Feeling blah.......

I guess I can't really complain since I have managed to make it through most of the winter pretty healthy but the latest cold snap in Maryland brought my upper respiratory system to a grinding halt which is pretty much par for the course. For the last 3 days I have been pretty much sitting around with my blanket pulled over my head just trying to get through the day. Would love to go to work but I have no voice and a wonderful racking cough which just makes me not a happy camper and I don't feel the need to share the crud with any of my office mates who I like working with anyway.

Dragon Dreams has been seeing some progress however and I think by sometime this weekend I'll be pulling out the Krenik and DMC Light Effects to start using them. While I was lucid during one of my stitching periods, I realized this design has 3 additional companion pieces which was published in Cross Stitch Gold book 93. Becky loves anything fantasy like this so I had to look up the designs to see what they looked like and I can see some further Joan Elliott stitching in my future. I love the colors of the phoenix especially ~ and I'm thinking I'll have to pick out some more over dyed fabric like the Sand Castle Jobelan 28-count hand dyed fabric I'm using by Wichelt Imports.

 

During the week I also worked on Innocent Guardian for a little bit but there isn’t much progress to report. Hopefully I can settle down and work on this some again in a day or two. I'm going to be working on varying shades of yellow for quite a bit of time it looks like since the entire underskirt on this design is open and so I am trying to work on this in rotation with my other projects so I don't get bored with it.

 Finished up Ken Follett's “Winter of the World” and if you like Historical Fiction.....this is a book you MUST READ! The next book in the series, tentatively titled "Edge of Eternity" is due out in 2014 and I will anxiously be waiting for additional details. Currently I am working through Jennifer Chiaverini's "Sonoma Rose" which I received as a Christmas present. I love all of the Elm Creek series.

That is about all for this week so I think it is time to make a cup of hot tea and curl up in my favorite stitching spot for a bit.