Monday, February 27, 2017

Mon Oeuvre ~ Gnomes & Mythical Alphabet cross stitch projects

"Oeuvre" (the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively: "the complete oeuvre of Mozart" a work of art, music, or literature: "an early oeuvre" ORIGIN late 19th cent.: French, literally ‘work.’ - Oxford Dictionary.)

In between my Mystery Quilt work, I'm also getting back to a cross stitch project that I started probably 40 years ago. Some of the blocks are beginning to color so I'll have to figure out how to brighten them up before I put them all together. I'm thinking about putting the finished alphabet into some kind of a wall hanging. I did a Gnome cross stitch project years ago that I actually had completed and made into a wall hanging.

As you've probably figured out I'm trying to "re-friend" some of my passions.
Here are the finished letters in the Mythical alphabet.

Now I'm working on the letter "O". 
"Osiris"
I found when I got it back out and started trying to figure out where I am, my counting wasn't so accurate when I had been working on it the last time around. I'm not going to pick any stitches out but will continue on with it the way it is.



Hovander trail run

On Sunday (yesterday) we decided to head over to Hovander park for our 5 mile run together. There was a Northeast wind blowing against us that wasn't too bad while were running towards Slater road, but once we turned around to return to our car at the boat launch parking lot the gusts were strong against us. I looked at my weather app when we got back to the car and it said the winds were 24 mph sustained and 37 mph gusts. So we got in a good resistance training day in as well. Lucky us!
We went over to the Tennant lake and Fragrance garden parking lot and went up into the tower for our lunch. It was a welcome shelter from the wind. I took a 360 video of the view from the tower.

My husbands Starbucks cup and my reflection also did a cameo appearance in this short video. I'm sure my video won't get even a mention much less a nomination in the short film category in next years Oscar's 😉🎞🎭.