Well, here it is... one year ago today, I started work on the Mirror of Erised, and here we are, two and a half pages in. I thought, seeing as it's an anniversary of sorts, that you'd like to see how far I've gotten.

( Pictures! )

1. In a moment of inspiration yesterday, I went through my closets and ended up creating a pile of skirts on the bed that need to be altered. I figure if I was able to pull the (non-elastic) waistband away and be able to see my feet, then the skirt needed to come in ( Read more... )

Well, here we are about a year after I began, and I've finished off the second page of Erised. Yay me! I am pleased to present to you....

( Page Two of The Mirror of Erised, Complete! )

Happy International Women's Day!!!!!

I spent the day in pyjamas on the couch, cross-stitching and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season Five), which I think is very appropriate as it's all about female empowerment and whatnot. Plus, Spike is cute.

Bill is now watching The Wedding Crashers, which is also about female empowerment, in that the ( Read more... )

Hurrah! The first page of Harry Potter and the Mirror of Erised is FINISHED.

Thank GOODNESS I made it past what I'd temporarily dubbed "The Red Sea".

( What it looked like on 13 April )

Slowly but surely, the project is growing. The good news is I'm not blind yet. The bad news is that I'm really sick of the color red.

I've been working on a cross-stich of Harry Potter and the Mirror of Erised since April (you can see my first post about it) - I haven't gotten very far. At the moment it's a sea of red. But I've picked up a ( Read more... )

Recently I read something about how you should always eat dinner at the kitchen table and not on the couch in front of the television, because you're setting up your internal sensor to want food at whatever location you normally eat ( Read more... )