Annoyed!!!
2 nights in a row - I sat down to finish the minty ornaments, and it didn't work out the way I'd planned!!!! The first one (you'll have to use your imaginations) was a strip stitched so that when I folded and whip-stitched it closed, it would be a spiral (like a candy cane). I had 2 strips done with green stripes and one with red stripes, and I was going to attach them through each other, like the paper rings we used to make to count down the days until Christmas. Cute idea, right? Well, I didn't make the strips wide enough or long enough for that to work. So I put it aside last night and started crocheting. Then tonight, I decided to finish the truly candy cane-ish one, there's a p

Saturday update
So today's update has progress and...a finish!!!First, BoInk. I completed the upper-center motif - kind of like a phoenix, I think. So the whole upper portion is DONE!!!!!!!!! I also started the yellow frame on the right-hand cross. Hallie was looking at this piece and noticed the large crosses, and I said, "Look at the squares, there are crosses between the stitches." She looked closer and found a bunch of the

PIF received and PIF mailed
I mailed a PIF to Taija in Finland today. As soon as she lets me know it's received, I'll post pics. Some of you who are my friends on Facebook may have seen pics already, from the drawing phase, to the partial stitched phase, to I think the finished phase. Anyway, I hope she likes it!Also, here is the pic (clickable) of the ornament I received from Carol S. I

I did it again!!
Ugh! But at least NaBloPoMo has kept me coming back to post MOST days. I have been working really hard on these 2 ornament sets - I have stitching completed on 2 of the 3 peppermint ones, and am beginning finishing. The un-minty ones are going to be slightly easier finishes, but I'm playing around with embellishment.Today I received my PIF from Carol S, and I'll post a pic tomorrow after I drag my camera downstairs. I think I may have put off the germies as long as I could - I had a low-grade fever and a headache this afternoon, and I'm kind of fuzzy-headed right now. So I have very little energy for going up and down the stairs. My fever is gone, so I hope it wa

Pepperminty!
This is a look at the pepperminty ornament I'm working on for the FB group. It's not an ornament yet. But it will be - once I hemstitch the top and bottom, back stitch the sides, and stitch it in a cylinder, scent the stuffing, stuff it, and close it up somehow. :) But the x's are done.