Nothing

That’s what I have to report. Or, to use my catchphrase “nothing picture worthy”.

Still, it’s a nice day out.  The beginning of a new week and nearly the beginning of a new month.  Lot’s to look forward to.  More blue on the Retro CatJ.  The WIPocalypse update is next weekend.  And to keep all of that company I’ve joined a mini mystery SAL which should be fun.  (More details here)

So I plan to have a great week.  I hope you all do too!!

Happy stitching World.

IHSW A Blue Monday

I’ll keep this short so I can get busy reading all the other posts. J

I made more progress on the sky.  Two more stars!  Only four more rows of blue until the break for the building.  Which calls for ta-da! a different shade of blue.  We’ll see how much farther I get by the end of the week.  I may have to start on the purple in the next section.  Of course if I really want some variety I can always work on my WIPocalypse projects. J

Happy stitching World.

Look what came in the mail!!

The fabulous Topcho kindly agreed to do a bookmark exchange with me.  Our source material came from the wonderful world of sprites designed by Dork Stitch.

Despite our best attempts to think it lost forever, Topcho’s package that she mailed February 21^st finally arrived on April 6^th. (Thank you USPS? J)  My contribution to further delay came when I didn’t check my box until they were closed. Monday came and the package was in my hands at last.  And it was well worth the wait.

How cool are they?  The pink plaid one is Lynn Minmei. The yellow one is Princess Peach and the pink polka-dotted one is Vampire Princess Miyu. To top it all off is Leonard.  All very excellent additions to my collection and much appreciated. Thank you Topcho!!

Topcho is having a giveaway to celebrate reaching 100 followers.  Head over to her blog and join in the fun!

Happy stitching World.

An Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny

Progress report.  Yesterday was the WIPocalypse report after all.

Today, then, a Retro Cat update.  I’ve finished 6 rows of the 8 to the next star.  Not bad and there’s plenty more blue to look forward to. J

Hope everyone is having a nice Easter weekend.

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse April

Let’s jump in:

Ballroom:

I think there was more progress on this before I went to work on it again. That’s when I discovered there were two extra rows in it.  (I blame those stitching elves – such pranksters!)  The best part (?) is that the two rows were over in the white and blue section on the edge. So now I can fix those two stitches I put in with the wrong color earlier. Joy. J

Mythical Dragon:

I’m not sure about this one.  Working with all that filament is just not fun.  I use that Thread Heaven which helps some but it just doesn’t look good to me.  I’ll have to find a different way to work this.

Do Not Disturb:

Nothing much new with this one. I did get a little farther on the flip flops.  Next I may try to go back to the sand.

That’s all for this month.

 Happy stitching World.

Three stars in the sky.

Three stars in the sky of the Retro Cat. This means its picture worthy this week:

Only 8 more rows of blue until the next star space! After that I’ll have to pay attention (?) because there are more stars. And a building. The building I understand but I’m not sure why there aren’t more stars higher up. Who knows? Anyway, as usual, I want to work on something else. Like the purple in the next section or something completely new. So far I’ve been saved by not being able to decide which shade of purple to do first. Then, of course, the WIPocalypse update is next week and I want more progress to report next time. Just to help keep that from happening, I’m off to the library today to do more Christmas stitching with my friend. Not exactly too new, but different.

May April Fool’s Day not play too many tricks on any of us. J

Happy stitching World.

Some progress, an award and random things.

I’ve managed to add a few more rows of blue to the Retro cat. Not exactly picture worthy at the moment.  We’ll see what next week brings.

The very kind Topcho has nominated me for the Liebster award.  Thank you Topcho! I believe if I read this right, the purpose of this award is to promote blogs with under 200 followers.  A very worthwhile endeavor.  So now I’m supposed to nominate five more people to pass the award onto.  Teensy problem with that. Ok, maybe two problems. Most of the blogs I would nominate have recently been given the award by someone else. J Small world I guess.  The other is that I’m still new in the blogging world.  More lurking and stalking than commenting if you will.  So I’m not sure if they would appreciate it if I suddenly popped up and said “Here, have an award.” With that said I will still offer you a few choices of blogs I follow, or intend to soon.  You can check them out and decide for yourselves whether or not to follow them. :-)

The Stitching Reaper

Chris' cross stitch mania

Scully's cross stitching

Love stitching!

HAED addict

Bouncing Bellies & Flashing Fingers

Ft Ft Ft Stitch

If that leaves you wanting more, every full moon (next one is April 6) check out the WIPocalypse updates at Measi's Musings.  And on the third weekend of every month check out (or better still join) IHSW at Random Ramblings.

Whew! Talk, talk talk. One more thing.  I’m supposed to list 5 random things you don’t know about me.  Hope you’re sitting down. J Let’s go from worst to best.

I hate rotations. The minute I decide on one I get bored. It doesn’t stop me from trying though!

I like to make lists.  There has to be some use for all this paper I have around.

I like science fiction.

I like to collect things: cross stitch patterns, books, bookmarks, key chains etc.

I love chocolate!

Happy stitching World!