The Christmas Cactus

My best friend Jody and I went to Trader Joes on Sunday.  As we were going in, they had a display of mums, orchids, and lo and behold - Christmas Cacti.  Now, the technical name is not Christmas Cactus.  It is a Zygo Cactus.  It's rather pretty.  I'm going to go on Saturday to Lowes and get a different pot for it, so it's not in the silly tiny pot with the paper wrapped around it.  It's getting ready to bloom.  I gave it just a little water this morning, because it says just to keep it moist.  I don't want to over-water it (a green thumb I do not have).

Got further on the backstitching on Mom's present last night.  I was going to go to a weight lifting class, but I am still so sore from my session with John on Monday that I decided not to push it.

I will definitely finish it tonight and get started on my mother-in-law's humming birds.  I think I will make an order this weekend so that I have something else to be working on when we go to her house on Thanksgiving day.

Here's the robins of spring:

The Cardinals of fall:

The Chickadees of winter:

The last section I need to do are the Gold Finches of Summer - you can see those to the left of the Cardinals.

  I guess you can say this is the largest cross stitch I have ever done, but I am actually not sure.  I usually work on either 22 or 24 count fabric.  I don't like 14 count.  This was a kit, so it came with 14 count fabric.  And no, I do not do my stitching on 22 count over 2 threads - I do it over one.  The smaller the better.  I've just always been affraid to try over 2, because I'm affraid I will lose count and end up with 1/2 over 2 and 1/2 over 1 :p.

Alrighty, better get cracking on work stuff.  It's gonna be a long day.....