Drage Feuer Stitch

Time of the year again for our Fastelavn party. This is what I get when I put my daughter and husband to do any decorations. It will be smashed anyway and this year, we are not making it easy for the girls. The 5 girls are getting stronger each year. We used to have a cardboard barrel until last year. It took only 1 hit from each girl and the candies fell off. This year, we are taking a wood barrel instead.

Here is how she looks like 2 days ago.  I've haven't had much  time stitching on her for the last 2 weeks.  She is close to completion - hopefully within 2 weeks if I don't get distracted by other stuff.

It has been a couple of busy weeks - doing up my husband's accounts to submit to the tax office, having friends over, going out with friends and me going out for shopping during this Winter Sales in Germany.  Our daughter has a friend who is coming over frequently to play and staying over for dinner.  It is really nice that she has someone to play with.  Her friend's parents bought a house (just 2 houses away from us) last year and they moved in beginning of this year. 

Here is where I've completed since 29 Jan 2011.  Not much left and I am looking so much forward to starting on a new angel after her.  

I've never thought I will be so much into Nintendo games until I bought Cooking Mama 2 for my daughter.   I've been so much on the game every evening.  My daughter is not really into this game, though she helps out from time to time.   She is just scared to see Mama's flaming eyes if the cooking goes wrong. 

She is halfway done.  I need a short break once she is finished as one of my fingers had been pierced badly by the needle while stitching her.   Need to give that finger a rest. 

It is going faster than I expected.  I really love how she is turning out.  Another 15000 stitches and she is done. 

I finally got my dream project started.  I've combined 4 artworks of Katerina Koukiotis charted by HAED.  It wasn't easy choosing just 4 as I love most of Koukiotis's works.  I had so many thoughts while planning this project and the main one was :  Should I stitch a small part of each of these 4 designs and hold a contest - Name The Chart Contest.  My main problem is that, that means I have more than '1 wip' going on and that is just not me who prefer to complete 1 and start on a new one.  We will see. 

I am not so good with names and not creative enough.  I really need some help here.  What should I name my WIP?  I've thought of Faces of Katerina Koukiotis's, Angels of Katerina Koukiotis's, etc.   but I am just not so comfortable with what I've came out with.   Any better names to name my WIP?

 She was completed very early this morning.  Now I can start on my new project which I've been wanting to do for a while. 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  As usual, we spent the Christmas eve with my in-laws in Germany.  Santa dropped by for a visit around 4pm.  See the book he had in his hands? He was telling our daughter, niece and nephew what they've been good and bad at for the whole year.