Ballet Dancer & Rose Fairy

The problem with blog updating more regularly is every WIP looks very similar to the previous one. Rose Fairy is slightly changed - a green blob has appeared above the first leaf. This is the beginnings of the 2nd leaf, but I don't think will look like a leaf until the backstitch is on. When I've finished this leaf I'm going to treat myself and move onto the first flower head, which is pink. I've got a thing about pink flowers at the moment, I like flowers in any other colour, but pink isn't doing it for me. I came home from work a week or so ago and found 2 hanging baskets on the front of my house largely dominated by pink geraniums. My husband was upset I couldn't say I liked them, what's wrong with them? All I could say is, they're too pink. I do still like pink roses though.


I still don't have a bulb in my lamp. I know I'm sounding like a helpless female here but its a funny lamp with a funny bulb and I have no clue which one to buy or how to fit it if I did. I'm tempted to buy one of those really expensive lamps especially designed for cross stitch, although am a little put of by the magnifying glasses they all seem to have on them, I don't need one of those yet! But really, anything so long as it has a bulb I can change myself.