New page - new ambitions

So, I added a new tab to the top of my blog - 101 things to do in 1001 days.  I've seen the idea on a few blogs, but I read one today that inspired me (link on the tab).  Travel, Crafting, Entertainment, Household, Miscellaneous.  I welcome any comments and suggestions!

We've had an incredibly mild winter this year - the temperature these past few days has been in the 60's with blue skies and white fluffy clouds.  I feel guilty when looking at the weather in other parts of the country.  Here's some shots of our backyard - some tiny buds on the neighbor's flowering tree, and our lovely purple heather.  Now I'm off to stitch on Blue Moon and enjoy the rest of my day off.

Dark Force - 7 hours

With illness, work, life, etc., it took 6 weeks to stitch 7 hours on this beast.  Hopefully I won't always be that slow!  So, here is Dark Force (Tilton Crafts), 25 ct. Stormy Clouds Lugana, 1 over 1.  887 stitches.

January SFS post

Month:  January
Spent:  $22.50
Earned:  $0.00

I bought the fabric and floss for the Storytime Sampler from Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery.  It's adorable!  I also bought the chart, but since it's a subscription chart, it is exempt.  I was happy to see shipping doesn't count - since it was $2.00 I would have been under budget anyway, but every $2.00 helps.  My only stitching so far has been about 350 stitches into Dark Force, but I'm not claiming credit for that yet.  On to February!

January WIPocalypse check-in

So, I have a tab up at the top with my WIPocalypse projects, and since I haven't done anything on them since I posted those pics, I'm not going to re-do them.

The question for today's check-in is:

Introduce yourself, your projects, and any goals you have for the year!

So, I'm Elaine and I live in Washington State.  I have a few hobbies, including scrapbooking and knitting, but for now, I'm concentrating on stitching.  Projects are listed on my side-bar and the afore-mentioned tab and are mostly biggies.  I also just signed up for my first "mystery" sampler by Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery and I'm going to include that, since I'd like to try to keep up with it.

As far as goals go, I'm going to try to stitch at least SOMETHING each day.  I do a 7-hour rotation and would love to rotate once a week, but knowing me, that's pretty ambitious.

Looking forward to a productive 2015!

QS Fantasea - 91 hours

Finally finished the 7 hour rotation on this pretty lady.  QS Fantasea, 44% complete after 91 hours of stitching.

Let's Try Again

So.....that "being back" didn't really work out, did it.  However, this time I mean it!  I want to sign up for a stitching challenge that requires me to have a blog and post stuff, so this will have to do.  More to follow.  Seriously.  More.

Back Again? Maybe??

So my last return consisted of one entire post.  One.  Count 'em.  One.  Hopefully I can do better this time.  I'm doing this from work - when I get home tonight I will add some pictures of my current stitching projects and some Project Life scrapbook pages.