C - A-Z Cross Stitch Style

C is for Charizard and Castiel

Day 3 of the A-Z Challenge, where hundreds of bloggers across the internet are writing posts featuring a different letter of the alphabet throughout April.  It is being hosted here if you want to check out some of the amazing blogs people are writing this month.  I'm cross stitching two of my alphabet patterns for the challenge - a Pokemon alphabet and a Supernatural alphabet.  All of my patterns are available from my Etsy store if you want to check them out.

The Pokemon Alphabet

C is for Charizard, the third evolution of Charmander, one of the "starter" Pokemon in the original red and blue versions.  Charmander was usually my choice for starter Pokemon, so I occasionally got to see Charizard - depending on how long I managed to play for before deleting the game, having to hand it over to my brothers, etc.  I'm a little bit of a pyromaniac (love lighting matches and candles and just watching them burn, or adding things to campfires) which is probably why I loved the fire aspect of Charizard.

The Supernatural Alphabet

C is for Castiel the angel, and one of my favourite characters in Supernatural.  I love his monotone and dry wit.  Castiel is the angel who pulled Dean from hell, and who helps (to a lesser or greater extent) the Winchester brothers fight the demons and save the world.  My favourite episode with Castiel is when the brothers were transported to the alternate reality where Supernatural was a TV show - Micha's grin and "let me play too" attitude was priceless.

After a quiet Sunday catching up on some stitching, I'm feeling a little more organised and less paniky about this challenge.  I have this week of work so should be able to get myself enough ahead that I manage to make it through the challenge unscathed!  Only time will tell.

I'm also completing the A-Z Challenge over at Travel Like a Geek where I am working my way through an A-Z of the filming locations used in the Harry Potter series - all locations that I visited while I lived in the UK.  C is for the Cathedral and Castle in Durham.

Happy Stitching,

Ros