Spring Egg

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I made 12 of these for an order for Helen - 12 identical spring eggs on 12 different color cards. It took me forever and a day to come up with this design. I really wanted to fill an egg with rows of decorative stitching, like a Crazy Quilt, if you will. I even downloaded some free graph paper from here and came up with my own design but it just wasn't right. My stitching looks best when it's tiny and close together so even if I'd come up with the right design, it would have been labor intensive. Punching holes in the foam paper eggs was a dream but the holes only showed on the side I punched from unless I held the egg up while punching, being sure the needle tool when all the way through.

I worked on these most of Sunday and quite frankly, got pretty sick of them. I took one into work to show Jen yesterday and she really liked it. I finished them up last night (shipping your order today Helen!) and now that I have some distance from the project and see it scanned here, I kind of like it too. Helen wanted something Eastery/Springish and I think this does it.

I think the rows of decorative stitching is still a great idea - now I'm picturing a Christmas ornament shape. Maybe some stitched with metallic thread.

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Oh yeah. It's my birthday today. I've always loved birthdays, mine and other people's. Everyone gets their own special holiday, blah, blah, blah. Must be a 50s thing but I just don't care anymore. I did receive some spectacular birthday brownies yesterday. The wife of a friend at work made brownies with a layer of Symphony candy bars in the middle. To. Die. For.

Thanks for the card, Stephanie!

Our CEO still takes each employee out to lunch for their birthday. Yesterday he gave me the choice of going yesterday or going today when there will probably be some ESOP Committee members joining us. I picked today because, as a former member of that committee, it will be nice to visit with some of those members that I know and get to know the newer members I don't know as well.

Steve has a meeting at work today, get this: 11:30 am to 10:00 pm. That's not a typo. That's insane! I'm calling it his "lockdown". It's a project meeting of sorts with lots of people. They will all have their laptops so ideally they can work on other things when the meeting isn't specific to them. Sheesh. They are to bring their own lunch but dinner will be provided.

So we celebrated my birthday Saturday night. We went to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. I ordered some chicken pasta thing, big surprise. I ate half that night, 1/4 the next night and I'll finish it off tonight. Their menu says they provide "generous portions". No shit. We got our dessert to go. That took me 2 days to eat. I had an Oreo Mudslide Chocolate Cheesecake thing and Steve ordered Apple Strudel Cheesecake. Heavenly.

52 big ones, people. I say that for the express purpose of making my parents feel old. (Hi Mom! Hi Dad! Thanks for having me.)

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