Some sort of update

Yesterday was Ornament Onsdag and I had planned to show you my progress on an ornament, but as I was preparing the phone rang and we had to rush to the hospital again as my father's condition got worse. He passed late the same night, but atleast he is not in pain now.

I am still in the process of finding the right backing fabric for this easter ornament.  Here I have three different ones bought at Panduro. I think the one with pink polka dots is my favorite. After I have backed this I am making hair-bows with the rest of the fabric I think. 

Still thinking about buying some sort of hanger as I think it would look great with a bunny one instead of just making hemps to hang with, but I could use the other polka fabric for the hemps, that would look nice I think?

Here is another thing I made at work. Yesterday I was using some other kind of paint that made me feel faint and nauseous...

But look how good it looks?

And. I am thinking of colouring my hair like this. As I already have almost the same glasses. This is Garcia from "Criminal minds", real name Kirsten Vangsness. (yes, that is a norwegian name, her entire fathers family are american-norwegians)

-oh, and this poll does not work either, so people should vote for the banner in the post before. Thank you. 

-and, three more followers until the giveaway. Next post I will show you a little preview of what you can win.

So, I am making a change

Usually I hate changes. but since I have had a desire to customize my blog for a long time, this change does not seem so sudden to me as it might for everyone else....

My friend made me these banners, and I love them! She is very talented.

Banner 1:

 Banner 2:

So, which banner should I use? I love them both, but I do have a secret favorite.

The poll will be open until Sunday, so hurry up and vote!

The poll is on the right-hand side.

Tuesday again today

I am sorry that I have been so quiet the last couple of days, but there is a lot of things happening.

Since it is Tuesday I can at least show you my song of the week?

I have not done any stitching since friday where I realized that one entire Tudor-rose on Henry had a mistake and I have to rip it all out. Since the pattern is mirrored I did the same mistake twice. I should have looked at my chart and not do it the easy way by just looking at the other side that I had already done.... Oh well. But boyfriend found my mistake. Thank you. How is it that you get sort of blind and can't find your own mistakes? Weird huh?

So, without further ado. This is another japanese pop group from Hello!Project, but one that I have only shown you one song from, a very long time ago. from here:

You can skip 'til 0:47 because there is a lot of chanting in the beginning. 

Store Stories and purchases

Yesterday I was out shopping with two of my friends while boyfriend was at home sleeping. He just finished his master after an all-nighter, so I thought going out would be great for both of us, bunny was not inclined to think so since she had to spend the day in a pen. So the story about my purchases came a day late.... Oh, well.

Let me show you what I bought:

This little beauty, I have decided it is the perfect place to stash half-finished cards and cards that are drying. So I put in some old cards to show you. The first is my latest finish and the other is an old valentine card from my friends. (see, sometimes I get bunny-cards and those are the ones I treasure the most). 

And I got scolded at work because I wear my hair mostly loose and I said that the only hair-piece I had was a hair-tie that I used when I was about six. And that is a long time ago, so I felt I was a bit overdue to buy all these accessories. (and I have always had long hair so I have no excuse to not have an abundance of hair accessories, I do have several hair-bows though, but they let your hair still fall around and into the paint, so I guess it was no good)

Look at my new dress, isn't it pretty? It is for the national-day. It is warm and cuddly with a bunny on it.  What more could you want in a dress? I LOVE IT. I have been drooling over it for several months now, and when it was on sale I hurriedly bought it. 

Since this is not a blog about my life really, but more about my crafts I will show you my progress. More beading done. And another Tudor-rose, how I hate those Tudor-roses.... It is really taking forever.

It has been really sad and rainy most days so I have not made a single stitch on Fred, too dark and murky to see anything...

And bunny got a new toy too, since us humans celebrated with take-out pizza and Qi.

She LOVED this toy. Inside the little wooden blocks there is a hole where we put treats and she has to take them out. Fun for everyone. Especially when she gets really frustrated and bangs it about, digs frantically and almost gives up... Oh, and it is fun watching her throw the candy out but having so much fun bashing the toy around that she forgets to eat the treats. I love bunnies.

I still have not eaten the first out-side-ice-cream-of-the-year.

Ornament is done

Do you guys remember I said that I wanted to blog more and make more ornaments?

Since this is Ornament Onsdag (which is wednesday in Norwegian), I finished this little ornament. I changed the colours a bit since there was missing a colour.

This was how it was supposed to look. But I like my version best I think. And I LOVE the little hanger. I am doing another project which involves another hanger like this. But I am still waiting for the threads to continue. Since tomorrow is not a post day I am guessing I might be done by next Ornament Onsdag barely:)

Lately I have been eating a mango every other day, I love mangoes, where were they all the time I had the munchies and bought heaps of chocolate? I wish I had known about them sooner. 

I was at work today too, but I got to go early because I finished all the things I was going to paint, and it was too soon to do another coat though.

I used pink, purple, teal, white and turquoise, to the end where I was really fed up with washing my paintbrush. I kept forgetting to do the same colours at the same time, so I did double work, washing those brushes, which was a bit boring. I came home and slept for a couple of hours and woke to boyfriend making dinner. We had a lovely meal and then he went to his parents to do his masters which he is handing in tomorrow for the printers.... 

Let's see, do I have any bunny news? Yes, while I was preparing my lunch bunny saw a shadow, yes, a shadow and went into a panic. She fled around the room making a lot of noise. She landed under my desk, thumping frantically. She refused to come out when I called her name, so I went under the desk too, she still thumped and looked at me like: " I know you saw that too, so why are you not hiding?" said bunny. I sighed. Got up. And took out her Oxbow papaya tablets. Only then did she come out. And I was barely allowed to give her a small pet.

Silly bunny.

Oh, yeah, and I now have 15 followers. ^^ So there will be a giveaway soon, when I find out how many people had to be my followers before I gave one. I think I said either when I reach 20 followers or 200 blogposts.

(which is only 15 posts away.)

Or if I get a hundred views a day which is still not that likely since the most I got was 96 and after that I usually get around 30 :) But it doesn't matter:)

On a roll again

I am so on a roll, I remembered to finish my bird, do WiSP day AND, well, actually that's it.

And I did it, the bird is done! 

I found this too, it is almost finished and have been for quite some time, thing is, all the threads are missing, and since the threads came with the magazine I felt lost. But then I saw that they had helpfully added a DMC thread-key, so I decided to look through my stash. Which is small so I did not have high hopes. One side was about 90 % done and the other about 50%, I could not just choose some colours because it is mirrored so both sides have to match... I contemplated that for a while and felt like I was lost at sea when I finally took the dive and looked through the stash. And lo and behold, I had ALL of the pinks! :O Colour me surprised... And most of the greens too, the only green I did not have was the sea green one used on the gate. And I am buying that, since I like to use the colours I buy and not just stash them I am going to multitask and incorporate them in secret project number 2. 

And, I have done some more on my WiSP, I am going to have to take a break on this while I buy some floss. Maybe not a big break, maybe I can do some backstitching? I have already decided not to do the background on this because I feel like the coloured fabric is enough:)

On another note, I am rewatching glee, and boyfriend came home, he for some reason got the vibe that I needed to be serenaded to and chose to sing. " Oh my darling Clementine" but since poor boyfriend knows absoultely no lyrics what he did end up singing to me was: Oh, my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling never mind..... Not quite the romantic song I had in mind. He made up for it later by doing "Magic carpet ride" with me on singstar. I pwned him.

Here is bunny and boyfriend having some quality time together. Free range bunnies are awesome! -"What did you do yesterday?"

- "I tried to eat an apple and had a bunny on my shoulder".

Best conversation ever.

It is Friday again I reckon

And I did not forget! Hah! Here is a completely meaningless and boring post about absolutely nothing. But atleast I did not forget.

As you probably know by now, I work a little now. And what I do is paint furniture, I like painting, it is calming. And look at my free manicure.

I was getting a bit tired of all the pink, so I painted a chair this colour and it is a great colour indeed, works wonders with the pink.

I have a really crocked pinky. Looks a bit silly doesn't it?

But today I was home because I was not feeling very well, so I started on a freebie. From WOCS 202. Unfortunately a colour was missing and I did not have a replacement, so I choose two purples from my stash. I love the cute hangar that came with it.

This is how far Fred has gotten. Think I can finish the bird tomorrow?

 So, this is Henry, can you see the beading I've started?

 I can show you some closeups. Not the right colour, but close enough:P

 I did not bead her dress. Or the flap thing on her hat. I decided they looked good without so I left it. Less work for me the better. And I really do think beading that part of her dress would make things look crowded and I did not want that. I did not want to do french knots either so I'll just make do.

This is the replacement colours I chose. Do you know another cross stitch I am making that is using these colours? Yes, it is secret project number two, which I know is taking a lot of time, but I am down to doing the boring colours and the stupid tangling glitter floss so it takes time.... And then there will be backstitch. Will I finish that in time using only WiSP Sundays? I wonder...

Speaking of backstitch, that is all that is left on this piece so it is time to go to bed and hope I feel like being bored enough to do them tomorrow. Would have been nice with another finish though.....

Bon Voyage and then some.