Another day

Another day, another year has passed.  Life goes on and life ends.  My sister C is in palliative care at the moment.  We are waiting for the fateful call.  They say that we all must die, there is no escaping it.  But when it's a sibling it hits pretty hard.  In the last few years we had become pretty close and now I have to let go.  She's the one sister from our huge brood that I have the most in common with.. from our interests to our personalities.  Cancer is a terrible, terrible disease and our family had been cancer free for so long but then when it started, it seemed to have it out for my family with a vengeance.  I have taken up a Ketogenic way of eating along with fasting and I'm hoping that it will hold off the demon for a few more years at least. 

I'm determined to enjoy life while I have it and have taken up my counted cross stitch wolves once again.  I heard a while back that if you have varied interests and crafts that are making you feel scattered and overwhelmed (raises hand)... that you should take one craft and determine to do it and it alone for one full year so that you can complete projects and perfect your craft.  Then after the year is up take another craft and so on.  So starting in July counted cross stitching is my craft of choice and my wolf project is my ongoing one that I have spent years saying to myself that I need to finish it and get it framed and hung.  So I'll keep you updated on how it is going as I go along and that will keep me interested in this blog (I hope).  Below is a photo taken just now of how far I've completed on the image, as you can see I'm almost half done after years of stitching.  The whole of the image area is stitched with no background showing through so it's a lot of stitching.  Below is the pattern book that has the pattern in it, as you can see, I have lots to go.