Saturday Progress

I just wanted to take a moment to show my progress on my fruit bell pull.  This is square one of six.  It is the peaches square.  There are a lot blended threads and confetti stitches in this.  It will be beautiful when it is done but it is really a challenge.  This is one of the few designs that I have made a working copy of and it is meticulously marked off with highlighter pen.  

It is nice to be cross stitching again.  I have been playing with the other forms of needlework and I feel like I have come home.

One thing that I love to do on a Saturday afternoon is to watch HGTV.  It is a bad influence on me though. They me considering playing the lottery so that I can do all of the cool stuff that is on this these shows.  I have decided that I need to start hanging out at the closest Lowe's so that I can have one of the house crasher deals happen at my house.  That would be so awesome.  Now mind you today they had on something totally cool that I have never seen before.  It was a built in cabinet which held an electronic composter for kitchen scraps.  Brilliant!  I would so love that because I feel major guilt when I have to throw things like banana peels in the garbage.  I do not have a composter in the backyard because they are known to attract rats and mice.  No bueno.  I am also concerned for Liesl's safety and want to do everything  I can to keep the raccoon out of the yard.  (They are absolutely vicious to dogs & can do major damage to dogs much larger than themselves.)

Not much else to report, it was a gray day after an unexpected rain last night.  It was a good day to stitch and Liesl was happy as always to nap the afternoon away.