Lots of updates!I recently realized that I used to have a blog, and that is has probably been ages since I posted anything!
Yeap, November 2007, that is some 18 months ago!
Lots has happened since. Around Christmas 2007, I got hooked up on some computer games and pretty much lost interest in cross stich because of that. I hardly touched it for almost a year!
Then, there was the house. Shortly after we got married back in summer 2006, we signed a reservation contract for a house to be constructed as per our request. It took some time - the construction did not begin till late 2007 and we got the keys in October 2008 (concrete and bricks - that takes time to build!) Also, the house needed a lot of finishings - we had to lay carpets, paint the walls (they were boring white before), have kitchen installed, blinds, lights, furniture, you get the story. We are still not there - now that most of the inside is done, we are slowly moving to the outside - we will have a pool installed, then we need to do the fence, the patio, plant the trees and the bushes and the whole thing. I don't actually think we will ever be done with the whole place, it will always be a work in progress, but that's life :-)
On top of that, I changed job last summer. After a not-exactly-fair thing that my ex boss did to me, I decided it was time to leave behind 5 years of my life and move on. I work in real estate investment - not the best career right now - but I was lucky to have started looking just before the crisis hit here in Europe. I found a nice, safe position in a major bank and looking at what is going on in the company I used to work for, the nasty thing my ex-boss did was actually the best that could ever happen to me as I wouldn't have left otherwise!
But this is a stitching blog, so back to stitching :-)
In my last post, I wrote about starting on Angel of Grace by Lavender&Lace. I finished her right after New Year 2009 (I reinvented my interest in stitching this last Christmas). I don't have a photo, but I promise to make one and post it here!
Haven't started anything new - instead I work on the old UFOs. I got out the Portrait of Elegance by Dimensions, and did a good progress on her, and also the Lady of Shalott by Teresa Wentzler. LoS is a pleasure to work on - well, mostly. The border certainly is. I have her on the hoop right now and am working in the left lower part. The left upper part was not too much fun to do - loads and loads of confetti stitching in the flower vase and on the curtains, but I have only some of the flowers left and the rest seems easier. I think I could have the entire left half done by end of June, but will see.
The plan for this year is to finish the Lady and also the Portrait of Elegance. Don't know if it is feasible, but hey, if not, they can be finished next year. Or the year after that :-)
