After several weeks off due to illness I've started working on this one again! Believe it or not there are still MORE BOOKS I need to make lol I decided to take a break from that and work on the wiring. The directions say little more than "jam everything together and twist the similar colored wires together" so it's been a little challenging!

The review I read of this kept saying it was "psychedelic death metal" so of course I had to check it out lol

What we get here is more of a mix of Swedish death metal with some hints of black metal, with a whole bunch of late 60s/early 70s prog and psychedelic rock all kind of mixed throughout!

In all honesty I listened to this album thinking it was just going to be a dumb gimmick that I'd turn off after a few tracks, but surprisingly it works magnificently! I've already listened to the whole thing twice since yesterday and I already want there to be more of this lol

I give it 5 out of 5 ancient evils risen from the deep 🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑

As a matter of fact, I liked it so much I'm going to give it a bonus Wizard and Dragon too 🧙‍♂️🐉

At first I thought someone had taken a regular doll head and stuck it on a troll doll some time in the 80s, but I showed it to my friend who is a doll expert and he is certain it's a Liddle Kiddle doll. According to Wikipedia they were only produced from 1965 until 1970 when they were discontinued due to the global oil crisis.

This one is in pretty rough shape, but here are some images of how they look in good condition:

Once I finish up these last 2 flowers there are only 2 sections left to do! I still think it's funny that I picked this pattern thinking it would be quick since there are only 10 colors, but it's been so complicated that it's taken me longer than any other cross stitch I've done so far lol

This belonged to my grandfather originally. There's not a ton of info about when these were produced that I could find, but what I did find suggested that this is probably from the very early 60s sometime

Found this old newspaper page folded up in a box in the attic at moms house and thought I'd share!

I just opened Lemmy to browse all and half the posts are memes in German about pizza. Wtf Germany?

I never knew the 80s new wave version by Soft Cell was a cover lol

I had to frog almost all the progress I made last week and redo it after realizing I'd somehow stitched everything in the new section one row too low... Thankfully I got caught back up and made a little more progress though so I hope this panel will be done by Friday!

Apparently it's a regular occurrence

I'm finally starting the dragon!

Also here is a little tiny Sakura tree I started! I still have to do all the back stitching