November - Poppy Month

This coming Fridays is Remembrance Day in Canada and I call a whole month of November a Poppy Month since most of us wear poppies in honor of our soldiers for much longer than just a day.  In my stash I have a lovely poppy biscornu chart from Creative Poppy and what's a better time to make it than now? Last weekend I was able to almost finish the top part:

To tell you the truth the piece is looking much nicer in reality than on the picture (maybe because I was taking this pic late in the evening...) I think it will be the pretties  biscornu I've ever made. I still have to do back stitching and put some beads on this part but I like it already.

This Friday is not only Remembrance Day it is also my 7 anniversary coming to Yukon. It will be my seventh long cold winter... Should I have a giveaway for this occasion? What do you think?

So long friends,
Evalina

the oldest UFO

My oldest UFO (see post below) got some attention! Debbie of Debbie's Cross-Stitch admitted that she has a 30 year old UFO!!! So, that got me thinking... Let's do the Oldest UFO SAL. If you have any, dig it out and start stitching. Post the progress on your own blog with the label "the oldest UFO" and let me know that you did it. You can post the progress of your work (on that UFO of course) as often as you like but you must post it also on the last day of every month. That one will count towards a prize! Yep, you are reading right, there will be a prize for the most stitched UFO!!! It would be not fair to say for most finishes because some UFO's will need maybe 100 stitches to finish and some could have 1000s! The first prize I will draw on January 1, 2012 and it will be a $25 Visa card.

As I mentioned earlier, I will stitch Sailboats and Seagulls. When done it should look like that (sorry for the picture being so wrinkled... it took 18 years to get that look):

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Happy stitching and spooky, scary Halloween!

It's a Halloween night

and the last day of the month.  October was a good month for me - I've got a new car (look how beautiful she looks after her "makeover")

I opened a new saving account and actually I made some money already! I was thinking about current stage in my life, how much longer I want to work and what I will do after... I do not like to work, really, the best scenario would be if I could retire but financially I'm not in that position yet...  so that's why I decided to save some more.

And I did some stitching! Here is my square for charity with outlined mushrooms. It looks much better, thank you for an advice.

I finished stitching for competition held in my yahoo group. Unfortunately I can't show it yet, I do not want to be disqualified. And I worked some more on TTT

After all I was so "witched out" and was looking for something brighter to work on. I pulled out couple of pieces from my UFO (unfinished objects) basket. An ornament that I've started a year ago:

and my oldest UFO... it must be around 18 years old. I made a mistake and left it on the back burner. Yesterday my sail boats saw the light again. I've frogged all mistakes (or most of them) and now I'm ready to work on it. That piece will be my first one for the 2012 WIPocalypse project.

Have a great spooky night!
Evalina

Another Monday...

So, it's Monday again. New week, new plans, new ideas. I'm back to taking my Mondays off work and dedicating them to my study. Yep! I'm back to school again taking more accounting courses (I sign up for 5 between now and sometime in March). I know it's crazy and it will eat up all my stitching time, but I just want to get over with. I do not care about perfect grades but I do want to pass the finals.  I have no idea why I'm doing this, I should be thinking about getting ready for retirement not getting more education and advancing my career.

I did manage to stitch a little. Of course it's a new start (shame on me) Thine is the trick and the treat from Prairie Moon. Here is the progress

I'm stitching in on 32ct willow green linen with floss from The Gentle Art named black crow. When done it should look kind of like this (except for a different background color)

So long friends,
Evalina

Pea's birthday party

I feel so royal today! If you want to know why, check this out: