June Wrap Up

June Goals:

• Wedding Row--I've finished the words and the hearts. I just have to finish the swirls and the dingbats, which I will work on until it's done, since I have to give it to someone on July 14.
• Our Souls--didn't get to it.
• Small: October Sampler, this was lots of fun to stitch with all the speciatly stitches. I do have to attach some beads in the center of the backstitches around the 14. Why 14? It's my birth date. I considered putting 15 there for the year I finished, but then I thought people who knew my birthday might question it. It makes it mine!

For July, I've chosen some Christmas designs to stitch. I don't know why I love the idea of Christmas in July so much. I remember the first time I was introduced to this concept. We were on a vacation in Upstate New York. Which was unusual because the plan had been to go to Washington, DC. And we did. But my father had voted* for New York wine country for our vacation and since he was driving, our last few days took us to New York. There was a little craft fair that advertised "Christmas in July!" and my mom was into crafts, so we stopped.

July Goals:

• Shining Star, SamSarah (finish)
• Tis the Season, Blackbird 
• Wisteria Snowman, Shepherd's Bush
• Winter Row, Bent Creek
• Small

*We used to vote on where to take the family vacation. Everyone would make presentations about a place, and then we'd all vote. My mother always won because my sister always voted for her plan. I think she was worried if she didn't vote to go with my mother, she'd have to go somewhere on her own. I always presented on Mexico, which, you can see why nobody voted for (dead of summer).