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Finally Finished

I finally finished the Snow Leopard cross-stitch I was working on for my mom. That thing is huge. I’ll be posting the final image at oceanbreeze.net in a few minutes.

I’ve also been rereading books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Their next book comes out May 12 and I’m really looking forward to it. It’s another Pendergast novel.

I’ve been having a lot of joint and muscle pain the past couple months along with sleeping problems. My right foot was especially bad and they did an xray which showed a heel spur so they diagnosed me with plantar fascilitis. My family doctor gave me a prescription for Ambien CR (I’ve tried it before, but my insurance didn’t cover it). My insurance will cover it now, but the doctor has to send in forms first that show I tried other drugs first.

I see my rheumatogist again in a week or so and I’ll see what he says about the pain.

May 9th, 2009 - Posted in Crafts, Health, Life | Comments Off

Cross-Stitching

I’ve been cross-stitching a lot lately. I’ve been working on my mom’s Christmas present, a snow leopard. It might just be the most complicated one I’ve worked on so far. Lots of multi-color stitches and so on and most of the surface of the fabric is covered with stitches. Plus, since it’s mainly a large cat with a little background, there’s not a lot of definable areas. This makes it harder to realize you’re making progress. In the other one I was stitching before, it’s a bunch of seashells and seaweed and a seahorse. So you can say “oh, I finished another seashell”. But this one is “oh, I finished another area of color that I will have to repeat further away on the fabric”.

It’s unpleasant or anything. I might not finish it before Christmas though, even though I’m trying to.

November 26th, 2008 - Posted in Crafts | 1 Comment »

Home Sweetness

Home Sweetness is the cross-stitch I’ve been working on lately. I keep bouncing around from project to project but I think I’ll be sticking with this one till I finish. I finished Autumn Angel a few months ago but still haven’t taken the “Finished” photo or framed it. I misplaced my mat cutter and haven’t located it yet. I have some other ones I want to reframe as well as framing Not Forgotten (I finished that one a year ago). I have Southwest Blend mostly finished as well. Speaking of oceanbreeze.net, I also never added some of my finished cross-stitches, such as the Christmyth Ornaments. I also see at least two that don’t have any pictures at all posted. I should do that sometime.

November 18th, 2007 - Posted in Crafts | Comments Off

X-Stitching

I started cross-stitching again lately. I haven’t really done any for the past 8.5 months due to the damage to my eye from the high blood pressure. I started working on a 5×7 Southwestern one I had started a few years ago.

It’s nice to be able to cross-stitch again. I don’t like to just watch TV and not doing something else, so having another option to chose from again is good. The other recent available choices have been jigsaw puzzles, painting sea-life figurines that I had bought 6 years ago, or playing Diablo 2. The last option isn’t so much an option…I don’t actually pay attention to the TV while playing; I just like it on for background noise.

My cross-stitch site has joined the ranks of my domains that I started to redesign and then stopped; only it’s not as noticable. I also added the Lightbox effect to the full-size images. Lightbox is fun.

August 16th, 2007 - Posted in Crafts | 3 Comments »

Not Forgotten

Started: 10-2003
Finished: 08-2006

notforgotten.jpg

September 13th, 2006 - Posted in Crafts | Comments Off

xstitch

Joe very nicely bought me a new cross-stitch kit the other day. I actually had another kit in mind when we went it, but they didn’t have it. I saw this one though and fell in love. It’s called Flowers and Lace. I’m not sure why I like it so much…maybe because it’s an actual design and not just a scene like so many are. There are about a million french knots in it, judging from the picture. It’s a good thing I like making french knots.

As for what I’m working on now, I’m working on the 2004 Christmyth ornament from Dragon Dreams. It’s a pegasus. It’s close to being finished. I’m not sure what I’ll work on after that. I worked on Not Forgotten a couple times, but am not sure if I want to work on that more or on something else. I just can’t stick with a project lately.

September 13th, 2004 - Posted in Crafts | 3 Comments »

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