Gifted Gorgeousness SAL - July

So here is my tiny update for this months GG SAL, you can find all the updates here. Not much stitching going on these last days, but Middle Earth is still on my frame and I plan to work on this for a few more days, so I hope that I have more to show next month ;-)
I did like 440 stitches on Middle Earth and went from here:

To here:

I am actually pretty close to a page finish, just about 1 500 stitches and I definitely want to do them for next month =)

Health news: after feeling dizzy for a few days, I went to see my doctor and we decided to try without the pain killers - yay! The process takes two weeks where I am reducing my daily dosis, I already went down to 50 percent and therefore had a pretty bad weekend which I mostly spent in bed. But I hardly have any pain and the dizzyness was gone after the first day, my head certainly feels less foggy. My doctor actually said that the dizzyness was just a sign that my body requires less medication and therefore it's a good sign. I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to be rid of
this stuff and be able to enjoy a good glass of wine :D

Wedding update: We bought our weddingrings! That was a hard decision to make, in the end we went for something completely different :D Also we decided on a budget before we went shopping and I was pretty confident that in the end we would fall in love with something super expensive and already wrung my mind around how much we could afford and now guess what - we didn't even half the budget! And then my sister decided to buy a pair of earrings to go with my dress as a wedding gift, so right now I feel like the richest girl in the world :D

And another dumper: My computer decided to die. It was completely fine last weekend and when I opened the thing on Sunday, the system was dead. All my stuff - gone! I am happy that I store my patterns in my dropbox, but most of my progress pictures are gone =/ I think I have an old backup somewhere from a few years ago, but the whole thing is pretty annoying. Fortunately, only the system was broken and we were able to reset the computer, so it's working again. I still need to install a new feedreader and collect all my blogs again, I really need to get my butt up to do that...

Well, this is all I have to tell you for this month =)

WIPocalypse June

Hello lovely fellow stitchers,
I didn't make it to post on Sunday and then we were out of internet for two days, so I am making this post today. But you have to look at the positive side of things - I have an additional update for you because I am doing the One-per-day-challenge and already worked on this challenge for two days.

This being the June update means that we are to take a look at our goals for the year and see how we are doing. I honestly don't really want to take a look, I fear I am far from accomplishing anything this year. But if I remember correctly, I didn't put my goals to high. Anyway, let's have a look.

First up is my Kriemhild, she is (as every year) my focus piece and I try to work on her every month and that's what I did (even if I missed one WIPocalypse, I still worked on her). My plan is to finish the 5th row of pages and make a start on row 6. I am not yet done with the row, but on a good way. I also made some progress on her during the last month. Last time I was at the end of page 37:

Which I finished earlier:

And I made a tiny start on page 38:

And she is also still on my frame and I think I will add another column or two before switching to something else. Since January I did 10 083 stitches on her, so we are on a good way. I am joining the next Haed challenge on Facebook, which is to put in 10k stitches between now and 24th December, to finish the 5th row on pages would be 10 010 stitches. If I do about half a page per month, I should have this done by the end of November.

Next up is QS Paddys Luck, which you recently saw. My goal was to finish the first row of pages and that's what I did in June. Last time you saw Paddy:

And now, the first row in all it's glory:

I did a total of 5 440 stitches on Paddy this year and I am very much looking forward to start the next row because I can get back to stitching the rainbow again.

The next one is QS Trapped, on which I didn't work at all. I think this would be a good project for another one-stich-a-day challenge, but I still have a few months to try that (maybe in August or October?)

Next up is my Golden Kite called "Crossing the Stream". I have 3 pages done and want to stitch at least two pages this year. I have chose this project for the one-per-day challenge, which means that I want to work on this daily and stitch one square (at least). If work on this through the month, I should be able to stitch (at least) one page. I already worked on this twice and went from here:

To here:

Indeed I stitched two squares today because I loved working with the greens so much. So a total of 270 stitches done with a lot more to come =) I will share some updates on this one on my Instagram (@lady_stitchalot), not on a daily basis (I guess everyone would be sick of this after a week), but I will share a picture every few days. If I remember, I will also update on Facebook and maybe do a midmonth update here as well.

My second Supersize project is also on the list. I want to get Ride of the Yokai past the 15 000 stitches mark. I already did a bit of work on this one and I have now 12 550 stitches done, so I added 1 860 stitches to it. Another round of working on this should do the trick.

Last but not least there is a project I want to finish, which I actually "want to finish this year" for like 3 year now, which is since I started it. You see how well it works. I am talking about Cliffside Beacon from the Dimensions Gold petite collection. I went from here:

To here:

I just forget about this project all the time, but I vow to put a few stitches into this in July!

That's all the goals I posted at the beginning of the year. Another "plan" was to stitch from my stash this year (which is huge), well this didn't work out. As mentioned last month, I got a new pattern called "Garden Gate" by Dona Gelsinger and I started it =) I wanted to give the Haed challenge a try, but I didn't have a chance to stitch a full page by the end of June, but I still got half a page in:

I still have a long way ahead of me until it will look like this:

I am stitching on light green 32ct Murano, 1 over 1, full cross. All the confetti takes ages to stitch, but the result is so lovely and a real joy to stitch! I did 2 400 stitches on this one so far =)

As for my stitch count, I am currently at 31 633 (including my work on Middle Earth, which I share for the GGSAL and not counting my work on my Dimensions projects) and I worked on 11 different projects so far, if my count is correct I have 26 projects in total running, so still a way to go!

So all that is left for me to do is to share this months link-up with you, so you can check out more lovely projects!

Happy stitching =)