A Belated Merry Christmas!

Here's hoping that everyone had a safe and blessed holiday. If you still have traveling to do, I wish you safe journeys.

The cats and I traveled to Kentucky for the holiday. It was Mimi's first road trip. As you can see, she and Timothy took the opportunity to relax from the ride.

I have a carrier that's big enough for both of them and I think that helped. She wasn't crazy about going in it, but once she was there she was a good little traveler. Timothy always is; he just lays down and goes to sleep. I think it helped Mimi that her buddy was with her.

I managed to get some stitching done while I was home. This is Silver Stitches, which I started before I left. The fibers are DMC light effects silver metallic and 3 DMC flosses -- blanc, 927 and 3743. The center band is Rhodes stiches in the silver metallic, with white eyelets above and below. Above and below the eyelets are something using DMC 927; I cannot for the life of me remember the stitch and I'm not traipsing downstairs to look it up. The bands above and below that are rice stitches using the metallic for the base X and couching it with DMC 3743. I've got part of the upper band worked and none of the lower one :-)

I worked on my elephant yesterday. Here's where we started:

And here's where I stopped:

He's coming right along. I'm pleased with my progress.