Fears be gone!

Ok, one of my greatest fears when I realized we were getting shipped off to a foreign land was that I wouldn't be able to acquire (easily) new stash. Which so far this seems to be correct other than a good supplu of DMC which is sold at our craft shop here on base, everything else I would need I would have to order then wait 50 years for it to be delivered!

However, today I decided to go through my WIP's drawers...and I realized that these fears are totally moot!!

I have enough stitching projects in those drawers to last me at least 6 years!!!! Ones that I have started and somewhere along the way abandoned. I have a short attention span when it comes to my stitching, it seems! Although I am getting better about that! I have projects in these drawers that I started up to 5 years ago and not finished!!! I have projects that I have gotten, kitted up and then abandoned, sooooo many projects, that I pulled out and went: "Oh yeah! I remember this!" And set it in my pile of "to work on now" projects. Now my "To work on now " pile is larger than it needs to be! lol...

So, today I totally abandoned BoInk in favor of "America Birdhouses Unite." This one I started in 2006, I believe I found the post for it there. You'll notice (if you were to go looking for these posts) that I post about this project twice (maybe three times) and then it disappears off the radar. It's the same with several others as well. Well, that is because I never happy danced over them, I merely shoved them aside for the new projects that I would either buy or decide I wanted to work on.

So all this to say that maybe it is a goooood thing that I am not able to acquire stash so easily, maybe these next 4 years we are here will help me to finish up some of those long lost and forgotten projects that have been hanging around for so long, just waiting to be happy danced over! And I can be saving up my pennies for our return to the states and being able to buy new stuff.

But do not worry dear friends, I am not totally jumping ship with BoInk, I still intend to finish it by Sept 10th. I just got excited about my findings this morning. But America Birdhouses unite will be set aside, I just worked on it a little bit this morning.

Yesterday I also started working on "Achoo!" again as well, but again have decided not to work on it steadily until I am finished with BoInk. Now I am getting excited for finishing BoInk so I can go stash diving and come up with an old loved but forgotten project to work on.

At any rate, I am very relieved to know that in these next few years I will not run out of things to stitch! Pictures to come soon, of both ABHU and Achoo! Hope yo uare all having a wonderful weekend!

Progress...

It's comin' along, I'm hoping for a finish within a week! Now the question is "What next?"

Progress Photo Friday!

Well, hello, again! Everyone, don't faint, as I am posting twice in as many days!! And this time with stitchy piccies! Here is my progress on Howling at the moon...This is what it looked like the last time I wrote about it on March 9th of this year...
And THIS is what it looks like now...I'm on page 4 of the 9 page pattern...Only finished Page 5.


So there is my progress onthat one, and here is progress on BoInk:




Not much further to go now!! Just finsh up those three panels on the bottom, a few touch ups on previous squares and finish the outline,one and a half celtic knots, and about 1 and a half "cats". I think I was right in making my deadline for Sept. 10th...I can see it happening...can you?

Boy do I miss Blogging...

I hate that I have been ignoring my poor blog and all my wonderful stitching buddies! I have been stitching...honestly I have just been too...busy...er...yeah...to post.

I have been very stuck on Facebook games. I know there are others out there as well who have the same addiction to those things too. I'm just so...ugh...time seems to go by too fast, they blur by and at the end of the day I end up thinking "Gosh, I WAS going to post to my blog, eh, I'm tired, I'll do it tomorrow."

So, even though I don't have a stitchy pic, I do have one of Japan. This photo was taken about half an hour away from out house, at a place called teh Tropical Dream Center. It's a botanical garden, it's huge!!! It took hubby and I three hours to get through it all, and at that we had to rush towards the end, because they would be closing soon. Anyway, there is a tall tower you can climb up to the top of, and that was the view from there. SOOOO beautiful!

I am going to try (but I make no promises!) to post a stitchy photo or two tomorrow. We shall see. I'm about ready to ground myself from the computer for a bit...but then again, maybe not! Thank you all for reading!

A lazy blogger

yup! That's me!!! I haven't been on here much, because of unpacking the house, and last weekend was our 4th anniversary, and so...we went camping on the beach to celebrate! But I have been stitching a little, and here is a photo of BoInk. I know last time I said I would share a surprize, but not yet! Sorry! It wasn't much of a surprise, I was just gonna show you progress on Howling at the moon, since lately all I've done is work on BoInk, but that will have to wait, I think I wanna get more work in on it, before I share it.



Anyway, here is a photo of Boink as it stands right now. I have put a deadline on it...I would like to have it finished by Sept. 10th, by the earliest, and No later than October 1st, basically I am shooting for Sept. 10th deadline, but I gave myself a little extension time just in case!

Well, friends, thank you all for your lovely comments, and also to all my new followers! 25 now!!! Wow!! I feel so loved! Thank you! i will try not to wait so long to post again! Talk to you all very soon, I hope!

Sooo relieved!!!

Well, yesterday all my earthly belongings showed up!!! And let me tell you it has been no small feat getting 4 bedrooms of furniture into a tiny 2 bedroom house. But, I am soooo happy to report that all my stitching stash and haul made it safe and sound!!!! I felt like a person who has seen their child after a long time away from it, such relief at knowing it is safe and in my grips again.

Hubby was laughing at me, as I kept going through the drawers of my two stash cabinets looking and making plans for a new rotation...never mind that all my stuff is scatter willy nilly throughout the house (not so much scattered, as it is crammed, tightly packed in, so that one must go through a rigorous obstacle course just to get out the front door! That is if you know where the front door is located, because if you dont know where it is, I dare yah to try to find it!!!) all I care about is looking at, drooling over and making plans for my beloved cross stitch that has returned to me! Oh yes, and the books, we must not forget the fretting over where my books are! That is because I own several that havve not been read yet, and I want to know where they are so that I can continuing reading them...being without the internet for two or so months made quite a dent in my TBR ("To-Be-Read") pile, and I will be most upset if I reach the bottom of the pile, can't be having that! However, so far, the books have not been located, though I'm sure they are here somewhere, but that is alright, I still have quite a pile of books I CAN get to, and still need to read, so for now, I'm alright on the book front! LOL...

Ok, this has been a rambly post, so sorry! Be sure to come back as I will be posting Progress photo Friday pics tomorrow, and I have a surprise! =)

Progress photo Friday

I have steadily working on this...I finished the block right in the center with the bird in it (All except for the birds eye.) and I added more green coming down the right side of the border, as well as the right corner "cat"...not sure what that thing is up in the corners....looks like a cat to me.

Well, today Hubby and I are gonna head out to the beach...if it doesn't rain...I'm hoping it doesn't. Although with it being a holiday weekend, the beach will probably be very crowded...we'll see how it goes.

Bye for now! Have a great weekend, and July 4th, all my American readers!