I am so embarrassed. And sorry. It's been about 3 weeks since my last post. No excuse for that. Although, I do have several reasons. Unfortunately, none of them has anything to do with getting any kind of employment, so really, there is no good reason to not be able to find the time for a quick post along the way.
And I don't even have any super exciting news to share about some terribly new and exciting craft or project! It's been a lot of the "same-old, same-old" around here. Lots of cross-stitching, a little knitting, and one special Christmas project experience.
As to the first: cross-stitching. I guess this borderline obsession with it comes from not having done it for a while. It is somewhat all-encompassing right now!! I've done of ton of it, although now that I'm working on some more involved stuff, it moves a bit slowly. Before my next post, I'll go through everything that I've completed and be sure to post any photos that haven't already been posted. I continue to slowly work my way through the wonderful book of patterns that my friend Lady Caroline gave me. So much fun.
Not a lot of knitting, but some work on bells and pieces of the knitted chain that I've been working on.
There was one special project that, unfortunately, I don't have any photos of. I totally forgot to take any. I was in Minnetonka, MN for almost a week, visiting my sister and her family. My niece, Emelia, is almost 4. I brought several crafts for us to do together. One was to make button pictures. Since it was super hot, and even more humid, we decided to do something to cool us down. Using only white buttons, we pretended they were snow and made some "cool" Christmas pictures. One of a snowman and snow woman. And another of their snow castle. Fun and cute. And I think we both felt a bit cooler when we were done. :)
I have been doing more research, mostly in www.pinterest.com, finding lots of projects to do. I've found a few for when it's cooler and closer to Christmas, and I start my baking. I'm excited to try them.
For now, back to what I was doing. Waiting for my craft loft to cool off enough (maybe by September) to spend more time up there.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention -- I got another small artificial tree with lights on it and some old-fashioned Christmas lights at a garage sale. Going to decorate the tree. Going to make some glittery ornaments out of the lights.
Keep cool, my friends. It's the dog days of summer out there!!
-Jayne
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