Random Witterings!

Worked a bit more on the cross-stitch so it’s time for another photo   Leigh correctly guessed it involves a cat somewhere (surprise surprise!) but not what the whole picture is, so I can at least retain a little mystery about it

More soon!

Apologies to Rolf Harris for borrowing his catchphrase

So I’ve already started on my next craft project and it’s a really cute cross-stitch.  I’m not going to tell you what the design is other than that!  Yes, it’s mystery cross-stitch theatre

The picture so far…

More soon!

A picture (finally!) of the necklace and earrings Tony kindly bought me for christmas.

They are by a designer called Kit Heath and I just love them

Yay me!

The rug is finally finished!  I just need to trim the excess and put some rug binding on before it can go down in front of the fire   I’m sure the cats will love ignoring it, even though all the way through making it, they kept trying to lie on it

Here is the last in progress picture

And here it is finished!

I decided to set out all the pictures in thumbnail form so you could look through them all at once.  For me, it’s great seeing it all come together!

I really enjoy doing cross-stitch and have done it for many years.  I’ve finished a few large projects and lots of little ones as gifts for friends and family.  I’ve not really kept any kind of picture record of projects that have been completed, but as Tony kindly took some pictures of the larger projects that I kept, I thought I would post them here

This was the first large project I finished.  Probably one of my favourites too even tho I cursed it a lot when I was doing it.

As I had 2 cats at the time, one black (my old darling Squeak) and the ever cute ginger Bubbles, I loved this one as a representation of them.   Happily it is still appropriate as Fizz is also black

I couldn’t resist this kit when I saw it, it makes me smile whenever I see it on the window sill

This is the most recent one I’ve finished.  It actually took 10 years from starting it to finishing it but I didn’t work on it solidly in that time, I probably packed it away for a couple of years and did other projects in the meantime.  Also due to a couple of annoying errors, it ended up being unpicked completely and started again.  Thankfully it wasn’t too far along when I had to do that.  I’m still pleased with it now it’s finished and I just need to get a good frame for it.

I have loads of kits to be started so I will witter about it here when I decided which one to do next after the rug is finished

The rug is really close to being finished now, and I’m really pleased with the way it’s turning out!  Fizz is already trying to sit on it

Here are some more progress pics.

I’ve been working hard on the rug, just slacking on posting pictures   I’ve found it much easier doing it, with it spread on my desk so I’ve been watching DVD’s on my PC – Watched Season 3 of Bones, Season 1 of The Dresden Files and am continuing through my Buffy boxsets (on season 4 currently).  It’s been really nice just watching them as I work

Anyway, enough wittering, here are some pics!

It looks a lot better in the photos than it does close up, it’s hard to see the design properly when you are working on it so it’s really good having these pics so I can see how it’s taking shape.

More pics soon!

After relaxing my diet over the christmas period and eating pretty much what I wanted, I gained 5 pounds.  Not as good as it could have been but no where near as bad as I feared either.  I’m OK with it, I enjoyed myself and it’s good to let yourself eat what you want occasionally.  I tend to have my breaks around holidays so easter will be the next time I have something nice (yay easter eggs!).

However, it’s now time to get back onto the diet   I do Weightwatchers online and I find it very easy to follow, requires little effort and I get good results if I’m strict.  The first week of being back on it is usually the worst as your body gets used to it again and it can take that long to get your mind and willpower on board.

I went to Tesco this morning and got some food for both of us for tonight so Tony would be able just to come home and not have to do the shopping thing after work.  I’m happy I can help out that way but sometimes it gets hard if I’m craving something particularly bad for me.

This morning tested me – I was craving chocolate in the worst way so I bought socks instead

Pink and black socks.  With cows on

Yay socks!

This morning Tony asked me…

“Is this how you would expect zombie intestines to look?”

He was asking about one of his miniatures he’d painted which was superb, but still… not a question I ever thought I’d be asked 

He’s keeping a diary of painting on his blog here – it’s well worth checking out!

Happy New Year everyone, I hope 2009 will be especially good to you!