M Designs in glorious red!

This is the M Designs piece I mentioned earlier. I have completed one heart and started another in the diaonally opposite corner. (sorry for the skewed piccie). I'm using Needle Necessities 510 on white linen. The other two corners will have initials but I'm not sure whose yet :)

One down...one more to go.

I sat one of my two exams today...I think I did ok, but you never can tell, can you? One thing I have found with post graduate study is...it's bloody hard work and takes up a lot of valuable time I could be doing the things I love more, like stitching and singing! Oh well only another 4 semesters to go although I might stretch it out a little and have a semester off somewhere in the middle...

Liam is with his dad at the moment (in Sydney) so I had a quick trip to Canberra to meet his dad who drove down from Sydney. Consequently it made me very tired for my exam today. I guess sitting up until midnight last night doing last minute study didn't help!

Tomorrow night I am taking mum and dad to see my friend Andy sing with the swing band - absolutely my favourite place to be on a Tuesday night. I have tomorrow off to study for my economics exam on Wednesday afternoon, so the disruption of some great music will be welcome.

Tonight I am resting and I will try and finish my June goal on An Open Heart and perhaps stitch a little on the M Designs piece :)

There has been progress!

Finally! Here is the latest progress pic of An Open Heart. This is one project for which the colours look so much nicer in 'real life' than on the chart picture....

*eek* time...need more of it!

I haven't stitched hardly at all this week, although I must admit I was STRESSED when I got home from work the other day so I did a little to calm down....AOH got some of area 3 stitched so I'm on target for that June goal :)

I have exams in just over a week, Economics (26th), and Management Science (28th) so I probably wont post much, but will try and read al ittle in my forced study breaks. I've been finding study very hard - it's been a long time since I studied anything and its been a real challenge. Hopefully I will do ok! I think next semester I will just do one unit rather than two.

It's also school holidays, my parents arrive tomorrow for a three week visit and I have to go to Canberra next weekend (the weekend BEFORE my exams) to take LHM to see his dad!

There's always something! Why does it all seem to come at once!

For the Movie Lover

Stumbled across this blog that has movie reviews for just about anything you can think of! Great! They're quite detailed so if you don't want to be put off....probably best not to read them till after you've seen a movie! (Just to see if you agree)!

Move along...nothing to see here...

It has been a long weekend here in Melbourne and although I had nights out on Friday and Sunday, I've spent all the days studying...so no stitching.

However, I am all studied out right now, so today I am going to relax with some chocolate, chick flicks and some stitching. I'm not sure what I will stitch on - perhaps the M Designs piece that I have started...it's four sections, two Celtic Heart designs in each corner and will be two initials. I had first thought this would be for a friend, but she has gone and changed her colour scheme, so the beautiful Needle Necessities variegated red just wont do for her now...might keep this one myself...I will try and post a picture later.

I might also get the never-ending "Dad's Sampler" out of the WIP roll and do one or two letters to appease my guilt over not finishing it yet (started in 2000 while I was in hospital and my parents were here looking after me and Liam). These over one letters will be the death of me! I really must finish this....it's beautiful but the over one stitching is really hard on my eyes. I will try and post a progress picture of this one too.

An Open Heart will definitely get a look in as it is out and ready to be tackled!

All in all should be a good day...now to choose movies!

How to make a me!

I saw this on Mel's blog and just HAD to have a go!

Accurate description of me don't you think???

How to make a Tannia

Ingredients: 1 part mercy 5 parts self-sufficiency 5 parts empathy

Method: Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Add a little caring if desired!

Username:

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

My Exciting Saturday Night!

Last night my dad was visiting from Tasmania!

"Why don't you go out dear?" he said, "I'll look after Liam."

After getting through to about W on my mobile phone with no takers, I decided to stay home and stitch!

I worked on An Open Heart and am now down to the dividing band under the second row of text and I started the area underneath that....all in all a good night AND I got to have a good gasbagging session with my dad! Love him to bits!

Sometimes those nights are just the best!

June Goals

During June (and remembering that I have exams on the 28/29th June, I would like to accomplish the following:

• Finish something.....anything.....ornament, fob, bookmark.....anything at all!
• Stitch down to at least dividing band 6 on An Open Heart.

And for two goals not stitching related:

• Complete the two economics assignments I am behind in.
• Complete the 1 Management Science assignment that is late!

Faring well in my exams is a goal I really don't need to list here ....is it?

The other side of me.....

I've started another totally un-craft related blog.....

Some of you may know I fancy myself as a bit of a rock star (in my dreams) but I have done quite a bit of singing around the traps, in bands and musicals over the years and more recently in church.

( I like singing in church because I figure everyone there is so nice they all love you even when you sound like cr@p!!!)

Anyway I thought I would start a blog about my music making adventures and also listing a few gigs and bands and things...you may or may not find it interesting...I do!

Here is the link to "Musically Speaking".