Progress, gnashing teeth over beads again! The drama never ends.

So here I am for the third week in a row broadcasting all my stitchy deeds for the week.  Could a new habit be formed?  Nah-h-h, I won't cop to that quite yet.

So last week I shared my bead storage and today I am sharing pictures.  Here is what the cabinet looks like:

It is a pretty heavy cabinet which sits on the floor.  When you open the drawer you will see the front of the packages with the bead number.  The white round labels have the beginning bead number and ending bead number that are occupied in that drawer.

When you pull the drawer out and turn it around the round pink labels on the back of the package have the beads color name.  It helps out in selecting possible colors without having to pull each package out.  It works for me!

So the lace row is completed, cross stitches and eyelets.  It looks very pretty.

 Here is a closer look at it.

Even closer view.

I have removed the fabric from the hoop and placed it on some Q-Snaps and continued with the gridding before I start with the vertical rows on the stocking.  I am reassessing my choice of bead color for the Heirloom Red Plum beads.  After consulting with other Nannites on the Facebook page "Just Nan Junkies", I was told there are NO bugle beads in the embellishment package.  The difference is the shape of the seed beads versus the SJ beads.  Seed beads are more rounded like a ball and the Red Plum beads are more flat on the sides not as rounded, as if one just cut off a small piece of the bugle bead.  So I ordered more bead colors at SJ Designs.  Perhaps I will see them by the end of the week.  

My E-Bay win Just Nan's "Christmas Peace" came in the mail which was nice but I was sore.  The postman bent it like a taco to put in my mail box!  The seller did not put a piece of cardboard in the package to prevent this.  Perhaps it might have added to the weight and cost her more to mail?  However she didn't even write on the envelope not to bend or fold which would have cost NOTHING!  The leaflet is not damaged in a way that would prevent me from stitching it but it definitely has a rocker shape.  I am not happy with the seller at all!

I intend to get my gridding done by next weekend  so I can have the weekend to unwind floss and enjoy the ebb and flow of my stitching.  May your week be blessed as mine always are.  Ta-Ta!

Roses for St. Nicholas Progress and an exciting auction win!

Nellie bar the door, I think there is something the matter with me!  I have posted something a week apart rather then years or months!

We had a funky week weather wise.  Old man winter just doesn't understand we are sick of him!  Yesterday and today it was in the 60° range and earlier in the week it is very "frosty" as my Caribbean Prince calls it when he comes in from walking our dogs.  My lillies of the valley have tiny buds.  I do love how they smell and they are so delicate to the eye.

Yesterday on E-Bay I won a prize that I have been seeking for several months, Christmas Peace, an older Just Nan design.  I got it for a fairly reasonable price with the embellishment pak and free shipping.  I don't ever recall seeing this for sale in the shops.  However I fell in love when I saw a finish on the Facebook group "Just Nan Junkies"!  It is stunning.



Don't you agree?  I think at this point I have every Nan design I want.  I can really get down and stitch.

So here is a progress picture of my Roses for St. Nicholas stocking!

I stitched a good 4 hours with my bestie Leslie, via Skype.  I continued stitching pre and post nap also!  All the lace has been stitched to the left of the green tassel.  I also started the bit of lace to the right of the tassel, of which there isn't a great deal.  Next to be stitched will be the eyelets in the center of many of those holes in the lace.  They will make this row very delicate and pretty.

I had a moment or two when I was stitching the crosses that abutted the tassel and they weren't lined up like they should have.  I was so disgusted as I have made every effort with the gridding to place every stitch correctly.  Well I discovered a missed stitch just a few stitches back and it was all remedied.  I can just lose my cool in a second so I am glad this didn't end up in the corner covered in German Shepherd fur and cobwebs. 

I got all my Mill Hill beads reorganized again in my wooden cabinet I purchased years ago at Hobby Lobby.  The Mill Hill packaging fits perfectly in the drawers.  I took little pink labels and wrote the color name on it and adhered it to the package on the back.  They are organized by number but sometimes I am looking for the color names rather then numbers.  I can pull the drawers out and turn it around to quickly get the colors.

So that is it from the stitching capital of Missouri, here in my Happy Room.  Perhaps I will stun all again with another update, wouldn't that be unprecedented?!  God Bless and happy stitching!