Crafting ADD

I has it.

A new cross stitch project (my own pattern!), my second finished coloring poster, 'Cherry Basket', my first book-folding project, and my solid-color Rings of Change is now almost as big as the finished Mini-Rings.

I haven't touched the striped Rings of Change again (yet), but I have worked on Unspoken and Lovers.  I'll show them soon!

I managed to get another bird at my feeder; I wasn't at the right angle to get a good shot but here's a handsome Blue Jay investigating the pickings!

These birds are so loud!  And they'll eat the fruit crop right off your trees, but they are very nicely dressed, I always think!  Oh, and this morning when I left for work, I finally saw a tiny brown hummingbird at my liquid feeder!  I KNEW someone was drinking that!  I wish I had my camera in my hand but alas, I did not!

My Mum's Poster

My mum finished her poster!

I think it looks great :D  She was very meticulous; all the white is colored in with a white colored pencil, and she studied pictures of the capital to get the grey shading just right, and looked up Uncle Sam's hat, too.

She's going to do this one next:

'Peace'

I didn't realize these had names until I was coloring it in.  I don't like this picture much as it killed the brightness of the colors and showed up all the scribble bits I did before I started getting my coloring smoother - but it was the best picture I could get.

This is my next poster project:

And this is a random bit that made me grumble - this was to the side as I took the picture above, and it shows up the bright, rich colors much better - but I could not reproduce the effect for anything!

Ah, well.  I had a blast coloring this!  I even went online and studied pictures of lava lamps and researched what color the hand should be. (Side note - it's teal, not blue.  All the teal shows up as blue in both pictures) I'm really tempted to order the other four tablets this company has!  I'll have to see how much I get in my payday.

March IHSW

I almost forgot to post!  I didn't get much done on Lovers; just filled in more confetti.

Before:

After:

A lot of the stitches around the flower are done but you can't see them that well - they are a bunch of shades of pale-this and very light-that. His hair will be so much easier when I get to it -  still light colors but mostly big blocks.  The whole second page is so much easier!  I'm hoping it will go faster. But in April's IHSW I am going to do my best to finish this page off.  I thought maybe I could do it this time but I kept falling asleep instead of stitching XP

I did a little coloring too, not much - not going to bother with a 'WIP' pic for my posters, but my Mum came up for a while and wanted to do one, too.  She decided on this one:

We worked on them for a long time one evening and still didn't get much done - I'll show the posters off when they are finished.  They will take a while - so detailed!  And both of us are trying to be perfectionists :D

Stashy Saturday

About six months ago, we had a Hobby Lobby open a lot closer to our area - it is a three hour round trip instead of a six hour round trip!

Thursday I was finally able to go!  So the next few Stashy Saturday pics will be of my 'loot' :D

For the first time ever, there were no cross-stitch kits that I wanted.  SHOCKING! lol!!!

I did buy some floss and almost kitted up Tournee du Chat Noir - I got every color but some of the ones that needed five or six skeins didn't get fully kitted as there wasn't enough available.  I also got all but one of the colors I still needed for Amanda and Axel.

And this - for which I fully blame JoJo!  She does such gorgeous stuff, and when I wandered past the art aisles, these were on the end.  One was on sale and one wasn't - I'm not sure what made the difference.

This is the first one I'm going to do:

I thought this one would be good practice before getting into the others - they are 10x14 and very detailed!  This is one of the least detailed ones XD  I did a tiny bit but not much, because it's IHSW weekend!  Lovers is getting some confetti filled in but it's slow going - I'll have a picture on Monday :D