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Great color combination! Enjoy your time in Germany!

Great start, enjoy your time in Germany.

Happy New Year (it's still early enought that I can say that). I hope everyone is having a wonderful 2010.

Wow... it has been such a long time since I have been on here. As you may recall, I am in still in Germany and I think the last time that I wrote here I was in Köln. I had to move to Magdeburg as part of my program and I was there for 3 months absolutely miserable. I had limited to no internet, when I used the internet I was yelled at, my host family was terrible, and I had to be in the hospital for a kidney stone operation when my host family left me to go to spain. After 3 months of horror, I was able to move back to Köln and I have now a wonderful host mom. (she also doesn't get mad when I cross-stitch) so I worked on my stylish silhouette last night and now I am over 50% done! I plan on getting back to it today, but just so you guys didn't think I fell off of the Earth, here is a picture of my progress

Nice to have you back.What a rotten family you had to stay with.Glad your happy back in Koln..Nice work,hows your Slipknot one coming on ?.

Good to see you back

Great design

So glad that you are back with us. Why are people so mean. If they are going to be miserable then why offer to be a host family in the first place.

Sorry you had a kidney stone those are so miserable.

Your progress is wonderful and hope to see you around a bit more.

So sorry you have had a bit of a rough time.
It's great to see you again - hope you can come here a bit more often now, and your stylish silhouette is looking great. Love the colour.

Glad you're back with a better host family now! Your stylish silhouette looks beautiful, very striking!

Ohhhh I'm loving the Slipknot one its fantastic. I take it you charted it yourself?? can't wait to see more of that one

I'm sorry you've had such a hard time recently. Glad you're back with us now though and that you're in a happier place right now.
Great to see you stitching again as well.

Thank you for the kind words and thank goodness the bad times are behind me! Let the good times roll!! haha.

It is nice to be stitching again - very therapeutic. My new host mom is very intrigued with my work. Unfortunately, I didn't bring the Slipknot one with me. I was afraid that if something happened to my luggage or I lost it, I would go insane. I already worked 6 months on that thing, and I didn't want to take a chance of something terrible happening to it especially since it is my masterpiece.

@ Cockney Stitcher and Charmed - I did chart it myself. I made some slight changes to the CD cover and since I have to stitch the entire background, it's going to take me forever and a day. haha. I can't wait to see it done though, and it is nice to take a little break from it. 19 shades of red is a lot... I am excited to work on it again though. I haven't worked on it since June, so I am anxious to see it progress. I just have a feeling I will get sick of it again. But when I get to the 50% point, I will be estatic!

Glad that you're back here with us and that those bad times are finally all behind you now!

Great progress on the stylish silhouette!

lovely stitching. What an awful family to have been landed with,not quite the experience you wanted. Glad this host family are kind people.

Hi!
How awful to be so far away from home,depending on these people and they treat you like rubbish. Hopefully the good times to indeed roll.
I had to go and peek at your Slipknot stitch.. It looks awesome!
Faith

Stitching is very therapuetic isn't it? Great job so far.

I know I haven't been on here that much. I am still in Germany and will be here until July 14. I have been pretty stressed with work over here and trying to find work back in the states. And, since I hadn't been stitching for a while, I found my lovely stylish silhouette that I got from Lisa and decided to finish it up last night.


Sooo... the long awaited big finish!!



Now I just have:
Winter Cardinals, Slipknot, Feline Love as cross-stitch WIPs
my sweater as a knitting WIP
my crochet top and Tetris blanket as a Crochet WIPs

and a million other cross-stitch kits, and patterns that I created for myself as knitting, crochet and cross-stitch projects.

I know I don't have a job yet, but man.... I can't wait to retire. Maybe I could get some work done on these things. I just hope I still like heavy metal though

Wow, doesn't this look good red on black.

Hope life has been better in Germany since you moved families. And good luck finding a nice job.

Your project looks great red on black. Congrats on the finish!!!!!

Hope you can find a job quick so you are all set to come back to the states.