AAARRRGGGHHH!

I have been s-l-o-w-l-y working on Goddess. Haven't been there every night, but most nights. The progress is slow, because I had made a small boo-boo. I knew I had made it, but it would have taken a lot of frogging to fix. (you see, I didn't notice the boo-boo until I had made a lot of progress) I figured it would be easy to fill in and fudge here and there to fix it when I got to this point, but it is really taking a lot of thought to make it look right! I now have a greater appreciation for those that go before us to make a design and chart it.

I work for a hardware store that has a great, but small art department. The woman who was taking care of the department, is out for knee surgery. (four months) The art dept. has been a thorn in the owner's side since he bought the store. The woman who was taking care of it was either not interested enough, in too much pain, overwhelmed or all of the above, because that dept. is an absolute mess! They have asked me to clean up the dept. I went into work yesterday for a half a day (my day off) to meet with the salesman. Apparently, he was just given permission to just order and ship by the previous dept. person. We get "surprize" boxes of product. Some of which is not in our system, so he is sneaking stuff in just to make sales, and there was no one to contest the shipment. She had stuff stashed in corners and under shelving...OMG! I told him, he was not to ship anything that we don't approve of. He didn't like it. I then explained that once I get the dept. to the point where I am comfortable, then I will tell him what new (if any) products we will accept. The the owner came over and told him the same thing...so I got good backup. I got some catalogs and pricing sheets, so the next month or so, I will be really getting into deep cleaning and purging...this could be fun! Plus, it will be like doing the buying that I normally would do for myself at home. I'll get it out of my system and save a bunch of my own money!

My youngest daughter is very sick. She had a nasty temperature the day before yesterday. Unfortunately, she got my work ethic and feeling of poverty, so she wouldn't stay home from either of her jobs. I finally talked her into giving up the night time job until she is better. We are going to see the doctor today, but she still insisted on going to the morning job. (working at a ranch cleaning stalls, that is after all her first love...HORSES!) Hopefully the doctor will scare her into staying home for a couple of days. She has holes in her heart and any real bad illnesses could affect that.

My neice went to the hospital the day before yesterday to give birth to my first grand nephew. I have three grand neices. We are waiting semi-patiently for news...he also has holes in his heart, so we are praying that everything goes well. Me especially, because I know what it feels like to have an infant with the holes! We won't be able to go and see him until we are sure that all the germs my daughter has is not on any of us. Sniff!

Okay, I have ranted enough. Thanks for "listening".

I finally got the picture uploaded! And now I have more of her hair done. I have been working on the Earth Goddess a little every night since I promised I would pick her up again. Thanks for being there for me to make a promise I would not break. I find if I only work a little every night I don't get the headaches. At least this way I am making some progress, if not a lot.
I have most of her hair done now, then I will be working on her face, then on to more flowers around her neck. YAY! She's getting there! I am saving the backstitching of the branches for the last thing I do on the top third. When I get this done, I will unroll the whole thing and take a picture of what I have finished so far. The bottom third will be a lengthy process.

As Promised.....

Well, I DID pick up my stitching, and I DID make some progress. I know now why I wasn't picking it up. My eyesight is getting just a tad worse a little at a time. I don't have benefits just yet, so I will have to wait to get my eyes checked and get new glasses. But since I picked up the stitching, I have had a headache. I have those drugstore magnifying glasses, but I think I am beyond those now. I did use my magnifying glass today. OH! I bought myself one of those OTT lights! I found a table model for $35.00. Not bad. That helped with the vision a little, but not a whole heck of a lot. At least I know why I stopped working on Earth Goddess. It's funny how your mind tells you stuff without you really knowing that it is telling you. Anyway...here she is. I got the Earth, the leaves around her head and some of her hair done. I have to back stitch the branches throughout the leaves. That will make it look a lot better. I don't have much left to do on the top third, then it is on to the bottom half. I'd say I was almost 2/3's done, but the top is so sparse. Maybe more like half done... Well, okay, now blogger is giving me problems uploading my image! I will try again tomorrow night. Sorry!

Today I promise....

And I don't break promises... I AM going to pick up my project and work on it. I came home from work sick yesterday. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I don't usually do that. I am a "go to work and tough it out" kind of person, but yesterday I was feeling nauseated and weak and sweaty. I kept thinking, "oh, I'll finish this little section and then see", but I just kept getting worse. So, I left. It was my "Friday" so I have the weekend to recouperate. I came home and slept from about 11 AM til 6:30PM. Hmmm, did I need that or what?!? I feel a little better today, but I am staying close to the bathroom, if you know what I mean.
I won't want to be over doing anything, so I will sit myself in my chair and proceed to stitch, that will give me some rest and peace I think. Pictures later tonight or tomorrow, so I can prove that I kept my promise.
I have been wanting to work on this project and get it going again, because I think I have told you, that I have three other projects to start, all big ones. I have also been wanting to do some little projects, just so I can claim some finishes as well. I need to organize my stuff better so I can be more like some of the other stitchers whose blogs I read. I envy their organization. (It's a good envy, it can only give me some direction)
Enough for now, I am going to amble on over to the easy chair!