With one semester half way out the door, I find myself more relaxed than ever. This weekend I had a serious case of "couch back" as I was almost unable to move to trying to complete all my homework before tomorrow's final. I still need to review some material, but at this point I know I only need a low C to make an A, so I'm living dangerously…sort of. Over the weekend I started searching for cross stitch blogs, mostly just to see what all was out there, who was working on what, etc. But, what I found most amazing was that EVERYONE was posting about how busy they were, how sorry they have not posted in a while, and so on. And, what I realized is, Christmastime is BUSY. We are running from place to place, trying to buy gifts for this person, put them in the mail for another, decorate Christmas trees and homes, all while keeping up with our usual routine, and in the middle of a time when daylight hours are at their lowest. I confess, sometimes I am amazed I get a thing done at all some days, what will the light fleeing as early as it now does.
Anyway, instead of bore you with my tales of vectors and equilibrants, I thought I would post some photo updates of my Emily Dickinson sampler. I confess, I am amazed at how fast it is going for me. I have yet to make any more big mistakes on it - fingers crossed! - and have found it very easy and relaxing. One new thing I am trying is working with multiple colors of floss at once. I think it has been a lot easier and helps to keep my work from being so messy and knotted in the back.
As you can see here, I have several colors going at once, and have attempted to begin working this sampler in small squares now that I have the reference point of the trees and bee hive.
I just LOVE these little bumble bees!
I think the cats have really been enjoying the colder weather. I brought out their winter beds a few weeks ago, but only Annie cares to sleep in them. I think she must be very cold natured because if she is not sleeping in my bed with me, she is in her own bed in the living room. The cold weather always makes them less active at night, unlike the hot summer when they just cannot settle down. When it's time to go to bed we all four cuddle up in the bed and fall right to sleep. It's all very sweet and cozy.
Of course, these two hardly utilize their beds. Ollie (the orange) only likes his window perch, and Frankie loves to lay on the guest bed. Obviously they like to get up on the furniture too. What can I say, I just cannot tell their little kitty faces no. :)
Now, I had promised to post pictures of my Christmas tree earlier and so, here it is!
It's actually not a bad little tree, but does it ever lean! It's like the Leaning Tower of Christmas! The only reason I can figure as to why it does this is because it is so young. Those ornaments are not even that heavy, so it is obviously not a "sturdy kind, that doesn't mind the snow". Still, it was only $20.00 and I could fit it in my little corolla, two very important factors.
Well, this time tomorrow I will be a free lady. No more school until 1/17/2012! Hip Hip - Hooray!!!
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