Cross Stitch Coloured Blackwork

[bk_forever]

Yay! I've managed to complete another set of designs! These ones are a mix of cross stitch and coloured blackwork, stitched on 14 count. The big ones were designed for bookmarks but I'll be making mine into birthday cards as I've got some tall, narrow card blanks that will fit them nicely. The two small ones will be gift tags.







Please excuse the wonky photos o_O

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[katleept.livejournal.com]

Me too!! Me too!! Me too!! Except when it comes to getting the Internet to read and not write. I've literally got hundreds of stories bookmarked on my drive to one day read, and if it wasn't for doctor's appointments and breaks at work, I wouldn't get any reading done! (That's why I haven't gotten into FAKE yet.)

I HATE missing challenges, and even when I do miss them, I have a file where I collect the ones I've missed so if I ever get a chance to go back and do them, there'll they be. And yet I constantly find myself wanting to create AND enter more challenges!!

It's definitely an addiction! :)

[bk_forever]

Totally an addiction! I do that too, save all the challenges. It comes in handy for amnesty weeks on some of them, ad I also have a long list of people's requests for sequels... I'm working through the dw100 drabble prompts (over 700 of them now) writing my Doctor Who drabbles, but I also use them and the tw100 prompts to write FAKE drabbles. Not all of them fit, but there's still plenty to play with.

Appointments do come in useful for getting some reading done. My last one I got 15 pages into a novel - I scarcely even have time to read books these days where once I would read a hundred or more in a year. Now I'm lucky if I get through a dozen, reading a few pages at night.

It's the Plot Bunnies - they breed and breed uncontrollably, and they all want attention RIGHT NOW. Either tat or they go to sleep and no amount of prodding and poking will get them to cooperate *headdesk* I have a ton of part-written fics, and even more finished ones I can't seem to get around to posting...

[katleept.livejournal.com]

1_million_words helps me on the posting bit. We keep track of our collective words every month and have to report in at the end of the month however many we did or didn't get manage to get, which they're GREAT! They love ANY words and are the BEST cheerleaders I've ever known.

But because I have to report my words in at the end of the month, that means I have to make sure I get everything posted, so I can actually get a true count on my words to turn in!

[bk_forever]

getyourwordsout also requires a monthly check-in, but the words don't have to have been posted as long as they've been written. I write in MS word which allows me to find out how many words I've written on each project and I keep track of them in my diary.

I have such a backlog of stuff to be posted, but a lot is waiting to be edited. I post things directly to some challenges in time for the deadlines, but then edit and expand the ideas at a later date before putting them up on my journal. Still means I can post two or three every day with no problem!