More Stitches Pulled

I filled up the hole I made in my embroidery piece. Now that spot just looks kind of puckered and sloppy.

I removed the red bars, and I'm thinking I'll take out the black border as well. Before I started mending the cut I made, I had envisioned this mandala in bright, strong colors. Now it's all blues & greens, so the red bars & black border are iffy. I'm going to turn the red bar spaces into blue waves.

There will be 5 rows of the turquoise beads, that much I know. I started trying to make braids of deep green & blues, but when I tried to couch them on to the wavy lines in the bottom circle, I found out how difficult couching can be. I think it would work better with a thicker, slightly stiffer type of floss or specialty yarn, not a loosely braided hunk of embroidery floss.

It's kind of cool doing this at work because I invariably end up w/an audience. It's like no one's ever seen anyone embroider anything.

Here is the ensuing picspam:

Curses! Foiled Again!

This morning, Rob & I went to bed. Chelsie performed her typical morning ritual of breakfast. She came back into the bedroom very quietly and didn't immediately jump on the bed. Instead, she stood next to the bed, staring a hole in Rob's head (hey, that rhymes!). Rob, suspecting something, stared back at her. He said, "she's got water running out of her mouth, wth?" Then she coughed or sneezed or something & sprayed water everywhere.

I don't know exactly what Chelsie had planned for that mouthful of water, but her hamster-like skills are quite epic. I can only imagine it involved jumping on the bed & then dropping some kind of water-bomb on me or Rob.