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 for a short while longer.  I removed some areas and reworked in another color.  I'm sort of wonked because I started the sampler with symbols that do not match the legend.  When I received the correct chart, those symbols being different threw off my focus.  I failed to note the color #s used in the beginning.  Example... the star on my original chart is an S on the correct chart, which was sent as .pdf so I can't change the floss #s in the legend to what I started with.  Stitching from my tablet but having to refer to the booklet for the floss color symbols and changes.  Really confusing.  So I'm just stitching the color I think would be fine in that motif before I get too flustered.  This is why I prefer having a printed chart for changes and notations, still trying to print the Haslemere sampler.

The prior post's comments proved our personalities don't indicate what surroundings are preferred.  Amy's home is traditional with many interesting objects, oriental patterned rugs in every room, draperies, loads of large plants/trees, things that really fill a room.  Beautiful result.  Certainly not my style.  We've lived with nothing on the walls while waiting for a decision on paint color.  Furniture was not available and is just getting back to reasonable lead times.  Carole's situation took over all else for two years, and the summer before that with her other surgery.  After that visit I am making an effort to get this done soon.  The longer you live with a mess, an unfinished project, a half painted room, a cluttered junk room, the more it becomes routine and accepted.  No painters available, it's on us.  I really wanted the walls done with those wonderful pro sprayers.  Our local area had excellent established businesses whose owners were all older, now all retired.  No new painters. 

That's enough!  My naps are down to two a day, still exhausted, but moving a little better with less expletives and groans.

Have a great day!

Thanks for visiting.

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That color

 The orange of pumpkins and mums.

And the darker rust from oxidation.

The only thing I like to see during the change to chilly temps.

And pumpkin pie.  Because it's that color.

Who am I kidding?  I would eat it if it was chartreuse. 

Have not stitched in several days.  My hand needs attention and maybe an injection in the tendon that runs from inside the thumb to wrist.  

Visited my friend whose home is masterfully decorated with loads of interesting pieces and warmth.  Makes me doubt my sparse preference which seemed so ..... lacking, uninviting, when I came home.  I see photos of the simple and sparse and I love it, but a photo doesn't convey the feeling when you enter.  Need to think about it.  It's lot of dusting/work/expense that a card carrying menopausal crabass may reject. 

The older I get, the more anxious I feel when there is much surrounding me.  I want calm, rest, ease, space in my home.  For me (the introvert), that means less visual stimuli and distraction, more focus on comfort.   My sister (the extrovert) is the opposite and feels hugged by filled rooms, very important to her.  Maybe I should try this in one area, just for the crab of it. 

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DMC 926

 cost quite a bit more than the 53 cents it should have.  That's all I planned to purchase.  And that's not what happened.  My new store's layout is opposite of others I have been in, sewing department is far left, not far right.  Far right takes you to Christmas and holidays.  Row after row, aisle after aisle, and when you do eventually arrive in the sewing department, there is more there.  

I am so thrilled that we have a Hobby Lobby that replaced Michael's that replaced Pat Catan's.  Catan's, as I've said numerous times, stood alone as the best craft store.  Michael's was not comfortable to shop or browse, I do not like their store layouts at all.  Assuming they are all the same, have you shopped at Michael's and do you like the aisle configuration?

So here's my 50% off bargains....

A little tree ($2.50) can be put anywhere that you want a bit of Christmas but have no room for decoration.

Little tree's teen brother that is two foot, ($7.50), and is the same as the parents three foot that I bought a few weeks ago.

A six foot garland of bells that have a very nice tone ($10.99) and will probably purchase another before they are gone. They have a red jingle bell garland on jute for less than that.

The tree topper ($1.50) is hard to find here since most are fancy or sparkled and I bought several at that price.

The six pack of stars ($3.50) match and I love them! 

A pack of 48 snowflakes with silver ties that sparkle ($4.50) and 10 sparkle stars with hangers ($1.75).  Both ornaments came in smaller and larger sizes, they are for sis who likes sparkle but I may get a pack for myself.   HL has small two & three foot trees with a white glitter (not flocking) feathery cedar looking branches, and I may get that for Carole.  Beautiful I'm sure with nothing but these snowflakes and stars.

Oh!  And I got this.

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Brea

 Fat quarter 36 count Needle & Flax.  Paypal or check.  $28, I will pay for shipping in the US.  If interested, use email link on top right or leave comment.  Thanks.

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Our thoughts and prayers

 are with those in the path of the storm.  

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Meet me in the middle EDIT

 ...... or not.

We have counted.  And counted.  And then we counted.  The top is correct and aligned with the linen thread, also the guide line.  The left side is over one linen thread in width to the left which I followed and planned to correct in the bottom.  Each vertical count is proper, yet the left is lower by one full stitch.  

WHY 

Edit - found it.

Raining, cold, furnace is running for two days, and a small piece of fabric has taken control.  

Perfect day for a crabass.  But still many blessings to be grateful for.

I don't have covid, please take care Gail.

The find-

I was counting the four and one spaces of each side of the flowers in the border rather than the tiny squares they rest on (easier for my vision).  All correct except for the that extra stitch between them which added one full stitch, yet still kept the four spaces on one side and one on the other side.  Glad I only stitched one half of the cross, anticipating an error, for easier removal.

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