Sunday 30 December 2018

WIPocalypse Year End

Apparently I was so busy stitching ornaments in November that I forgot to blog at all, so this will be very photo heavy. This months question is:
Recap your accomplishments for the year! (Your finishes, your final before/after photos, etc).

I had a really good year for stitching I started off the year with the goal of finishing the Fractal, which I did,
I originally planned on starting another big project (Angel of the Harvest) right away but then decided that maybe this was a good time to back off a bit and so some more small stuff, So I did.  Including a ton of ornaments. Also note, I have never managed to make the photo's sit properly on this site, I give up, they are everywhere.




































My favorite of the ornament binge was the Nutcracker Suite from Satsuma Street, I loved these ones so much I bought a tree just for them.









Another thing I just finished was the blackwork SAL Mini-Mandala-a-Month from  Brodeuse Bressane of course I had to be a little extra and provide an appropriate border for the lovely things
At the moment I've got my usual two things on the go, Narnia
And a Mill Hill Polar Bear kit, been doing this one a while, soooooo much white.

As for what I watched


Critical Role: and Talks Machina 
We’re Alive: Frontier - Another role playing game from Alpha this one is a futuristic Zombie survival game

The Librarians S01 and 02   Watching all the commentaries first as like with Leverage, these are wonderful commentaries and a really good adventure                                                           series in general

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines - Second Movie in the trilogy, also a lot of fun.

The Librarian III - The Curse of the Judas Chalice - I think this is my favorite of the three movies, good story and the characters are far more fleshed out





Footloose - For me, this is a perfect movie, I feel good anytime I watch it.  Also I believe this was the start of my life long crush on Kevin Bacon

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - Not bad, but not great either, it’s pretty, but the story doesn’t really track a lot of the time,  it’s kind of a cross between The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Santa Clause 2.




For Your Consideration - By the same people that made Best in Show, it’s not a good as that one, but still a fun movies about an indie film that starts getting oscar buzz and the way the actors react to that knowledge

Frozen - Still magical as ever




The Full Monty - Unemployed steel workers decide to earn money by stripping, this is a British movie so that means this isn’t about some hot young studs but just some average blokes and it is all sorts of awesome

Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald - A solid addition to the story, my only complaint about this is that I took my mother who is a huge Harry Potter fan but a little hard of hearing, and both Eddie Redmayne and Johnny Depp (in everything, not just this) tend to mumble and speak without opening their mouths which made it very hard for her to follow the story.  She says the she’ll just wait for the rest of them to come out on DVD and watch with subtitles.

All the regular Christmas movies, nothing new this year so refer to previous Decembers

Mortal Engines - A good post apocalyptic movie, made me want to find and read the book, so job done I guess