tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34524735865086641302024-02-19T08:37:02.494-08:00Stitching ScrapbookNataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-56048095953213092422016-01-20T02:30:00.000-08:002016-01-20T06:38:10.946-08:00January/February 2016 Stitching Goals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the goals for the rest of January and all of February 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Finish inventorying threads and get them into storage drawers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2. Build storage unit for closet and get the rest of my stash accessible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3. Buy a Stitch in Time and Crazy Owl Family from HAED.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4. Get shopping list for rest of supplies I need for upcoming projects.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5. Finish page 7 of Sapphire</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6. Stitch half of page 2 of Cake Shop.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7. Start Neverending WIP</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">8. Start A Little Gobble</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">9. Start stitching page 1 of the Floral Coloring Page SAL</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">10. Start America the Beautiful</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">11. Start Apple Creek Lane</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">12. Start Bewitched</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">13. Start Rainbow Eye</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">14. Start Easter</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">15. Half of page 1 of Stained Glass</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">16. Start Fleur de Lys</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">17. Stitch half of page 2 of Cake Shop</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">18. Start Blackwork Challenge 1</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">19. Finish page 7 of Sapphire</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">20. Start Blackwork Challenge 2</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">21. Finish green easter egg on UFO page</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">22. Start blue house sampler</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">23. Finish Sweetheart Rocking Horse</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">24. Start Fractal 481 Bookmark</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">25. Start A Stitch in Time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">26. Start Book of ink circles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">27. Start Falling Leaves</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">28. Start Family</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">29. Start Freebie Fairy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">30. Start Patchwork Heart</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">31. Start In this House</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">32. Start Jingle All the Way</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">33. Start Crazy Owl Family</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that is proooobably enough! Haha...Tad overwhelming... Haha!!</span></div>
Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-19385316859673105582016-01-20T01:55:00.001-08:002016-01-20T06:33:49.366-08:00Crazy January Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Here is my list for the Crazy January Challenge for 2016. I haven't started any of these yet mainly because it took me longer than I thought to get my supplies. A lot of these are patterns I have saved on my computer so I won't be able to show a sample, a lot of them are freebies so I will work on linking to the pattern itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Neverending WIP</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2. A Little Gobble</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3. Floral Coloring Page (Crazy January Challenge 2016 Facebook group)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4. America the Beautiful</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5. Apple Creek Lane</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6. Bewitched</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7. Rainbow Eye (LoveThyThread [no longer in business])</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">8. Easter</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">9. Stained Glass (LoveThyThread [LTT])</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">10. Fleur de Lys</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">11. Cake Shop</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">12. Blackwork Challenge 1</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">13. Sapphire</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">14. Blackwork Challenge 2</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">15. Easter Eggs UFO</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">16. Blue house sampler</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">17. Sweetheart Rocking Horse (Theresa Wentzler)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">18. Fractal 481 Bookmark</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">19. Stitch in Time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">20. Book of ink circles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">21. Falling Leaves</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">22. Family (LTT)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">23. Freebie Fairy (LTT)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">24. Patchwork Heart</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">25. In This House (LTT)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">26. Jingle all the Way (LTT)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">27. Crazy Owl Family (HAED)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">28. Colorwork</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">29. Butterfly WIP (set of 4 butterflies)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">30. Freebie Mini Patchwork Sewing Machine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">31. Vintage Love Letters (HAED)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Neverending WIP</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I saw this idea posted in one of the stitching groups I am in on Facebook. I love the idea so I am going to do my own. This picture is what the lady posted in the group just so you can get an idea but this is NOT my picture.</span><br />
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Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-76814300617655158472016-01-20T00:50:00.001-08:002016-01-20T01:02:19.966-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">First Post of 2016!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Life has been soooooo busy! We got moved into the new house and pretty much have everything unpacked! The new house is great and my kids absolutely LOVE it! We have switched rooms quite a few times all ready but I believe we have everyone situated where they are going to stay. I have been working hard on organizing and getting things put away. My kids or I seem to have been sick a lot since about September. This has slowed my stitching time down quite a bit along with the holidays and such. I also started working for my roommate at nite for a short time. He had to fire someone who was cleaning the floors at the local mall overnite and I was already approved through the background check and such so I filled in until he got it covered! It was hard to work all nite and taking care of the boys 24/7. We have also been having a lot of issues with my ex (their dad, who I live with). He has NOT been setting a good example for the boys with bringing girls around or being gone to be with them more than being with the boys. (He left for 10 days after I got on him for bringing a girl around the kids. He got extremely mean and it was just better that he wasn't around unless he wanted to be. His loss). He has turned extremely mean and hurtful especially to me but also to the boys. It got pretty bad there for awhile so I was in full momma bear mode. We're still not great but there's not much else I can do than set an extremely good example for the boys and make sure that their lives are consistant. My roommate has really stepped up when I needed the help and has stepped in for the boys. I am extremely blessed and grateful for all of his help he has given me and continues to. So this takes me back to my stitching!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lot of the slow down with my stitching has been that everything is and was packed so it is hard to get to. Most of my stash is in 2 of the clear plastic towers with 3 drawers which are still taped from the move and hard to get to in my closet! LOL. I have bought something that I am going to put together to put in the back on my closet to help get everything out of the way. I have also been working on organizing my thread. I have always been a very minimalistic stitcher. I would much rather spend my time actually stitching than messing with getting stuff organized. Another part of that is the normal plastic bobbins and divided craft boxes that most stitcher use to store their floss...I can't stand putting my thread on the bobbins. Most of the time it gets tangled and it just aggrivates me and with 4 boys I have to utilize any free time I have and I want to spend that stitching! I was known very well for having disappeared from my online stitching friends because I would have my head burried in a plastic grocery bag searching for just one color! So I finally found a system that will work for me so I don't have to bobbinate the threads and they are organized! I just finished putting the labels on yesterday and I'm still working on getting my thread inventoried in my stash app on my phone and put away. Here is what I have been working on for that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see each DMC color has it's own drawer with label and they are stacked in numerical order. I had a hard time with placement of these due to how this corner is thanks to the window and my heat duct is right between the brown dresser and the 2 stack of these drawers. These are originally intended for nuts and bolts for a garage or tool bench but they are nearly perfect! I love it already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found a great app for Android called Stash Cache which allowed me to input each color of thread and how many of each I have. There will be no more of having to search for an hour or more in my bags of floss. Now I just have to keep my kids out of it! Haha! I think it will be okay because they don't usually come in my room unless I'm in there already and it's in a corner that isn't close to my door or the side of the bed I sleep on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Going back to the not wanting to put my threads on bobbins, I had to come up with a solution for my HAED projects so that I can keep each color separate and so I don't waste a whole bunch of thread in the process. Here is the system I have come up with for that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each color for my HAEDs have their own spot in the box. I'm not sure if this is extremely lazy or I'm a complete genious, probably both! But it works for me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now for the updates on my projects!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't really worked on sapphire very much but I do have a little update! I seem to be sticking with my HAEDs mostly. Here are the update pictures for that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now for my big update and what has been my main focus when I have had time to stitch. Cake Shop by Aimee Stewart. This was my new start from my last post. Here are the update pics for that one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have my first page finish for Cake Shop! I love stitching this and the colors, as you can see, are just amazing! I got quite tired of pink but I'm not really a pink person anyway! I did get my fabric gridded for my next page! Gridding really does seem to make a big difference when stitching these HAEDs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I participated in a challenge in the HAED Facebook group and the Supersized HAED Facebook group and I got it complete in both groups working on Sapphire and Cake Shop. As a reward I got this chart in both the regular size and the Supersized version. This one is also by Aimee Stewart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have my eye on two more charts from HAED. The first one is of an owl family but the way this project is set up is almost exactly the same if it were me and my 4 boys in the pattern. Even the personalities of them match my kids. I kind of wish the biggest blue owl was shorter than the mom one but it's sooo close I still want to get it! Here is a pic of that one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love everything about this project! I am going to RAK three of my very good friends who also stitch and we will work on it together! It just recently got charted and they updated their website but I wanted to wait for a sale before I get them all. This one is ALSO by Aimee Stewart. I'm starting to notice a pattern here! I guess I like her artwork!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have signed up for the Crazy Challenge of 2016. You are to start a new WIP every day in January and try to finish them by the end of the year. I did this a few years ago and that was the year I had the most finishes I've ever had so something about it I like. I will create a post for that all by itself as this one is getting long. I haven't started this yet because, as I mentioned earlier, my stash wasn't really accessible and I have to get my supplies and it took longer than expected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have also gotten into bullet journaling. I haven't had much time to work on this...not nearly as much as I would of liked but I know I can't work on it when the kids are awake as it takes quite a bit of concentration. I like the idea of having a place for planning, schedule and any projects or lists I want. I do have a bit of a creative side so I like that too. I may make a separate page on this blog to cover my bullet journaling. There is soooo much out there and it would be nice to have a place to keep track of what I've done and what I'd like to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay this post has turned quite long between all the updates and the pictures. I will get to posting about the crazy challenge next and set up my page for bullet journaling! I hope, now that things have settled with the move, the kids are back at school from the holidays and lots of illnesses to be posting more often and have updates more often! Take care!</span></div>
<br />Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-36685563138784606982015-10-26T10:45:00.001-07:002015-10-26T10:45:12.577-07:00Long Update!<span style="font-size: large;">Sorry it's been so long since I have made a post. So much has happened and most of those things have been good! I have been stitching along and will fill you in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started watching my kids pretty much every day at their house since their dad works nights and it worked out with schedules and gave me as much time as possible with them. While staying there I didn't get much stitching done and was dealing with massive drama from the ex's 2nd wife. She owned the house and thought that gave her permission to come into the house whenever she wanted and cause issues just about every day! She blamed me for it but they got together when me and him were married. It caused me to be on edge every day and was just plain rediculous and not healthy for my kids to see every day. So we ended up moving them to my house temporarily to get us all away from her. This will be a temporary move since my roommate bought a house and we will be moving into that house in just 4 days! Most people can't live with their ex but I don't usually do things in a normal way and I'm okay with that. The kids love it and it works out for everyones schedules since their dad works nights and financially it's a good idea. So far it's been working really well! This temporary move to my house has me driving a lot getting kids to and from school but I have still been stitching. I also had to get my computer fixed. I tried to get a new operating system on it but it did not like it. It ended up being a manufacturer defect so it's nice to have it back for me to read my patterns from. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another huge update in my life. For the last 3 years I have been having to scrounge to cover my basic needs of living, like housing etc. because my aunt who was the payee of my disability cut me off when I stood up to my toxic mother. I fought tooth and nail not to go back and was part of the reason why I moved away for a little while. I finally had my court hearing to regain control of my disability and I got it!! It was such a hrad road including a year and a half of being homeless or sleeping on friends couches but I have never been healthier and it has made me stronger in ways I can't even begin to describe! It was a huge win for me knowing that good things come to good people especially when you work hard to overcome it! I need to figure out what is next in my life and what I want to focus on next. I will update you on my stitching now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have hit a big milestone! I got the top row done of the pattern all stitched up. I tried to do the cross country approach on these pages and the frog hit me big time! I will not be doing cross country like that again! While I was unstitching to find out where my mistake was I accidentally cut some of my fabric in the process so I need to try to do a patch. I have everything to do it but haven't quite completed it yet. So in the pictures you will see a blank spot where I need to patch it. Here are the update pictures...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the sample picture of what it will look like EVENTUALLY! LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While my computer was out of commission I had to work on a pattern that wasn't on my computer so I decided to start the second rocking horse in a series of them. I had already completed the first one that I chose to do of this series. I got quite a bit done on it too however, this one at the beginning was plagued with the frog. It took me numerous tries to get the front legs right but once I got going it went quickly. I did this over the course of a weekend but I still need to finish it! Here are those pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last but not least is my new start! If you remember I had purchased a new HAED chart and was working on getting the materials to start it. It was harder than I thought since my LNS didn't have a big enough piece of fabric in their shop. They ordered one for me and it came in last week and now I am on a first name basis there after ordering this! LOL!!! I am big on supporting small business and that is a huge reason why I am a cash only person. Since my dad was a small business owner I would much rather spend my money at small business than big box stores so it took a bit longer for me to get started but I'm okay with that. If I can't buy things from a local business I choose places that are based in my state over anyone else since it will stay in Michigan's economy. We were hit so hard with the recession as a state it's the least I could do. So I got this one started over the last few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is called Little Cake Shop by designer Aimee Stewart and charted by Heaven and Earth Designs (HAED).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are my progress pictures. I worked on this for a good bit of the last two days and I don't feel like I've gotten very far but this is HUGE as it's the Supersized one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This fabric covers my entire bed and as you can see my computer in the background for a comparison of the size. This one is going to take me just a little while, haha!, to finish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love taking close ups so you can see the different colors in just a little section. I truly love working on this one so far even tho the project itself is daunting! With all 4 of my kids in school now I can get some done when they are in school. Once we get moved to the new house this weekend I should have time to devote to this and my other projects! I love how stitching allows me time to slow down and think things through while I'm accomplishing something. I don't know what I would do without a way to relax without this craft.</span>Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-69369606769615861732015-07-31T17:46:00.000-07:002015-07-31T17:46:02.576-07:00My abandoned projects...Since I have recently moved it has lead to me finding new places for things and ways to organize my things in my new space. This has lead to me seeing my unfinished projects again so it has motivated me to finish one of them and get them out of my organizers. Plus, as I mentioned in my last post I have been trying a rotation of sorts and it seems to be working so far so this is my way of planning ahead. I also have quite a few stitching friends that I talk to daily who help keep me motivated on my projects both current and the forgotten ones. So posting them here I think will allow me to plan ahead but also give them a way to easily see what I have in my unfinished pile and help get them finished! I took pictures of them all last nite and will add them here and start going down the list. There are a few I need to find some things for to be able to finish the pattern and I will start shopping for those to get them done! I only have a little bit left on my HAED, sapphire to have a page (and a row!) finish so I wanted to plan ahead. Here is the pictures of the projects sitting in my stash drawers.<br />
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<br />Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-5837081399939659432015-07-18T12:09:00.002-07:002015-07-18T12:09:16.313-07:00A finish!It's been awhile! I am trying a rotation. My plan was to use a main project, my HAED...Sapphire...as my main focus and every other week work on a different project. So the rotation would go like this a, b, a, c, a d...you get the idea. I got a lot done on my HAED. I am a little less than half way through my last page and the partial page across the top of my pattern. When it was time to switch I started a new pattern. I got this pattern off of a designers Facebook page named Durene Jones. She has quite a few great freebies and great designs in her Etsy shop. She released 4 similar butterflies, each a different color so I did the first release in the series, which was a green/teal one. And, I actually got it done! Yes, you read that right...I, miss serial starter has a finish! Here is a few pictures of the final result!<br />
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This project was plagued at the start with the frog, so I had to restart it 3 different times. I ended up doing 5x5 squares for awhile until I got it right. That seemed to work, but this project seemed to move pretty quickly once I got it started. I plan to work on the next butterfly in the series, a purple one once I switch from my HAED again.<br />
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I originally planned to work on this one, as part of my rotation, for a week but due to having to start it 3 times and my job I was determined to get it finished after starting it so many times. We had a huge, local and National festival, the Cherry Festival, the week of the 4th. Between events with the kids like an airshow with the Thunderbirds, fireworks, the carnival with the kids and being a housekeeper at a hotel it kept my schedule extremely busy! My town has been gaining a TON of national attention for being one of the top vacation spots. Even People magazine named it #2 in all of the country. Pretty proud of it!<br />
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Getting back on track, I'm glad I stuck with it. I love the pattern. I like bright colored patterns and I love doing blackwork so this project was great for me! I've wondered if this project would look good in varigated thread too so you may be seeing this project again in those type of threads.<br />
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I am picking my HAED back up for awhile. Here is my starting point for right now. Sorry for the quality of the photo. I usually take pictures of my stitching with my camera but I took this one with my phone.<br />
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I hope to get the rest of this page and the partial page (which I'm doing at the same time) done before I move on. I shall post an update when I switch again. I think once I get the purple butterfly stitched I am going to pick up one of my old UFOs. I started organizing my projects after moving and I have soooo many. I need to get some of them finished. I am itching to stitch so I will say bye for now. Hope you enjoyed the update!Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-67566321660360381952015-06-02T13:17:00.000-07:002015-06-02T13:17:26.644-07:00June Update<span style="font-size: large;">Well, have I ever been busy! I'm even posting this close to the beginning of a month which is pretty good for me. I can't wait to update on what all has happened. Things could not be better in my life right now. I have become so busy but crazy enough even though I have been so busy I have also been busy stitching too. Funny how happiness can do that. I will update you on my life first and then my stitching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a refresher, I was living away from my hometown (the Soo) and children working at a hotel as a housekeeper. One of my friends that I worked with at that hotel has a friend that lives in my hometown. He offered to bring me back to TC (hometown) for a visit. Saying this was an emotional trip was an understatement. I hadn't been back to even visit since I got stuck up in the Soo for over a year. I worked extremely hard focusing on coming home since the day I got to the Soo. While I was in TC I got applications going for hotels and even had quite a few interviews. I had an on the spot interview with one place and another the next day or so. While I was in the second interview which they hired me the first interview called wanting to know if I would like a job. So I technically had two jobs and I got to choose the better one for my life. The friend who brought me back to TC was also looking for a roommate. Everything has come together so well and it all happened soooo fast. Everything I had worked so hard for was happening but everything that happened in the Soo led to me coming home. Not only that, it lead to me doing it smartly and not something that can be ripped from under me at a moments notice. The best part about all of this has been my kids and knowing that I did it with all of my hard work and allowed me to overcome my aunt's financial control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I returned to the Soo to give my job there notice and tie up loose ends and say goodbye to all of the friends up there I'd made who have become more like family. Since coming home I have been working full time and spending soooo much time with my boys. It has been amazing getting back to them and making up for lost time. I will never let that go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While hanging out at my house with my roommate we have been watching some netflix series and I've been using that to stitch while I watch. Some of the projects I was working on are still packed away but I have focused my attention on my big project, Sapphire. I finally finished page 4! That's almost 7,500 stitches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Granted, it took me getting strep throat to give me time to work on this so much the last few days but it allowed me to rest and get better at the same time. After taking these pictures, I took more while I was moving my Q-snaps of the whole project. I have a full page and a partial page to the right of the one I just finished to get to the other side of the project. Here are those pictures!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So as you can guess because of my move my last monthly goals didn't get much attention other than Sapphire. I am really proud of myself for sticking with this project as much as I have. Maybe I'm not as much of a serial starter as I thought. Or I had so much other stuff going on it was blocking that. I do my stitching mostly for enjoyment so I'm okay with not finishing a lot of projects. We will see if that holds true the further into blogging that I get. I will list my June goals and see how I do on my next update.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Continue organizing my stitching supplies. (I need to buy one more organizer).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2. Finish half of page 5 & 6 on Sapphire. (I feel a finishing both of these this month is a bit enthusiastic so I'm going with half and anything more than that is a bonus.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3. Find and work on my colorwork project.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4. Purchase fabric and threads for first page of the Cake Shop HAED.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do want to mention that I liked doing cross country on page 4 of Sapphire to eliminate the lines I was getting but I need to see more progress as I go. It helps me finish to see progress faster because of how I do things with my ADHD and such. I'm gonna go back to doing it row by row for this page. I felt very lucky to not have a massive frog show up while I was doing page 4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I look forward to my next update and since my stitching bug is back in full force I might as well take advantage and work on the next pages. My job and my kids are going to be my main focus so we will see how I do, especially with summer vacation for my boys about to start. I hope to be spending even more time with them. Take care and thanks for reading!</span>Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-56573161020045221142015-03-17T17:21:00.005-07:002015-03-17T17:25:56.569-07:00March UpdateThought I would update everyone on my stitching since it's been a month since my last post. Unfortunately, I haven't been stitching very much so it's not going to be a very exciting update. I will get to my pictures in just a bit.<br />
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I did move my room around which is also where I stitch. I had my bed in front of my window which was great for morning sun and daylight to help wake myself up in the mornings. However all of my outlets for things were on the other walls for things like my Ott-Lite and my cell phone charger, etc so it just wasn't working very well. So I moved all the furniture around in my bedroom all by myself. Luckily, after my landlord put new flooring in my bedroom shortly after I moved in, I was smart enough to put rags under one end of my loveseat and chair and my bed was easy to slide to its new spot. I have to say that I am loving the new set up. My bed is close enough to the window I still get the daylight and the sun but now it's by my outlet. I have set up two bedside tables that work really well for my Ott-Lite to sit on and I can reach my phone when it's plugged in too. I can also now use the wall the lean back on when I'm stitching or doing other things. It's working very well! Now I just need my stitching bug to come back a bit stronger. Life has become crazy but in good ways so I have been extremely busy. I have something big coming up and I need to get ready for it but I will leave it at that for now so I don't jinx it. I hope to be able to stitch more often but we will see. I did work on Sapphire pretty regularly but for the past few weeks I've put very few stitches into anything. So, because of this, I didn't get very far on my February goals I had set. The something big coming up needs to be my focus financially at the moment so I haven't spent anything on stitching stuff. Here is the list of my February goals I had made...<br />
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1. Finish colorwork (only put in a few stitches, I did finish two parts of it)<br />
2. Finish 4th page of Sapphire (did not finish but worked on it)<br />
3. Finish 1st page of Stained Glass (did not work on this one)<br />
4. Make list of threads needed for 1st page of Cake Shop by Aimee Stewart and charted by Heaven and Earth Designs (I finished this).<br />
5. Purchase fabric and threads for Cake Shop (no and moved to April at the earliest)<br />
6. Start Snowman project (nope)<br />
7. Bobbinate 40 threads (nope again, I truly hate doing this and I will admit I procrastinate horribly on this one).<br />
8. Make list of threads needed for 1st page of Rainbow Eye (Nope)<br />
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I did try something new with my Sapphire project. I was doing all of it in 10x10 boxes which works for my ADHD but I was seeing lines where my squares were so I'm trying something new to see how I like it. I have been finishing one color throughout the entire page to see how I like it. I got 2 colors finished, I think. Here is a picture of Sapphire so you can see what I mean. This technique in the stitching world is called cross country.<br />
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As you can see in the first picture, every 10 stitches there is a line you can see from my tension changing as I stitch. So I'm trying this for a bit to see how I like it. I'm worried I will make a mistake and have to frog quite a bit of this out but I'll see how it goes. If I do well with this I will put my grid lines back in from having to wash this. There is a big block on two colors towards the bottom half and I may do that first but I want to get the last few stitches done in row 4 first.<br />
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As for my colorwork project, I haven't really gotten much done on this one but I did finish the section I was working on since my last photo on my February post and I finished one other blue section.<br />
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As you can see, not much farther but I love how this project is turning out. I am so happy I did not go with all red like in the original. Part of the reason I haven't worked on this on is that I always like to have a project with me in my bag for if I have to wait anywhere. I will bring it out and I usually stitch while I'm waiting and I just haven't had the opportunity or the motivation to take it out to work on it. I have one more section of the blue to work on, a corner part, another side and the center.<br />
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As for my next project. I haven't been to the craft store yet to match the purple color in my Egg project so I brought out a different UFO. I believe I started this at the end of summer/beginning of fall in 2012. I have worked on this a tiny bit and this is about all of the stitching I have done in the last 3 weeks. It just happened to be sitting on top of my box after I moved my room around so I picked it up! Its actually a needle point on painted canvas. This is called Beach Retreat.<br />
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The first two pictures of this project are so you get an idea of what it looks like. It's hard to tell where I have stitched since the project is painted right on the canvas. The next three pictures zoom in on the areas that I had done before I picked it back up again. The next to last picture is what I have worked on since I picked it up again, which was the very top of the sky. The very last picture gives you an idea of what I have left to do. I don't normally work on something like this but I do like how fast the stitching goes. I did the sky part in a few hours so I will keep picking this one up. I may move this to my bag to work on when I'm out and about.<br />
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For the last part of my post I will do some goals for the rest of March. I won't be working as much as I usually am due to a health issue I have going on but that means I will have more stitching time, unless I just jinxed myself. LOL!<br />
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1. Finish half of page 4 of Sapphire.<br />
2. Finish blue part, corner square and one or two section of the next side.<br />
3. Finish sky and the hanging basket off the porch.<br />
4. Make list of threads for 1st page of Rainbow Eye<br />
5. Bobbinate 20 threads.<br />
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That should keep me busy enough since it's already the 17th of March. The last month and a half has just flown by!!! I will check in again soon!Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-68961350316480941672015-02-12T17:17:00.002-08:002015-02-12T17:17:58.541-08:00UFO #1, Easter EggsI want to start making a post about projects I have started and then abandoned by moving onto another one without finishing it. The term for these in the stitching world is UFOs, which stands for UnFinished Objects. I tend to be a serial starter and move onto other projects without finishing them quite often, leaving them in the UFO status. I thought by posting them here I could get into going back and finishing them. I may designate one day a week to working on UFOs.<br />
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The problem I am going to run into is, when I moved to my current city I didn't bring a lot of my stitching things with me, so I may not have everything to finish them such as the chart or thread to work on them. This causes an issue because I won't know the name of them. I am in quite a few stitching groups on Facebook so my idea is to post them there to see if people recognize them, can help with the name and where I can repurchase the materials I need to finish them.<br />
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This first UFO that I am sharing today is one I started since moving to this city so I have everything I need and the colors are up to me. I think I will have Mondays being the day I work on my UFOs. I don't work the traditional schedule of Monday through Friday so my days off are in the middle of the week. The weekends are our busiest time at the hotel so putting it on a weekend may not work because it's usually full with work and other things.<br />
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This first UFO was a freebie posted in one of the many Facebook groups for stitching but I did more than one. Here is where the project currently is.<br />
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Looking at the picture I notice I missed some stitches in the purple egg on the top left hand side. If I remember right the green egg isn't working out right so I will need to rip out some stitches. I plan to do 4 more eggs in more Easter colors. I want a yellow, pink and blue but I will focus on getting the purple one fixed and the green one finished first. I will post another UFO post in about a week. I plan to update my current WIP (Works In Progress) in a day or two.</div>
<br />Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-71253891062908476662015-02-03T17:57:00.001-08:002015-02-03T17:57:58.345-08:00February Goals and Updates<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is the second month of the year already. It seems to have flown by in a blink. I thought this would be a good time to start my monthly goals and some starting pictures of where I am at the beginning of each month. This way I can see just how much stitching I do get done and it may make me feel more accomplished as a serial starter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do stitch purely for enjoyment and I work on what is calling to me the most. I haven't really worked on Sapphire or my Stained Glass pieces in the last little bit. I haven't been feeling very well and work has just been crazy. I love working on Sapphire but it's slower going than others because of the confetti and size. The stained glass project takes me a bit to figure out where to end one color and start the next based on the pattern so it takes more concentration.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finish colorwork.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finish the 4th page of Sapphire.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finish the 1st page of Stained Glass.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make a list of the threads numbers I will need to complete the first page of Cake Shop.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Purchase the fabric & threads I need for the 1st page of Cake Shop.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Start the Snowman project after Colorwork is finished.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bobbinate 40 threads (I hate doing this).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make a list of the colors I need for the 1st page of Rainbow Eye.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been working on the redwork piece quite a bit. I'm going to nickname this project 'colorwork' because I have changed the colors so much. I like to work on blackwork as a break from my bigger projects. It stitches up pretty quickly and I am loving how the colors are working out. Here is my most recent update pictures!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is currently my Friday so I hope to get quite a bit of my February goals worked on in the next few days. Those are always the best laid plans! Enjoy!</span></div>
Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-50109162169436956922015-01-27T11:10:00.002-08:002015-01-27T11:10:16.734-08:00My Finishes<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I thought today would be a good time to show you the finishes I have completed and the history of me as a stitcher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been stitching for a long time. My grandma taught me to do this when I was pretty young. I was around the age of 5, 6 or 7. I am now in my early 30s so I have been stitching most of my life. Other than being shown what to do that first few times I am pretty much self taught. I have been through a lot in my life and it has helped me in theraputic ways but I also enjoy it very much. I do have severe ADHD as well and I tend to work on my projects while I am watching TV or waiting at doctor's offices for appointments. It also has been a great benefit to me as it allows my brain to slow down a bit and really contemplate my thoughts and figure out things I need to make a decision on. I tend to be a serial starter, meaning I love to start projects and then move onto others before finishing. That is why my finishes mean so much to me as I actually stuck with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A lot of the reason I start so many new projects without finishing the last is something that comes naturally to me. I have always been drawn to color to the point where I have always wanted to be an interior designer. I have a natural ability for picking and choosing colors that look well together. I even worked at a paint store and helped a lot of customers with ideas for paint colors. That job really helped me see the undertones of colors and has really helped me in my stitching. I tend to change patterns or colors to suit myself or to add more color and I get an idea in my head for one and I'm starting it. A lot of times I have so many ideas for the colors that I can't decide. I did that with the last picture on this page. I could have done that project 20 times with 20 different colors that I chose for the blue. I've always wondered if I would be good at designing patterns myself because of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most of these finishes came when I took on a challenge a few years ago. It was to start 15 new projects in the first 15 days of January and finish them throughout the rest of that year. I actually finished 6 or so that year and all of those are shown above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope to do that challenge again as it's most of my finishes but right now I don't have the stash of fabric to be able to do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can't wait to add more finishes over time. I will start to introduce my unfinished projects (UFOs) a little at a time to see if I can re-motivate myself to work on them again and make them finishes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">~Nat~</span>Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-76476705266300291792015-01-26T11:06:00.001-08:002015-01-27T12:46:33.504-08:00Sapphire progress pics<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wanted to add some of the progress pictures I have taken since starting the Birthstone fairy Sapphire by Rachel Anderson and charted by Heaven and Earth Designs. I absolutely love the colors in this project as blues and purples are some of my favorites. I love stitching projects with lots of color and this one definitely has it. I have a wonderful camera and it still doesn't do the colors justice versus in person but you get the right idea as to how these HAEDs stitch up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see after starting the fourth page I am still not even all the way across the top of the design. I tend to break this project down into mini accomplishments. For example I view each 10x01 (or 100 stitches) as an accomplishment. Then I view each row on each page as an accomplishment and again at each page. It really helps me break it down in my mind so it's not completely overwhelming. After I finish this current page I have one more full page to do and another one that isn't a full page across so I am almost there. I believe in my next page I get to do another jewel in the border and a butterfly which I am excited to get to. This project have 88 different colors and 240,000 stitches. I can't wait to get the top set of pages done and be able to move onto the next!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This project was a gift, also known as a RAK (Random Act of Kindness) from a very good stitching (and so much more) friend of mine from Australia. When she purchased this for me she issued me a challenge. She knows about my serial starter status as far as stitching goes so I had to finish a UFO (unfinished object...a project I had started but had left abandoned) and this project. If I finish both of them she will purchase me another chart in the same birthstone series. I got to work on this one right away and her kindness was awesome. The challenge she presented me with gave my competitive streak a boost. The UFO she picked was a project called 'Stacked Cups'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see I got to work right away and I got this done within a short amount of time. I actually had a finish! So now I just need to keep working on Sapphire. I did have to pack Sapphire up for long periods of time due to other issues in my life but I continue to work on it in between other projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I am going to get stitching. I am trying a sort of rotation to see how it works so I want to get going on that today. Maybe I will post update pics after every rotation so I can keep track of how far I get in each to see if it's working for me!</span><br />
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Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605452953895335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452473586508664130.post-67336067783899673802015-01-23T19:05:00.000-08:002015-01-26T10:17:06.185-08:00So many projects<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I seem to have a lot of projects on the go all of the time and there are plenty more out there that I can't wait to start. It's getting to the point where I'm having a hard time keeping track of them myself so what better way to do that and allow my friends to see what I'm working on than to keep track of them in a blog. I will start with the ones I am working on right now and give me a few days and I'm sure that will have changed or I will have added another one. Sometimes when I am working on a large project I need to take a break to feel a sense of accomplishment. I also tend to change patterns to suit my taste anyway so it will be interesting to watch my ideas develop over time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first one I will show you is a blackwork project from is from the February 2014 issue of Just Cross-stitch magazine. The project is called Miscellany in Red. I took a picture of the sample provided in the magazine and posted it here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next project I am working on is a SAL from Love Thy Thread (LTT). This was a gift from my friend Clare and she purchased the pattern as well so we are working on it together. Unfortunately, Love Thy Thread went out of business in December 2014 but they had some awesome patterns. Here is the sample project provided by the LTT website.</span></div>
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The name of this pattern is called Stained Glass and I can't wait to see this one come together. Here are my progress pictures for this project.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I changed up the all blackness by using varigated thread. Varigated thread means it changes on the strand from light to dark instead of being all one color. I am loving the effect this gives the project. It has been very challenging for me to figure out where one color should end and where the next one should begin since the chart is based on just one color. I am thinking of adding a single shade similar to the section for this one but not sure how it would make it work if it's close to a part of the varigated part. I have a long way to go to figure that out though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The final project I am working on is called Sapphire. This is a chart from the heaven and earth designs website which has some amazing charts. The projects are very large in size but are all full cross stitches, no backstitching or french knots (which I can't do anyways). This chart was a gift from my very good friend Sherry a few years ago. I had to put it away for long periods of time here and there so it's taking me awhile. Although for a serial starter like myself it's a big accomplishment that I am working on this one still. I plan to finish it but it's still going to be a long time. Here is the sample from the heaven and earth designs website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This chart is gorgeous and very large. To give you an example of the different, the Stained Glass SAL project is 16 pages. This project is 42 pages. I am currently on page 4. The artist for this is Rachel Anderson and this is her birthstone fairy Sapphire for September. I would love to be able to stitch all 12 months but I will need to stitch a lot more on it and live to be about 900 to be able to do that probably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am a cash only type person. I have never had a credit card or debit card and I normally pay cash for everything. This does two things by allowing me to not rack up a lot of debt and I always make sure my bills and groceries are paid for first then decide how much I am going to spend on extras. It works out pretty well and I also know that I cannot purchase anything online. I like to purchase things from small businesses versus big box stores so it also helps me with keeping what I spend in my own community. With that said, I actually purchased my first ever HAED chart. I ended up getting The Little Cake Shop by Aimee Stewart. Here is the sample picture taken from the HAED website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I adore all of the bright colors in this one and I wanted it as soon as I saw it. I will slowly be buying the supplies to stitch this with each paycheck so it will be a bit before I can start stitching it. I hope to get my fabric and at least the threads for the first page in the next month or so. I plan to stitch this on 16 count Aida fabric. I can't wait to get started on this one. You know it's special if I ordered something online!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have some finished that I will dig out of my tote so you can see some of what I have completed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">~Nat~</span></div>
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