Finished Ghost!

I finished him tonight & hung him on my tree. I thought he turned out pretty cute!

Ghost Update

Between watching the Presidential debate Friday night and the 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean movie Saturday night, I've managed to finish most of my ghost! This isn't the best picture but you can still see that he is pretty cute. I'm going to try and finish him tonight and hang him on my tree. I still have 3 or 4 Halloween ornaments that I'd like to finish and get on the tree before the end of October.

My Halloween Tree

A couple of years ago I started stitching the little beaded kits from Mill Hill. I especially like the Halloween ones and have been looking for a black tree to hang them on. I hadn't been thinking about setting anything up yet this year but was in Safeway the other day and while looking at their Halloween stuff saw the perfect tree. It's black wire w/glitter stuff on it and is exactly the size I wanted. You can see it hung w/the ornaments I've finished so far. The last picture is a ghost I'm working on now that I hope to finish in the next day or so.

Convent's Herbal Garden

Jill says this is finished except for the beading!

Beaded Crystal Scissor Case

This is a kit that my daughter gave me last year for my birthday. As you can see I haven't got very far yet! I'm going to move it to the top of my stitching to-do list. In a few days I'm going to post my wip list as an incentive to myself!

Work in Progress

I'm going to share this blog with my daughter, Jill, and include her stitching projects also. This is a project she has been working on for about a year called Convent's Herbal Garden. It is close to being finished and, as you can see, really looks great!

New Blog

Due to a lot of personal issues, I haven't been doing any stitching for quite a while. My original blog is pretty cluttered with the personal issues and I've been thinking for some time about starting a blog devoted just to stitching. So here it is!

I joined the 2008 Bead Journal Project and September is the first month so I'm going to make that my first project. The BJP is a year-long project to create a monthly "journal page" using beads. My pages are going to be heart shapes, approximately 3x4 inches using a poem as the theme for each one.

September's poem is this one from Emily Dickinson:

After great pain, a formal feeling comes -
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?

The Feet, mechanical, go round -
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought -
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone -

This is the Hour of Lead -
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -
First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go -

I'm not sure how this is going to translate into a beaded heart but I have the rest of September to get it done!