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Sunny Days, a Frog Visitor and a Banquet

 Some good news and some bad news to start off with. Good news; it's sunny again so I can take photos in great lighting. Bad news; it's gotten hotter as it's gotten sunnier, to the tune of a 104 degree day. I'm melting.

Now let's ignore the melting blogger and turn our attention to my cross stitch progress. First up is the Mystery Sampler:

The dragon is really starting to appear! I would have quite a bit more of the dragon to show you, but unfortunately the frog came to visit... twice. And in the same part of the chart. It happens! Now we’ll zoom out and see the wider chart:

Next is Paris Market:

You can sort of distinguish the side of the building now. There is a mistake somewhere, but I think I can fudge. New plan for this week though. Instead of continuing up the building, I'm going to go to the bottom left, and start stitching in ten by ten blocks again. I really enjoyed stitching in ten by ten blocks when I was working on Nikolai (Russian Hunting by Riolis) and I think if I went back to that method it would be easier to follow the chart and I would make faster progress.

Do you like dining out? Do you like riding horses? Have I got a story for you.

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