Die Mad About It

 Moving day is quickly approaching!  We are scheduled to load up and leave on September 2nd, which is a week and from today.  This move happened a lot faster than I had planned, and I didn't have the time I'd like to visit everyone before we go.  I did have a couple of visits planned, one with the Belladonnas and one with Amber and Sherry, former coworkers and victims of Sears.  I didn't get to have a final brunch with the Brunch Bitches of Taylor, but we did actually have several in this year, so I don't feel so bad about that.  Everyone else.. well, the road works both ways, y'all.  People who made an effort to see me, got to see me.  Those who made zero effort and wanted me to do all the work... g'bye forever!  

Maybe not forever but.. this move has shown me who really cares and who wants it to be about them all the time.  As if I didn't know but still.. ANYWAY... that's not what this blog is about.  

This is the last cross stitch I did in Texas.  I finished it last Thursday and now I have all of my stitchy things packed except for stuff for my next two projects, in case I get to work on them in the hotel while we are traveling or if I need something to do before the movers get to the house, since it's gonna take them longer than it takes us.  I would say it's the last one I did in the house I grew up in but we all know I will do more cross stitching there when I visit.  So I'll say the last one I did when I LIVED in the house I grew up in.  Why do I chronicle these sort of sad things?  I don't know...

This one is by SonOfAStitch.  I did alter the patten a bit because some of the colors in the original pattern weren't going to show up on this sparkly aida.  Can you see the sparkles??  I love it when they show up in a photo!  I say this all the time so it was great to find a cool pattern that said it.  I now need to find one that say "Die in a fire", because that's another Jonesey-ism.

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 For a busy packing time, I'm getting my stitches in!  I love this one so much by The Gloomy Gremlin!  

I have three of these cozy patterns by largodargento on Etsy.  The first was a teapot I did and posted last year around this time, I think.  There is this cute pumpkin one, and then there is a squirrel one I shall work on soon!  They are the cutest and stitch up pretty quickly!

The Witchy Stitcher Cryptid Stitch-Along: Mongolian Death Worm

 I have been plugging away at this Cryptids from the Cryptid Stitch Along by The Witchy Stitcher.  I know these are meant to be on one huge piece of Aida but I just can't do that with my neurospicy brain, so I always do stitch-alongs separately and then one day I can create a collage of all of them!  This is The Death Worm.  

“The Mongolian Death Worm is a Cryptid reported to exist in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, East Asia.  It is described as a bright red word with a wide body that is 2-5 feet long.   The worm is the subject of many extraordinary claims such as the ability of the worm to spew forth acid that will turn anything yellow and corroded (and which would kill a human), as well as its ability to kill at a distance by means of electric discharge.  The main antagonists ni the Tremors series, called Graboids, were based upon the Death Worm.  There was a film released in 2010 based solely on this scary worm entitled “Mongolian Death Worm”.- The Witchy Stitch, Cryptid Wiki

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 Well, it's on!  We (I, actually) have started packing!  I sort of like packing, and I sort of hate it.  I have also started organizing. So we have all these boxes in a storage shed, and in a bedroom here, and they are just numbered, and not really labeled, because we did a system where we had a list of what is in which box and the boxes had corresponding numbers.  So I am going through each box and listing what's in it, and putting where it's gonna go in the house, because we are hiring movers to put the boxes where they need to go.  I am kind of enjoying that bit.  

We don't have anything scheduled quite yet because we don't know when they will be done with all repairs but I'm figuring we will be moving between mid-September and mid-October.  That's a great time because it's hot as fuck here but it coincides with Autumn and they are actually going to be cooling down that time of year!  

I have still managed to get some stitching in!

We LOVE The Mighty Boosh!  I can't find many cross stitch patterns that I like, though.  There are tons of Old Gregg ones but they are super elaborate and I get bored with very stitch-heavy projects.  I did find this one by ShortAndLoudShop on Etsy.

This is a Stundew by Noctiflora Designs.  I have several of her patterns but this is the first one I've actually done.  I dyed this aida myself :)  I stitched it up pretty quickly and it's just the cutest!

Okay, on with work!