Out with the old

This is the 2010 "ort" jar I'd been using. I moved over to the 2011 version, but thought I would take a pic before finishing. I've been working on Egyptian Garden a lot, so there's a lot of brown in there.

Because it is the new year, and I feel like I should make some goals for the year, here they are:

Goals for 2011:
- Finish Egyptian Garden
- Finish Part 4 & 5 of St. Petersburg Garden
- Stitch one Christmas ornament a month
- Complete one Bead Journal Project a month

Possible Starts for 2011:
- Chatelaine's King's Vegetable Garden
- Mirabilia's Midsummer Night's Fairy

I have....

I have ....

... new frit (small bits of coloured glass) to create beads with
... a nearly finished piece (Alhambra) to bead on
... 1.5 hand knit socks in my newest favourite colourway
... a 1/2 finished freeform beaded bracelet

And somehow I seem to lack the motivation to finish any of them.

I have not stitched....

I didn't make all of the February goals, or maybe I just did things differently.

I did finish all of the cross stitching on Alhambra, plus some of the specialty stitching. I didn't finish my Christmas Ornament or the gift, both of which I need to work on this weekend.

It's been a long and tough week. I ended up with over 100 emails on a volunteer situation gone bad. It's tough because I like all of the people involved, but I know they have different viewpoints on what's gone one... I guess I'll have to stay tuned for the result of this one.

March's goals are:
1) Stitch 3 pay it forward gifts (1 from last month and 2 new ones)
2) Finish one Christmas Ornament
3) Finish the top right/centre section of Watergarden.

Oh the weather outside is frightful......

It's currently sitting somewhere below -30c, with windchill below -40 in the city that I live in, and just darn cold. I spend 20 minutes freezing on a train platform this morning, and was *this* close to getting frostbite in my toes when a train finally decided to show up, and bring me into work. The weather turned sometime when I was in the gym yesterday and isn't expected to get any better until the end of the week.

It's great weather for cross-stitching though, and I've put a list of February goals together for the end of the week:

February goals:
1) Finish 1 page of Alhambra (page 6 - bottom left)
2) Finish 1 Christmas Ornament
3) Finish 1 Blog Candy gift - I have one started, but it doesn't suit the next person on the list, so we'll see whether I finish one or two this month.

January's goals were to:
1) Finish 1 page (page 9) of Alhambra
2) Finish the two pay it forward gift

More Alhambra and 2008 Goals

I manged to get quite a bit done on Alhambra in the last week or so - the holidays provided me with some time off from work, and my classes don't start up again until this week, which means I have some extra time on my hands to spare. I'm hoping to get Alhambra finished shortly, and then continue work on Watergarden, which has been a WIP for longer than I care to admit. Watergarden is a lot more confetti stitching than Alhambra is, and so Alhambra has become my favourite out of the two.

I've never really outlined stitching goals in the past, but I thought I'd lay them out this year:

1) Finish Alhambra Garden
2) Finish Watergarden
3) Start Egypt Garden (Chatelaine)
4) Start Angel Proclamation (Mirabilia)
5) Finish 12 pay it forward or blog candy items
6) Finish 6 Christmas Ornaments

To do this, in January I need to:
1) Finish 1 page (page 9) of Alhambra
2) Finish the two pay it forward gifts