My 'first' endeavor

Not a true first endeavor but the first of my relaunched cross stitch hobby. I thought one way for me to get back into cross stitching was to do a SAL. I had honestly never heard of a SAL until I read about it on Nicole's blog. Nicole shall from here on be known as my inspiration!! So I searched and found a group on Facebook sponsored by Xitch. Being a newbie, this might be a bit ambitious but I thought it would be fun to give it a try. Each week a new page of the pattern is released. Here the picture of the project:

And here is my progress so far:

I have about 1100 stitches done. It is a gigantic project that will be amazing when I finish! With the pages being released a week at a time, the project should take around a year to finish, if one can keep up with that pace! I think I might need to find a stand to put it on because it is quite a bit of fabric to cope with!

On another note here is a little giveaway I also found out about from my inspiration on Julie's blog. Enter to win one of four magazines!