Life Updates!

I've been absent again.

It has been one of those time periods where a whole bunch is going on, a whole bunch needs to be done and my stitchy bug takes a break.

So I spent most of my time this month sleeping/attempting to sleep after having run around shopping, doing other crafty stuff, fighting with my ISP to get my internet fixed (never mess with a gamer's internet!) and trying to work out what to do with myself.

So I saw a career advisor with my local TAFE to chat about options for wheelchair friendly professions. I already had a few ideas in mind, some of which I doubted would be wheelchair friendly.

So I came to the decision and I will be returning to TAFE to study full time.

I will be starting off with a Certificate 4 in Youth Work and then I'm going to see if I can do a dual discipline in both Mental Health and in Disabilities. 

I really hope I can get both at the same time. 

It will be a bigger workload, yes, but overall will be quicker than doing 2 different courses after each other.

So have some photos, and I will be filming some cross stitch updates in the next few days :)

Check out the hot chocolate porn!

Made my first ever pulled Pork. It didn't last long.

Strawberries and Cream cupcakes before icing, and choc mint muffins :)

Didn't get pictures of the sugar cookies before they went. I made them in bat and cat shapes :p

That's an Air Con, not a bed. 

One of our awesome Flosstubers was in hospital for a little while, so I surprised her with a card :)

I bought a card making kit off ebay, put all the pieces together, found a kitty picture which I printed out and then coloured with watercolour paints :)

And this little butterfly pendant was the little gift I sent along as well :)

I stitched it with 2 Fiberlicious hand dyed flosses, and one Dinky Dyes hand dyed floss :)

I spent most of the month stitching on my St Patricks day SAL. I didn't finish it. 

But I'm not going to rant about it here, I'm going to wait for the video :p

Made a friend of mine a Star Trek Communication Badge :)

Made the little pattern based off an image off Google.

I should mention I know nothing of Star Trek. At all :p

The pattern for this is on my Etsy as well

Andrew getting his hacksaw on at Bunnings :)

And what I made with those hacksawed pieces of PVC pipe :)

Still learning to two hand stitch, but it's so good to not have to hold it :p

I'm very quickly becoming a Qsnap convert!

Tie Dying some shirts. Some turned out, others didn't. And then my washing machine screwed them all up.

Pizza scrolls and some trial Nutella and Coconut scrolls :)

Stitching!

Little lacewing I rescued from my room before Illidan got ahold of him.

Cross Stitching Update

Life seems to always get in the way when I want to film. I will hopefully get around to filming my January book wrap up tomorrow before the Rental Inspection happens.

And a cross stitch update video later this week as well. 

First up I have two small finishes for the year.

The first is a stitchable notebook kit that came with Cross Stitcher magazine that had been sitting in my stash for a long time. I switched out the colours for Sea Dragon by Fiberlicious.

I stitched this with 3 strands for better coverage.

 Then we have this little Bernard Black - Black Books pattern from Plastic Little Covers on Etsy.

I ended up doing this one for the Mellisously Hopeless SAL

I had bought some red wine to stain the fabric with, but it dried grey.

I couldn't get the grey out, so I went over it with red dye,

It doesn't have the effect I wanted, but it's sort of red wine-ish.

So this one was a new start for January's Quote SAL. I haven't done much yet.

This one is being stitched with Fiberlicious hand dyed cottons.

And a new start for Feb, the Valentines SAL.

Also being stitched with hand dyed cotton from Fiberlicious.

This one is Poison Rose.

The fabric is from Stitches and Spice.

And we have the Frosted Pumpkin Storytime SAL.

The first frame is now finished, and I have yet to make a start on the second.

I regret not changing the frame colours to some of the hand dyed cottons I have.

Some of the Dinky Dyes ones are sort of pastel-y and would have looked nice.

This one is Almost Time by Victoria Frances charted by Tilton Crafts.

Not a lot happening here....

Mini Raven Kin by Selina Fenech, charted by Heaven and Earth Designs.

I've been working on this one a little today and am getting closer to a page finish.

It's only a half page granted, but hey, a page is a page :)

Also, Tom Hiddleston needle minder appreciation.

The amount of times I find myself looking at the needle minder and not stitching....

And here's my progress for the Mirabilia SAL

Again, not a whole lot going on here, but every stitch counts.

This is another project I've done some work on since taking photos, I'm almost finished the first square.

Still pretty far behind...

And last, but not least, Arthas!

I am thinking I might skip the Gloria and Pat SAL, and start a different project.

I received an Arthas chart for a shoutout on my blog/Youtube, which will also be coming in the next few days.

I want to start it. 

Like, now.

I need more Arthas in my life :p