January, bleak and drear

 It's a day early for the WIPocalypse but for good reason, tomorrow I leave on my TRIP. I have taken along a little Mill Hill kit, but I don't expect much stitching to get done, as I've never managed to stitch while on a moving vehicle, I like to spread out to much. And I suspect once I get on the cruise ship I'll be doing other things, but you never know I might have a quiet night here or there.

The question of the month is: If you have been to retreats, what are your must-bring items and supplies?

I have never been to a retreat but it sounds fun, so I shall watch for everyone else's answers to find out what to bring when I get to one

I've made quite a bit of progress on Lion King and now I set him down till March, and then maybe finish him.

As for what I watched

Critical Role and the first 6 episode of Legend of Vox Machina season 2

Bridgerton Season 2 - I do love how they have done this series, can’t wait for season 3 to come out

Avatar: The Way of Water - This movie was so pretty but I suspect the plot will be fairly forgettable for me, like the first one one, but so pretty

Jurassic World: Dominion - I know this one got panned, but I liked it, it’s a solid entry to the series and I really enjoyed the melding of the Park and World characters. 

Les Girls - I adore Gene Kelly and this is perhaps my favourite of his, it’s a story told three times with three different viewpoints as a former dancer sues one of her old roommates over a tell all book, and the truth comes out in flashbacks with lots of great music.

The Lion King - As always the first 5 minutes are worth anything to watch. This show is amazing and beautiful and obviously I’m talking about the original, accept no substitute (except the broadway musical, it’s pretty awesome too.)

Labyrinth - Why do some many good shows start with L, especially 80’s fantasies 

Hello 2023

 It's 2023 and it's going to be a good year, I insist on it. Mainly because this is the year I'm finally going on the trip that has been postponed twice.  But I have other plans as well. Let's start with the WIPocalypse Update, I'm not sure how long I've been doing WIPocalypse now, at this point it's probably the only reason I maintain this blog at all, so on to a new year we go

Question of the Month: Introduce yourself, your projects, and any goals you have for the year!

Hi, I'm Nancy and I live in western Canada  if you search for me around the internet I lurk here and there as Katjakay especially  on Deviant Art, Tumblr, and Instagram  I've been stitching for around 15 years now and have a tendency towards doing bigger projects, I am predominantly a one or two at a time stitcher and seldom rotate, I like to finish before I start something new.  I've strayed from that a little the last couple years which is why I'm starting my third year on The Lion King, but this will be the year I finish, I'm aiming for April

Other projects I have planned is to finish Bellatrix

and to start the Gothic Cathedral Temperature stitch. I'm already keeping a record of the temps this year.

I'm also thinking of putting aside a week each month to do a Mill Hill ornament, I want to give them away at Christmas I did finish one already this week 

The other thing to know about me is that when I started this blog in November of  2013 I also started watching every movie I own in alphabetical order, but starting at each end and working towards the middle, I will also finish this this year, possibly also in April and it is the source of  the What I Watched section of this blog

As for what I watched

Critical Role

Bridgerton Season 1 - This was a lot of fun and while it differs greatly from the books it still maintained the feel of the series.

Legally Blonde 1 and 2 - The first is the best by far, it has such a good sense of humour,but they came as a set so I had to watch both cause that’s my rules

Ladyhawke - So here I am in the middle of the “L’s” and I only have Ladyhawke, one of my all time favourite movies on a very old and faded VHS. It seemed like the perfect time to replace it with DVD, but none was to be found, apparently it is only available in North America, on Blu-ray - so did I buy myself a blu-ray player just so I could own a better copy of Ladyhawke - you bet I did.