Hansel and Gretel

Design: Hansel and Gretel by Shiny Room Designs
Fabric: 28ct tea Monaco linen by Charles Craft
Threads: DMC
Start: 9/15/2011

I started stitching this design on Thursday after I finished reading my book by Elizabeth Peters. I stitched a bit yesterday morning and was hoping to stitch more after working on the yard later in the evening.

Unfortunately, I had a bit of a mishap yesterday evening. I was using the riding mower to mow the front yard and was getting off the mower to open the backyard gate to start back there. As I was getting off the mower, I misstepped and slightly twisted my ankle. I can't remember the last time I had fallen...maybe in undergrad while working at an archaeology lab. During that time, I had tripped while carrying a large bucket of shell midden debris and fell down on a concrete floor and bruised my knees quite badly.

So I had misstepped off the mower, fell back on my bum and hands. Thank goodness for blue jeans which meant I came away with no scrapes from the gravel pavement. I clutched my foot for a bit before getting up and hobbling over to open the gate. I got back on the mower with the idea of mowing the backyard. I didn't get very far as the vibrations from the mower were making my ankle worse every time I turned the mower. I ended up back inside with a ice pack and a cushion. Luckily, it was only a slight sprain.

With all that in mind, whatever plans I had the weekend were interrupted and I spent this morning sitting in a chair stitching on this design and watching the Food Network. I got to watch an episode of The Pioneer Woman, which I hadn't been able to catch since it came out on TV and a great episode of the Barefoot Contessa's Back to Basics on one of my favorite subjects: baking cookies.

I hope my sprain will be better by Monday when I have to go to work. I was joking with my family that I needed to special order a Lucius Malfoy cane from online to use on Monday >___<

Until next time ^___^