Hello world….
I have been a bad blogger again, but really does anyone expect different from me?
Lets see what news do I have… well since my last post I am now the proud owner of last years model of panasonic lumix so pictures shall resume forthwith. I have some amusing pictures of the insides of my old one after I attempted to “repair it” whic I should share too.

For now though a quick post to show my pitiful progress on Aredhel on the second 5th weekend SAL in 2 months! I only got about an hour to stitch on it over the weekend so I strayed from tradtition and actually added some other colours. You would be forgiven if you thought I had made no noticable progress at all since last time except that there are other colours now other than black. 😀

In other news I had a week off work… yep a week off! Somehow though it went quickly and there was even less stitching and so forth but it was wonderful to just not be faced with all the drama everyday. Being back today reminded me exactly why it was I needed the time away. At least now I haev a slightly fresher perspective on everything and hopefully I can keep the stress levels under better control even if the PhD goes completely off the rails.

Well that’s it from me for now…. RR pics and perhaps a little dragony surprise to come soon. Ooo that reminds me I shoudl check and see if Sues RR arrived safely at its next destination I haev not heard and it makes me nervous.

Although I have literally thousands of images of frozen mountains and glaciers from Canada I haev decided to use this image for winter. It too was taken in Canada.. Jasper to be precise on a cold morning before heading out to continue our trek off down the Ice fields parkway. it is simply little frozen pine cones, rocks and a few forlorn leaves that were covering the ground in front of the Jasper Bear statue. It feels cold to me and reminds me of that quiet cold that creeps over everything in winter.

My trusty little Digicam has died 🙁 After many years of faithful service and abuse it decided that it no longer wished to open its eyes and look upon the world. So no more piccies from me for a bit.

Unless of course I am incredibly lucky and manage to pull together money, clination to hit the shops adn luck at finding a replacement within my budget and that has features I like.
I was trying to save up for an uber  not quite digital SLR but for now I think I will just look for a happy snap replacement that has a decent macro function and low light setting for stitching pics.

It feels somewhat off to be without a digital camera that I can snap piccies of things that interest me as I go past, I didn’t realise how much I had come to rely on it and expect to have the ability to take pictures if I so choose…. odd
In other news it seems that with a little luck in the getting home at a reasonable hour department I will be all set to send the next RR installment off on its journey to sharon on time tomorrow!!

Athabasca Falls, Alberta Canada

I managed to join in on the QS SAL this week and made some progres some progress on the remaining background on the first page of Lost.

I am so close to getting the fistpage of this one done it is hard to have to put him away. It is made slightly easxier though by the fact that I am over halfway on the RR and should be able to squeeze in some time on Return of Spring for the challenge this weekend. I think I may actually be able to reasonably finish this page by the end of April there must be less than 1000 stitches left to go 😀

Ok I decided I best look at my goals from last month and set some new ones no matter how laughable the result. (Can you tell that today I am just not getting far with the work stuff).

My goals for March were:

1. Return of Spring for the SAL Challenge Not much progress but I did put needle to fabric
2. QS Wed participate at least 3 times try for 1500 stitches in total Nope 🙁 I made progress but I can’t say I participated 3 times
3. Violet Sometimes 1000 stitches and bobbin all the thread for her Surprisingly, yes. 🙂
4. CC on 3 SAL with Hermit at least 500 stitches Nope 🙁
5. Get to the 75% mark at least with Sues RR Nope 🙁
6. Ornament SAL start on one of the Name trees I have to do and do the finishing on the ornaments I have completed so far. Another No 🙁
7. Stitch on Japanese Garden Nope 🙁
8. Cirques one small circle and the first of the large circles (eep!) more with the no
9. Last but not least pull out aredhel for the 5th Weekend Potts /Daniels SAL Yes!

So what am I hoping for April

1. Get the RR out on time
2. SAL challenge – Return of Spring
3. Easter Creature SAL (i guess this is cheating because it is already done :p )
4. QS Wed 3 times hopefully finishing page 1 of the draggie
5. CC on 3 try and at least participate
6. Ornament SAL same as last month. start the name tree and do the finishing on the ones I have completed.
7. Get some stitching time in on Japanese garden
8. Stitch a big circle for cirques
9. 1000 stitches into Violet
10. 500 into St nick
11. 5th weekend SAL for aredhel again *boogie*

Lol now if I manage that I will be very very impressed 😀

Yes it is true your eyes do not decieve you two updates in two days! I can’t promise it will continue but I will try. lol. I wonder if anyone is even still reading my bolg 🙂
Well just in case, here are a few stitchy updates. There isn’t much progress but I have been playing along with a few SALs (easter creature and 5th weekend potts/daniels on the HAED BB) and early on in March I even managed a little time on Violet. So on to the piccies (in reverse chronological order or something to that effect)

Sorry for the incredibly blurry pic of violet I was in a rush to get soem pictures to finally post this morning before I left for Uni and I didn’t realise how bad it was.

I am Alive!

I know it may not of seemed like it lately but I am still about. Wishing I had time to send emails etc but life or more specifically my PhD has been kicking me hard lately.
I spent most of my Easter weekend in at work so not as much stitching done as I would have liked but I have squeezed in a few hours here and there. I even have piccies but forogot my camera this morning so I will haev to make time to post them later.

Things PhD wise were looking rather grim but some things have finally started to work *boogie*

On that note I have a piccie of what has been keeping me busy. It is not likely to mean much to anyone but it shows the successful completion of one of my PhD goals so I am more than a little happy about it.

So here is my MALDI-TOF MS spectrum of my succesful reaction… *Fear the Science* :p I am so happy dancing right now.

hehe ok I take my broken little brain back to focusing on work. Hopefully there will be more posts and emails in the near future too. For everyone that emailed me checking in on me. Thank you so much I have appreciated it immeasurably.

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