Over Halfway

After all this time, I'm finally over halfway on the second motif of this section.  It's taken long enough!

New Life Rule

 This first picture is of the Battery Park fountain, which I just think looks neat and has nothing to do with the rest of the post.


Now, on to the life rule: Never go to the zoo on Mother's Day.  We did this at the Central Park Zoo, and it was a madhouse.  A multitude of toddlers were screaming, throwing tantrums, and generally being annoyances for everyone there (who were mostly parents of said toddlers).  It was NOT pleasant.  We did, at least, get a decent view of the seal show.

Renoir Done

Even though it's a small piece, it's taken me months to complete it.  Came out good, though, didn't it?  One more crazy January piece I can cross off my list.

World Trade Center

 I've visited the World Trade Center periodically for most of my life.  Since I tend to take the PATH into NYC, and it comes up under it, there's always a chance to look around.  Andreas snapped a few pictures as we made our way to the subway stop.  it's grown a -lot- since the last time we saw it.

Sometimes...

...I get tired of confetti stitches; especially when it's one stitch in a certain color for twenty or more rows.  There's a lot of that in this piece.  On the other hand, it's mostly done!

Trees And Water

This week it was all trees and water on the castle.  

Gemming

CyberStitchers has a challenge/stitchalong to finish the Little Gem project from Stitch! (the UK embroiderers' guild magazine).  I've been remiss and only gotten this far.  It's due in a few days, and it's a really quick stitch, so I might be able to finish it.