It has been a bust day today, but I didn't get much work done, so sadly the rather ambitious task of completing a hand embroidered butterfly will have to wait!

I have decided to start doing a Design a Day as well as the Page a Day pieces. The design is an area I really need to work on and I would like to focus on a direction to go in, the pages are perfect for this as you can try new things and if they don't work, you only loose a days work. I think I would like to merge the idea of pretty precise embroidery and something more "me" but we shall see what happens.

I finished "Decay" it is made of painted fabrics and found objects

I spent time this morning finishing off some of the squares that needed edging.

This afternoon I made the piece called "Meditation" based on me trying to learn to meditate yesterday. This is a quote I used to help me. It is supposed to look simple and peaceful.

I am having a lovely day today. I have finished my Page a Day for today and I managed to get it done in my own time (the last few have been rather rushed!) I am going to the Embroiderers' Guild this afternoon and will see my mum, while I am there I will finish off some of the Page a Day pieces that need completing. Hopefully this evening there will be nothing for me to do and James and I can play games. Hooray!

I moved my old desk into the living room (where we work) and put the table back into the kitchen to use as a games table. We bought some Magic the Gathering cards today and we have been playing that this afternoon. I managed to get some of my Page a Day done, but I am so tired now, I will finish it tomorrow

I managed to get my page finished today and i finished all the embroidery on my piece from yesterday. I will get it finished tomorrow.

I had my tattoo finished off today, just a one hour touch up.

I am moving to my old bigger desk tomorrow, this will give me room to have my sewing machine set up all the time and will give us a gaming table again (we bought Killer Bunnies and have been playing it lots!)

I am behind on my Page a Day, but will catch up tomorrow, here is what

I finished my Page a Day today. I am trying to free up my style from the birds I used to make and it is quite hard for me to let go of that way of working, but I am very much enjoying making these squares and I am learning so much from them. I started today trying to make one based on machine stitched eyelets, but my machine skills were way too poor to get the perfect circles I needed.

I managed to get my page a day piece finished! Having a nice relaxing day today :@)

I managed to get my Page a Day piece finished today and I also finished off the Beetle which just needed sewing together. I used a reference picture and based the Rust piece on that as I need to progress and it is the best way to learn. I also got some embroidery books out of the Embroiderers' Guild library and I will have a read of those before bed tonight to give me some ideas for tomorrows piece