WIPs and stitchery art

I made progress on Happy Halloween over the past week:

This one is taking a bit longer than it would if I wasn't being so fussy about it. It's stitched on 28 count linen; to get around the coverage issue I always have when stitching 2 over 2 on 28 count, I'm using the railroading technique that I heard about...like three weeks ago. It works great, but it's slower going than usual.

I also got over my mental block against the Joyful World 'March' design and finally made progress on it:

Initially I didn't really care for the design, so I didn't want to work on it. The main issue I think I was having was that it all seemed un-March-ish? There was a simplicity of design and color to the first two months' designs, which seemed appropriate for the months, and then all of a sudden there's this explosion of color and motifs in March. Not that violets flower in February around here as they do in the February design; but...still.

I finally decided to go ahead and make some changes to my liking. The only one that's really obvious here is that I've changed the color of the little chick to be closer to a heron chick, which is to say, not yellow. :P  I will also tweak the flowers/colors a bit.

Lastly, something I spotted while on a business trip in February: a pretty cross-stitched wall hanging! It was in the conference hall of the Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL. No information about it was provided, but I thought it was lovely.