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Isn't it interesting how our mood or events on a day affects the things we do or left undone? Instead of working on the cross stitch project and finishing the autumn mug rug, I ended up adding a few more stitches to my hand embroidery project :-). Above is where I'm at at the moment. Below are a couple of photos taken during my brief stitching section. So as you can see, the element that I decided to focus on was the leaves, and the tiny buds. Autumn foliage is breathtaking! We can only try to replicate what our eyes take in, all praise goes to the Master Artist!  Yes, below... there in the background is my neglected cross stitch project (sigh) must get back to it. If you cross stitch, please do share, how do you make the counting easier for yourself? Do you use a highlighter to mark the areas you have already worked on? I'm leaning towards giving that a try.  Any thoughts? Please do share! I'm not making any plans for my work in progress projects. Will definitely work ...

Autumn is my favorite season. Today is beautiful here, my family went out to do a bit of volunteer work. I stayed behind in order to have some time alone and go over my younger one's homework, get it ready to go over any errors once she's back, and have a few minutes of me time with a cup of massala chai (aka: chai tea latte).  Browsing thru old pictures while sipping chai, found these two of autumn of 2016. Above, a bit of english paper piecing on the the deck of our previous home, interestingly with a cup of chai ;-). This other one, also on our previous home, of my craft desk full of projects... getting ready a towel for my older child to stitch. It took her quite awhile to complete (she started it  here  and completed it here ).  Sudden weather changes don't do me well. On a recent Dr. visit, she suggested I approached things a bit different, too soon to tell but so far it seems to be working. Still love Fall and all it's wonderful colors, flavors,...