Mission maybe possible?
Do you ever decide you want to do a project? Something creative that looks like fun but has lots of different pieces to it--cross-stitch for instance. You get the book and the hoop and the fabric and the needles and a basket full of different threads. Then you organize the threads and stress over how much fabric to cut and look and search for the pattern you want to use. . .and by then several days have ellapsed and the time you had is all gone in organization and it's (let me check) 9:10 at night and your husband is headed to bed.
Well, I'm not cross-stitchin'. I'm doin' somethin' else. But I am determined to make this an on-going project--one that will not be finished--and there will be no perfection. . .and it will be fun.
Wish me luck.
posted by Roxanne @ 9:08 PM
3 Comments:
It won't end? Ever? That may be my type of project since I never finish any of mine anyway, says the lady sitting next to a stack of pieces of bibs for babies that will probably go to kindergarten before I do something with the pieces.
My kids have been most fascinated with your Christmas cross-stitch you made for me -- the date says 12-25-88. Precious little sampler-like thing. Anyway, they have wanted to know how you do it and how you know what to do. Tonight I pulled out one of the 3 remaining cross-stitch books I own. We may be on our way to getting thread, hoop, and fabric!
Oh yea!!!! Victoria tried her hand at it this summer, but we didn't get far because school started again.
Dim, dim memories of the sampler. . .I love samplers because you can do little pictures and put them all together to make a cohesive whole. Very satisfying. I seem to recall a tree on it? A train too? I KNOW there was a little scottie dog with a plaid bow. . .and your name somewhere? I did one for Tony the Christmas that Victoria was born. . .he has it on his desk at school. It has several different scriptures on it. I JUST noticed last year that I had left the "t" out of "Christmas, 1998" which is what I get for trying to cross-stitch a sampler during naptime with a 5 month old baby. And MUCH like the huge black makeup brush hair right in the middle of my cheek ALL during class on Sunday, Tony didn't even notice. . .
I know what you mean, and that's a wonderful attitude to have about it. No pressure. :)
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