Showing posts with label glendon place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glendon place. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Happy 2018 and a Finish Already!

A Stitching Group I am in are holding a UFO challenge, as it appears many of us have unfinished projects either to be stitched or completed into an ornament, pillow, be framed etc.

Well the first one I pulled out was my Lizzie Kate Mystery Sampler from 2012.

I think I did do a little bit on it last year but it again may its way to the UFO Black Hole.

I picked it up again on 27 December and it looked like this.....


And after a little bit of frogging on the boarder and completion of the last band, I finally finished it the 7 January.


I must say it was a fun stitch, now I just need to either get it framed or turn it into a wall hanging of some kind.

The next UFO to be bought back to life was this one. (Restarted 8 January)



It is Glendon Place - Witches Wheel.

Admittedly I was on three weeks holiday over the Christmas period and now I am back at work stitching will fall back to maybe on the weekends, but I really want to get this one finished now.

I have also been doing a heap of re-reading and my current binge is the Sookie Stackhouse Series AKA True Blood Series.

I have nearly finished book 11 in the series...



Which leaves me two to go, but I think I bought these on Kindle and as all the others are softback books I am going to have to order the other two but then that will give me the whole series to find a place for on my bookshelves (now that is a whole other problem to deal with LOL).

I went op/charity shopping the other day and apart from picking up some work clothes I managed to get two sets of books, albeit both sets have one book missing grrrrr.

But I can't complain as the books ranged in price from $4 - $2 so all in all a good deal.



So I really think my daily commute reading is set for the next few months.

Friday, March 4, 2016

March Madness - Stitching, Music and Ramblings

Now where to begin and it is only Friday 4th March....

Here is an update on my UFO stitching from February
This was at the beginning of February - Lizzie Kate Very Scary Mystery Sampler
End of February
(WOW what a difference in the quality of photos when you get a new phone, thank you my darling brother!!)

Now my UFO for March is this one.....
Glendon Place - Frank's Family Portrait
As of the beginning of March my progress to date is very sad......
Now this one will be interesting as it has a lot of colour changes and that is one thing I hate LOL.

Treated myself to some new tunes to listen to.

The first one is the soundtrack to the new HBO Show "Vinyl" - brilliant show and awesome soundtrack - warning it does have bad language throughout the show but that isn't a problem with me.
 the next album I bought was
I first heard this when I was staying at my brothers place when I was on holiday. If you are into "alternative" meaning this will not be played on normal commercial radio then I totally recommend this album.

Next (hey I have been new music deprived for years LOL)
This is a New Zealand Reggae type band - highly recommend them as it is also very easy to listen too.

And finally.......
A couple of these songs have been totally overplayed but still a good album by a young Australian.

And some final ramblings...

Work is uber busy and we currently have a recruitment freeze in the State Government so replacing anyone who leaves is virtually impossible, so everyone is under the pump doing their own jobs and helping out where we can.
Thank god it is a long weekend here in the west so I will get three days to recharge my batteries.

I have been watching the US Presidential race on TV, OMG is the prospect of Donald Trump becoming President scary or what. I just hope the people who vote use commonsense to ensure a good outcome.