This is the post to introduce yourself, your projects and goals for the year. You can see the info and how to check in at Measi's Blog. I'm Claudette and I've been married for 31 years now, which seems like a long time but it's like I blinked, and here we are. I was the world's happiest pastry cook and then my aunt's husband died and she was midway through dementia so I was her caregiver until she died in 2024, almost exactly 3 months after my dad died from heart failure. I dropped out of my life for almost 3 years to take care of her, and I expected to drop right back into everything but the motivation hasn't been there.
Cross-stitching is one of things that got me through and I'm eternally grateful that one of my grandmothers tried so hard to make a lady out of me by teaching me things like the womanly art of cross-stitch. She failed on many, many, levels, but I did fall in love with those little x's!
I volunteer with a Ukrainian organization and do whatever I can to help their war effort. I also teach Christian cooking classes for our Sunday School; we learn about the saint or festival of the day and make a cake that seems appropriate (spice cakes for epiphany!) My husband is an avid hiker and rock climber and we have a rescue dog who's almost 16 - she's definitely got some sort of doggie dementia but she's still warm and furry and she knows we're her pack so we're enjoying whatever time we have left with her.
My goal for the year is to stitch on every project I have - I've done new-start-a-day challenges 3 times and I've started plenty of other things, and every last one of them was my favorite thing I've ever stitched on, so I'm hoping to say hi to all of them and let them know they're loved, and also to see if any of them have lost some of their luster. If I've counted right I'll get through everything this year if I stitch on five things a day, so that's what I'm going for. So far I'm really loving having some structure in my day - I've needed it! I have a page for all of it because I don't want to be posting 35 pictures a week, and if I just folded them into my blog and started posting every day I'd feel like I needed to comment on them or my day or something. These are some of the things I've stitched on this year, you can see the whole parade so far here.
3 comments:
Happy New Year Claudette and Family: Thank-you for sharing, it sounds like you have been busy taking care of family stuff and the loss of your Father. I truly miss my parents. You are a very good niece to take care of your Aunty.
Life does seem to through us curves every once in a while, stitching has helped me when i need a calming effect for my life.
I bet its fun doing the cooking class's, my husband used to be an avid runner until neuropathy came into his hands and feet from agent orange, so sad to see him suffer. Spice cakes sound wonderful, I am looking forward to seeing your progres on all your stitching in 2026, 2025 went by so fast.
Catherine
Happy New Year! Your 5 a day sounds like fun. I always plan on some kind of WIP busting rotation but it never pans out. Now I'm just picking up random WIPs and working on them. I'll enjoy watching your rotation!
Happy new year! I wish you the best in meeting your goal!
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