I thank those of you who voted and now... it's time to announce a giveaway to celebrate snowprincipessa's 2000th entry!

There is one set of unpublished needleroll and biscornu design by Lady Periphaeria up for grabs. I will keep you in suspense, being the evil person I am, but if you love summer, sun, dragonflies and bees you will love them!

Here is a colour swatch for you....

The spiel is simple: there is one (1) lucky winner (unless I decide to be nice *evil grin*) and all the comments with email address (as I will email the designs) posted to this entry in this particular blog (not to the feeded entry in Facebook)before my 2000th entry apply.

Posters of published comments agree to respect my copyrights of the objects given in this giveaway and will not copy or share the designs involved by any means (except by stitching, of course! ).

So, what are you waiting for? Comment with your email address and you may be the lucky winner! Feel free to also tell about this to your friends!

And now I am off to eat and then trying to finish my mother's holiday gift (which will be a complimentary design, btw.)

I thought it might be nice to have a little giveaway to celebrate the happy occasion and whipped up a little poll regarding the gift.
You have one week to make the difference.

What would, in YOUR opinion, be a good giveaway to celebrate 2000th entry?

1. Yet unpublished needlework smalls design designed by my dear alter ego, Lady Periphaeria for the lucky winner(s?) of the giveaway drawing.
2. Stitched item: my design.
3. Stitched item: generic design.
4. Small stitchy goodie bag.
5. Something else stitchy, please elaborate.

Answers to the comment section, thank you. ^^

Anyway, blog colour scheme etc. suggestions are welcomed.

"Why angels?" you may ask. The reason is simple: Mr. Wonderful calls me Angel, has called me almost since we met (last month), that is even before we met in real life (what surprises me is that he still thinks so *grin*).

Yes, you calculated correctly, we had knew exactly one month in the day when he arrived. That means that he booked the ticket about 1½ weeks after we got to know each other.
Though it seems to me that we are kind of fast in everything: we started to think about who relocates and where when he was here - and we have continued that discussion during this week. We have even had a business plan conversation as if he moves here starting a business is his best bet to find employment (1. he doesn't speak Finnish, yet, and 2. Finnish employers are known to have certain prejudice towards people of non-Caucasian heritage) for himself.

Life has been kind of slow since he left, and I realized today that it has been only 1½ weeks even for me it feels like three months already.
I wish he was here, and so does he, so life is good. ^^

And I am still waiting to hear from the company. The agency has sent my info to them last week, but they haven't heard anything either.
But, we signed contract in Friday so I can do some emergency jobs for them. Nevertheless, I need to apply for welfare again because of the company as I won't get paid before end of this month in any case.
This is very annoying situation to put it midly.

And oh, now I remember what I have missed! My FOURTH blogoversary was in Thursday! Happy birthday little blog!

In case you do and want, Servage, my beloved host, has this offer... if you use coupon code cust35125 you get two months worth of free hosting and extra 25 GB of disk space and.. give the same set for me for free! Here's great chance to make me adore you!

Anyway

Facts of life: Human beings are wonderful in their way to purposely misinterpret what other people write. (Though I take latest one also as a sign...)

Maybe changing my blog's subtitle from "I went out of my mind and threw the key away..." to "Life would be easier if it was simple" was an omen.

Anyway...

My past seems to have a haunting phase.
In addition to everything else I heard from SIL that certain mr. Tree (that has nothing to do with his surname actually) had asked about me... Let's see, it has been over ten years since we had anything at all (oh, good old days with one nighters) and we never were we because he was (surprise, surprise) lost with himself.

So, what's next?

Blog ponderings

The thought of moving my blog on Wordpress base came out from its hiding place again, while looking for templates for Periphaeria's blog.
And at this point I even have a hosted domain... it would be matter of only installing another WP. The negative side of it is that I would lose all the comments (and apparently tags too) even I could import the posts...

Weight gain

Last months my weight has been slowly increasing without any significant changes in my diet. I found out why: it's my allergy medicine's less known side effect! Said antihistamine causes weight gain which probably means that it messes my insulin levels... it boggles your mind, but at least now I know what to say to my doctor. I rather take cetiritzine as it's better for my metabolism, even if it isn't as modern version as levocetirizine.

To make it fun, levocetirizine also causes... shortness of breath. (I still have it, though I feel better now.)

And how do I know that Xyxal is the one to blame? I have been taking other antihistamine about a week now (because I lost the prescription and ran out of Xyzal). During this time my weight has come down almost five kilos, without any diet changes.

And I am one of those poor sods who are affected by it. (Fear not, I have set a support ticket.)

As it is few seconds past 2007...

( Meme of sentences )

Happy New Year to you all!

May this year be prosperous in every possible way - and may stash fairies grow your stash!

No stitching today (or rather yesterday), but I did some more rearranging, designed gazillion more biscornus and noticed that LJ also allows image tags in sidebar...
So, in case you want to know what I'm listening to at the moment, and don't bother to pop by at my Last.Fm profile, my recent tracks are here to stay (under rotation). *grin*

It's that time of the year again... It seems that life cycle of one layout or colour theme is two months.
Some Serif was pretty, no doubt, but it doesn't fit to what I see from window, or to my new user picture. (Notice the hands? Remember the last fairy? There's certain similarity...)

So, in case you want to know the colours I see mostly, when it's not pitch black, just look at my new scheme... length of day is 6 hours, 2 minutes in this part of Finland... (And northernmost parts of Finland have no daylight at this moment.)

And now, I should get my ass off from this chair and head to Helsinki to do some shopping.

Hmm... since when LJ has supported HTML in Smooth Sailing's sidebar? I noticed it, by accident, earlier today when updating my rotation and WIP lists. Not that I'd complain, I kind of like the opportunity to have easily acquirable additional information of the designs I'm working on. (You may have noticed that I have bad crush for knowledge and all sorts of tidbits of information?)

Coffee and biscuits Champagne to everyone! This is my thousand (!) entry!

Happy dance

Now, yesterday (Sunday) I foresaw two happy dances for Monday, but as I ended up sleeping, chatting and popping by at N's to have a dinner (N. cooked it, I ate it. Equality, don't you think?) my only happy dance was delayed to these early hours of Tuesday, but... The Greatest Treasure is now officially finished!

Info:

• Designer: Jennifer Aikman-Smith
• Design: The Greatest Treasure
• Fabric: 28 count Crystal Peach Jazlyn
• Other: Colour conversion by yours truly.

Walk Like An Egyptian

No, I haven't gone completely bonkers. I got mail from my Adopt-A-Stitcher mommy, Christine! Wonderful mail, as she sent me Teresa Wentzler's Egyptian Sampler (which was in my wish list), and 28 count ivory Jubilee to stitch it on!

She did have an ulterior motive though... it seems that we may have Egyptian Sampler SAL in coming year.
Off I go to kit it! (Though I need to order some beads and Kreinik's #4 braid. *gasp* I have to buy more stash! *gasp*)

Today's

Stitching Bloggers' Question

How many different brands of "complete" embroidery floss sets do you own? How do you keep track of it? (i.e., spread sheet program, index cards, palm pilot, etc.)

And word from our blogger

I snatched this from Emily because it defines me wonderfully:

The dream? I met, by accident, this most wonderful, intelligent, funny, well-mannered, good looking (he had beautiful eyes) man and everything was fabulous... before things went odd. The dream ended when Nazis separated us and killed me (because I've Jewish surname (and Hindu name... all sorts of impurities in me *grin*)). How's that for a dream..? (I do see Holocaust related dreams a bit too often, yes.)

Today's

Stitching Bloggers' Question

"How did you decide on the title of your stitching blog? Was it random, or does it have a special meaning to you or about you?"

My dear has had many names during these 2½ years we have been spending time together.
We begun with My Therapist... and the greatest one is Love back in 2004 when I was separating from my, now, ex-husband.
In last November I changed it to reflect how I saw life, and one of my favourite movies, and it became La vita è bella. LVèB is also one of the saddest and most beautiful movies I've ever seen, and soon after that my life became dancing on roses, on their thorns. (I'm beginning to realise that it was minor nervous breakdown.)

Earlier this year it changed to My life with the polar bears just because I love to hate stereotypes and assumptions (you know, there are polar bears in streets of Helsinki... not *grin*), and after I got back from Bangkok it changed again. And I think this one will stay for a long time, as it's just what this is all about. I'm just thinking aloud...

Fact is that I think a lot, continuously, and that is something people either despise with passion or love with deepest affection. Some even have said that they'd like to have similar brains than I do because they work wonderfully. (My reply is usually: "You really don't want that...")
I love my head most of the times. I love it even more when this part of me is complimented. But I'm digressing...

This was the story of my blog's name. I hope you didn't bore to death, and I'll be delighted if someone actually enjoyed it.
Until next SBQ, take care.

It's a disease...

It's only November and I already have signed up or planning to sign up for four exchanges for coming year.

Sick, isn't it?

Isn't this layout pretty or what?!

P.S. Some Serif by carriep63.

Due my first spammer attack all anonymous comments will be screened from this day forward.

Hey, it took 2½ years before it happened so actually I should be surprised that it lasted this long...

Migraine, that is. I've reached that phase where I've all sorts of cravings (which means that I'll be heading to grocery soon). Either my body lacks something, I'm lacking decent rest, pain is me getting me depressed or all.
This darned thing also means that no wild night out tomorrow with friends. *sighs* All that noise, smoke, staying up 'til morning and possible alcohol based beverages wouldn't do any good, so I had to cancel it. *sighs again* (Though, actually it's also good thing. I just realised that I am broke. Friggin' "livelihood allowance" was 100 € smaller than it was supposed to be...)
And actually I'd just like to move into a small, warm cave for few days. Or have someone around to take care of me... or both.

But on a cheerier note: as I've been unable to do anything else I've been stitching, and we are having a happy dance in one of these days. Though the project is secret so no pictures, yet.

That new subtitle

"I went out of my mind and threw the key away..."
(bits_2_whole)

I think it suits quite well...

^^!