Happy Father's Day!

My son and I made this for his daddy:

That is a bouquet of bacon roses.  It's something I've seen all around the internet and decided it would be simple enough to make.  What I did was roll up some center cut bacon then bake it on the wire rack with a pan underneath.  Bake at 375 for 40 minutes.  Then I used some of my leftover flowers and tore them apart to put the bacon in place of the flower.  My son loved putting it together.  He loved stealing random roses even more.  Thank God I made extra just in case!

Not much going on today as my husband is working, so Happy Father's Day to those who have kids, those who have fur-kids, and those single mom's who are acting as both parents!

Slow going, but at least it's going.

So I decided to post a WIP of my mega kit.  You can't tell from the front that anything is done, so here's a picture of the front AND the back.

There you have it, a fraction of a fraction is done!  

Yesterday a box came in the mail for me from my mother.  Inside was an Elmo kit from the 90's.  I think I'll make it my next small project and bump my Bambi's First Year that I started over 2 years ago.  I love my Bambi kit, and I love how it looks, but I think because it's such a slow going kit that I got discouraged.  Now that I've got a few more projects under my belt, I'm going to be ready to start up on it again.

While I was stitching Bambi, I dropped my needle and it fell between the cushion and the arm of my couch which means it fell all the way inside the couch.  I kind of used that as an excuse to quit that project for a while (at the time I had no spare needles).  I think every crafter has that one project that sits on the shelf forever.  I know my mom has one.  When I was visiting, I was allowed to dig through her cross stitching bin and I found an 8-inch hoop with a half done project.  She said she wouldn't finish it and when I asked if I could, she got kind of defensive.

I think she plans on doing it one day, she just works too much, now.

Alright, I'm rambling, time to go work on my peacock.  My son and I are watching MLP:FIM.  So, yeah, my son is a brony.  Happy stitching, everyone!

1, 2, Freddy's coming for you...

I've been on a Nightmare on Elm Street kick lately.  I sometimes forget that Johnny Depp is in that movie.  I have watched most of the movies the last few days and right now I'm watching the documentary about the series called Never Sleep Again.  The documentary is perfect for stitching.  You know, since it's almost 4 hours long.

SEGUE!

My daughter's kit came today:

I have a ways to go before I can stitch this one.  It's large, but not nearly as large as the peacock one.  I should have a WIP in the next couple days.  I'm hoping to be done with the first page of the peacock by the end of next week.

Off to finish my documentary and stitch some.  Maybe I'll make a Freddy pattern, I haven't decided yet.  Happy stitching, everyone!

Petty Gripe

My husband is playing his video games and I can't concentrate with all the gunfire noises in the background, so no stitching right now.  I wish he'd go to bed so I could have a minute to myself as I've had children dangling from me at all times today and not a single moment of silence since I woke up this morning. 

I would go to bed, but my husband is playing in the room I sleep in.  Even after asking, he says, "I've got just one more," but then 3 rounds go by.  When I ask again, it is the same thing.

So BORED!

My Swap Partner Is...

...GONNA LOVE IT!  Hopefully, anyway.  I'm already a third of the way done with what I am sending them.

You thought I was going to reveal my partner's name, didn't you?  You looky-loo, you... ;)  Off to go work on my mega peacock kit, I'm almost done with page one!

Happy stitching, everyone!

All Fear Koke!

Growing up, there was a game I used to play on the NES called Kickle Cubicle.  It was a cute little puzzle solving game that each world had a different theme (garden, desserts, etc) and I remember this game because it's the first video game I ever beat on my own.  I was probably five or six.

The first boss fight in the game is a chicken named Koke.  He is not just any chicken, he is a pirate chicken.  He lives in the clouds in a jack-o-lantern castle and his fight was insanely simple.  This little chicken...this little pirate chicken stuck with me because he is so ADORABLE.

The SpriteStitch monthly challenge was to use only three colors.  So I stitched Koke.

Look at how adorable he is!  And he's a bad guy!  This adorable chicken was stitched on 14-count plastic canvas (I can't cut him out until I buy a new exacto-knife) and he was only three colors:  DMC 310, DMC 444, and DMC 666.

I think he'll be my new dishwasher villain.  I use a villain magnet on my dishwasher to indicate when it's dirty or empty.

Alright, I'm off to bed, tonight was my anniversary and we went to a barbecue, so I'm kind of wiped out.  I'm working on some more of my big project tomorrow and might actually have a WIP soon.  Goodnight, and happy stitching, everyone.

He Wasn't Coming to Have TEA With Ya!

Three times in three years.  I'm averaging once a year.  What am I going on about?  Oh yes, I suppose I should say...

This is the third time someone's broken into my house.

I live in the middle of nowhere in a small community.  I live on a military installation, even.  Everyone knows everyone else and it's alarming that someone has broken into my house three times and no one knows who did it.  No one saw anything.  I feel violated.  I feel worried.  Most of all, I'm angry.

I have gone over in my head why someone would come into my house.  I don't have anything of value except my jewelry and it was out in the open, untouched.  My laptop was next to the couch as was my tablet and cell phone.  All out in the open.  Again, untouched.  My $300 was out in the open.  Untouched.

What was the point of breaking into my house?  I'm sleeping with one eye open.

Break into my house again.  I dare you.