Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and has had a good start to this new year. I know a lot of people make a new stitchy start on January 1 but it's not something I've ever done; however, yesterday was 123123 day (12/31/23) as my son pointed out to me, and for some reason the thought of making a completely new start on a once-in-my-lifetime day was too compelling to ignore. I'd already been toying with the idea of kitting up Mirabilia's Fairy Idyll because I've been seeing some WIP and finishes photos on FB, and then I bought this gorgeous piece of fabric (Charmes on Edinburgh linen) from NicholasFlamelDesign and when it arrived I immediately thought that it would be a great background for Fairy Idyll. That was about a week ago, but I'd still been resisting doing anything about it because I really meant to finish the last of the three models and maybe a current WIP or two; then 123123 day happened and I just had to do it! This is what I pulled together yesterday morning:

And here is where I left it last night:

The colors in the first photo are more accurate than the closeup, and I'm hoping give it the feel of nighttime in a fairy bower. I think I'll work on this for one more day and see if I can get the stone face at the top finished or almost finished.

After that it'll be back to work on the final model; the second one is done but I'm still waiting for it to be approved. I'm hoping the last one will only take another week or two, but I'm still horrible at estimating how long projects will take, so who knows?!

After 12 days the Silks4U Christmas advent box was empty, and it was a lot of fun opening all the goodies for almost two weeks:

Hope everyone has a great stitchy New Year!