New post, now with photos

Photos, as promised yesterday.

Kitten Reflections, the finished product

I'm very happy with the outcome. There's lots of french knots around the bushed on the right. I am now very good at french knots.

Below is Happy cats. Looks a lot nicer with the detail. This is moving very slowly as I have gotten tied up in a new project (See below).

Ashley's Roses. I've been wanting to do another Mirabilia for ages! Below is approximately one week of work.

Then about two weeks. This is all skirt and a bit of bouquet. The greys are a bit tedious, but alternating with some of the colours is working well for me. I will gladly work on this for as long as possible before I go away :)

Thanks for reading :)

No photos :(

Sadly no photos in this blog. I have been slack and haven't uploaded any recently.

Anyway, in exciting news: I HAVE FINISHED MY THESIS! About frickin' time! It's handed in and I don't have to think about it until it's returned from the markers with recommendations for changes, probably about 5 weeks away. These shouldn't be too drastic.

Now, in my last post I wrote up a list of goals for my "month of leisure" as I shall call it. I am now 1.5 weeks in, and I am loving that I made up the list, as I can go back and check over how I'm going. Let's see...

1) finish all uni-related paperwork (forms, case summaries etc) On its way. I just finished some bits of paperwork
2) finish Kitten Reflections DONE! Picture in next post
3) start a new cross stitch project (maybe a Mira) I started Ashley's Roses about 2 weeks ago. Photo in next post
4) continue working on Happy Cats :) A little bit of work on this, but not much, I've been caught up in AR
5) read novels (averaging 1 per week) Not at all. I've been reading travel guides
6) start swimming Nuh. Need bathers. However, I've just been offered to teach a permanent class at my local YMCA which means I'll have free pool access, so it's on the way.
7) plan my overseas trip That's definitely on the way, flights all booked and paid for, paid for some accommodation, thinking about trains.
8) learn a few necessary words of the languages for the countries I'll be visiting (France, Netherlands, Italy...hopefully I should be right for the U.S. and England). Not really. I'm trying to cast my memory back to primary school Italian, and high school French. I think I have a very basic understanding of these languages. Dutch, I'm completely lost.

So that's what's happening. I am only working about 3 days a week at the moment, which is absolutely tops. I will be going to Queensland for a beach-based holiday with friends in a few weeks, then on to international travel. I think I'll have to set up a travel blog as well.

Photos of finished projects, and works in progress next post, hopefully within the week :)

Thanks for reading x