Tuesday, June 19, 2012

My first TUSAL!

There's always first time for everything and this month is my first time being a hermiter and also TUSALer! So far so great... I am so excited I think I am the first to post my TUSAL report :)

My jar is still look pathetic now and I am looking forward to make it full! To make it more attractive I put my daughter's pic when she was 6mo next to it :D


I started collecting ORT since I started blogging on cross stitch and found TUSAL logo on most of stitchers' blogs. I think its a fab idea, all this time I didn't know what to do with the snippets of floss left over from my stitching, usually I just left them wherever they fell, hoping that next time my vacuum cleaner would pick them up :)

 Most of my first batch of ORT came from my 'Keep Calm' project, here is the snap shot before I filled them in:


The pattern is from Cross Stitch Crazy magazine ed 161 (March 2012). I am very close to finish it, only word KEEP from the last series Start Stitching needs to be filled but I ran out of B5200 thread. I thought I had a couple but later I realise they were actually blanc. I have to wait until next week when my husband is back from his trip to India, because going to cross stitch & hobbies shop alone with two active toddlers is the least I want to do in this summer heat!

I hope everybody else get a lot of stitching done and managed to fill their jar full :) I have been trying to do blogwalking and leave comments as many as possible but its very frustrating because my laptop/internet is going very slow recently. I dont know why but our landlord did warn us that during summer the internet connection is very slow and sometimes unreliable :( with slow connection reading cross stitch blogs is really testing my patience and I got annoyed to wait all the pictures to load (sometimes with no resulr after waiting for quite long time!).

If you get a good connection I hope you do not forget to enter great and generous giveaways from Melissa (ended today), Anne (ended June 23rd), Teresa (ended June 23rd), and Milli (ended June 26th). I believe there are many more, I saw some last night but at that time I have lost patience with the connection. Maybe when it gets better I would track them again, I hope I will still have enough time :) Giveaways are amazingly fun, I tempted to make one too but firstly I need to find out where the post office is :))

***** many thanks, terima kasih, sağol, شُكْرًا

8 comments:

  1. the TUSAL challenge is beautiful idea, i hope i can meet beautiful jar for my floss soon. thanks for sharing this! <3 <3

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  2. There's never much in my TUSAL jar either, so don't feel bad! Absolutely LOVE the Keep Calm projects!!

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  3. Congratulations on your finish! Sorry to hear about your internet connection.

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    1. Hi Shirlee, its almost finish, I will make another post when I finish it (after I stocked up on B5200 threads) :) thanks for stopping by and commenting on my post, I really appreciate it :)

      love, yuana

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  4. Congrats on your first TUSAL! It's the main reason I started a blog because I wanted to join in LOL.
    Giveaways are great fun, hosting and taking part. I hope you find the Post Office soon.
    Cute pic of baby girl too.

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    1. hahaha that's my reason too, Jo :D at first I made this blog only to store the links but TUSAL and IHSW tempted me to be a real blogger :)

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