It's been one of those weeks, it was supposed to be quiet, 3 days off, and off at noon on the days I worked. Lots of time for stitching and watching and just enjoying the fact that it actually felt like spring. New guy had talked his way back in, so I had less hours. and then he didn't show up again on Saturday and is now gone for good (happy dance ensued) Of course that means hours went up, but still off no later than 1, and then got a couple hours added to catch up to what got missed do to the former new guy, and then co-worker got the chance to go to Vegas if she left the next day, so I got a couple more hours from her, and Mom wanted to go shopping, and then Dad needed me to drive him somewhere, and and and...... the result was only one afternoon that was truly free for getting really ensconced into the comfy stitching chair.
But all that work does mean more stash money, or possibly Cirque du Soliel
Cindy as she is now
And got some done on the little bookmark too.
Even my what I watch suffered this week, also is it wrong that I want to go buy The Avengers tomorrow just because I'm almost at the end of "A" so I'd be able to watch it immediately without deviating from my project. The sale at Walmart is pathetic but still the cheapest I've seen it. Why won't this move come on sale, if I get it tomorrow on SALE, it will still be $5 more that I just paid for Frozen
Merlin S01 E06. Now finished the third magical poisoning, can we get another plot now
Noah - Well the good thing is that the flood was really cool to watch, and the bad thing, was really the rest of the movie
West Wing S05E13-16
Game of Thrones S04E01 - FINALLY
Anne of Green Gables - I love this adaptation, so quintessentially Canadian, love the books, love the show, love the scenery, love the actors, just love this all over
Sports are over until July, I can relax now...... and do taxes. Mine are done, Mom's are easy, but Dad's with the farm are a pain in the posterior.
Also Safeways switchover to Sobey's technology has started, and we were given all new codes to make labels with. Most of the switchover is awesome, but the codes are written so tiny no one can read them, and they aren't in a particular order, and they are missing a lot of things. I can't change what's missing, but I can rewrite them all to a decent size and order. So taxes and codes, that's been my week when I'm not at work
Don't despair, got a lot of stitching done as well, but first the good news I GOT MY SWORDS. Now the pics of all the bookmarks are up all over the place so I'll just put up the complete finally finished set and the one the shows the sword best, and bonus there were 10 in the pack so I have a spare for myself. To see them each individually they are on my Deviant Art page here
I also started and finished a little biscornu that I had to make so that Carla would stop worrying about me stabbing myself. I found the pattern for this little froggie here
And yes these are all taken on my cross stitch photo rock, it's free of snow finally.
Progress was also made on Cindy, though one day was spent putting the biscornu and bookmarks together. Also back to the sea of 1/4 stitch so slightly slower going for a bit.
And I had to start a new backup as well, can't be a big one as I have a pattern for a birth record arriving next week so I started another bookmark, much less to this one though
As for what I watched this week
Teen Wolf S03 E24 - That’s it for season 3, very enjoyable, looking forward to 4
Merlin S01 E3-6 I remember now why I didn't get far in this the last time I tried to watch it. 3 of the first 6 episodes are about people being magically poisoned. Hope they get over that trend.
Anastasia - As a movie it has a fairly predictable story and decent but not spectacular visuals, but oh the music is glorious.
Alegria - Live in Sydney - I had Alegria on VHS but when pulling out all the A’s I discovered it was no longer there, I had a friend that liked to “borrow” things without telling me, I assume that’s where it went. So a bought the DVD. This however is not the same production that the VHS one was, same music and characters, but different acts. The downside, I loved the original, the upside, this is from the same production I saw in Calgary, so lots of good memories, just wish I had both
7 Up - I used to subscribe to Entertainment Weekly Magazine and that’s where I first heard about this British documentary series. I always wanted to see them but had no idea where to find them. They are now on Netflix.. This is the first where they interview twenty 7 year old children from all walks of life. The series has a new show following the same kids every 7 years, I believe they are up to 56 Up.
Life in a…..Metro - The best part of Netflix? Bollywood.
Divergent - Crap, that was good, now I’ll have to buy the books.
I was digging through my stash looking for a pattern for a baby announcement (the kid is only a year old, I'm not late yet.) to keep me from buying the perfect one I found on line, and ran across a bunch of little kits and patterns that Carla sent me in last years BOX. My aunt has her 91st birthday coming up and she's an avid gardener and one of the kits was complete with card, a little Blue Tit. So I had to make it up for my parents to give to her. So nice to work on something fast.
The World Figure Skating championships are on, and as stated before, I'm a massive fan, so not a lot of stitching this week, however, this is the last sports thing I follow until July and the Tour de France, so no more distractions. Cindy did get some work done though.
As for what I watched, skating of course
The West Wing S05 E01-02 Still going strong. Love this show.
Supernatural S09 E17 Going into hiatus, no new episodes till mid April
Teen Wolf S03 Ep 22 Only one to go this season, I have it downloaded but skating got in the way of watching it.
The Abyss - Forget Titanic and Avatar , though I like both, but for me, this is James Cameron’s
I'll start with the Stitch from Stash, those bookmarks keep making me spend money. I needed more floss because they guzzle it like an old SUV guzzles gas. So I thought I 'd be able to keep the spending to that one skein, but no. then I had to have a thought. More on that to come.
So spending this month
Floss .85
Sword charms 2.07
For a grand total of $2.92
As for IHSW had a lovely, if short due to work wanting me to well, work, hangout with the gang. haven't caught Leonore yet, but I will.
Not a huge amount of progress on Cindy, but she's coming along nicely
And even better I FINISHED SOMETHING
Here is the final finished bookmark Martell
And then I spent the day putting them all together. I was looking at my Lord of the Rings bookmarks. (store-bought) and saw the pretty little charms on the tassel and decided I wanted that. I found some perfect little sword charms on Etsy and they should arrive next week.
Here are all 9 cut out and backed with felt.
And here's the finished product, minus the little swords.
It's IHSW YAYYYYY!!! Can't wait to get to Carla's hangout and talk to everyone, of course I'm going to be late (as usual, Carla's starting to call me Princess it's so predictable) due to work, but I'll get there eventually.
I had an exciting time at work this week, I tipped over a rack with bread dough on top of me while in the proofer. Now understand that the proofer is essentially a sauna, and I hate saunas, so there I am holing up a 6 foot rack full of bread dough and I can't move, cause if I do, all the bread will fall and I'll have to start the day all over again, not an option I wanted to explore. Luckily one of my co-workers heard the crash and came to rescue me. (We shall not mention the new guy who came over, said "huh, are the donuts ready" and then left.) Kat, my lovely rescuer emptied the rack while I held it up, very little bread was lost and I only had a few bruises, ( and a deep dislike of the new guy) It's amusing now when I think of it, I can just imagine what it looked like.
Work continued on Cindy and I still adore her
And I finished Lannister and started Martell, I will probably finish this weekend. I made a mock up bookmark tonight to see if the felt, eyelets and leather strips would work the way I wanted, and they did, and easier than I expected so I'm very happy about that.
As for what I watched
The Air Up There - Not the last sports movie that’s on this list, not by a mile, I love them, and also Kevin Bacon, love him too.
Merlin S01 Ep03
Teen Wolf S03 E21 Near the end, I have the next uploaded, but I'm going to wait until the season finale to watch both
Supernatural S09 E16 - Crowley was in this one, so it was of course perfect.
West Wing S04 E16-23 Season Four finished, now on to 5
Three Worms and an Orchestra - A concert video of The Arrogant Worms and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, which is a strange pairing. The Worms are a Canadian comedy band that I adore. I mean listen to this, how can you not love them.
Today is Pi Day in case you didn't' know. Other than that's it's been a fairly quiet week, better hours at work were the only thing in stitchings way, Except for today when I didn't touch Cindy, but that's because my sister and I went out on a photo day. Now this was originally suppose to be her kidnapping me for a day or two long expedition, probably Thursday and Friday. But my schedule changed and I had to work friday so then it became an day long excursion on Thursday with her coming up Wed night. But then her schedule changed and she couldn't come till Thursday evening. So today I was to get off at noon and we'd go somewhere, and then I had to work longer, so it became a quick trip to the wharf..... and then it rained and we went for coffee instead.
However after coffee the sun came out and back to the lake we went. so I didn't get any stitching done, but I did get pictures like this.
As for Cindy and Lannister, progress was made on both, in fact I finished the first page of Cindy, which is actually page 4 and now I've moved onto page 1
What I watched this week
The Brier Curling final - congratulations Team Alberta.
West Wing S04 E11-15
Around the World in 80 Days - The Pierce Brosnon mini series of the 80’s he did several minis back then and I watched them all, I’m such a fan.
Antz - Probably the only Woody Allen movie I’ll ever own, this is cute, but not one of my favorites. In truth I forgot I had it and it is unlikely that I would have watched it again if I hadn’t started the movie project, might see if one of my niece or nephew would like it for their kids.
Arachnophobia - Like Antz I bought this in a video stores pre-viewed bargain bin, and have maybe watched it once. but what a fun movie. This is why I wanted to rewatch all my movies, I’m discovering some fun stuff.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest - This may be my favourite of the three, I enjoy legal dramas, but I am a bit disappointed that after four Swedish subtitled movies recently, I haven’t managed to learn any Swedish
Pompeii - A disaster movie so of course I was going to go, but it turned out to be a good one, but it did make me want to rewatch Spartacus.
So when I said I was back to the old routine, I lied. I forgot that this was the week of the Brier - Canadian Men's curling championships for those that don't know. Now I'm a curling fan, but not as fanatical about it as I am figure skating. The sports network shows all of the draws, so 3 games a day. On most years I will watch a few during the week and then all the finals on the weekend. But this year they are being played in my time zone, so it's feasible to watch everything. Not that I usually would but......... they are being played about 100km away in Kamloops. Also about 5 years ago the Canadian Junior Championships were held in my town and there were 3 player from that year at this years Brier. I was fun to see them again.
So I had to do it. I went and watched a draw on Tuesday took hoards of pictures and got myself into a massive curling mood, and have been watching everything.
And then next week is spring break and my sister is talking about stealing me for a couple days and doing some sort of photographic road trip, which sounds like fun but has me a bit confused. We haven't gone on a vacation together since I was 11, we aren't exactly close, so I'm not sure why she's all gung ho about getting together. mid life crisis maybe? And the week after is the Women's Worlds Curling, and I'm hooked now, so watch it I will. And the next week is the World Figure Skating Championships. So I guess the old routine is gone for a while. As for stitching, Cindy didn't get a lot of attention as I watch the curling upstairs with my parents. which means Lannister has been going very well
And what I watched, isn't much
Rise of the Guardians - That was awesome, how come I’ve never see it before.
West Wing S04 E09-10
Merlin S01E01 I’ve been trying to watch this for a couple years. But only manage the first few episode due to bad connections and spotty downloading. Now it has finally shown up on Netflix so I will get to watch it all
Merlin S01 E06. Now finished the third magical poisoning, can we get another plot now
