Would you look at the calendar? It’s the middle of goddamned November. That means Christmas is right around the corner. That means gifts. I don’t really care much for shopping. Why should I just buy some lame-ass gift in a store when I have the wherewithal to create a one-of-a-kind, handmade present?

Problem is, I kind of let it slip my mind to start crafting. So I’ve got a pretty short time to get these things done. I think I can do it, though. Maybe.

What this means is, despite being so very close to the finish line on the ol’ Dragon Warrior project, I’m going to need to table it for the time being. Since there’s a chance, albeit a small one, that a would-be recipient might stumble across a photo, I’m also going to need to put an embargo on any photos of gifts in progress. Some of my ideas are pretty damned good too. It hurts me to have to do this. Keep an eye out for a slew of posts after the embargo has been lifted.

Onward, cross stitch xmas 2008!

This morning I got up and looked at the site and suddenly everything just “clicked.” I’d been meaning to clean some things up for a little while now without success. Today, I figured it out.

I’d long known that the major traffic draws for the site have been the cross stitch projects I began posting last winter. I always expected that they would be. It wasn’t until recently that I realized just how badly a blog structured site is for displaying such works. Remember, way back in the “wild west” days of the Internets when there used to be static content? Stuff that didn’t just get filed away in long archive lists? I did, and I thought it might be worth trying to emulate such antiquated sites.

So, I put them up front, moved them to a new section, and plan to keep on building from there. Yes, I know that the structure is still very “blog.” I’m trying to think of a better way to put that section together.

I’m going to be putting the rest of them up over time, roughly in the order in which they were created. I’ve started with the moblin.