Santa bell wreath 2

First sorry my pictures aren't of the best quality no longer have great lighting. My boys broke the stand on my good one do back to using sunlight and not so great table lamp. Medical bills are to high to even contemplate buying a new one. Some day we're be out from under theses damn bills.. I hope.

These stich up relatively fast and I would have gotten farther but the Game ofThrones  episode we were watching last night got intense and so it was put away. Probably will have this first of six done pretty fast what's left is his arm beard face and hat. Well then backstitching debating about when to bead it, after the backstitching is done or after all six are done and bead them all then. Hmm can't decide.

Santa bell wreath 1

And I have a new start!

Does not look like much yet but it's a start! Now I have already change one thing with this kit. The supposed dark red thread looked almost exactly like the medium thread which from the picture of the kit it's not suppose to be like that at all! 

Thankfully I have s lot of extra thread given to me for Christmas from my husband so I was able to find a darker red that I feel worked well with the other refs in the kit. It is the darker red in my first picture. I also plan to try some embroidery soon snd may even try to sell some on my etsy shop (rainbowkitties). If and when I make some I'll post it up on here and my Instagram account (sweetgeekmomma).

Bird Joy 5

Finished the stitching on bird joy just need to put it together which may or may not happen this weekend it all depends on Saturday. Hubby is having more testing done at the hospital on Saturday depending on the results will depend on if it gets done. 

I took a picture of my next project seen below need to get the thread all split up may get done tomorrow maybe not.

Bird Joy 4

I am actually a lot farther then this now, but I'm not home and I lov taking pictures of my project after the msin stitches are done and before the backstitching is done. 

I am always amazed at how big of a difference backstitching makes. Next post should have this project fully torched but probably not finished. More work is needed to put make it into an ornament. 🙂

Bird Joy 3

Ok I think I made up for the lack of stitching the last two weekends. I've been bored out of my mind because hubby is still not well enough to go out and do much yet.

Hoping this changes soon because I  admittingly loosing some of my sanity because of it, but hey I got  a lot done and since Christmas is less then six months away I need to keep in stitching up all of my Christmas presents!

Bird Joy 2

I'm Once I finish all of these I am really going to miss stitching them. Only one left after the one I am currently working on. It will be hard to find something to stitch up for my mom for Christmas after the last one is stitched up.

Secondly I want to try embroidery at fon booing s d while at Joanns yesterday I ended up buying a book that I definitely want to try some of the patterns.

Overall all the animals are really cute and small so nice quick stitches as well. Can't try yet I  working on presents for the year but I'll get around to it 😊.

Bird Joy 1

I actually started stitching this about two weeks ago while my husband was in the hospital and totally messed up in the tail. 

It was all one row lower then it should have been so the body and the tail did not meet up do spent this morning taking out the tail stitches and then rest itching it. Not sure if anyone else has this issue but when I make a mistake I have a tendency to set it o the side for days, weeks even months so fixing her and picking back up is an accomplishment in itself.

Right now it's hard to tell what the background is going to be since it is agony to be a Christmas ornament it is not cherry blossom like it kind of looks like now. So far I've only started stitching the berries on the holly. Will get s not done this weekend since hubby isn't up for much and the air quality outside is only so so.