Agouti x-stitch & update

Now that gifts and hand-made cards have been received by everyone, I can finally blog about more of the crafty things that I made for the holidays. This year (like every year), my UCSB friends and I do a Secret Santa gift exchange. I was the Secret Santa for Christina this year and I bought her a Smitten Kitchen cookbook and made this little " A is for Agouti" cross-stitch (I thought it would fit in her baby nursery). I am really pleased with how it turned out (did you notice the sparkly copper stitches on the agouti's rump?).

 

As for an update: Carlos and I are back from California and we had such an amazing time with all of our family down there! We really liked the high elevation desert in and around Lancaster and I will post some of what we did over Christmas break soon. Tomorrow, we are off on a mini-vacation at National Harbor, Maryland for a video game festival called MagFest! We are going to be gone for five days and it will be non-stop nerdiness and video game fun. This will be my very first video game con and I am glad to accomplish another item on my bucket list~

PS. Happy New Year everyone!