I finished an ornament

I started this ornament kit on Oct 10th and finished it Oct 19th.  This is my 11th finish total and the 5th this year.  It is an old kit I've had for years in a box in my garage.  I have been cleaning out my garage and just decided to make this one to gift to a relative for Christmas this year.  I was thinking the finished ornaments would be great to slip into a Christmas card.  It's a Stitch 'N Hang kit from nmi.  It says it's a reindeer but obviously the designer has never seen an actual reindeer.  This is just a deer.  This kit was done on perforated plastic with some kind of string instead of 6 strand embroidery floss.  The string is about the same thickness as 3 strands of floss.  I had a difficult time because working on it hurt my hands and I also ran out of 2 colors.  I found a green floss in my stash that was close enough to finish but the light brown was too different.  I ended up blending 2 colors.  The needle is bigger to for the larger thread so it was harder to push it through holes that already had thread in them.  It does look nice and I'm glad I got it finished.  I took a break from stitching after that to let my hands rest.  My right hand and wrist feel a lot better now.  I have more of these kits so I'm not sure if I'll do them.  I'll wait and see.

Finish 12, 5th this year

Wheel Decide decision helper

I found this website where you can make a wheel you can spin to help make decisions.  I decided to add all my various projects I have going on including cross stitch, needlepoint, and knitting.  I also decided to add a 15 minutes to clean or declutter and time to read.  I'm hoping this will help get me out of the rut I'm in where I don't feel like doing anything.  Now I'm trying to see if I can embed it on my blog.  Let's hope this works.  Here is the link if you want to make your own wheel.

I finished a project

I finished The Old Diving Helmet finally.  I actually had to look back at my instagram to figure out when I finished it.  Looks like it was about September 28th.  I'm pretty happy with it and can't wait to get it in a frame along with the Vintage Octopus.  Both of those patterns are by LunaRiverCrafts on Etsy.  I did them for my bathroom which has a stormy ship theme.  My shower curtain has a large picture of a ship on it and the walls are blue and ragged with a gray/blue glaze to give it a stormy look.  I love it and can't wait to get my cross stitch pieces in there.  Next I really want a mermaid.  I have a pattern but that one will take a long time to do.

11th Finish, 4th this year

I've been feeling out of sorts and haven't felt like starting anything new.  I do have a needlepoint kit that I started but I really haven't been working on it much.  I haven't even felt like reading, which is very strange for me.  I usually read at least 4 books a month or more and I have only read one book for each of the last two months.  I've been very tired too and sleeping way longer than usual so I've added Vitamin D3 to my daily supplements.  I hope it helps and soon.