Sew Dance

Now, my goals from next year. Find a full-time job. Improve my stamina. Finish 2 cross-stitch projects and 2 pages of a GK/HAED. And the results. Almost? Yeah. Didn't happen. Will this year just from not being able to sit all day, hopefully. Finished 10 cross stitch pieces and 29 ornaments for a total of 39, 16 crochet projects, 4 other craft projects, and 4 pages of In the Garden (not a GK/HAED but I'll take it). I think I counted correctly. Maybe I should set my goals a little higher? Completed 2/3 although managed to go way beyond number 3. Goals for 2016. Turn yarn/fabric stash into finished projects. I figure I should cut down my stash in my closet. Yarn/fabric is bulkier and heavier than my cross stitch so I may concentrate on those. Get back to dancing. Which should help improve my unmet goal (2) from last year. I will get back to insanity. But the height of my bed plus my new lamp hasn't made working on GK's easy to use the magnifying glass...

I hope everyone had a good holiday. I didn't get any new stash for Christmas. But I did get money with the instructions to spend it on 'string'. Close enough. Plus my birthday is coming up. The last of the ornaments for this year.  I've been working on this one since July during downtime at work.  Just finished this one today. And I got him for Christmas. I love Garfield.   Also discovered a Tilton Crafts. Now I have another wishlist...

I apparently got a lot done. Some pieces from scratch, others were partially completed. Finn and Violet are complete. Peppermint manta was put together. I had spent some time prior to this week doing all the sequins. I may get around to the snowman.  I put these ornaments in the frames. And the reindeer was completed as well after working on it on and off.

Well, today in New York it was almost 70 degrees in the middle of December. Very strange. I didn't get much crafting done. An interview (didn't get the job), and putting up the tree, along with facebook being a distraction, made for very little done this week. But I can show you something I finished last week.  Isn't it cute? Next owl is almost done. And speaking of the tree, look who I found under it. Why? Oh, forgot last week (almost forgot this week too) I won threads from a contest tiffstitch held. Aren't they pretty?

Snowman afghan is finished. And so is Kiwi the owl ornament. Also made a cute Christmas present today that I will post a photo of at a later date.

I hit 50k today. So hip hip hooray for me. I should probably go back and edit some of my earlier ones and see if I can get published. Onto crafting! Almost finished this ornament. Just have a few stitches and then the beading Also scrapped the turkey afghan as I wasn't going to get it done before Thanksgiving and went onto one a bit more wintery. One or two more pieces to actually create then everything gets sewn together. And I bought some more stash. Although compared to last year, I was really, really good. I stuck to the clearance page at abcstitch. And I ordered threads for my Ink Circles design from 123stitch and this chart.

And we say goodbye to Season 21 tonight. Cute opening. Chaka. Probably a good idea to stick to singing. Kim. Hoppy and no hips. She quotient have lasted much longer than the week she had to withdraw. I wish they would do more pro numbers like that throughout the season. Silly Tom. Paula. And she still can't dance samba. Carlos. Magic Mike the Christmas edition. Mmm good looking shirtless men. Nick. His butt wasn't sticking out!  Victor. Still bad. Andy. Does decently when he doesn't have to do ballroom. Alek. He'd do well in the theater arts category. Lots of lifts. I love outtakes. Gary. Still has no idea what he's supposed to be doing. Hayes. Very short and it seemed to be a sticky floor. Alexa. One of the odd dances mark choreographed. Strange little 'night before Christmas' Bindi. Still pretty. Andy and Chaka. Their voices don't blend well. And the fusion dances Nick. Sals...