Women are not... Stage 1

I finally started working on cross-stitch again and completed this text. The border isn't too onerous, so hopefully it will be done soon.

Today I finished my knit elephant, but I'm saving the pictures for later. She turned out very sweet, though far from perfect. 

This morning I spend a couple hours with my sweet nephew, who now starts a lot of sentences with "Well I think..." as in "Well I think I am a little thirsty..." We had a good time talking and reading my new book The Charles Addams Mother Goose, which is priceless.

He said something along the lines of "You should take a picture because we're happy and smiling." Adorable:

Je Suis une Fille Formidable - finished

This large project is finally finished, though I've now revised the pattern to be more visually pleasing (switching the order of the designs below the the main border).

In fact it's SO finished that the pattern is now for sale in my Etsy shop.

Now I think I'll finally have to start the large G from my book Celtic Cross-Stitch. I did a B for my nephew Benjamin (finished about a year ago), and the G is for my niece Geneva.

The book The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander, has helped me focus on finishing this piece.