Annies Crazy World

The black background worked well for this image of newspaper front pages of Man walking on the moon…PTO Please turn over because I wrote my memories of that day on the back of the sampler. On the back you can also see other information I record, down the bottom on the left is the detail number of all my projects, the 408 on the right is the number of details on this sampler and on the top right you can see the 32 feet mark for the length of this sampler.

As for a new year resolution, nothing specific this year…My 2010 resolution is to continue to work towards my grand plan of what I would like to do with the house and to relax and enjoy the year.

My short term goal is to catch up the stitching and blogging of my sampler by the 23rd of january, the 2nd anniversary of sampler stitching.

This is my 1,000th blog post which is quite a satisfying number to end a year on…

Looking back on the year I have just read my new years resolution for 2009 from which I quote

…So what to resolve to do, I have had lots of thoughts of grand things that I would love to achieve but I think that a resolution has to be doable, if it has any chance of being kept, so I thought a bit more about the more modest things that I would like to achieve, amongst them is a project that is well started but untouched for more than a year, I do think that it is time it was finished and I hereby resolve to FINISH my Crazy Quilted Box Top before the end of 2009.

well I failed miserably at my resolution to finish my Box Top (I did get off to a good start covering 5 seams by the 15th January but then didn’t touch it for the rest of the year) but I can’t be to dissappointed with not achieving my resolved goal because I have actually achieved doing a few of those grand things that I had thought undoable and I am finishing the year feeling stronger and more content than I started it.

I have now to decide what I would like to achieve in 2010

I wish for A HAPPY, PRODUCTIVE, PEACEFUL NEW YEAR for EVERYONE

I have already used this design twice, I thought that it would look good on a black background and a new panel was a good opportunity to try it…so the new panel is Black…I stayed with the medieval them and did an illuminated P for the Panel number and followed that up with the design of another Cadfael cover.

It is a very long time, like almost a year, since I have done a Castle progress update and the photos don’t show much progress but that is probably not surprising when I think that I can only work on it when it is not raining, not to cold, not to hot and I have no other commitments and I mix the mortar by hand in small batches and my hands can only do 2 batches at a time that is about 10 bricks a day, oh well castles take a long time to build and mine is no different…even though there is not a lot of visual progress on the actual castle the garden around it is much neater and looking pretty good despite the doaught conditions.

This is the first of these tiny cross stiches that I did, the one that gave me the idea that grew into my nativity calendar…Below the whole nativity Calendar with all its windows open…Merry Christmas to everyone.