Stitching.

I started on my embroidery tonight, was hoping to finish the last E but I'm so tired, thought I'd give up before my eyes give up. I spent time looking for a design to use yesterday, searched the net but I kept getting the vision of this design in my head. It was from one of my many magazines but which one? I have piles of mags under my desk and in other places around the house. There was a small pile in the dining room and the second one I picked up was the right one. It's from Australian countrythreads. special stitchery edition VOL 4 No 1. There are few other designs in this editon that I want to as well.

The picture below is of my light table, I gutted an old scanner and put a small fluoro lamp inside. Works really well. And pulling apart the scanner gave me a tiny but very powerful magnifying glass much like a jewellers one. I've put that good use, from checking out my finger print, looking at my jewellery as well as being useful for crafting.

It's only just after midnight, I'm trying to watch a tv as well as typing this but it's hard seeing as I am so tired, which is unusual I can usually last til 2 am or more if crafting. The reason is that David and I went out on a bike ride this afternoon. I've recently taken to riding the bike more, haven't done any real major riding since before Cassie was born, we used to enjoy touring on the bikes. We did about 19 kms today, which is a lot more than I've done for ages, riding along new and old local bike paths. They run along a green belt area and it's like riding along country lanes along creeks and by horse paddocks. The newer paths aren't finished yet and have alot of gravel which is a bit scary to ride over. On the way back I slowed down to let another cycling couple past and basically my get up and go got up and went, that was at the 16 km mark. I managed to get moving by telling myself over and again to keep moving. I was so glad when we got home, but happy with what I had done.