January 30, 2011 Update

Hello! I got so much stitching done yesterday after work. I got my mistake unstitched and redid it. It really didn't take too long and as long as you go slow with the metallic thread it doesn't do too bad and looks fantastic. So yesterday I finished the mirror, got the sink stitched and most of the hand towel off to the side. I just have the boy to do, the mouse and a lot of backstitching to do. Then that project will be done! GO ME!!

Well I need to write out my post for today's goals and get busy stitching.

Update for January 29, 2011

Well I haven't been very motivated to stitch the last few days. I got started on project #6 a very nites ago and then realized that I was using the wrong color fabric. Luckily I hadn't stitched too much before I noticed it. So I did a bit of frogging and got project #6 started last nite on the right color fabric. I have been working steadily on this since about noon. I actually did something that is on my "Want To Try" list. I used metallic thread for the first time. It's slow going but it looks fantastic. However, I just realized that I made a huge mistake. I was suppose to do the metallic stitching in half stitches not full stitches so I'm gonna have to do some frogging again. I don't know how long it will take because of the metallic thread. I'm going to put it up for now as I have to work in about an hour. I will pick it up again after I get home from work which will be around 9 pm. Just wanted to update you!

January 27 - 29, 2011 Weekly Goals

Here is my list of goals I have met so far for the rest of this week.

• Started Project #6 "Here's Looking At You"
• Added my weekly goals post for the rest of January
• Added my weekly goals post for the month of February
• Added my monthly goals post for the month of February
• Added my yearly goals post for 2011
• Added "Things I Would Like to Try" post
• Created the "General Chit-Chat" page
• Added the weekly cross stitching quote to the main page of this blog

Here is my updated To-Dos I need to accomplish for the rest of week of January 27 - 29, 2011

• Start Project #7 "Brushin' Teeth"
• Start "Girl Tubby" project for the January Challenge
• Start "Boy Tubby" project for the January Challenge
• Go to Joann Fabrics to get supplies for My Want To-do List
• Start "My Favorite Things" project for the January Challenge
• Start "Bearhoi Ballet" project for the January Challenge
• Add the "Inspirations" post
• Add "Therapy" post
• Add "Why I learned to cross-stich
• Add "Works In Progress" post to blog.
• Add "Techniques" page to blog.
• Add "Step-By-Step Guides" page to blog.
• Add "Tools" post to blog.
• Add "Equipment" post to blog
• Add "Advice" page to blog
• Add "Free patterns" page to blog
• Set up "Natalee's Stitching" Facebook page

January 27, 2011 Goals Update

Well I had a pretty frustrating day yesterday. Seems like everything I did was filled with mistakes and would require me hours to fix. It started out with getting some posts to the blog here. I did good in the beginning and got a few posts made and posted. I then worked on a few more posts. I made three posts about my January goals, weekly goals etc and was working on a 4th when I realized I'd made some mistakes in all 4 of the posts. I tried to fix my mistakes but totally confused myself dealing with so many posts that had to be connected. So I ended up having to delete the 3 posts and the one I was working on and redo them.

The second issue I had was with my activity tracker. I tried to log in to log the time I was going to spend on my Project #6. When I tried to log into the activity tracker it wouldn't access my document due to there being a password on my documents. I checked my setting on both the documents and my account setting and could NOT figure it out. This ended up taking me two hours to figure out how to delete the password. It turned out being something very simple of deleting the access that the site had to had to my documents and adding the site access again. This irritated me to no end and I ran out of patience. It also made me VERY grumpy.

So I finally get logged into my activity tracker and activities 3-15 didn't save in my activities list. So I decided to just create a new google doc for the tracker. I got them entered and somehow I didn't add the name of the pattern to #5. Then for some strange reason I moved the title of project #5 to #6 and so on...And I also forgot to put project #13 on the list. It took me about half an hour to fix that mistake. By this time I was VERY grumpy and it totally defeated my motivation. I finally decided that I would continue working on my blog. I spent probably 4 hours searching Google looking for information to add to the posts/pages and I found probably found maybe 3 things I could use. This totally frustrated me.

I ended up writing in my journal to get my frustrations out and to turn my attitude around. Thanks to Kristen and my journal I got out of my grumpy, pessimistic attitude. I eventually got motivated and worked on my blog some more. I got quite a bit of my daily goals for yesterday crossed off. Here is my list of things I accomplished yesterday.

• Started Project #6 "Here's Looking At You"
• Added my weekly goals for the rest of this week and for next week
• Added my monthly goals for February
• Added a post of my weekly goals for February
• Worked on my yearly goals for 2011 list
• Added a Things I Would Like to Try post.
• Completed my project wish list post.
• Created the general chit-chat page.
• Added the weekly cross stitching weekly quote.

Here is the list of things I did not accomplish today

• I did not start Project #7 due to the fast that I got 18 count Aida fabric in the color Oatmeal instead of 14 count.
• I did not go to JoAnn Fabrics to pick up supplies for my 2011 Want To-Do List
• The inspirations post
• The therapy post
• My Why I Stitch post
• When I started cross-stitching post.