Stitching on Underwater Paradise has been slow due to 2 reasons. One, my son had oral surgery yesterday and most of the time has been with helping him through this. The other is that I am starting on the RR piece and I wanted to get a good head start on it.

However, I am working on the background up at the top of the design and want to finish a good portion of it this week. I also want to complete a few fish that I have started before putting more on the canvas.

The RR is going well - I have the first chickadee almost done. I would like to finish him and get some of the tree done this week. They are being stitched on 18 ct. Aida. I chose Aida as this is my first RR and it is a beginners group and I wasn't sure what to go with.

I am hoping to be a part of the Stitching Bloggers Webring as I have been reading posts from their and have enjoyed everyone's stitching. I also want to start working on my blog - getting the page to look like I want it too. In reading everyone's blogs, I have fell in love with the blinkies that you all have - hope to get some soon after I figure out how to get them on my site.