Biscornus anyone?????

Yep, I decided it was time to live the big life. Time to expand my horizons, to challenge myself, to soar with the eagles.......... okay, enough of the buildup. I discovered a really cool website the other week called "The Floss Box" (http://www.theflossbox.com/) which had loads of cool freebies, including a large number of biscornu patterns.

What is a biscornu you might ask???? Well, it is a interesting little eight-sided pincushion that has become very popular in recent months. The word biscornu (sometimes written biscournu) is derived from a French adjective, meaning skewed, quirky, or irregular or complicated and bizarre. (NO ~ they are not describing me, silly!) I think these are the cutest items and have been drooling..... ahem, exclaiming over them since I first saw them. Found a pattern I liked and decided it is time to give it a try. Wish me luck!

I decided to change the colors the chart called for because I didn't feel the three colors really went together that well. The original colors called for were DMC and while I liked the 2 greens, the red was just not doing it for me. When I went to the Stitching Post on Saturday, I picked out some Gentle Arts Sampler threads in the following colors. What do you think??? I am going to repeat the pattern on both sides because I think it looks the best. Luckily, biscornus are not very big so I might even manage to get one finished (stitching wise anyhow) in a reasonable amount of time.


Since I went to the Stitching Post, I decided to do a little retail therapy for all the stress that has been going on in my life. I picked up the fabric and floss for the teacher gifts for the end of the year and also found a few charts which really drew my interest. In addition, I picked up some fabric for current charts in my possesion and would be able to have some new items to bag up and have available for new projects. Then I had to pick up their latest chart of the month pack because it had to be that darned FROG in a biscornu. Way too cute! :)

I finished up Ursela Michael's Skating Santa and made myself a list of to either stitch and either complete or make good progress on this year. Also, I am posting a picture of the LK January Stamp-It I had finished earlier in March.

I had mentioned I have lots of things I had started in the past few months when I would be running out of the house and just grabbed the first thing I saw. Now I am going to try and finish up as many as I can so I feel like I've accomplished something over the past few months. I won't share this list because it is a tad bit long and quite embarassing to say that most are started but not finished. But you know they say it is never like the present to finish up something and I guess it is that time. At least I made up a list to own up to even if I don't plan on sharing it with you all and keeping it as one of my deep, dark secrets! How about if I just tell you when I cross an item off the list???? Deal