99 Bottles - Beer #1

I actually have a couple different updates for today, but I wanted to keep my 99 updates separate.

I have officially started on the beer! Yay!
My husband, some friends, and I went out Friday night for dinner and drinks, so I decided to get started on the list of beers that I have. It took me a while to decide which one I wanted, so I got methodical and found out which beer was in spot 1A, found out that they had it available, and started with it.

The beer I went with was Blue Moon. Here are my thoughts on it.
The menu where we were described it as easy drinking. I liked that it came with an orange slice, as well.

What I liked: It really was an easy drinking beer. The orange slice gave it that extra oomph and set off the flavor just right.

What I didn't like: It actually needed that extra oomph from the orange slice, because otherwise I found it to be a little weak. The flavor was a little nondescript to me.

This would be a good "starter" beer for someone who hasn't had a lot of beer experience or for someone who doesn't care for beer much, because it does have a light flavor and isn't overpowering in any particular way. For me, personally, though, I prefer a little stronger beer.

Here is the picture of the bottle all stitched up, so lonely on the shelf by itself.

I never updated my progress counter!

I realized yesterday that I never updated my progress counter on the side for my Christmas project. I was missing over 3K stitches!
I have since updated it, so it looks much better for how much I have done. While I'm at it, I figure I'll go ahead and post an update from the last couple days. I haven't had much urge to work on the rocket, my Christmas project keeps calling.

Here is where I was a couple days ago:

And here I am now:

Update and a new start

I have a new start this week. I promised Justine that I would stitch along with her in April on the Cut Thru Rocket. This project was in my to-do pile, and I had already purchased the fabric for it. I only had to purchase a few colors of floss.
Now, I am nowhere nearly as fast as she is (plus she has gotten a head start on me), but here is where I am so far:

I would be further along, but shortly after I started this project, my Christmas one started yelling at me to be worked on, so I picked it up for a little bit.
Here is where I was when I left off last week:

 

Here is where I am now:

 

I also had the oddest occurrence when I was working on this one, especially since it had been yelling to be worked on. I got to this point, and all of a sudden, I just didn't want to work on it anymore. 

I ended up putting it away and pulling out the Rocket. I've never just hit a wall like that before, it was strange to me.

I have also started watching some YouTube videos of people's techniques and tricks for certain things. I have already incorporated a new technique (starting a new thread with a loop from the front of your project rather than the back) into my own stitching, and it has been pretty helpful.

Drumroll please!

I used a random number generator to determine who the winner of my giveaway will be. And the winner is..... Heather!

Congratulations, Heather! I will be sending you an email requesting your mailing address info and which item you would like!

Thanks to everyone who commented, and welcome to all my new followers!
I don't have any updates to post right now, since I just finished up the beer shelves, but I will be starting a new project this week! From the list of projects that I posted about from over a year ago, I am going to be starting the Cut Thru Rocket!

Nice to meet you!

I would like to first welcome all my new followers! I'm glad you have discovered me and like what you see enough to follow me for more updates!
I will be having my drawing on Sunday for the giveaway and will announce the winner!

This post is just a quick one to update on my beer project. I have started working on 99 by Ink Circles, and I have finished up the shelves. Woohoo! Now it's time for me to start sampling the beer!
I have added this to my project list along the side of the blog, and I will be counting each bottle completed as 1%. I figured I could count the shelves as the remaining 1% to get to 100% when all is said and done.
Here are my shelves!

I kinda draped it on the back of a chair for the picture, but rest assured that they are all the same width.