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Christmas Wrap-Up, A Full Coverage Cross Stitch, and Bees




Happy Tuesday! I'm feeling refreshed and ready to go after the 12 Days of Christmas! The decorations are down (although winter themed decorations are still out) all of the cookies are gone, and the Castle living room is looking much more spacious since the tree was tucked away safe in it's box.

My big cross stitch goal for Christmas was to finish a DMC Nutcracker freebie. Without further ado, I would like to introduce you to my friend The Nutcracker:





Look at that coat! Those soulful eyes! His boots are polished! Hat's off to DMC for this incredibly fun chart. My plan is to finish him as a Christmas ornament. Nothing fancy, just a standard Christmas ornament finish. I'll post pictures when I start doing that.

If you want to see my progress from start to finish, here are the links to my blog posts. I posted pretty often over the 12 Days, so enjoy!





Now that The Nutcracker is finished and out of my rotation, I can once more turn my attention to Russian Hunting by Riolis, AKA Nikolai. Click the link to this post here, to see my last WIP update picture. I'm really excited to get back to stitching this full coverage project, with colors completely different from The Nutcracker. It's not that I mind those colors, it's just that the prospect of a new color pallette is something to look forward to!

This Bee video is mesmerizing.

Happy stitching!

*Honey Photo by Art Rachen on Unsplash

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