A Friday Finish!

I have a finished finish so woo hoo to me! This was the "Welcome Spring" kit from Cross Stitch Crazy that I finished last year and finally glued together.  This is a technical as my finishing gets, haha.  I love it.  The birds are going crazy in my yard right now; I have the only sort of fluffy shady tree near by, and everyone's pecking and kicking through the duff.

This is a Christmas Gnome kit from Just Cross Stitch.  It's stitched on vinyl canvas, which is an unusual experience, and the finish is to roll it and stitch up the back, so I'm hopeful that I can make that happen.

Rouxdolph has an X:

Garden Bunny has some flowers sprouting:

Braver has more....just more, haha:

and Sistine Chapel has more border:

 My big news is I got myself a ticket to see the Dolly Parton musical - Yee haw for me!  DH isn't invited - I'm too excited and he'll just drag me down when I'm trying to get my Dolly on!  I've promised not to go to Dollywood without him so I need to find something else to do while I'm there, but I have plenty of time to think about it. Nashville in August is maybe not my best idea but my sequined cowgirl hat is already out and ready to go!

Happy May Day!

 A nice stitching roundup for the end of April!

I've had this beautiful dream that one day all my smaller pieces will be done and then I'll go crazy with my big ones, but that dream really depended on me not finding anything else to stitch and..cough cough...ahem...

So I'm kind of recalibrating and digging into the vault to get my bigger pieces moving, and this is my biggest, the Sistine Chapel by HAED. I stitched some more of the ceiling border:

Sweet Tea Rex by Ardith Designs has all the blue dinosaurs filled in:

Sakura Pagoda by Riolis got all sky work this week:

Bear Walk by Stitchy Fish got more sunset and Big Bear got more fur:

Rouxdolph by Dirty Annies has more letters:

Ukraine Map has more of Cherkasy Oblast:

and Braver by Dimensions has more random flowers and lettering:

Spent the week beating the tariffs - got a bike rack installed on my car, air conditioner fixed, ordered Sunday School supplies for the rest of the year, looted Joanns and got my birthday/anniversary order in early at 123 stitch.  We may end up  feasting on dandelions and nettles, but at least I'll be getting my craft on!

Kuna likes to nap in her hole outside when it gets hot, but she can't really relax at night because she's scared of the neighborhood owl. Poor Kuna!

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!