2013 Accomplishments

I guess I did all right this year.  I finished ten of my Crazy January starts. I managed to get down to two left from 2011, and both of those are in my current rotation being worked on.  I also completed sixty projects and finished some of them into gifts, ornaments, and items to show.  That last I need to work on more in the coming year.  I will be doing the Crazy January thing again this year, with all new pieces.

I also traveled a lot this year - to the Ukraine, to France, to Germany, to Romania, to Poland, and to the US.  Maybe next year I'll travel less and get more stitching done.

Yet More Jewelry

Another Vienna Christmas market find.  I think I'll wear this with my black dress for the Chinese opera on Thursday.

Dinner With Roman

 One of Andreas' former employees immigrated to Austria early this year.  While we were in Vienna, we met up with him and had dinner.  We walked from the opera house past St. Stephen's and beyond until we found this place - Linderskeller- and went in.  Like a lot of European places, it was in the basement and looked like a hole in the wall from the outside.

The food was traditional Austrian, with the guys having schnitzel.  I had something different.  It was a set dinner of beef broth with slabs of roast in it, some toasted onions, and a potato dumpling.  It also came with a piece of apple strudel for dessert.  Needless to say, I couldn't eat most of it.

Bad Background, Good Scarf

I think Andreas chose this background because the towel was the only non-printed surface in the apartment we were staying in.  The color does nothing for the scarf, though.  It's a beautiful scarf and I finished it in the car while we were driving from place to place.

Christmas At The Hofburg

 We found these decorated windows on the back side of the Hofburg.  They were pretty, but not in a likely place to be seen.  The rest were just taken around the palace, but the last was taken because I swear that has to be a statue of Stefan cel Mare, even if it -is- in Austria.

Bunny And Butterfly

Got the bunny and a butterfly done.  Time to go on to the next critter.

Advent Reveal

Here's all the stuff from my Atelier 196 advent goodie package.  It had everything from alphabet tape to needles in it.  Now I need to put it all to work making awesome stuff.