Totally Useless SAL - New Moon 23 January 2012

Hello again!  As promised I am back today to show you my pathetic looking ORT's jar for January 2012...  Oh well there is a whole 11 months of the year to go yet to fill the jar up again!

I did look around for something new to use for my ORT's this year but so far haven't found the one... so we are back to using the little Moccona coffee jar again.  It served my ORT's so well last year that I feel it's only fitting to use it again for 2012.

Remember how every month I would squish down my ORT's so that they would fit in the jar, well when I pulled them out and un-squished them this is what I ended up with.  I could have probably stretched them out a bit more but they fit just nicely on the lovely cushion/pillow cover for the photograph.  Now I just have to keep them safe until I finish something that I can turn into a pin cushion as I am going to use these beauties as part of the stuffing!

2011 ORT's

Ok, so now is the time for the big reveal - look at the tiny pile.  They do look so lonely in their jar, don't they?  Just goes to show how little stitching I have done this January compared to this time last year.  The ORT's are from the 2 cards that I have done/am doing for my Craft Bubble exchange.

TUSAL January 2012
Dragon, Aussie Flags and the ORT's

For my photo this month I decided to pose the ORT's with one of my beautiful dragons and the Australian flag.  Why have I posed them with the dragon and the flag?  Well... firstly

Happy Chinese New Year!  2012 is the year of the Dragon - and that is me!  Unfortunately Hubby was born in the year of the Dog which makes us mortal enemies but in this the Chinese horoscope is so wrong.  So welcome to the year of the Dragon!  (I guess that this is why I have such a thing for dragons!)

And secondly,

I added the Aussie flag to my TUSAL photo as Thursday is Australia Day.  We are having my brother over for lunch and maybe will go to the beach first thing before it gets too hot.  The temperature is predicted to get to 41 deg C.  A lovely warm day for a day off and a fantastic long weekend... 4 days off work - bliss!

That's it for another TUSAL and ORT report.  I look forward to seeing what is sitting in everyone else's ORT's jar.

Oh and by the way, did you see who the lucky lady was that won last year's amazing TUSAL stash addition.  Pop on over to Daffycat's blog to see the latest news and if you are interested in signing up for the 2012 TUSAL drop in on Daffycat's blog.  Congratulations Catherine of Bramblewood Stitches - enjoy your stunning prize!

Til the next new moon on 21 February 2012, happy stitching and may your collection of ORT's keep growing!

New Moons - 2012

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13 December

Totally Useless SAL Update - New Moon 25 November 2011

Hello dear blogging friends!  Here we are again, another New Moon and another ORT Report.

In my little ORT jar this month are lots of colours from all the stitching I have been doing - some of which you have seen and some you haven't as yet viewed.

So what have I stitched this month?  Well, I stitched the Margaret Sherry "Snowman" as part of the MS Lovers Blog SAL; the "Photographer Cat" from the Margaret Sherry book; "Kitty in the Window" from the Christmas Cross Stitch Favourites magazine, and finally I am now stitching a kitty ornament from a Dimensions kit that has been hiding in my stash for many a year!  I haven't posted pics of the photographer cat or kitty in the window yet as they are on their way to opposite ends of the world - once I know they have arrived safe and sound at their destinations I will post a pic for you all to see.

I had planned to take my photo this month with a cute little purple owl that I bought from the Cat Alliance charity group.  We regularly have 2 lovely older ladies sit in our shopping centre for a week knitting and sewing while surrounded by all the gorgeous handcrafted things that they make.  They sell them to public to raise money for the Cat Alliance group - a very worthwhile charity in my humble opinion.

Then yesterday I heard about the death of one of my all time favourite authors - Anne McCaffrey.  My love of fantasy novels was ignited in the early 1980's by reading these wonderful and fantastic books all about the world of Pern and the dragons and their riders.  Anne was born on 1 April 1926 and she died of a massive stroke at her home in Ireland on 21 November 2011, aged 85.  I have read just about every one of her books bar the most recent ones that have come out in the last couple of years.  It's time to start re-reading all about Pern again....

This morning when I took my TUSAL photo I decided to include my lovely orange (maybe he is really a bronze) dragon in the photo with the owl in memory of Anne McCaffrey.

Original TUSAL photo - November 2011

Well, that was this morning.... things changed this afternoon!

While Hubby and I were out shopping this afternoon, we went to Bunnings to get a few things including some new veggie seedlings.  In the Garden section I noticed that they had a new display of air plants (Tallandsia), and in among this display was some dragons.  Dragons... lots of different colours - purple, black, green, orange, blue, some with wizards, some with crystals.... oh, the choice!

We did eventually choose... a green one wrapped around a crystal ball, a purple one siting on a pile of books, and finally a tiny green one for my desk at work.  Below is my new TUSAL photo, complete with seedlings and fresh cat grass plants in the background!  Oh, and of course Oscar enjoying a fresh feed of cat grass!!

New TUSAL photo - November 2011
Dragons are in memory of Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011)

So that's it for this ORT report.  There is one more ORT report to do for 2011... and then we will start all over again next year.

If you wish to sign up for the 2012 TUSAL drop in on Daffycat's blog.

Til the next new moon on 24th December 2011, happy stitching and may your collection of ORT's keep growing!

New Moons - 2011

24 December