Trying to stay afloat

My mom, son and dog have all had medical issues in the past several weeks, so between ER, hospital and rehab visits, doctor appointments and the vet I feel like I am barely keeping my head above water. Even stitching is not helping as much as it usually does; I've taken a hiatus (hopefully brief) from model stitching because the stress of stitching on a deadline when I didn't feel much like stitching at all was too much. I'd like to think better times are right around the corner, but realistically I know this is probably going to go on for some time.

It turns out that Warm Wooly Welcomes is a good piece to take to waiting rooms, as the small individual charts and ease of the subject matter make it easy to work on almost anywhere. It went with me to the ER two days in a row:

And then to the emergency vet about a week later:

Then it went with me to a day of stitching in Green Bay, celebrating my LNS owner's 30th anniversary; I got a lot done that day, and am almost done with July's sheep:

I've stitched a couple of models for Heart in Hand, one of which has just been released:

The other one is a new Tiny Town, which will probably come out soon since Cecilia has a pretty short turnaround time when I send a model back to her.

This past weekend I picked up Nora Corbett's Mari again and was able to finish it:

I did really enjoy working on Mari, and since I already had three more of the Bewitching Pixies kitted in the same floss box I decided to start another one, Cleo:

As with Mari, this one is being stitched on an opal Belfast Silkweaver solo, and I'm hoping it turns out as well as I picture it in my head.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!