Friday Five

[siercia]

1. What are your favorite ways to relax and unwind?
Stitching (duh), reading, napping, yoga

2. What do you do the moment you get home from work/school/errands?
Kick off my shoes, find Wiley and Widget, kiss them both hello. Hang out with them until Widget bedtime, then get dinner started.

3. What are your favorite aromatherapeutic smells?
Citrus-y smells, especially lemon, baking smells (cinnamon and nutmeg-ish), vanilla.

4. Do you feel more relaxed with a group of friends or hanging out by yourself?
Depends on my mood and the friends in questions. But usually by myself. In a group I often feel pressure to be sparkling and social and witty, and except for a few close friends that is usually an enormous amount of work for me. I'm very good at entertaining myself, so usually I'm just fine all alone.

5. What is something that you feel is relaxing but most people don't?
People who don't stitch don't see how it's relaxing (but most who do agree that it is). I also find both cooking and cleaning relaxing when I'm not under any time or performance pressure to do either

Comments

[siercia]

Mostly cross-stitch. I also do needlepoint and hardanger and other types of embroidery. But most people would call it cross-stitch =)

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[siercia]

Crewel is pretty easy to do. My great-grandmother did beautiful crewel work. Sometimes I think I'm WAY to into stitching, but I just enjoy it so much. Now if only I could figure out a way to get paid for it.