January 23, 2007

Just a nothing day

Nothing to say, nothing really happened, no work on my desk, a plain boring nothing day. But cold! Cold finally arrived. They're announcing -1 but felt like -20, and we're supposed to dress for -20 as well (all Celsius, of course). The good side of a free-lance job is working from home and not having to go out except for the traditional dog walks. However if it's cold and *nice* tomorrow, I'd like to have a brisk 40 min. walk with Happy. Despite following a diet, I am not losing weight and it starts to be upsetting. I decided to kill those %$#%^#%$ kgs by moving, moving, moving this year! With my new Ipod, fast walks have become so pleasant. I've downloaded music (let's call that so...) for workouts, running etc. with a special heart beat programme. It's great but it will be greater the day I start running.

Anyway, when I wake up in the morning, I'm supposed to see SNOW, tons of snow. Why not? The last thin layer was back in early November. Even in Oslo... H. told me he started the engine of the snow removing machine for the first time this past Sunday. When he called me tonight at 9 pm the temperature had already dropped to -18 C.

So... since I am too lazy (and honestly, freezing, something must be wrong with the heating system in my flat) to post any xstitch pictures, though I have some :), here is the result of playing with my photo editing software. Miss Toska in all her sleeping glory!

An early Easter finish

Tonight I finished the new Easter 2007 freebie from Echevette's blog. I hope she doesn't mind I didn't stitch the text in the center and instead replaced it with a wooden "charm". Actually I am not so fond of having stitched pieces at home with the year on it. Somehow I have the feeling they've gone old and lose their charm... Hey, nobody's perfect! LOL
It was such a pleasure to stitch it!!


Chart: 2007 Easter freebie from Echevette


Fabric: 28ct Jazzlyn, Spring Maiden from Silkweaver

Threads: GAST Holly Berry, GAST Spring Grass

(how funny, both the chart and one of the threads have "spring" in the name!)

A finish from last December

Now that I've heard that my package reached its destination, I can show this little reindeer that I stitched for Michele W.: