I'm on a pause for a few other crafty projects that I really should be plugging away on. But at least I have continued to work on the Nutcracker cross-stitch. And last night I finished the Santa nutcracker and started in on the next soldier nutcracker....
Two more to go, and then this project will be done!
A few weeks ago we went waterfall hunting up the Olympic Peninsula and found two. Ludlow Falls was less than impressive (though the walk through old growth forest was indeed very nice on a hot day), but Rocky Brook Falls is a new favorite! Just enough scrabbling over boulders to keep Squiddle and Jazzy entertained, and their parents stretched.
Meantime, I have been working away at the cross-stitch project, and Santa nutcracker actually looks like a Santa now.
I have only the white to do (cuffs, beard and whiskers, hat bobble), and then the backstitching. Maybe I'll have him done by next weekend?
The garden is beginning to produce cucumbers. My raspberries are all done in for the year, but right on time the blackberry bushes are finally ripening. We've found a new use for the McDonalds Halloween Happy Meal buckets we got last year, as the boys and I went and picked in the bushes in the far corner of the tract last night. Well, Squiddle and I used our buckets. Jazzy just conveyed the berries directly into his mouth. ^_^
Ugh. Yesterday I started cleaning up my work area in the workroom. And, of course, in order to tidy, you first have to make a mess:
But! On the bright side, I got a small ongoing project done.
At some point in the past I'd bought a small sack of 2" squares. Many of which got sewn into my current project, on the right. But finally I've finished getting them all neatly stacked, as you can see in the two containers. Now what to make with the rest of them....
And, of course, I've been stitching along on my cross-stitch project whenever the boys are in their swimming or rock climbing classes.
The soldier nutcracker is done, and I'm now working on the Santa nutcracker.
