Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone!  Hopefully 2012 was good to you and 2013 is even better!  I made delicious margarita cupcakes for our new year's get together!

 Key Ingredients, salt, tequila and lime juice!

Here is the finished product so tasty!

I'm trying really hard to finish my second page of Skull by Madart before I get my LASIK done in a week and a half. so hopefully I can do that!!  Here is where I currently am, there is a lot of confetti in this piece and so it goes a little slower than normal but keeps things interesting!!!

Obviously there is still quite a bit to be done before that second page is finished but I'm a little over halfway done with it!!!

I wish you all a safe and fun New Years Eve and a great 2013, here is a great New Year greeting from one of my all time favorite authors!

Firsts

Look what I found at my parents house today!  One of the first ever cross stitches I ever made.  This was probably around the time I was 14 or 15.  I'm betting it took me a long time to do and it doesn't even look like I did it quite right.  

Other news, I'm going to do a model stitch for Gecko Rouge and I'm pretty stoked.  I can't wait to get it in the mail.  Basically this means I will stitch it up and send it back to them, they will frame it and put it in an exhibition!  I think that's pretty neat-o!  The piece I will be doing is a Simona Candini work called Hope and it's one I have loved since I first saw it, it will be very difficult to give it back when it's finished!  

Isn't she adorable?!  I seriously can't wait to get this and get it started!!

My first blog!

Here I am, I have decided to create a blog.  I live in Utah so it's normal right?  This blog will be dedicated to the two hobbies that take up most of my free time, baking and cross stitch.  I am 24 years old with some old lady hobbies!  I currently have two WIP's in the cross stitch area of my life.   Seeing that my hobby is generally reserved for older women it is sometimes difficult to find more modern patterns that are more enjoyable (for me) to stitch than the typical animals, angels, and little home quotes.  Thank god for the creation of Etsy!!!  Both my current WIP's (and a lot of other patterns I have waiting for me in my cross stitch cupboard) are from Gecko Rouge http://www.etsy.com/shop/GeckoRouge?ref=ss_profile  They have incredible pieces available and I wish I had the time and money to make them all!

This is what Tut Tut Tut will look like when he is finished.

This is what he looks like as of today. Halfway done, two pages left to do.

That is just my first WIP my other WIP is Skull by Madart and will look like this when finished.

It looks like this as of today. One page done out of 12...sigh lots left to do.  I have been flying through this one pretty quickly.  I did something I have never done on a cross stitch before, I drew a grid to match the pattern onto my fabric and it helped immensely.  I can stitch so much quicker with it!

Just in case you think I never finish anything and just have a bunch of WIP's lying around.  Here are two finished projects!

I made this zombie pillow for my husband for our 1 year anniversary.  Pretty simple piece but I still love it, the picture is not great but it has quite a few colors in it.

I did this one for my mother.  Every single thing inside that thin green border is stitched.  It took an incredible amount of time and is so full of detail!  It looks gorgeous with the matting and frame my mom picked out!

I didn't forget about cupcakes, don't you worry!  My most recent ones were for the annual Beagley Thanksgiving.  I made gingerbread cupcakes with a brown sugar/cinnamon buttercream.  I had tons left over so I sent some with my sister and my husband to take to work!

That's it for now,  I'll try and keep this up to date but unfortunately I'm pretty slow at stitching and I've been so consumed with stitching that I haven't been baking a whole lot!