During mid November for the last five years I've been one of the organizers of a Live & Silent Auction, Wine & Cheese event to raise money for the school we support in the Dominican Republic. Our project was recently featured in a local magazine called Faces you can read it here if you'd like. Running this event just takes everything out of me, from the weeks leading up to it getting my students to get in donations for the auction, to the shopping, to all the behind the scene things that need to be done. The night itself is a very long one! This year I didn't get home until 12:45am! I was rather frustrated this year because I didn't get to go to the Timberhouse Retreat I've been attending every November for years. Now the reason I didn't get to go was because of when we scheduled the auction on the same date, but because the Timberhouse messed up our booking , it was supposed to be the week before. Though we booked that date before we left last year it wasn't put in the system right and they booked someone else instead. Needless to say I was quite bitter that I couldn't be there. I've been going to that retreat since almost the beginning, when it was first held at the Butler Creek B&B before it closed.
So since November 14th if I wasn't sleeping I've been stitching. All I've wanted to do lately is be a hermit. Winter setting in and the darkness hasn't helped. I think this is going to be a rough winter for me, psychologically.
Snow Business
Just Nan
Stitched on 28ct mystery fabric
Stitched with DMC & using Mill Hill Snowflake charm
Tall Snowman - The Trilogy
I'm working on another ornament this week, the picture didn't turn out and I couldn't be bothered to get up and take another. Again its on 40ct and if you follow me on Instagram (@tkd_chick) you'll see it in progress there! I'm sure I'll be happy dancing it for you next Wednesday!
19 comments:
The Accolade is looking great. Cute finishes:)
Great stitching and finishing Dani
So cool to be so far along with the Accolade. Gorgeous ornaments. Two of my favorite designers.
The JN is adorable and Accolade is moving along so quickly now.
Snow Business is so adorable.
Wow the accolade is almost done. Will you frame it once it's done?
Adorable snowmen.
I like my ornaments on the small side too, but I don't think my eyes (or my patience) would hold out for 40-count. I have a hard time with 32-count.
Congrats on the adorable finishes Dani. Great progress on the Accolade. Looking forward to seeing it finished.
Linda
I love your beautiful work on the accolade :)
The Accolade is beautiful and wow you've stitched so much! Love your little ornies and those cute snowmen. Hermitting itself isn't a bad thing but I'm sorry to hear you're struggling with winter. Hugs xx
thank you so very much for my ornament, it's wonderful! And those snowmen look pretty cool too! I'll definitely be keeping an eye on your blog in future, you seem to get so much stitching done!
Accolade is coming along so well, and the ornaments are very pretty. Well done.
beautifull stitching
It's been such fun watching your Accolade piece come to life, Dani, and I love all three Christmas finishes. I'm another who loves small ornaments :)
Accolade is looking great, and Snow Business is adorable! Sorry to hear that you couldn't go to the retreat, that would be soooo disappointing when you look forward to something like that all year. With winter coming and the more cold and dark, being a hermit and stitching is most appealing.
Looks lovely, and just 3 and some(?) pages to go.
Great finishes. Love the snowmen!
I love the two little ornaments, and the snowmen are so cute, what a beautiful little pillow you made with them. Great progress on The Accolade!
What a pity that they messed your names up at the retreat. I can imagine how disappointed you were. I hope that you had some time for yourself to recover from organizing the big fundraising event.
Have a merry Christmas.
Fantastic progress and finishes Dani.
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