Miserable weather!

After the high temperatures in July, Prague seems to be hit by a series of really miserable rainy days. At the moment, it about 12 degrees Celsius outside and heavy rain. And it is not gonna get better soon.

I mean, in a way, it is good, because the hot weather was killing. But, I have asked my sister to sew me some summer clothes (I did put on some weight over the two years I am working full time, especially from last summer I went almost two dress sizes up - all the stress with doing exams at two universities and working does require some chocolate!), which are almost finished now and I won't be able to wear them! And come next summer, I do not intend to be size 42, no way. I need to go back to my original 38 :-)

I took last Friday off work, stayed home, did a lot of studying and some stitching, and on Saturday I went to see a friend whom I have met over a stiching BB. Other than having to get up at 5:30 in the morning (on workdays, I get up at 7:50 and weekends usually 10:00 at the earliest) to catch a 7:10 train, it was a fabulous day. J. has also invited another stitcher, who lives nearby, so we spent the day going through stash and chatting.

J.'s husband is well-off, so she is not limited in financing her hobby as much as I am and she is investing heavily in getting every pattern (and corresponding fabric and goodies) from Mirabilia, Lavender and some others she like. So it was a real pleasure to go through them. Unfortunatelly, as we were visiting her at her summer house, not the regular, two bags of stash were left behind, so I didn't get to see all the patterns and her finished works, which I really regret. But it's not as if this was the last opportunity to meet :-)

On the 3 hrs train ride there and 3 hrs back I did do a lot of stitching - I finished backstitching "No other eggs-actly like my charming mother" from Precious moments (though I never call her anything but "Omelette"), the picture I have posted last time. She now only needs to be washed, then I will take a picture and post it here. I also worked a little on Above the Clouds, and finished the dragon's upper wings. Now I can really see him.

Which brings me to maybe preparing an overview of all the stitching projects I have, something I could look at and maybe think of a good rotation? I do admit my last rotation got totally out of hand, with me travelling and doing two obligation projects :-( but I'll leave that for another day.

Friday update

Fridays seem like a good day to post updates. Work is keeping me busy lately, though I remember times when it was much worse. Must be the summer, everyone’s out of Prague and the business is slow.

Tomorrow’s my stepdad’s birthday party, he’s 50, so it will be a big time. He invited his family from England to come, his daughter, his sister and her daugter. I have never met them before, so I am kind of anxious.

You see, he is not really my stepdad, cause he and my mum are not married, but since my biological father doesn’t really count as dad, I prefer to refer to Alan as to my stepdad.
So anyway, this will be kind of a rehearsal to my wedding next year, where I plan to invite them too.

But with all of this going on (I also need to attend dress rehearsal tomorrow morning), I will have only very little spare time. In the 2nd week of my preparation for the legal finals, I am already 1000 pages late (out of the 1800 I wanted to have done as of today). I want to cut this down a little so I have taken the harsh decision not to do any stitching this coming weekend unless I catch up completely. Right now, I am thinking if Friday counts, too :-)

The thing is, just today I have received the fabric and floss for the charity project that is due September 30. It is the Precious moments theme, and I have selected to stich this pattern:

I think she is a cutey, and I don’t know if I can stay awy from her the whole weekend. Maybe if I manage to read some 200 pages tonight?