Samstag, 25. April 2020

Gifted Gorgeousness SAL - April

Oh wow, even for my standards - I am really late this month. And it's even worse because all the stitching I have to show for this month happened last month!
So how is everyone doing with the lock-down? Lucky us, we all stocked up on crafty projects years ago! I also have like 500 unread books, so I can keep myself occupied for a long time.
But I am not getting done much anyway, I am currently buried in work. The semester started this week and we are doing everything online, this is completely new for us. We have two people at the faculty that concentrate on "developing ideas and strategies" for digital teaching, but honestly, most of the work is still up to us. I spent countless hours researching and trying different programs and equipment until I could start making videos for my students the way I want to (the lecture I am working with it about 800 students and hour "small exercise groups" are still about 50 people, so we can't do this via zoom) or simply gave up (I tried to add text to my videos because I wrote "5/4" instead of "5/2" once and wanted to correct it... I tried like 10 programs in 3 hours and then decided to just write a text about it to go with the text to the video...). The whole issue was pretty frustrating, but I think I figured everything out now and hope that this will get better during the next weeks.
The second reason why I get zero stuff done is because I started to play Skyrim. My husband gifted me this and I seem to be obsessed with it, lol.

But I have a tiny update for you people. I managed to finish the first row of pages on Middle Earth! I added the final 1 000 stitches and went from here:
To here:
Yay me! I can't believe I reached this milestone! But I am also happy to leave this project for a while now, I really worked a lot on it during this year (8 000 stitches in 3 months). But Middle Earth will surely return later this year. I plan to work on my other projects for the GG SAL now, so they get some love as well and maybe I will even squeeze in a new start ;-)

So this is it, I hope to be back soon with another post. Wipocalypse would be tomorrow, but I am not sure if I will post tomorrow or in a few days, depends on Skyrim, lol. Last but not least I am sharing the link-up page for this month, be sure to visit it, there is lots to see!

Happy stitching =)