Paper embroidery

[wiseheart]

... was the very first regular craft I've picked up, back in the 1980s, when I was a novice in a convent in Germany. I never abandoned it, and now I've started making embroidered Christmas cards. Here are the first two:



Other than finishing these, I was fairly lazy all day - we both were. Sometimes one just has to. *g*


Currently we are watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics with half an eye. Shoot me, but I find it deadly boring. I'm probably too old and conservative to understand the "progressive message" of this thing, but it reminds me of someone having weird visions under the influence of LSD. No festive atmosphere, no dignity - nothing that I liked in previous opening ceremonies. Feel free to disagree, but that's how I found it. So I gave up on it as soon as the last boat with the Olympic teams arrived.

Comments

[meathiel]

Oh nice ... I couldn't imagine what you were talking about yesterday.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like them. I intend to make a great many more before Christmas, all different.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

The karaoke bar I was in last night was showing the Olympics. Sports bore me, creating hostility between countries pisses me off so I tried to pay as little attention as possible. I did like when they were showing parts of Paris, it looks like a beautiful city. I actually entered a contest recently for a trip there. If I win I'm going as soon as I heal up enough from my surgery.

If the orange fuckyfuck wins I'm staying in Paris.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I love athletics, so I'm gonna watch those disciplines.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Pretty.

I watched the end of the opening when I got home, but don't really plan on going back for the first part. I think it's cool, but so very long......

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The light show around the end was pretty. All the rest was horrible. If I want to watch the Pride, I will watch the Pride. I don't like the hyped-up version of the Pride being forced upon me under the camouflage of the Olympics. Even the reporters mentioned that while the dancers were great in their own right, this opening should have something to do with sports.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I was impressed with Celine Dion singing. She's had such problems with her health, but dang she was good.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

I’m not into sport, and every opening ceremony ever has bored me silly. I think that’s where my neurodivergence comes into play — I sincerely have no idea what’s entertaining about such things. I would much rather read a book.
I may look at some gymnastics; I find the gymnasts extraordinary and beautiful. But some years I haven’t even bothered to watch any events! I’m just not sports-minded. And that kind of competitive patriotism feels weird. I understand patriotism in the sense of self-defence and also preserving cultural traditions and history, but sports patriotism is a bit of a mystery.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I usually watch the opening ceremony, then ignore the whole event until the closing ceremony. This year I couldn't even be bothered with that. From your description, I'm glad I didn't watch this time.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hee — I'm the other way around — mainly ignore the opening and closing hoo-ha but watch all the different sports in between!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I wish I hadn't, either.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The cards are beautiful.

I saw a few glimpses of the opening ceremony but decided I really couldn't be bothered with it and read instead.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You are a wise, wise woman.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

What an opening ceremony! I was asleep after the first hour!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I was working at my PC and only hopped over to the telly when Mum alerted me that new boats were showing up with the athletes. Only the last half hour or so did I actually spend in front of the screen because I wanted to see them light the Olympic flame. That was very frustrating. Mum and I had to consume some comfort alcohol afterwards, even though we hardly ever drink.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

I watched part of the opening ceremony as I could only find bits of it streamed that I could watch for free. When we had regular analog network television stations, most major sports events like the Olympics were free to all who had a television and an antenna. Nowadays, one must either pay a fortune for cable tv, which aside from rare specials has absolutely nothing I care to watch, or sign up for a trial on a streaming channel (and pay monthly charges when the trial ends) to watch the special in its entirety. The rest of what those streaming channels offer are the same crappy cable channels I have no interest in. So, I usually wait and watch the bits and pieces that are shown on YouTube or the like, free with ads — sigh. As far as the Olympics, (at least in the US) it seems only those who win Gold are revered or remembered, which is sad. Any who actually make it to Olympic level are superb athletes, so they are all winners to me.