Just Three More Pages To Do

Courtney Collection - Pelican.
This has just three more pages to finish.  The top row first two, and the second row second page.  That first page in the second row is done, and I finished that bottom row second page. 
Those top two are pretty solid and gonna take a while. 
And yep, that big open are is exactly that - big and open.
So close.   I will probably need a break doing something else, but then I wanna try to come right back to this.   17 of 20 pages are done.  It is kind of a lovely thing. 

Five Pages yet to go

Pelican - Courtney Collection.
Five more pages yet to do.  Four in that corner, and one in the bottom row.
Five skeins of dmc used at this point.  Just started the sixth skein.

Can't Count...

Pelican - Courtney Collection.
Last time I said this was in the hoop again and that I had 7 pages left to do.
I can't count.  I had 9 pages left to do.  Not 7. 
So it's 20 pages total, I had 11 pages done, as of last May.  
I did the bird's eye page, and then the page below that, and the next page down too.
Three pages done now, so I can say - NOW I have 6 pages left to do. 
And the right side half is now complete.  This is all based on me counting, meaning it's probably wrong.  And below is what it looked like when I picked it back up again.

And I tossed in a few hours on a new start of an old pattern.

Prairie Schooler - Harvest Time.  Doing the Village pattern.
It's on 28 count Ivory jobelan, one over one, dmc floss. 
I like all these silly village versions.  Stitching this one, and the bigger Christmas version I also have started, hopefully will get it out of my system.  They are not all that big - but they are time consuming little suckers.  This was two days of working on it, and back in the bag it went.  A hefty gallon plastic bag, not a fancy bag. 
Since I talked about blood donations last time, I will add on that I went last Monday to give whole blood.  But once again, kinda weird.  They have been posting they wanted type O donors for months.  Sometimes with a second blood type they also wanted.  Last weekend they extended their hours on a couple days to allow more donors.  I went on Monday just to get it over with, rather than wait till Friday, since I have anxiety.  What he told me was - the distribution processing center had called and said - they were OUT of type O blood.  Completely out.  This is not good.  So I asked how the day was going so far?  He said out of 26 donors, about 20 had been type O so far that day. 
And you might think - oh, they have sent it off to weather problem areas.  I don't think so because they have been asking for extra donors for months and months on their home web pages.  Hours later I was telling this to a friend, and I decided to look up his area, he is a 6 hour drive - a totally different blood distribution service area.  The web page for his site opened up saying their supply was critically low.  So that was interesting, cause it is not just one area.  And I am not part of the weather area.  Mostly it means - try not to do something that you need blood or blood products.  They might be harder to get than you know, and if you can donate - you might wanna consider it.  It's nine minutes to have a needle in your arm.  I try to think of it as - I'd rather be on the giving end because I am healthy, than be the needing blood end of the needle.

Time to change again...

Worked on Brick House Sampler for a little bit.
Below is where it was when I put it away last time.
There is a cream floss that runs up the building sides, the window frames, sheep.  But it's gonna just disappear into the fabric.  I did a bit of that on the building right side - in the zig-zag section.  Rather than be frustrated with that, time to change projects.

I grabbed the Pelican again.  Still have 7 pages to do on Pelican. 
This week was a test for my wanting to buy new charts.  So far I have resisted. 
I have been donating platelets, and I went 12 times in 15 weeks.  The guy that stabs me prefers my left arm, so it's all been in my left arm.  And I am left handed.  I should have maxed out my yearly amount of 24 times in a calendar year - somehow I didn't, but I can still give whole blood a few more times, so I am gonna do that - cause those women will stab my other arm.  My sleeping hours and my energy is crap, trying to change that.  I can't seem to lose weight and give platelets, although that was the plan.  Sometimes we all need to just try a different plan.