O - A-Z Cross Stitch Style

O is for Onix and Officers

It's O Day in the A-Z Challenge.  I'm cross stitching two of my alphabet patterns for the challenge - a Pokemon one and a Supernatural one.  Both patterns (plus may others) are available from my Etsy store.  

The Pokemon Alphabet

O is for Onix, another of the rock Pokemon. Along with Geodude, he's one of the first rock Pokemon you encounter in the original game, when you enter the cave - a rather confusing, twisting maze.  He was one of my favourites, and tended to remain in my "line-up" throughout the rest of the game.

The Supernatural Alphabet

O is for Officers of the law, the many background/extra characters that appear in virtually every episode of Supernatural - whether they be police, sherifs, Feds, rangers, or others.  If the Winchester brothers aren't impersonating them, then they are running around making the Officers look stupid.  I always enjoy the episodes when the officers have a few more brain cells than normal and either show the brothers up, solve the case, or assist in meaningful ways.

Over at Travel Like A Geek I am working my way through an A-Z of the filming locations used in the Harry Potter series.  O is for Oxford.

Happy stitching.

Ros

N - A-Z Cross Stitch Style

N is for Nidoking and Naomi

We've made it past half-way - hurray!  Today is N in the A-Z Challenge, where I am cross stitching two different alphabets - Pokemon and Supernatural.  Both patterns are available from my Etsy store.

The Pokemon Alphabet

N is for Nidoking, the third evolution of Nidoran♂.  In the original version of the game, Nidoran♂ and Nidoran♀ are the only male/female species identified.  Everything else tends to be referred to as "he".  In later versions there were male/females of other species and Pokémon could lay eggs/breed.  

The Supernatural Alphabet

N is for Naomi, the second of the characters that I don't know.  I'm about half-way through season 7, and Naomi doesn't appear until season 8.  According to this website, "she is a high-ranking angel charged with making rebellious angels obedient once more and extracting information from them".  Naomi is played by Amanda Tapping, of Stargate SG-1 fame.

I am writing a second blog for the A-Z challenge: Travel Like A Geek where I am exploring the locations used in the Harry Potter films.  N is for Northern England.

Happy Stitching

Ros

M - A-Z Cross Stitch Style

M is for Magikarp and Meg

Today is M, the half-way point in the A-Z Challenge. 13 posts down, 13 to go. For the challenge I'm cross stitching two of my alphabet patterns - a Pokemon one and a Supernatural one.  Both patterns (plus may others) are available from my Etsy store.  



The Pokémon Alphabet

M is for Magikarp, the fish and most useless Pokémon around.  Honestly.  All he can do is "splash", which is useless and ineffective against even the weakest of Pokémon.  The only way to push Magikarp through the levels to his evolution was to send him out first, and then immediately swap him for another Pokémon - that way he received XP (points) even though he did nothing.  His evolution is pretty cool - the water dragon Gyarados.  My sister-in-law has a t-shirt with the picture below on it:

Image from www.levelupstudios.com

The Supernatural Alphabet

M is for Meg Masters.  Demon-possessed Meg appears in this incarnation (blond hair) in season 1, before being exorcised by Dean and Sam.  As is always the way, Meg reappears in later seasons, played by another actress (because the demon went and infected someone else... as they do...).  I outlined the eyes on this figure to make them appear darker, indicating the black-eyed look of demons in the Supernatural TV series.

Over at Travel Like A Geek I am working my way through an A-Z of the filming locations used in the Harry Potter series.   K is for Kings Cross Station - home of platform 9 3/4.

I was feeling a lot more caught-up this week - I got ahead on the Supernatural stitching last weekend, and was only needing to work on the Pokémon one this week.  I'm going to have to spend most of this weekend stitching though as I'm no longer ahead.  I'll get there - it's halfway done after all! 

Happy stitching

Ros

L - A-Z Cross Stitch Style

L is for Lapras and Lucifer

We're up to L in the A-Z challenge.  Tomorrow marks the half-way point - hurray!  For the challenge I am stitching two different alphabets - a Pokémon alphabet, and a Supernatural alphabet.  The patterns for both alphabets are available from my Etsy store

The Pokémon Alphabet



L is for Lapras.  Lapras is usually the first Pokémon who learns the "swim" move in the original game, where you can ride on the Pokémon's back to travel across water.  Other Pokémon can learn the move as well, however no matter who you teach it to, it is always Lapras' sprite (image) that appears on screen to indicate that you are "swimming"



The Supernatural alphabet

L is for Lucifer, the fallen angel and devil-incarnate. Lucifer is the lead bad guy/antagonist through-out season 5, and keeps reappearing in season 6, trying to drive Sam insane.  Initially I quite enjoyed Lucifer's appearance - he was calm and rational which made a nice change from some of the demons on the show.  However it did get to the stage of "okay, enough now."

Because I'm insane, I'm writing a second blog for the challenge at Travel Like a Geek, where I am discussing/visiting the locations used in the Harry Potter films.  L is for The Leaky Cauldron.

Happy Stitching!

Ros

K - A-Z Cross Stitch Style

K is for Kangaskhan and Kevin

We're up to K in the A-Z Challenge.  I'm cross stitching two of my alphabet patterns for the challenge - a Pokemon one and a Supernatural one.  Both patterns (plus may others) are available from my Etsy store.  

 

The Pokemon Alphabet

K is for Kangaskhan.  I'm Australian, so I love this Pokemon on the principal that it's a mutant kangaroo.  Kangaskhan is one of the Pokemon that can only be found in the Safari park in the original version of the game, so you had one chance/opportunity to find it.  You could stay in the Safari park as long as you liked, but once you left, you couldn't return.

The Supernatural Alphabet

K is for Kevin Tran, the new prophet.  This is the first of three characters in this alphabet that I don't know.  I'm still behind in my Supernatural viewings, and I haven't yet reached the season where Kevin appears.

Over at Travel Like A Geek I am working my way through an A-Z of the filming locations used in the Harry Potter series.   K is for Kings Cross Station - home of platform 9 3/4.

Happy Stitching

Ros