She's done! She's done she's done she's done !!!!!!

Rhiannon is finished!  Picture is here, in the finished album and in the Rhiannon photo album!

Noooo - the chart strikes again!

Ok I've finished Rhiannon all bar the beading ...

I've added the red beads on ..... all going well - looks stunning ....

I go to add the gold bugle beads - they are too big !!!!

The chart definitely calls for medium gold bugle beads but that's wrong - only the small ones will fit, and wouldn't you know, I don't have small gold bugle beads - oh well off to the shops later this morning!

I'll do a few rows on Cirque while waiting for Paul to stir out of bed ....

Oh pics later - I'm attempting to {cough} Episode one of Torchwood for the next 13 hours ....

Long day

Well last night was the library staff dinner - due to a completely amazingly stupid error of judgement I ended up sitting next to the bozo who is wrecking all the good work I did int he library for the past 12 months - and opposite the library services manager and his mistress. He's the f'wit that has no empathy or care for any of staff except for the new young 20-something on his other side who he spent the night chatting up !!!

A few times I wanted to feign illness and escape but I didn't! I ate very very little - I felt sick to the stomach by the horrible self-serving lies coming out of both men's mouths and after the food I escaped up to the other end of the table where my friends were. Spent the rest of the night in fantastic company discussing servers, library specific software, the works of Naomi Novik and the origins of human evolution on earth.

Got home around 10:30pm, checked emails and went to bed - dragged myself out of bed long enough to scour the website Claire listed as a retail source of JAR threads - they also had a number of specials so I searched their site and made some good bargains on some kreinik threads etc and then right at the end while I was checking out they added $18.00 US postage !!!!!

For floss !!!!!! no way.

So I cancelled everything and went to work. Long dreary day - hot and I missed mist of the cricket. We held a book sale and there was so much of it I was giving away a whole box of books for 50 cents :) The sale had been ongoing for three days and anything that wasn't sold by COB today was going in the bin - so after lunch I started offering amazing discounts and deals - take as much as you want - we'll do a deal, how much money do you have ??? Oh yeah no worries 50 cents a box .....

Most of the good stuff had already been picked over in the past couple of days but I still found and brought home a full boxful myself - Paul turned up an hour before close and he still brought home a half box....

After work we went food shopping and then detoured on the way home and found a fantastic gluten-free organic health food supermarket!!!! And for a change their prices were competitive with the large supermarkets - they had gluten-free brands I had never seen before at reasonable prices. And 90-% of the stock was also organic - they have everything from canned food to fresh produce to meat to vegetarian meat substitutes to cleaning products to cosmetics - such a fantastic shop. DK they even have biodegradable disposable nappies !!!!

Anyway I was so hot and tired when we finally got home that I stripped off my work clothes, cracked open a beer and flopped down. Two hours later I'm on my fourth beer, I'm pleasantly buzzed, I've just emailed JAR threads directly to find a price and availability of the threads needed for "Is it my eyes"

I also put an order in with Wyndham Needlework's for fabric for: "Black Beauty or something in red", "why is it?" and "friendship tree" .......

Whoops dinner just got served, with my 5th beer ..... back soon .....

Oooh yummm - homemade falafel kebab wraps ..... first attempt and very yummy ... very very yummy !!!!!!

OK where was I - OK yeah I left work went shopping, found a fantastic new store came home, got changed drank beer, went internet shopping, drank more beer, Paul cooked us dinner, drank more beer ..... yep that's about it. Oh and we've listened to CD's by Wolfmother and my favourite Living End greatest hits and their cover album which is cool - their version of U2's Sunday bloody Sunday is better than the original! !!! My favourite band ever - hard rock meets punk - a Melbourne group - love these boys !!!!!

Feeling pretty good right now ..... Except I'm not sure - I feel drunk but I think this post was pretty much coherent and I did fancy things like look up internet sites and add links so I can drink a sixth beer if I feel like it over dessert ...... hmmm and I'm not sure I should be allowed access to my credit card and internet shopping while inebriated .....

OK gotta go now - obviously no stitching will be done tonight.... off to fall asleep during an episode or three of Beast Machines ....

What do I do next?

When I finish Rhiannon, what should I do next?

Go back to Mystery IX

 

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Work on a different WIP (if you are passionate please leave a reply indicating *which* WIP)

 

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Start a brand new piece (if you are passionate please leave a reply indicating *which* design)

 

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OK, Frishawn has spurred me on and I thought I'd try out the poll function on this site :)

Soooo please enter the poll - it closes Sunday morning Australian time - (ie when I finish Rhiannon).

Rhiannon - almost there

Well all of the stitching is done. She's washed and ironed. All I need to do is to add the beads and I'm done.

Gosh I'm feeling good about this :)

I'm working all day tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday and going out for dinner tomorrow night and having visitors around Saturday night - so the beads will hopefully go on Sunday morning and then she will be complete and ready for the framers.

Updated can pic can be seen here or in my Rhiannon album.

WIP - Faience

The Castle by Teresa Wentzler.

SAL for BAPXSCastle group

Previous Round Robins

Both of these motifs - the round one was sooo much fun!

Paradise Lost
by Long Dog Samplers

2006. The first part of this album is from a 12 person International Round Robin that was supposed to go for 12 months. My project was finally returned after 24 months and I was one of the lucky ones.

2007 - 2008. The second section of this album is a new UFO RR I'm in with some friends, starting with Claire's piece.

WIP - Henry VIII and his 6 wives

Mark Hickmott's New Stitches magazine - Issue 6

This is a series of charts listed in early issues of Mary Hickmott's New Stitches magazine.

WIP - Dutch Beauty

'n Hollabdsche Schone anno 1790 (english name: Dutch Beauty). Permin of Copenhagen.

'n Hollandsche Schone anno 1790
(English name: Dutch Beauty)
Permin of Copenhagen.

WIP - Chatelaine Midi Mystery 1

A six month mystery bu Martina Weber - this ran Jul-Dec 2005. Yes I'm finishing it off in 2007.

WIP - Cirque des Cercles

Inkcircles design

WIP - Chatelaine Mystery IX

Soaping again - disaster looms!

Morning all,

I'm in a couple of soap swaps - I got back into the soaping mood a month or so ago and a couple of swaps were just starting so of course I stuck my hand up and said I'd join in - even though I need more soap at the moment like a hole in the head. I still have over a year's supply of soap!

anyway - I joined two swaps one was a fruit and veg which I made up a few weeks ago and posted about here. The other was the Christmas swap ....

This morning while unpacking some of my soaping supply stuff and finding homes for it all (yes I know I moved house 8 weeks ago - I'm still unpacking OK!) I found these moulds which I had forgotten I had bought.

I pulled out some forgotten melt and pour and melted it and added some gold glitter and then using a paintbrush tried to fill in the bell clappers. Didn't work, the M&P just clogged up the brushes and didn't transfer into the mould. So I got a bright idea and grabbed my supply of pipettes and I slowly used a pipette to suck up the liquid M&P and transfer it into the moulds. This worked relatively well - made a heap of mess and I needed to use 6 different pipettes before I I had finished. Oh well.

I poured the left over gold speckled M&P into star-shaped ice cube trays.

Then I washed everything up and started again, melting some more M&P and adding red glitter for the bow - I decided the gold glitter hadn't given enough oomph so I added some red colourant with the red glitter. I then Used the pipette system to fill in the bows. Maybe because I had a better idea of what I was doing or maybe the colourant changed the consistency, I don't know - but that facet passed by easily - using only one pipette and a few minutes!

I poured the rest of the red coloured M&P into heart-shaped ice cube trays.

After both of these had hardened in the moulds, I got a clean brush and
using my fingernails and the brush I broke away and cleaned up all of
the spilled areas where the M&P had dripped or run into the areas
of the mould I didn't want it to.

I then washed everything up and made a half batch of real soap - the recipe was the same one I had been using recently of equal parts coconut oil, lard, macadamia nut oil and rice bran oil - with the correct amount of lye and almost the full amount of water.

I decided to scent this soap with a Dragonsblood fragrance blend. The particular one I have does discolour soap to a tan shade, so I thought I would add the scent to this batch, colour it green and simply fill in the rest of the raised areas - the bells.

Well I melted the oils, prepared the lye, mixed the two together, added the colourant Chromium green oxide, (that's the colour name - it doesn't contain Chromium!) and started blending. I didn't measure the colourant powder - I simply tipped some in - instead of pastel green - it had gone a lurid shade of teal. Oh well. Mixed it until a light trace - pouring custard in consistency and then I tried to pour it into the right parts of the moulds.

Part way through pouring I realised I had forgotten to add the scent! Oh well.

I had some left over soap so I added a bit of the scent, mixed it again, and then poured that into some heart shaped moulds I had. I then popped the red M&P hearts out of the ice-cube trays and pushed one of these into the centres of the green fresh soap hearts.

Now fresh soap does still contain a bit of lye - so it is quite caustic and not good for you. That's why they always tell you to wear gloves while soaping.

I went back to my fancy bell creations, and using a tissue in my bare hands I wiped out the moulds and excess soap so the green just sat inside the bells like I wanted it to.

Then I washed everything up all over again and made a second half batch of the soap. This was going to remain uncoloured so it would be an ivory colour and that would be the plinth the bells would sit on - ie the rest of the soap bar. Well it was supposed to be ivory - I had forgotten to add the Dragonsblood to the green batch so I would need to add it to this batch so the plinth was going to be tan instead of ivory. Oh well.

I started pouring my oils in together and realised that I didn't have enough macadamia nut oil - so I dragged out my apricot oil instead and used that to top up the mac nut oil portion of my recipe. While the oils were melting I went online and sent this new mix of oils through a lye calculator, adjusted my lye amounts accordingly and added the lye and water together. This was to be the simplest of everything I had done today - just make the soap, add the scent and pour it into the moulds until they are full. Simple!

I mixed the oils and lye solution and started blending - it immediately traced into chunky custard! I don;t know why? Maybe it was a touch hotter than last batch,maybe it was the apricot oil I don't know. I put down the stick blender and grabbed a wooden spoon and beat the lumpy mess into submission and then added the scent. I then glopped the mix into the moulds. This was incredibly frustrating - because it had all the physical characteristics of cold lumpy custard. As I glopped it in, the glop would just sit there. I eventually gave up and using my bare hands I squished the damn things into the moulds. I moved some over loaded ones to lesser crowded ones and by the end I had done some repetitive swearing and I had just enough of the mix to three-quarter fill all 15 moulds. I figured that was good enough. I immediately covered them with cling wrap - then put them all under some towels for insulation and washed my hands - thoroughly!

Soaping usually takes me 20 minutes if I'm all set up - up to an hour if I'm not. This little burst of creativity took me four hours! I've repeatedly washed my hands and I'll have to moisturise them regularly over the next week or so and I've had a spot of lunch while I've typed up this missive.

Now its after 3:30pm, I've not done much else today (besides ordering some Piecemaker needles and some ThreadHeaven) and I still have to wash up and clean up after that last part of the soap making.

The things I do when I let my creativity get in the way of my better judgement. Now I just hope that when I release these soaps out of the moulds in 2 days time, that they actually come out in one piece - and that the layers do not separate ..... I'll post pics if they *do* turn out OK :)

Tired now! Off to clean up, moisturise and then I might do some stitching - or the cleaning I was planning on doing - not sure which .... need chocolate to fortify myself first.


Green soap recipe:
125 gm Coconut Oil

125 gm Lard
125 gm Macadamia nut oil
125 gm Rice Bran Oil

70 gm lye

140 ml water
Chromium oxide green colourant powder

Base soap recipe:
83 gms Apricot Kernel oil
120 gm Coconut Oil
122 gm Lard
45 gm Macadamia nut oil
130 gm Rice Bran Oil
68gm lye
130 ml water


2% Brambleberry Dragonsblood Fragrance oil

Hey what happened ???

I seem to have lost that lovely background/theme I was using and I now also have GoogleAds running down the right hand side - where there weren't any before ......

I've slipped into an alternative reality haven't I?

 

I'm an Auntie again

I got a call from my mum at 11:30pm last night. My sister had just given birth to an 8 pound something baby boy. They have named him Jeremiah John.

My mum was present to witness the birth so she is very very happy!

So anyone know of any Beatrix Potter Jeremiah Bullfrog patterns I should be now purchasing ?

Hugs
Mel.

Mel's Day

Well I've had a wonderful day since leaving work last night. I came home and made soap again - some nice guest soaps to give away as Christmas presents to coworkers, family, friends etc in my favourite fragrance.

And a really really good recipe too - very rich and decadent using coconut oil, lard, rice bran oil and macadamia nut oil. It should feel like you are washing your body in silk! Scented silk :)

Then I spoilt myself and had pancakes for tea. I mean honestly, who cares about weight issues *all* the time:) then watch some Bones and then off for an early night in bed.

the neighbours from hell were evicted last Monday !!!! i only found out about it yesterday! Oh I had the best night's sleep last night! No banging around - I was the last one in the street to turn my lights out - I slept through until after 7am this morning! No being woken up by one f'wit calling out from the car-park to the other one who was still in bed - or honking his horn for 1/2 an hour at 5:30am! I knew they were quiet the last couple of days but they sometimes do that when the cops have been around - but no they are gone !!!!!! GONE !!!!! The owner (their mother !!!!) got the POlice to come around and forcibly remove them and their belongings from the property while we were all at work on Monday !!!!!

This morning was a leisurely sleep in followed by checking my email and I received an email from the owner of FantaCat designs saying she was sorry and replacement charts would be sent out to me. she didn't mention anything about being contacted or not from my business owner who sold me the charts. So that was encouraging! She also asked me again about Rhiannon - she didn't seem to understand the problem I had with the chart that I emailed her about in July. well lets see, what problem is there with "The chart doesn't match the cover picture - can you ask the designer to look over the chart and re-chart the area above the ear so that it matches the cover picture.

Anyway I got tired of the whole thing this morning after I had emailed her, so I sat down with an enlarged print out of the cover pic and the chart and I re-charted the darn thing myself. Then I got out Rhiannon and some black floss and I restitched that area based on my guestimations of where the chart should go - I redid the stitching three times, but I was finally happy with it, and altered the chart correctly.

I've sent scans of the problem area and my proposed solutions to FantaCat designs so now I'll wait and see what her response is.

After that I was really really tempted just to keep going on Rhiannon, but I knew this was my only day off and I needed to get things done, so I put it all away and went down to the local shopping centre. I got my hair re-cut and coloured. Given that ai have a job interview on Monday I needed to get that attended to!

Then I spoilt myself with some lunch at the food court. I took my mobile phone into a repairer and got the battery replaced so it now actually works! My mobile has been (ummm well erratic is an understatement) for about 4 weeks now! Then I went and explored the options for pay TV so I could watch the cricket this summer and decided it would be a waste of my money really - pity.

Then I went to Bras 'n Things and spent a voucher I had on a new set of lingerie. And then just for the heck of it I went into Games Wizard and asked them about old style turn-based role-playing computer games. I remember in the late eighties doing all of the Ultima scenarios, and spin-offs like Martian Dream etc. Bards Tale, Space Quest - you name it. Unfortunately there's not much of that style being made these days - and those that are not turn-based single-player games - they are the online MMORGS. And I'm just sooo not into those!

Anyway I finally got a sales assistant of my own vintage who actually remembered the types of games I was discussing and he pointed out a copy of the box set of the Baldur's Gate series. Very similar to what I played but these were made only 5 years ago or so - and they were int he cheap bin - so I bought the whole boxed set for under $20 Yay!!!

Then I started the grocery shopping but by the time I bought the bird food, the at food and breakfast supplies I was running out of room in the basket, and ptrpbably money in the bank so I left it at that - still spent over $50. Then I dropped into the health food store and bought a new brand of gluten free hamburger buns - wholemeal. Going to try them out by making myself a hamburger tonight. Oh and I also bought some alphabet shapes gluten-free pasta! They are sooooo cute !!!!!! I'm going to surprise my mum with alphabet soup when she next visits

Then came home, put everything away and decided to install Baldur's Gate I. I've just realised its getting dark..... I've stopped for now - so I thought I would blog about my utterly fantastic day!

And now I'm off to make dinner and start the domestic duties that I should have been doing all day instead of charting corrections to cross stitch designs, shopping and playing computer games .....

Sometimes its really really nice to indulge yourself !!!!

Mood: Relaxed and happy!

Jobs

{whimper}

I just got a phone call from UTS - the job app I put in 10 days ago.

I'm scheduled for an interview next Monday morning at 10:30am.

OH GODDESS!!!  Help me mummy!

I'm alternating between Snoopy Dances of joy and bowel-wrenching terror !!!!

Cirque des Cercles

I seem to be working on this one in dribs and drabs in between other projects, rather than doing a solid week's stitching so I"m finding it difficult to decide when to put up updates, but well it looks sufficiently further on than the last pic so here it is :

Ot you can view my Webshots.

Hugs all

Stitching stuff

Well gee - not much of that happening lately :)

I spent most of yesterday putting my threads and beads into Organised Expressions and then caught up on my Bones and Stargate watching. I did hold Cirque in my hand while doing that, but not much stitching got done.

DK came for a visit today to do some stitching - bit instead we chatted, discussed hoops versus lap frames, checked out my new stash (its now germ free) and then went out for lunch and shopping. Still a very good day and it was great to catch up with her in person :)

We'll need to plan a stitching day where we sit and stitch soon. Oh DK did lend me a scroll frame for Mystery IX - so I can continue work on it now - it was simply getting far too big and unwieldy in the hoop - and I couldn't work on it for more than a few minutes at a time before my hand hurt from holding it. so I'll move that onto the scroll frame and get a move back on that tonight.

I'm running way behind on Mystery IX now - I'm still ont he first corner of the stitching on Part 9 and Part 11 has just been released! I refuse to look at Part 11 until I finish part 9 - gee I wonder how long *that* resolve will last :0

Oh and DK did help me count them up - I have 9 WIPs/UFOs. Only 9 and they slated in my rotation starting next year - I wont get all 9 done, but they are organised into the rotation so that I wont feel guilty about them :)

Oh and I've decided I need to start Cirque again - I just *adore* what Marc did with his! See link here! Except that I think it's upside down in this pic

Hugs all - hope your last two days have been as pleasant as mine - I'm off to work tomorrow for 6 days straight!

I Soaped !!!

Well OK this wont be of much interest to most of you :)

My other hobby is hand making soap and related items like creams lotions shampoo etc - except that I haven't done a darn thing on this hobby all year. A few weeks ago I rejoined a couple of soaping lists and joined in on a swap that was just beginning. The theme of the swap was fruit or vegetable. The soap had to include some part of a fruit or vegetable in it. I could have simply pulled out my soaping journal and made my triple lemon (uses lemon juice instead of water, lemon essential oil and grated lemon rind) but I thought I would try something completely different. So I chose Celery!

Last night I dropped over to my local shopping mall, bought an entire head of celery and took it around to the local juice bar and asked them to juice/liquefy it for me. They did. We ended up with around 500ml of liquidised celery. I also went into a supermarket and bought ground celery seed.

This afternoon after DK's wonderful visit,, I unpacked my soaping supplies and went for it.

I made one of my standard recipes:

250gm coconut oil
250gm lard
250gm olive oil
250gm Rice Bran Oil
136gm lye
250gm water (now celery juice)

Now soap is made in the following steps:

1. Melt all the oils fats together but keep the temps low - under 45 degrees Celsius - so that you can touch the outside of the pot with your hand and its warm, but not hot.

2. Mix the lye crystals into the water. Or in this case, celery juice. To minimise any adverse reactions keep this cool - do it in a water bath, or freeze your juice before pouring the lye crystals over.

3. When both mixtures are around room temp - pour the lye solution into the oils and start mixing. I use a stick blender to speed up production. When it starts to look like runny custard, stop and pour into your moulds. Insulate the moulds and leave for 48 hours. Then turn out onto a well ventilated rack and let harden for 4 weeks - put in the shower and enjoy.

Of course you must take appropriate precautions when using the lye solution because it is strong enough to burn, scar, blind etc. But when safety is observed, its just like mixing up a cake batter and popping it in the fridge :)

In this case, instead of using water, I used the celery juice. I also shook some of the ground celery seed into the bottom of the moulds - so hopefully there may be a dusting of celery seed on the top of the soap when it is un-moulded. I also mixed some of the ground celery seed through the oil mix to give the resultant soap some texture.

Hmmm - pity I only bought enough coconut oil for the swap batches ... I feel like making some more now .....

First update in a while

Hi all,



Multiply was playing up for a while so I couldn't post a journal entry - and
then life kinda got in the way (as per usual) but I've decided stuff it, I'm
not going to work today so I thought I'd try and get a journal entry done.



Hmm let’s see - Health - the doc is telling me to change jobs. She says that my
stress levels are mucking up my system. The blood and urine tests do not match
the severity of the symptoms I am experiencing. She says to change jobs and
speak to a counsellor and then come and see her in a month's time. Great!



Work - nuff said. I got in trouble yesterday and called a liar because I couldn’t
send an email out because my systems were down. All connectivity to my Branch
was out all day as they decided (without informing me) to take down the
telecommunications tower and play with it. It was supposed to take a couple of
hours - I believe it’s still not fixed now (24 hours later). The head of
Children's Services came out and abused me for not reading my emails (hellooo I
can’t access the network!!!) She then instructed me to send an email to a work
colleague (sure - when the network comes back up) Oh and don’t forget to read my
emails in future (riiight!)



Two hours later I was speaking to a colleague on the phone and asked which
branch I was supposed to be at this morning? The Head of Children's Services
overhead the conversation and tore strips off my colleague! Why is Melissa
ringing you, why isn't she checking her emails? I sent her an email telling her
where she was supposed to be! Why are *you* getting involved! Ummm maybe because
Mel can't read her emails today and I'm the Librarian in charge of rostering....



[Sigh] Of course you see it was one great big plot. My systems weren't down -
my staff and I *like* handwriting all incoming and outgoing bar codes, relying
on our memories to answer reference queries and generally being electronically
cut off from the world - what planet is this woman on !!!!



One of the neighbours up the street who have just moved in have a young baby -
and they couldn’t get the poor mite to sleep last night - it cried and screamed
from 2am until around 6:30am. So I have a screaming headache and no interest at
being at work. So I'm home all day.



Good news - lets see, umm I'm home all day! I submitted a fantastic job app for
a different job with a different organisation last week. DK was on the phone
with me for HOURS going through and correctly wording, grammar etc....



Oh and I went to a great party last weekend - well there weren't enough people
to make a real party so it was more a gathering of good friends and partners (9
of us in total) so it was a good night of swapping stories, munching out on
party food oh and we watched an Adamms Family movie - the last one I think with
the baby in it.



The theme of the night was Addams Family reunion - I didn't have any of my SC
stuff here and no Goth stuff so I bought a cheap now outfit at Millars. It is a
black skirt with a black and grey lace overlay, a black camisole and a see thru
jacket made only out of the black and grey lace.



I was told I only needed wings to look like an evil fairy. Considering I've put
on weight again - I'll take any nice compliments about clothes :) Apparently
there's a photo somewhere of me hugging and being hugged by a 6'3" guy
dressed in drag. It was the only photo of me that night that came out in focus
:) I'll drop a copy here when I can get one.



Stitching - well I finished Valour and put a few more stitches in Cirque - but
mainly this week, my threads from the Stitched From the Heart closing down sale
came in. I waited until they were 70% off and then I bought one of each thread
she still had in stock. There's weren't many - I think I got 5 Gentle Art
Sampler Threads, 3 Weeks dye works, but I did get over 50 skeins of DMC Perle 5
and about a dozen Mill Hill bead packets. The week before I got 115 skeins of
DMC cotton so it’s been a good haul for not much money. How did you go DK?



So for the past few nights I've finally hauled my copy of Organized Expressions
and I've slowly started adding my thread stash onto it. Anita inspired me, so
I'll start going through my stash and adding bits on as I go. It will be a
sloowwww process. I might do like Anita and send out a garage sale of items I've
ended up with but don't want. After DK and mum look through them that is :)



Today - today is probably going to be a disgustingly domestic day as I start to
unpack again. I haven’t unpacked any boxes in about 8 weeks - what with the
flu, depression, work anxiety etc, so I might go get my craft room unpacked - after
all I need to sew soon, and I need to make soap this weekend - I got inspired a
few weeks ago and rejoined my soaping lists and joined a swap - but then found
out it was using a technique I had never used before - oh well its all learning
- so I need to unpack my soaping supplies and get that made this weekend too. Actually
if I get enthused once I've started, I might make a few more batches to add
into Christmas stockings etc..... hmmmm....



Oh and I got my first month's fabric from the Silkweaver Fabric of the Month
club yesterday!!!! I'm in the opalescent one so I got an 18 x 27 Midas Touch
and a 13 x 18 Poltergeist. Pic below.



One and I received my door prizes from Lavender Wings from the Needlecraft Show
and I received Ocean's Daughter from Natalie!!! Thanks soooo much Nate! that
one is done on a fabric similar to the one I used for Paul's P and in the
*exact* same colour - Crescent Colours Bejewelled! So I could start that one on
existing supplies!!!!!!



Well that's about it for now - time go and get organised - I’ve had breakfast
and done yesterday's Sudoku. I've gotten addicted to Sudoku! That is solo sad! I
got the new Cross Stitch Collection magazine in the mail yesterday and after
flipping through it (the Christmas edition - but not my sort of Christmas
designs) I settled on the last page and did the Sudoku.



Hugs all and hope life is treating you all well....