Exchange Addicts Anonymous

Even this day was shadowed by yet another copyright infringement report I am glad to cross post a bit.

After designing Stash Addicts Anonymous I came up with few other addictions related to cross stitching and only five days after the last complimentary design I am proud to publish the next part of this complimentary series called Exchange Addicts Anonymous!

This beautiful model is stitched by Leena from Violarium on 30 count light blue linen with Pomme de Pin floss called Water Plouf, both of the materials are available through Violarium, and I want to thank her for the amazing work she did with the design.
So, Thank You Leena!

There's more to come in future!

(Cross post from Tales from Periphaeria.)

Life, blog, Mr. Wonderful and everything

As you know, I like to change the colour scheme of my blog and as you may have noticed by now I did it again.
This time the colours are picked from my current default avatar which I found somewhere from the 'net while I was looking for angel avatars.

"Why angels?" you may ask. The reason is simple: Mr. Wonderful calls me Angel, has called me almost since we met (last month), that is even before we met in real life (what surprises me is that he still thinks so *grin*).

Yes, you calculated correctly, we had knew exactly one month in the day when he arrived. That means that he booked the ticket about 1½ weeks after we got to know each other.
Though it seems to me that we are kind of fast in everything: we started to think about who relocates and where when he was here - and we have continued that discussion during this week. We have even had a business plan conversation as if he moves here starting a business is his best bet to find employment (1. he doesn't speak Finnish, yet, and 2. Finnish employers are known to have certain prejudice towards people of non-Caucasian heritage) for himself.

Life has been kind of slow since he left, and I realized today that it has been only 1½ weeks even for me it feels like three months already.
I wish he was here, and so does he, so life is good. ^^

And I am still waiting to hear from the company. The agency has sent my info to them last week, but they haven't heard anything either.
But, we signed contract in Friday so I can do some emergency jobs for them. Nevertheless, I need to apply for welfare again because of the company as I won't get paid before end of this month in any case.
This is very annoying situation to put it midly.

Kreativ Blogger Award

I am very sorry it took this long from me, but here it comes...

I am shocked as I have been actually nominated by two three creative ladies o.O: Jenna, Edda and Renée (ETA: I heard about this nomination after posting this)!

1. The winner may put the logo on her blog.
2. Put a link to the person you got the award from.
3. Nominate 5 blogs
4. Put links to the blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees.

I would like to give this award to following creative bloggers:

• Linda
• Leena
• Susan
• Renée
• Svenja

Of course there are many, many creative bloggers out there whose blogs I read, but rules are rules (at least this once).

A Happy Dance! O.o

Yes, unbelievable, I know. o.O

It's a model for... well, I won't tell, but still, it is a model of a wintery ornament.

I know that the colour scheme is quite far from traditional, but I kind of like how it turned out. ^^

Now I just need to finish it.

Mr.Wonderful

I have come to a conclusion that there's no other option than love that man. My reasoning goes as follows:

• He is planning to visit me in November. (Note that he has a steady job, so it's a challenge.)
• He has a lovely habit to call me sometimes just to say that he loves me. ^^
• He's good communicator.

...and...

• I just heard that if he just can manage it he's coming to see me soon, even if it is only weekend or couple of days. (Remember that he lives in Spain at the moment.)

"Stash Addicts Anonymous" and yet another SAL

It just happens to be so that some time ago I heard that there is Monopoly SAL going on and the SAL organizer has written permission from Hasbro to photocopy the pattern one-time basis for the SAL participants as the original booklet is OOP - and even when you can find it from eBay it costs you arm and leg.
Of course I just HAD to participate and my pattern arrived today through mail. I have also ordered the floss (I converted to Anchor) and fabric for it, and as I am an addict I justified both orders (I kind of forgot to order the fabric with the floss ) by ordering some patterns...

Today I checked how many justifications I ordered and the realization led me to admit that I should join Stash Addicts Anonymous which led me to design little something as I thought that I am not only one who'd love to manifest their addiction.

This is one of the three versions, actually my favourite:

The file with all three versions is uploaded to Periphaeria Designs so if you admit having a stash addiction you know what to do.

I haven't model stitched it yet as this design really is newborn and I just wanted to get it published, but I am sure I will take some me time some of these days and stitch one of the versions for myself with some nice overdyed.

Shock and awe!

I had an appointment in the morning in an employement agency, just so they could meet me and get copies of my diplomas and references.

And it ended so well that now I am waiting for them to call me in what day I will start the job!

It's a receptionist/ assistant assignment for next 3-4 months and I may start as soon as tomorrow - though they couldn't reach the person in charge in the company I am going to so I may start a bit later.
I was bit doubtful at first because that means Mr. Wonderful and I won't meet before December in any case, but it also means that if I can control my spending I may be able to save us much as 700-800 euros and that is two two-way plane tickets to Malaga. So, being an Angel (he claims so, I'm innocent ) I SMSed Mr.Wonderful and asked his opinion: he agreed with me (and anyway, he is/ should be going to a long work trip and won't probably be back before October, earliest), as I knew he would and I accepted the assignment.

So, I wrote ~fifty applications within last five days and I got the one I never applied to.

I really should stitch more...

... as I seem to have too much S.E.X. and window S.E.X when I haven't been stitching a while (like now):

Needlepoint
• Magnolia Serenade
• Lakeside Poppies
• Mother and Cubs
• Remington the Cat
• Anemone Floral
• Hydrangea Bloom
• Moonlit Tide (I've seen this stitched, it looks way better.)

Cross Stitch

• Acorns and Threads
• Snow Juggle
• Bird of Paradise
• Treat Time
• Jewish Designs for Cross Stitch
• Surrounded
• Acorns Away
• Cirque des Cercles
• Cirque des Triangles
• Hanky Pysanky
• Frogs, Frogs & More Frogs
• Griffin Kitten
• Japanese Koi
• More Precious Than Gold
• Alpha Cats
• Dragon Moon
• Tropical Dragonfly
• The Thief

I was RAKed!

While Mr. Wonderful was here I received an email from Bea, who I know through EMS Cross Stitch Forum, that she has a Lesley Anne Ivory kit of a cat and she'd like to find it a new home.
I replied to her and few days later this lovely cat was waiting in my mailbox!

I offered to pay the postages as this is a full kit (excluding aida as she knows I don't like aida), but she said that she just wanted to give the kitty a good home and I shouldn't worry about that.

Wasn't that just SO sweet of her?!

SBQ: Belated and the new one

7th of August, 2008

This week's SBQ was suggested by yours truly and is:

What do you do to your thread clippings? Do you just scrap them or do you use them in something else?

I store my clippings in a bowl, and when the bowl is full I move them to a large glass jar. It's rather decorative and I do use them sometimes with polyester filling when finishing needlework smalls.

21st of August, 2008

This week's SBQ was suggested by Dawn and is:

If you had to choose, would you rather spend money on overdyed floss or hand-dyed fabric?

This is easy: on floss, as overdyed floss always looks nicer on stock shades (like flax or pure white linen) and it's more cost effective in general (and nowadays I have to think of that because I need to save for the plane ticket).

Some quotes...

I gathered these yesterday when looking for a signature line, but as I was adjusting of being far away from mr.Wonderful I wasn't in the mood for blogging - before he called me in the middle of the night just to say that he loves me.

"Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end."
-- Unknown

"Between husband and wife there should be no secrets from one another. I have a very high opinion of the marriage tie. I hold that husband and wife merge in each other. They are one in two or two in one."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."
-- Felix Adler

"To love another person is to see the face of God."
--Les Miserables

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-- Thoreau

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
-- Anonymous

"Where there is love there is life."
-- Gandhi

Among all the wonderfulness I got to hear that a family friend of ours had been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease this summer and he was unconscious.
I just heard that he has died day before yesterday, in the evening.

The couple is our parents' old, old friends so they are about the same age our parents are. It really makes you think...
And I saw the man only few months ago and he was completely healthy and lively.

I already miss you, Love

About two hours ago we kissed goodbye at the airport and around this time the plane is somewhere over the central Europe and he is on his way back to Malaga.

What can I say? It felt for both that time was running away from us and today it felt that he just came yesterday - or maybe day before that.
I am going to Malaga in this year, whenever my finances allow (so keep hoping that I get a job, soon!), and the plan is that E. comes here in the end of the year.

We have had preliminary plans regarding future, but we have time to figure it out: one of the possibilities is that he moves to Finland and when I actually said to him, jokingly, that it seems to me that he has to move to Finland, even it's dreadfully expensive in here, as he loves the nature he said that it really seems so (though if so, we'll change the city of residence).

There is also the possibility that I won't wash my hands any day soon as his scent is on my hands, and on my shirt.

Boo

Yes, I am very much alive, but for some odd reason I have been busy.

Well...

... The internet connection did work, but I had nothing interesting to say: I spent my time scrubbing and cooking - and now I spend my time scrubbing until Thursday afternoon.

I must say that it's so very quiet here without my dears, but I'll go and get them back home tomorrow.

Off I go

Back to the wild, i.e. to my mother's cabin. There should be an internet connection nowadays, but in case I go missing until 11th or so it's not working. (It has to work, otherwise I will get serious withdrawals from my daily emails to certain person!)

I haven't forgot the Kreativ Blogger awards I have been given and the entry is in draft form - I just haven't had energy to think about the people I nominate, yet.

Stash makes the world go 'round

I got more lovelies in the mail yesterday, but as I got to bed early I had no time to blog about it... O.o

And... it was my last day of paid boredom! Oh yes, it was boring through and through as I had almost nothing to do eventually as the tasks I was hired to do were quick to do - I worked for about 45 minutes a day and rest of the day I drank coffee and surfed aimlessly.
And wrote emails to my coming mystery guest... oh yes, I have forgot to tell: I have a mystery guest coming in 14th and he's around until 20th, so don't expect me to blog too much - or if I blog the content may cause diabetes - as I will very likely concentrate on drooling all over him.

I'll keep you updated. *grin*

Spending on books i.e...

... "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is available for preorder!

Yes, I already preordered my copy of both editions...