I finished the Nutcracker cross stitch!
My sister-in-law, who also does stitchery, shares my first initial. So I imagine, some centuries down the line, our pieces in museum collections somewhere, getting conflated. :)
I have started on another piece, also Christmas themed, from the same magazine. After it's done, I can put the magazine away. And, putting on my Big Girl Panties, I've decided to level up my skills a notch and stitch it on even weave linen. 28-count linen translates to 14-count Aida, though, so it's essentially the same gauge and I'm using the same needle. I'm 3/4 done with the outermost border, and haven't screwed it up so far.
And we had a birthday in our family this week! Squiddle is now ten years old, and will be getting a kitten in a week or so, as soon as the rest of the kitten supplies he wanted have arrived. But he's also very Pokemon obsessed, so I tried my best at decorating a cake for him.
He was so excited and said that a Pikachu cake was even better than the rainbow cake he had requested. At which point I informed him that his cake was, in fact, both:
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