First week down!

I've been kicking 2023's a#%  so far!  New Year's Eve we took our traditional sunset photo, we celebrate at sunset so we can go to bed haha.

We knew it was sunset because of the time, but some rain was rolling in.  

Kuna looks like she's not looking forward to this year - I thinks she could tell it was going to rain and she wanted us to get inside.  I love love love the rain and she has suffered through some wet walks with me!

My final TUSAL result for 2022:

This beautiful creature won the "Sweepstakes Award" for the most beautiful float! This is the float I worked on for the Rose Parade, in all her glory! Some of that yellow was made from flower petals cut by me, and I couldn't have been more proud that we'd won if I'd designed and built the whole float myself!

My stitching has been diligent! I got to the bottom of "Zinnias" from Leisure Arts Magazine, year unknown but I'm guessing the 90s.

Got a flower started in "Autumn Meditation":

Started the letters in "Harvest Blessings":

"Winter Cardinal" has a chest:

 

"Sistine Chapel" has some of the border - there are four colors in this space, believe it or not:

I have a picture of "Reversed Sampler" so I did something but I don't know what:

And I finally took a picture of Aliens:

I'm trying to stick with a finish every 11 days, so I'll probably be stitching Cardinal like crazy to finish him by the 11th - fingers crossed!

RIP Debbie

Still missed.....

For the WIPocalypse this month I don't have a single finish! I was ready to say, with complete sincerity, that I've only been stitching on Happy Easter all month, and then my camera roll showed up......

"Happy Easter" by CuteFoxyShop has most of the leaves and flowers and all the lettering done; it's mostly the background yellow left:

"Baking Hello Kitty" from Vervaco has more cupcakes and background pink:

"Reversed Sampler" from the Stitcherhood has a picture so I must have done something but I don't know what:

"Bam! It's Christmas!" by Emma Congdon has more red:

and "Grave Fellows" from Lindy Stitches has the big bird and headstone finished, two small birds and headstones to go:

 I must be cross-stitching while I sleepwalk or something because I had no memory at all about stitching on three of these until I saw the pictures!  Maybe I have an excuse I can use when I get more stash, haha.

The WIPocalypse question for the month is about Zoom meetings and have we been to them.  The answer is yes and they're a nightmare for me because I can't stay awake; I've fallen asleep during zoom church, zoom webinars, and zoom meetings for a volunteer group I'm with.  I keep my camera off for this exact reason.  I'm not even tired, I just hate Zoom so much that the agony makes me sleepy. 

It's finally started to cool down here and then the weather report says a monsoon is in the south so it will be hot and muggy again by the end of the week, grrr.