Since I set myself my 1k limit, I've actually been pretty good with it. And I've even surged ahead last week so even though its only Tuesday, I'm already almost at 500 stitches. So I'm definitely very proud of myself these last few couple of weeks since my last update.

When I went to Tokyo 2 years ago, I found the Square Enix character shop and went on a bit of spending frenzy there. When my purchases were getting added up, they told me I could have a free gift if I spent just a bit more (d'uh). So I decided why not and got 3 keychains that I had been eyeing. A Cactuar for Chen-Po, a Moogle for myself and a Chocobo for Sae. And that got me a free note pad. Not too awesome a free gift but I didn't really regret it at the time. Its one of those really thick square pads where you tear of little squares of paper as you go through them.

Well, now I'm quite pleased I got it after all, as two years later, I'm using that pad to write down my number of stitches as I stitch. And it's definitely helping me fulfill my quota and actually motivate me to do that little bit more.

I previously tried using my laptop and my iPhone to keep track of my stitches but I found that its just such a hassle. Sometimes, writing something down with a pencil and a paper is just so much easier.

At the moment, I'm trying very hard to finish a page. But not wanting to get all depressed over the single stitches, I started stitching 2 new pages as well. Here are 2 pictures showing where I'm currently working on.