Why haven’t I updated my blog in a while?

Blame my employment search, blame my hectic schedule of reading, yoga, exercise, hiking, snowboarding. Blame the recent sickness I battled and hope to be conquering soon…or blame my best friend.

She hadddd to blog about cross stitching.

True I gave her this addiction years ago, but now she reminded me to break out my “Pates Baroni”. A piece I started over three years ago but just started tackling with full enthusiasm again.

When complete it will look like this.


Now it looks like this.


Here is a close up, yes, every “X” is two stitches. Each color change is a whole other process I am not willing to discuss, lets just say it can be a little tedious but strangely relaxing.