Astral Finish!!!!

I am finally finished stitching Astral Lion and am so pleased with the outcome! Here is a pic:


I only have to turn this into a pillow and then wrap and send it off to Michigan for my niece.

Now I will take a bit of a break from stitching to concentrate on my thesis the remainder of the week. Over the weekend, I intend to work on Part II of the HalloSAL and begin the Christmas 2010 SAL. I am doing Coming Home for the Holidays; a Dimensions Gold Collection kit.

I will post a pic of Astral Lion as a pillow once it is complete (probably tomorrow)!

Christmas SAL Finish

I have finished the last two parts of the 2009 Christmas SAL (began November 1). Here are the pics:

We had a choice of language for the wording. I opted for the French language. I think it makes it a bit classier!

Photos

I still don't have my own pc back, so I decided to download the pics onto my dad's pc so I can upload them here.

First up is HalloSAL. I decided to go with beads for the owls eyes instead of continuing to fight the french knots.

While I am waiting for part II on HalloSAL, I decided to stitch Fraidy Frog from the JCS Halloween 2009 Issue. The first image is in normal settings on my camera and the second is in the "pop art" setting. I really like how the colors look in the second image!

And finally, an update on Astral Lion. I am almost finished (have stitched much more since this photo was taken) and will post another update on it soon. I am now all the way across the bottom, have the smaller lions done (except for the backstitching), and most of the purple area complete.

Now to get my pc back from that blasted Geek Squad! I will have an update on the Christmas SAL over the weekend as I have the 4th part to complete and the last part will be out soon (Sunday, I think). Until then...

Great Giveaway!!!

Check out this incredible giveaway!!!

http://hookedonstitches.blogspot.com/2009/11/this-is-it.html

NO PC :(

Well, I have been without my own pc since Thursday afternoon (I am on my dad's at the moment). It's been stressful to be without it as I have not been able to work on my Master's Thesis much. I have done a bit of reading, but really need my pc to do the actual writing. Ugh!

I have taken the opportunity to get some stitching in and have pics to share - as soon as I get my pc back! Until then...

Christmas SAL - 2009

Here is the third section all stitched on this SAL:

TUSAL November Report

Well, I guess it's that time again! Here is my November report for TUSAL:

I am also making some progress on Astral Lions. I will post a picture of that later in the week.