A Friday Finish!

I have a finished finish so woo hoo to me! This was the "Welcome Spring" kit from Cross Stitch Crazy that I finished last year and finally glued together.  This is a technical as my finishing gets, haha.  I love it.  The birds are going crazy in my yard right now; I have the only sort of fluffy shady tree near by, and everyone's pecking and kicking through the duff.

This is a Christmas Gnome kit from Just Cross Stitch.  It's stitched on vinyl canvas, which is an unusual experience, and the finish is to roll it and stitch up the back, so I'm hopeful that I can make that happen.

Rouxdolph has an X:

Garden Bunny has some flowers sprouting:

Braver has more....just more, haha:

and Sistine Chapel has more border:

 My big news is I got myself a ticket to see the Dolly Parton musical - Yee haw for me!  DH isn't invited - I'm too excited and he'll just drag me down when I'm trying to get my Dolly on!  I've promised not to go to Dollywood without him so I need to find something else to do while I'm there, but I have plenty of time to think about it. Nashville in August is maybe not my best idea but my sequined cowgirl hat is already out and ready to go!

Happy May Day!

 A nice stitching roundup for the end of April!

I've had this beautiful dream that one day all my smaller pieces will be done and then I'll go crazy with my big ones, but that dream really depended on me not finding anything else to stitch and..cough cough...ahem...

So I'm kind of recalibrating and digging into the vault to get my bigger pieces moving, and this is my biggest, the Sistine Chapel by HAED. I stitched some more of the ceiling border:

Sweet Tea Rex by Ardith Designs has all the blue dinosaurs filled in:

Sakura Pagoda by Riolis got all sky work this week:

Bear Walk by Stitchy Fish got more sunset and Big Bear got more fur:

Rouxdolph by Dirty Annies has more letters:

Ukraine Map has more of Cherkasy Oblast:

and Braver by Dimensions has more random flowers and lettering:

Spent the week beating the tariffs - got a bike rack installed on my car, air conditioner fixed, ordered Sunday School supplies for the rest of the year, looted Joanns and got my birthday/anniversary order in early at 123 stitch.  We may end up  feasting on dandelions and nettles, but at least I'll be getting my craft on!

Kuna likes to nap in her hole outside when it gets hot, but she can't really relax at night because she's scared of the neighborhood owl. Poor Kuna!

Happy Holy Week!

 I spent Palm Sunday teaching the Sunday School how to make hot cross buns, which came out more like lumpy cinnamon scones but it was fun anyway.  I hope you all have a peaceful Holy Week if you celebrate, and a festive Passover for my Jewish friends! 

My stitching since I was last here isn't too much.  My dinosaurs are all started on Tea Rex:

Braver than you Believe has more everything....

and Ruoxdolph has some legs and letters:

Happy April Fool's!

 It seems like an April Fool's joke that I have a post, and a finish, but it's so real!

The finish is El Toro by Barbra Ana:

Near finishes... 

You're Awesome by Daily Cross Stitch :

Roller Skate by Wild Olive - in a month I got a wheel backstitched, hoping that this month I can do the other one, haha:

    

Floral File from Just Cross Stitch is mostly some beads and backstitching left:

Random progress:

Christmas Cactus by Mill Hill got the cactus arm waving :

Tea Rex by Ardith Designs, finished the top dinosaur body:

Chinese Dragon by Riolis got more of the lantern done:

Yeehaw by BAD stitch got the frog started:

Got the legs started on Rouxdolph. I don't like the blue light so I may change it to something brighter:

Braver than you Believe by DesignWorks has some more lettering done: 

and a New Start, 

Lantern Festival by Riolis,  I started the pagoda roof:

My Storygraph for the month - I meant to read deep Lenten things but then I grabbed Agatha Raisin and that was that, haha.  I read Waco because it reminds me of my dad, the books on sugar and Cuba because my grandparents had a sugar plantation in Cuba until the Revolution. Witch of Blackbird Pond made my 6th grade heart explode and it was fun to go back.

Happy Ash Wednesday?

It's not really a happy type of holiday but you can't really wish people "somber Ash Wednesday!" or something like that. I have no idea what I'm giving up for Lent but I have almost two hours before church today so I'll be thinking fast!

I don't feel like I got too much done since the last post, but there's been a lot of construction and home repair going on and I can't focus while there are strange men in and around my house. I can't really focus when my husband's home either, so who knows what my excuse is, haha.  

Anyway, El Toro is still almost finished - just needs some hooves and horns and the title:

This was a bookmark freebie from cross stitcher that I started because there was too much light peach and black on El Toro and I needed some more color in my life:

There's some more red creeping up the rainbow of You're Awesome:

The roller skate is actually done according to the pattern, but I decided to backstitch it so it's now back at almost done:

I started Chinese Dragon from Riolis. I think this is the fourth pattern I have with that name, haha.

Final start was Dragon Hall from Long Dog Samplers.  The palette is autumnal so I'm changing all the colors. But I touched the wall and top and now I'm stitching the next layer backwards to make sure I counted correctly.

A little flashback from our trip to Canada. It's terrible how politicians can ruin things. I hope our countries can go back to being friends and allies soon.

Happy Super Bowl!

 You can tell I'm not paying attention because here I am haha.  I'm not into either team and I have a strong suspicion the game will be annoyingly contaminated with politics and Will They Get Married commentary,  so I'm starting a new rotation.  I've been monogamous which is why this is finished but I can't stand it and it's making me chafe.  

I  have a finish! On Feathered Wings by Dinky Dyes. I love white on red! I used blanc, 3865, and B5200. For my life I can't tell the difference between them so I just keep them all filed as white. 

    

I have a near finish! El Toro by Barbra Ana just needs his name and a the non-furry parts. Right now he looks really mad because he only has one horn:

Dinosaurs has crept along with more sunset:

This oldie from Daily Cross Stitch finally got started:

And this was a freebie from Wild Olive's blog, a flashback to my Xanadu era:

Happy New Year!

 I didn't realize I hadn't posted this year, but here we are! 

I finished Turkey Time by December Stitches:

and got a lot done with On Feathered Wings:

Couldn't get into the spirit for Christmas - For the first time in my life I didn't put up a single decoration. I haven't spent a Christmas with my dad in at least 15 years, but it was still sad knowing that he's not out whooping it up in the Philippines.   Plus we've all had the crud and I didn't get tested to see if it was flu or COVID or what because I just don't care anymore - it's stay in bed and drink fluids so it's been an incredibly lazy start to the year. I'm all better except for still being so sleepy; it's 6pm and I'm ready for bed. High school me would be appalled, haha.