New Years Day 4/15

Today is another cold, wet, rainy day! While I did get some stitching done, I was only able to work on 3 projects. My daughter had a school project I worked on with her last night and this morning!

Starting off with a new Start, 2014 JCS ornie mag Ink Circles Stained Glass Mistletoe  . It's funny, but the colors of this design are off for me. They are just a little too mute for me, but I love the symmetry of the mandala. I'll be stitching the companion piece Stained Glass Holly next month, which I do love the colors. 

I continued on with Pierre the Penguin. What can I say, he's the sweetest penguin I've ever seen!!

Finally, I'm this close to finishing the first page of Ocean Unicorns, that I've been working on for about a month now. It's my first full coverage piece, and am finding the confetti stitching interesting!

Tomorrow, I'm going to keep working on Part 4 of Desert Mandala as my WIP for day 5, then on Thursday, I am going to start Joan Elliott's Stardust Fairy!

Wishing you a fun stitching day!

xo, Christine

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Update Ocean Unicorns Week 3

 Happy Monday! Hope you all had a fun weekend! 

Have you finished your Holiday shopping yet?

I need to finish or else I'm going to need to get my 

hustle bustle on, and not wait until the last minute!

Last week, was an unusually busy week. 

My daughter had a field trip and my son had a doctor's appointment!

All I have left on the first page is one more column!

My husband was teasing me that if I stitched 2 squares a day,

I'd be done in half the time.

I tried to explain to him, that I am rotating my projects, and would 

only have time for this, which really wouldn't 

be fair to my other WIPs, they'd start to feel neglected.

I do have some frogging to do, in one square,

 the top and bottom are not meeting up quite right!

I'm plugging away!

I'm loving all the shades of aqua, and

I'm still not too thrilled about the White.

I'm thinking of working around the Unicorns and saving them for last!!

Here is Day 3 of my CCN Gingerbread Train. I love working on this,

 I can not seem to put it down!!

Wishing you all a fun stitching week!

Until Next time,

Update: Ocean Unicorns Week 1, an almost finish, and New Stash

Happy Monday! Hope you had a beautiful weekend! It was a busy one around here. Saturday was a really fun day! It started Friday night when I baked 4 dozen Cherry Blossoms for Katelyn's Rummage/Bake Sale. For the holiday's it's my tradition and a way to remember my father who passed away when I was in my early twenties, that we would enjoy a box of Queen Anne's Choclate covered cherries, and this recipe didn't disappoint. It was almost as if  I was biting into one of those chocolate delights.

After the rummage sale, Lindsay and I went to go see the 'Peanuts' movie. Love Snoopy, and Charlie Brown and the Whole gang. It was wonderful to see a cartoon I grew up with continuing on for the next generation. 

In the afternoon, I spent several hours at my first Rose Convention at the Pacific Southwest Rose District, which included  Southern California, Arizona, parts of Nevada, New Mexico, and 

West Texas. I found myself surrounded by the most gorgeous blooms I have every seen.
One rose, that I found particularly beautiful, especially for this time of year, is named
'Hot Cocoa'. It is the loveliest shade of brown, that looks just like a cup of hot cocoa.

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'Hot Cocoa' is a  floribunda rose, with a burnt orange. The rose I saw was more on the light brown side with smoky edges. 

I worked everyday on 'Ocean Unicorns', and here is the first week completed. I am loving the gorgeous blues and aquas so far. There was a little white, I stitched, and am wondering how I am going to like stitching white on white. Hopefully with all the blue, it won't be as bad as I imagine.

Last night I tried to finish CCNs, 'Be Joyful', but I couldn't keep my eyes open. It will be finished today! I just have two of the flowers to finish and the last half of the border flowers.

Also Saturday, I picked up CCNs, 'Gingerbread Train', for Stitch Maynia '16. When I am finished with 'Be Joyful', this will take it's place, and a couple of Weeks Dye Works the chart calls for, Pecan and Hazelnut!

Isn't this Extremely Blingy Sea Horse Needleminder gorgeous?

I found it at Cassie's NeedleMinderz etsy shop!

You can also find her Facebook page,

Cassie's NeedleMinderz FaceBook

Wishing you all a fun stitching week!

Until Next time,

New Project Start: 'Ocean Unicorns' by Kustom Krafts

Happy Tuesday! How is your stitching day going? The last couple of days have been very chilly and rainy here in Arizona! Today's project, I wanted to start in January, but these gorgeous aqua colors of the ocean were calling to me, and I figured why not! It's 'Ocean Unicorns' from Kustom Krafts, artwork by Sharlene Lindskog-Osorio.

This was stitchy mail therapy for me, one of my first charts I ordered a very long time ago, back in early 2000. I started it, but became intimadated by the confetti stitching I had no idea how to stitch patterns like this. 

Until I watched this 'How to Park Technique' by Carolyn Mazzeo, it made more sense to me!

It's also a new first for me, starting in a corner, as I have always been a 'center' stitcher!

The chart has aprroximately 36,500 stitches. My goal is to stitch one square every day for a year! I'll have weekly updates with my progress.

Day 1: Started 10/15/15