Sunday, July 5, 2015

College page 20 finished!!

My eagerness to finish this page showed when between Friday and Saturday I put in 1,044 stitches. I'm not quite sure how I did it, to be honest, but I did, and page 20 is done!

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After:


This puts me at 85% done with College of Magical Knowledge! It's exciting knowing that I'm in the last legs of the journey. There are four pages left and I hope I can still finish this project in time to have it framed for Christmas. I guess we'll find out, but I'm gridding up the next page today and diving right in.

In other news, I got my car back and it looks like nothing ever happened to it. I guess I should have expected that but since I've never had to get extensive body work done, I found it surprising.

Next Saturday I'm running my half marathon. It has been really hot out here lately, but it is a moonlight run so I hope that will make it better. I've been trying to run at dusk to get used to it, and so far so good. I actually prefer running at dusk.

On a more personal note, I feel like I'm in a constant state of flux. Usually, that would be a bad thing. But I'm taking the time to get to know myself and improve myself every step of the way and I think it's working. Or, at least, I feel a lot better than I have in years. About myself, about my situation, about the future. I'm choosing to be positive and despite some people's best efforts, it's my choice to focus on the good and not worry about things I can't change.

This is my 200th post. Here's to at least another 200.

Happy stitching, everyone!

13 comments:

Caitlin @ Naughts Cross Stitches said...

Woohoo! That's awesome! I really need to get going with mine.

Sometimes a little bit of Flux is nice as long as it doesn't go for too long! Good luck.

Kaisievic said...

Congratulations on your 200th post and you are doing such an amazing job on College - so close now. Good luck with your moonlight Marathon - you are brave!

Caitlin @ Naughts Cross Stitches said...

Woohoo! That's awesome! I really need to get going with mine.

Sometimes a little bit of Flux is nice as long as it doesn't go for too long! Good luck.

Heather said...

Congrats on your 200th post and 20th page! I love when I get a large amount done without realizing it!

sharine said...

It is looking great and here is to the next 200:)

Linda said...

Congrats on the awesome page finish Ewa. What a difference. You do what makes you feel good not what other people want. Good luck with the run.

Linda

kate n said...

I've been watching this grow since you started on it and although I have contributed nothing to it, I'm really excited as its so close to being finished! And it looks amazing. :) amazing work too!

Annie said...

Congrats on your 200th post, and how exciting that it's about such amazing progress! You're in the home stretch now, baby;)
Good luck on your half marathon!

Marihun said...

Yessss! You're so, so close now! I'm pretty sure you can finish it this year! :)))

Keebles said...

Congrats for hitting 200 and even bigger congrats on the page finish!

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

What a happy post! Yay for the page finish and yay for 200 posts! I like to celebrate when I hit a round number too.

Glad you are enjoying life too. Good luck with the marathon.

Lady Stitch-a-Lot said...

Great work on finishing the page =) I am sure you will get this done and framed for Christmas =)
Good luck with your half marathon, you're my hero for being able to run that far =)

Linda K's Stitching Corner said...

Great Progress on this one...wow....you are doing great on this.

Happy Stitching
Linda K, Railroad