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  • Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: The Finished Scene & Final Thoughts

    December 26, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! It’s time for the final post about the Winter Deer Scene embroidery kit progress! In this post, I am showing the finished embroidery without the hoop. I am also going to talk about the embroidery design and if I like it.

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  • Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: One Tree Finished & Progress On the Second

    December 19, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! It’s time for one last update post for the Winter Deer Scene I was embroidering. By the time I took the progress photos in this post, I was feeling a major creative burnout. I’ll go more into it later in this post.

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  • Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: Progress On the Trees & Problems With the Pattern Lines

    December 12, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! Time for a new post about the Winter Deer embroidery knit I worked on earlier this year. This time, I will be talking about the progress I made on embroidering the trees. I will also be talking about the problems I ran into with the pattern’s lines.

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  • Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: Finished Deer and Some Green Embroidery

    December 5, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! It’s time for another progress post for the Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit. I already mentioned in my previous posts about this kit (You can read them here and here) but I worked on this kit months ago. While I worked on it, I took progress photographs of the kit for various reasons. I decided to wait until the holiday season to publish posts about my embroidery progress and other thoughts I have of the kit. In this post, I will focus on the deer embroidery and other progress I made at that time.

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  • Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress and New Floss Color Choices

    November 28, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! It’s time for a progress post on my Winter Deer Scene embroidery kit! For this post, I want to show the first phase of progress as well as talk about my new color choices for the floss. I already mentioned in my first post in this series, but I have already finished embroidering this design. I decided to delay publishing the posts about this kit near the holiday season.

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  • New Embroidery Project: Winter Deer Scene

    November 24, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! A few months ago, I began to work on a new embroidery project. It is part of an embroidery kit I purchased off Amazon. I already finished embroidered one of the designs. I talked about it in this post and this post. The new embroidery kit design I started working on is a winter scene with two deer. I started and finished this design months ago, but I decided to delay publishing posts about it until the winter. I thought it would be more fun to publish posts about my work during the holiday season.

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  • Some Thoughts on JoAnn Stores and Their Most Recent Bankruptcy Filing

    January 21, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! I don’t normally talk about stores or brands and their business dealings, but I feel like I need to talk about JoAnn’s most recent bankruptcy filing. In 2024, JoAnn filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I used to mention the JoAnn store many times in my sewing posts, but I stopped because I started to not shop there for fabric or DIY supplies. There were several reasons for this, but one of them is because the closest store to where I live became to hard to me to travel to. Despite my slowing interest in shopping at JoAnn, I also didn’t like the fabric selection they had. The quality…

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  • Christmas Tree Farm Wood DIY Sign- The Finished Sign

    December 23, 2023 /

    Hi everyone! Well, it’s almost Christmas and I’ve been pretty busy. Even though I’ve been busy, I was able to finish the sign! As of this publishing of this post, it is currently hanging up in my house as part of my Christmas decor. Since it is in use, I decided to take a photograph of the sign hanging on the wall.

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  • Christmas Tree Farm Wood DIY Sign- Ruff Background Paint and Second Thoughts About Color Schemes

    December 20, 2023 /

    Hi everyone! I made some progress painting the Christmas Tree Farm sign. After my second thoughts staining the edge of the sign, I decided to proceed forward in painting the sign. I wanted the stain to be a red tone and the background of the sign dark green. From there, I would paint the sign’s wording and other decorations on it. Since the stain was more purple berry colored than red, I didn’t know if the green background would clash with the stain color. Even though I was worried, I decided to proceed forward in painting the background.

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  • Wood DIY Star Ornaments and The Success and Struggles to Paint Them Gold Like Dior Charms

    December 19, 2023 /

    Hi everyone! Last year, I decided to buy unfinished wood star ornaments. I had an idea to make them look like star charms that come with purchases made from the luxury fashion house Dior. I saw people online hand their star charms on their Christmas trees, which I liked a lot. Stars are a favorite shape and design, so having a tree full of them caught my eye. The only problem is the people online seem to shop at Dior far more than I do because they had many stars to hang on their tree! In order to have star charms to hang on my tree, but not go into…

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