it probably isn't (sigh) - you can see the Apache Wedding Blessing I finished on Thursday here Hope that link works!

SBQ

So, the SBQ of the week is

Have you ever just quit a project while in the midst of it? (We’re not referring to UFOs here, rather projects that you know that you’ll never work on again.) Why? What did you do with it - throw it out, give it away, put it away?

Nope, never. I have quite a few UFOs... err, WIPS :)... but I've never actually stopped working on something permanently.

Cross Stitch To-Do List

Here's my to-do list I posted on Oct 14 -

OK, here's the *complete* to-do by the end of the year list. Anything starred is stuff that absolutely must get done... anything else is just something I hope to get done.

October Goals
*- Wedding Sampler for Glenn's dad
*- Mill Hill's Autumn wreath
*- Christmas present for Vickie (dolphin)
- Katamari Damacy (my own pattern :)

November Goals
*- Finish up Christmas sampler 2004 (most french knots)
- Prarie Schooler Autumn Sampler
*- Christmas Present for Gram
- another of the VS Hardanger series

December Goals
*- Work on Mermaid Box
- "Joy to the World" sampler
- Prarie Schooler Christmas ornaments
- Christmas stocking
- "Noel"
- four little ornaments for frames

I've also come up with some goals for next year
- Finish Mermaid Box
- Finish Amazing Grace
- Finish Mighty Samurai
- Finish the VS Hardanger series
- Finish Jill Oxton's The Kiss
- Finish a graduation sampler

yay, new blog!

I'm totally sick of how LJ looks, so I figured I'd actually do my stitching blogging here, and just keep my livejournal name for communities. I'm going to make a couple posts here of things I've already posted over there, just to catch myself up. Luckily, I haven't been doing this blogging thing for very long :)