HOHRH and vacation

Thank you all, dear stitching friends, for your nice comments on my Mystery XI. I am still beading, and it is almost, almost finished! I think I'm going to make it before May 1st, and in that case I reached my goal, and you helped me to reach it, by being such good cheerleaders!
In the meanwhile I have some other things to share. At first a picture of the second price I won at ILCS , stitching a bourse. It was sent to me some weeks ago, but I realized I never put a picture of it in my blog, sorry!

Second a picture of my progress at the Houses of Hawk Run Hollow. I am stitching this in between, and already way behind on schedual, but in fact I don't care. I will take it with me on vacation next week, so maybe I will catch up a little bit. Anyway, the first house is up!

This will be the last post for more than a week, because we will leave for a week's vacation next saturday. And as you all know, before a woman can leave the house it must be clean and tidy. And I have to pack for the four of us. As I said I will take the HOHRH with me, and my HAED stitching. Maybe something small too, to work on during the car-ride. We rented a little house in Germany, near Trier. We have been there before, and until now I didn't find a needleworkshop, so I have to be prepared well! No stash-buying, and I have to be sure to have everything I need in my stitchingbag.
So, see you girls again at the beginning of May, starting a new month, and a new Chatelaine!

Mystery XI stitching part finished!

Yes, this afternoon I finished all the stitching on Mystery XI. All I have to do now is the beading, but I think that is still quite a job ;) Anyhow, I'm happy I am this far. I am a little behind on it, it was supposed to be a year's project, and I started with the group on 2008, January 1st.

These last days, all of a sudden Spring arrived! So I have been working on our terrace, cleaning the cobblestones, washing the windows in- and outside, the garden furniture taken out of the shed and putting in some new geraniums in the hanging baskets. Today I had a lovely afternoon, enjoying the fresh green on my terrace (the little tree is bringing me such pleasure every year!) and doing the last stitches on Mystery XI.

Again: Mystery XI and a new start

From last Friday on I have been stitchting mainly on Mystery XI, and I still have some hope I can finish this before the (self chosen) deadline of May 1st. I don't want to concentrate on this one only, because when I get home from work, tired, the HAED stitching is much more comfortable to me. Stitching the Mystery XI means I have to keep concentrated, and after a day's work I sometimes find it hard to do.

So, apart from the Mystery, there is also some progress on Vibrant Vista, and this afternoon I decided to make a fresh start on a brand new design by Ink Circles, Cirque des Carreaux. I will stitch this on Sudden Storm, 32ct Belfast, by Silkweaver, using Carrie's Threads, Epiphany. The chart indicated this threads, and I think it is stunning, so I decided not to look for any other, but to order the chart, including the threads.