The nights are getting shorter and the days longer--although you can't
tell if you're not paying attention because you're too busy freezing
your bewhondus off.
All the twinkling lights are packed away as are the tartookers, bizilbigs, popcorn and plums. So what's a girl to do to ward off a severe case of the dreaded January Doldrums? Funny you should ask!
It helps that I've hoarded every post-holiday sale cross-stitch ornament pattern that I've ever seen. I have kits marked Shopko $.30--and we haven't had Shopko here for a decade, people. And, oh, how I miss that store! So I'm loving lots and lots of cheery projects to stitch while I watch George Eliot's Middlemarch on Netflx, with an occasional Marco Polo episode thrown in to satisfy my sweetie's viewing habits.
It might have taken a few days of digging in various boxes and bins to round up all the kits that have scattered over the years, but I managed to herd them into one corral finally. So maybe the correct embroidery threads aren't with the right kits. Details, details. Close enough.
I'm just started project number seven! Which sounds impressive--especially with an exclamation mark thownin--but three of them were already mostly finished (similar to "mostly dead", but in the opposite way) and took just an evening to wind up.
Don't you just love that little gingerbread house on the green Aida?! It's my favorite. Atlhough the little hen with the brown eggs that says Merry Eggsmas on it (not pictured) is darn fun too. In a chicken-loving way.
I'm not only avoiding the post-holiday letdown but I'm a whole eleven months ahead on next year's Christmas ornaments! Whoot!
All the twinkling lights are packed away as are the tartookers, bizilbigs, popcorn and plums. So what's a girl to do to ward off a severe case of the dreaded January Doldrums? Funny you should ask!
It helps that I've hoarded every post-holiday sale cross-stitch ornament pattern that I've ever seen. I have kits marked Shopko $.30--and we haven't had Shopko here for a decade, people. And, oh, how I miss that store! So I'm loving lots and lots of cheery projects to stitch while I watch George Eliot's Middlemarch on Netflx, with an occasional Marco Polo episode thrown in to satisfy my sweetie's viewing habits.
It might have taken a few days of digging in various boxes and bins to round up all the kits that have scattered over the years, but I managed to herd them into one corral finally. So maybe the correct embroidery threads aren't with the right kits. Details, details. Close enough.
I'm just started project number seven! Which sounds impressive--especially with an exclamation mark thownin--but three of them were already mostly finished (similar to "mostly dead", but in the opposite way) and took just an evening to wind up.
Don't you just love that little gingerbread house on the green Aida?! It's my favorite. Atlhough the little hen with the brown eggs that says Merry Eggsmas on it (not pictured) is darn fun too. In a chicken-loving way.
I'm not only avoiding the post-holiday letdown but I'm a whole eleven months ahead on next year's Christmas ornaments! Whoot!
How I love your comments and catching up here. I have finally started crafting again and it helps me so much. You are always an inspiration. That gingerbread house is darling!
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