3/12/12 progress

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2/28/12 progress

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2/5/12 progress

2/4/2012 Progress

ORT Jar for January 2012

1/29/2012 Progress

1/23/11 Progress

1/22/2012 Progress

2000th post

As promised, I will make something for someone. Only one person commented on the original post so if you would like to be included in a drawing, please comment on this post or it will be the person who commented on the original. Thanks to all of my readers.

1/15/12 Progress

1/14/12 Progress

1/10/11 Progress

Progress 1/8/12

New Project

This is yet another wedding present. This is the progress from 1/7/12.

1/2/12 Progress

Here's the latest on the wedding gift for my friend. Can't see a lot of the progress because of the cream on cream but I did about 5 hours worth.

ORT for 2011

Here's my jar of those loose threads or threads never used from any of the kits that I did in 2011.

2012

Happy New Year! I'm pretty glad that 2011 is over. Lots of stress over situations that I cannot control. Moved to Florida. Unemployed for too long. But I do start a new job on Tuesday and I'm hoping that it will be better than the last job that I did for 3.5 days.
I managed to finish 9 crafts in 2011. My goal for 2012 is 10.
I watched SEVERAL movies.
I read a few books. I need to pick up on the book reading.
I lost 23 pounds through Weight Watchers and will continue to get to my goal weight (about 26 more pounds).
I hope that everyone had a safe New Year's Eve and that 2012 brings the best for all of you.

12/22/11 Progress

Happy Dance- #9 for 2011

Finished this on 12/21/11. Plans are to try to sell it.

12/12/11 Progress

Happy Dance

Finished this today.

Almost a Happy Dance

Picture of the needlepoint done and then almost all the backstitching and speciality stitches. I worked on this yesterday.

And another project

It is amazing what one will find when they go through stuff while moving. I don't know when I started this one for my mom. But here's the starting point for today and what I did today.

11/26/11 progress

Another project

I started this one YEARS ago...it is for my aunt. I hope to finish it soon as well. It is hard to tell what I did today but I did most of the orange.

Approaching 2000 posts

I had intended on having this blog be more about my life but after the break-up with Scott, it turned more towards my crafts, cute dogs, and happy dances. I have 18 more posts before I hit 2000 and I'm thinking about doing a giveaway. If you would like to receive a small cross-stitched gift from me, please post on this blog and let me know. Thank you to my followers.

11/24/11 Progress

And yet another UFO turned into a WIP

I don't even remember when I first started this one-it's a gift for my cousin. I took a starting point shot and then what I managed to do today.

11/22/11 progress

Rotation continues

I started this years ago-matching latch hook for myself and my cousin. Going to attempt to make them into pillows.

11/20/11 progress

I've decided to set up a rotation of projects (especially since I found a ton that I need to do and finish) so I don't get sick and tired of doing the wedding gift (cream and white on cream can get pretty boring quickly). So I worked on the wedding gift yesterday.

Needed a break

So I went back to working on this latch hook piece. It's been about a year since I last worked on it. Hope to get it done and then hopefully sell it.

11/17/11 Progress

hard to tell the last couple of days' worth of progress-white on cream

11/16/11 progress

11/11/11 Progress

finally getting back to this-hard to tell the progress-cream on white

No motivation

Without having a job (going on almost 2 months now), boyfriend not having a job, I just don't have much motivation to do much. I haven't stitched since Halloween and I NEED to get this gift done. I did go back to Weight Watchers and saw that I had lost 1.6 pounds since August so something right has happened. I search for a job every day and have been on a few interviews. But no solid job. I know that I'm overqualified for some positions that I've applied for but I REALLY don't want to go back and do the type of work I was doing before. So I'm hoping that I can get something done craftwise...just so I feel like I've accomplished something. I might even go looking for some volunteer jobs just so I can get out of the house and do something worthwhile.

10/30/11 progress

10/29/11 progress

10/28/11 Progress