After several years of working on 2 little snow bookmarks frantically between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I decided this month that I would quickly finish the last 4 before the baby comes. If you have never cross-stitched, you need to know that each pattern has symbols representing different colors...a little like paint by number. So, I dove into this lovely bookmark-thinking the color choices were a bit odd, but it would probably work out in the end. As I started my last 6 stitches, I thought to myself, why would a snowman have a flesh-colored carrot nose? I checked the pattern again and lo and behold...I read the wrong codes for the entire bookmark! Indeed a yellow-colored snowman was not intended by the kit makers....they seemed to want a white and light blue one! Normally this discovery would dissolve into a flood of tears at 36 weeks of pregnancy. But I am too exhausted to cry...so instead Rick suggested we keep this as a funny ornament for our tree to laugh at for years...the year our daughter was born and Mom made a yellow-snow snowman.
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