Well, the world is taking a beating at the moment, and a lot of people are worried and frightened about what comes next.  Hopefully you and your loved ones are safe, and taking care of each other! 

I am fortunate enough to work from my home - so I'm always self-isolating, LOL.  We did have to cancel our trip to England, but have spoken with our children / granchildren almost daily, and so far all are safe and well.  Bill was home before this all became a huge deal, and it was he that pulled the plug on our trip ... which turned out to be a good thing, as we would have been in England when all the restrictions started happening! 

It looks like he will be off for at least one turn around - so we'll have to see if we still get along after SIX WEEKS of confinement, LOL.  So far, so good! 

I also had a very quiet birthday, as we couldn't go out to dinner or anything... but thanx to Amazon he got a gift delivered, and he also gave me a subscription to an inspirational magazine I had mentioned enjoying ... and I spent the day stitching and watching movies - two of my favorite things - so it was a good day.

It's also fortunate that we brought home almost a suitcase full of books on our latest trip to Florida (we check out second-hand shops wherever we travel), and I still have about half of them left to read... so I'm good for a couple weeks (wink).

Actually, I've been getting quite a bit done - my year end bookkeeping is FINISHED (FINALLY - HURRAH), and I've been stitching away on my CASTLE face... though I DID ship the second (smaller) level off to a model stitcher, 'cause I need all the pieces before the end of April, and really don't think I can do that much all by myself! 

In addition, the first FRACTAL inspired ELEMENTAL design I told you about last month, has gone out to a model stitcher as well.  She's going to stitch all four (EARTH; AIR; WATER and FIRE), and I'll be shipping her the second design this week - all four will be in A NEEDLE PULLING THREAD (ANPT) over the next year. 

The current issue of ANPT (available shortly), should have my FLAMINGO HOLIDAY card designs in - so much fun, LOL.  The NEXT issue (after that) will have my castle (stitching as fast as I can - really!)...

The one after THAT will be another in my FACES & QUOTES series - the Louis Armstrong design that is looking absolutely stunning - THEN we'll start the four fractal inspired pieces, with EARTH, then AIR...

EARTH (the first one) has a spiral of branches, which I fractalled (is that a word, LOL?); with a smaller pinwheel branch fractal in the centre.  It's warm browns, with a green leaf in one corner, symbolizing earth.  Here's a peek at a snippet of the design (wink):

Each design will also have a corner symbol... and I'll tell you about AIR next month!

Also did some work on the ALICE IN WONDERLAND piece I also talked about last month (wasn't I chatty, (GBG)).  In fact, ALICE is going out to a model stitcher this week too, so I'm doing really well... here's a peek at that one too (GBG):

I'm going to go work on March's newsletter now... so keep each other safe, catch up on your stitching - which will also relieve stress - and we'll talk more next month...