Deadline = Motivation

On Wednesday for some insane reason I decided to stitch some presents for Christmas for some friends whom I had no idea what else to get for them.

Some panicking, raiding of stash, quickly repurchasing a missing   chart, not quite to quickly purchasing missing threads .... and I've made a start.

I'm doing Witches as Friends by Moonflower Designs for my Alison my real life best friend, and yes she is a Pagan and proud of it.

As this is a small stitch I have it mostly finished.  Just waiting for one skein of Crescent Colours Finley Gold to arrive in my mail box to finish off the broomstick's bristles.  Then this little one is done.

I'm doing Coffin Buzz by Plum Street Samplers for her daughter Jane.  Jane is an 18 year old Goth Girl who has a passion for high quality coffee.

This is the Halloween freebie by Plum Street Samplers and although it is a monochromatic piece, I've been having a play.  I'm stitching it on Silkweaver's Boo linen.  Using Caron wildflowers Storm Clouds for the lettering.  Using Caron Waterlillies Pebbles for the headstone header and footer and then probably two Kreinik #4 braids for the other bits and bobs.

Then I'm going to start another composer for my Dad, in the same series as the Mozart piece I did a few years ago....

Both of these are still WIPs and Dad's isn't even started - but I will get there.....

Just as long as they finished in time to find a framer NEXT SATURDAY there wont be any problems ......

My Kingdom for some needles

Caron Wildflowers are too thick to go through the eye of some John James petites size 28 needles.

My kingdom for some size 26 needles.

Or maybe just some more patience.

Off to stitch some more !

A day in the life of ...

Like any child, I always wondered if my life would make a good story - the answer is no.

The bits that aren't boring appear so contrived that I, as the reader, would have thrown the book against the wall*.

Take this morning as a case in point. I had a meeting a suburb away, so mindful of my desire to shed body fat and reduce my fuel budget, I walked there. I walked along a major arterial road for 30 minutes. About 10 minutes in, I noticed that I had overtaken one particular moving van three times. I was witnessing morning hour peak traffic for the first time. Every time a tram stopped, the cars had to stop. Every time the lights changed for a smaller road to feed in, the cars on the arterial road stopped.

Both times I mostly kept going because I was on the footpath and I could cross the smaller roads as soon as the cars moved on; I didn't have to wait for the lights to change. I actually started to pull ahead of the traffic at one point where I was one set of traffic lights in front of the moving van. He actually noticed this and was starting to exhibit signs of road rage and frustration. He went through two red lights just as I reached my destination.

The contrived portion of this story? My appointment was with Vic Roads - I now have a Victorian Drivers Licence.

This afternoon I was driving around in the middle of a storm. I learned that Victorian (or maybe just Melbourne) drivers have a different set of rules when its wet. It appears when it starts to rain, we ignore all the rules regarding right of way, traffic lights and when to pull out in front of other vehicles. You see in the wet it appears the only rule is get out my way or get hit. He with the cheapest car goes first.

I discovered today, I am no longer the terror of the highways I once was. I haven't been caught speeding in over 7 years. And compared to Melbourne drivers - I'm a yellow bellied coward!

I've become a responsible driver ..... even a sedate driver. My mum would be happy - if she believed it .....




* Actually I've only ever done this once. It was a murder mystery set in Ancient Rome and the writer described the banquet as containing brown sugar !!!!

We know Knitters like this ....

I swear that last panel is referring to Tracy's mum !!!

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1267

My Only comment on the US election

http://www.pvponline.com/2008/11/04/smithjones-08/

Kindly forwarded to me by

nakedteddybears

 

OK life is back to normal!

Was talking with Alison on the phone this evening and asked her what she wanted for Christmas.  After the usual "you don't have to get me anything" she finally relented and said she'd LOVE something small stitched by me.

So I figured great - I'd always been meaning to stitch a version of this up for her.  I hunted high and low and found suitable fabric, and I still have all the threads from last time .... great.

THREE hours later and I still haven't found the chart.  Something tells me I may have given it away ....

So I figured I would do Fanta Cat's The Spirit Within instead.  I have the chart and I actually have the fabric!


I don't have ANY of the threads ....



{sigh}  Life is back to normal.

Wedding Dresses

Stephen sent me this LINK

with the comment: No. That's all I'm saying.


Do I dare admit that I actually like the red one ?????

You know these remind me of the dresses Sisu was hunting down for me to wear at the Great Get Together ......