Out like a lion

Isn't that the saying?  March will come in like a lamb and leave like a lion?  We've had high wind warnings all day.  I'd hoped to hang sheets outside since the temp was supposed to be in the 70s but that didn't happen.  They would have been blown all over town.

Looking back at my recent posts, it looks like I owe a couple weeks worth of stitching pictures.

Last week, I finished a corner of Chatelaine's Rose Garden Mandala.

I started on the next set of gates, but work has been very stressful with the new CFO making it plain she doesn't like me and doesn't want me there so I only managed to get the urn before I switched projects again.  

Coat of Arms came out then and tonight I've managed to finish another page.  Here's page 7

I started page 8 tonight so lets see how far I get.

On a totally non-stitchy note, does anybody know of any accounting openings in southeast Nebraska??  If not, and I'm assuming not, lol, but I would appreciate any and all well wishes in my job search.  Nebraska just has such a low unemployment rate that finding a new job is just kind of tough.  My husband and I even joked around last night that we should move to North Dakota and go to work in the oil industry.  It seems they have a huge number of jobs they can't fill.

Faces of Fairy

Just a quick update.  I've had my Faces of Fairy 79 out since I finished Dorothy and hit some big patches of single colors instead of all the confetti I seem to have found last month.  

Before:

After

I'm only about 12 stitches from the bottom of the page.  

I started filling in her eye Sunday night and I'm not sure how the colors are going to work in the "white" of her eye, but I suppose I'll just have to trust that it will work out...at least till it doesn't.

Introducing...

Dorothy Walpole!

One last Dorothy update?

Ever since I finished Watergarden last week, I've been working steadily on Dorothy Walpole.  I'm hoping she'll be done by next weekend.  here's where she was last night.

First finish of 2014

Watergarden is finished!  Just put the last bead in and ran the lint roller off to remove the extra specialty fibers and here it is!

Watergarden drive by

Last night I finished all the stitching on Watergarden.  I got started with the beading and am making good progress.  I'm hoping tomorrow night I can show a beautiful finish!

I'm slacking again...

I've thought about getting online on Sundays and giving you all an update.  I wish I could say I'm too busy stitching my little heart out to get it done, but that's not it.  I think it's because work is stressing me out, I just don't have the inclination.  

Last time, Watergarden was out.  I finished another 1/8th of the border.

Then it was time for a SAL with some lovely ladies from a BB I frequent.  We're all stitching a Face from HAED.

Last time Ginny was out, 

I made it all the way across the page this month.  I wanted to get to the fold of the page, but I didn't quite make it.  Here she is now

Watergarden started calling me again so I pulled it out to finish the border and start beading.  I'm hoping to get the border finished in the next couple of nights so I can start beading.  I'm hoping to have a finish this weekend.  

See you then!