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TUSAL & Updates

Well, I'm going to try yet another commitment for this year.  I'm going to attempt to keep up with the posts for Daffycat's TUSAL this year.   I'm sure the challenge will be taking the pictures and getting them onto my computer for upload in a reasonable period of time.  That always seems to be what holds me up.  I've missed the official date for January but check back soon as I promise to have a picture of the ort jar up shortly.

On the stitching projects some good progress to report.  As soon as I figure out how to get photos up on the site I'll add those.  I've finished my first piece of the year - yay!  Mill Hill's Clara ornament.  I'm going to work through the entire set this year.  My goal is to have a stitched ornament tree in the dining room this year at Christmas.  We'll see if I can make that happen.  So far, the tree will have a whopping 2 ornaments, but hey, better than 2012!

I'm also well into several of my WIPs for the year - Mill Hill's Through the Woods is nearly finished and Eva Rosenstand's Cherries is coming along beautifully.  I can't wait to see the four fruits together.  I'm kind of nervous about the expense of framing these projects - that may need to wait a bit.

Since we're looking at a very, very cold end of this weekend and start to next week, I expect to be hibernating and stitching away on the WIPs.  I'm going to reach my target of 5 finishes this January I'm sure of it!

That's it for now - pictures arriving shortly!

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