NEW START: July Bear

I started to stitch the June Bear before I had all my eye surgeries.  I wasn't sure I would ever stitch again.  I could so I finished that Bear probably back in 2005 or 2006.  I really wanted to stitch all the month bears and use them as a calendar some how.  So . . . . even though I haven't finished any of my current projects I went ahead and started another one of these.  I picked which one I would do several months ago and I couldn't wait.  It's the July Bear (with the flag pole and the fireworks in metalic threads - yeah me!).  Below is the front and back cover of the booklet.  I think when this one is done I'd like to do the October bear next because it's just so cute.

 I've been working on it for just over 2 weeks and this is how much I've got done so far.  I'm not looking forward to the doing the metallic threads but now that I have some beeswax they might be easier to use.  I'm doing it on 14ct, 2x1 full, Silver Aida.  It's not a shiny silver just a dull gray/silver color.

Japanese Beauty #1 - update

So I've (almost) finished another page.  Everything is done on the page except a small section of hair that I'll wait to do when I do the top page.  That way there won't be a page line showing through the stitches.

(Almost) All my WIPs

Here's a picture of (almost) all my WIPs in one spot.  What's missing?  The Wild Thing Birth Annoucement that I gave up on in favor of the Traffic Sampler I did.  And my Chinese Symbol WIPs is composed of several smaller separate designs but I think of it as one WIP project.  I'm not in the middle of stitching one so that project wasn't included.