You know that “goal” about continuing the whole blogging every day thing into January? Yeah, well, obviously that didn’t happen.
Anyway…
I had a nice three day weekend: I read a book, did my nails, went to a housewarming party, took a day trip to El Paso, and today I sat down and stitched… a lot… on “Fairy Flora.”
After seven and a half hours, Flo is backstitched. (It wasn’t Flo that took so long. It was the border… around the ENTIRE design!) I am now ready to bead.
Now here is the funny thing. I bought Flo on clearance at Michael’s as a kit. The fabric was boring, so I substituted it. The floss was good DMC, so I used it. And the beads that came with it… mixed all together in a little baggie.
Let me just say that there are lots of beads… in colors that are awfully similar.
So here is my dilemma: Do I spend hours of my precious time in an attempt to sort the thousands of beads into separate colors, employ some mentally unstable person who likes to sort tiny things (like beads) into piles to do the dirty work for me, or say fuck it and just order the beads online and not worry about separating the little bastards?
Decisions, decisions…