Finish Finishing

Welcome to the first day of 2012!  Did ya'll eat plenty of collard greens and black eyed peas?  I sure did and they were so good.  I do love me some good old southern food.  :o)

Before I could transition fully into the new year I had a couple of stitched finishes that needed to be completely finished.  I worked on them last night and this morning.  I will count these as 2011 finishes as all the stitching was complete, they just needed the final touches.

From Prairie Schooler's Santas and Snowmen leaflet - 32 ct khaki Jobelan, DMC floss.

You might recall me saying last year that I planned to finish all of the ornaments from this leaflet to hang on my tree this year.  Ummm, nope!  I finished two.  I do hope to make at least two more of these this year.  (I am trying to be a little more realistic when thinking about my stitching goals for 2012.)

A walk through Hobby Lobby last week  revealed this:

Hmmm, not my cup of tea.  But....look again.

Voila!  My Birds of A Feather Mystery Sampler is framed!  Is it a perfect fit?  Nope.  Is it perfectly straight? Another nope.  But...I decided I would rather have wonky and on the wall where I can enjoy it instead of rolled up in a drawer for who knows how much longer.  I really like it and that is all that matters to me.  :o)

I like how the carved motifs sort of mimic the flowers in the design.

I also managed to make a little progress on Lizzie Kate's Halloween Rules.

I am using 32 count Belfast that I tea dyed and DMC floss.  I have already had to change the color of the dog because the floss as charted was a perfect match for my linen.  This is going to be a fun stitch and with Mindi, Ranae, and Cucki to poke and prod me along hopefully it won't suffer the same fate as Shores.

I hope you all have a great first week of 2012.  Get on out there and make some new memories!