February

Been working away on all three and even managed to do some of my UFO (Chatelaine's St Petersburg) - Mouse's wet noodle over on Friendly Stitchers has me quaking in fear now lol! Will get a progress picture up of that next time to prove myself..

It was my birthday last week (i have now made it into my fabulous forties !) so in order to go with the work i've had done in the living room i decided to treat us to a fab new tv and blu-ray player and then got sky to add on HD - I am loving it, i hadn't realised how small our old telly was, so now going to settle down and watch the new Sky Atlantic channel and get some serious stitching done.

bye for now

rotation,rotation,rotation

These are my current WIPS:

Monday, Tue, Wed - Artecy Solar System worked on 28ct black jobelan- this is for my ds Joe who is currently very into space, who probably won't be by the time i finish this

Thurs, Fri - DMC Coronation Street bookmark - this is for dd Neve, we just love our Corrie lol!

Sat & Sun - HAED - for me, the oh so ironically titled Quick Stitch Twilight Shimmer

I admire all the clinically insane stitchers out there who have signed up for the 15 starts in January challenge - I have decided to hold onto my sanity and just gone with the two new starts..

merry christmas all

Well this is the only stitching i have managed to do this month - a faberge ornamenet from CrossStitcher mag done on plastic canvas, havent used this before but i am liking it for ornies. just got it finished this afternoon and up on the tree - phew just in time! But December has been a bit full on, we got our new kitchen fitted and living room floor and doors done as well

These are the before pictures









and then these are the after. Sorry they are not the best pictures but it is just a small kitchen and hard to get any decent pictures but you can get the general gist. I am so pleased with it! I can actually move about and have so much more worktop now - it's just brilliant (didn't know i could get that excited about a kitchen lol...)











We've also bought a new stereo which is basically just a fancy hard drive and so the last few nights have been spent uploading all our rather grubby old cd's. Been having great fun with this though as rediscovering loads of tracks we had forgetten about.

So things are finally settling down now just in time for Christmas Day. Am going to get a new rotation sorted out for the new year and obviously a new start thrown in there for good measure.

I hope you all have a fabulous Christmas .. will be back in the new year.

Well I got this back from the framers yesterday and although i was having a huff and puff about the cost of it last week, I am so happy with it this week lol! I've now got it stashed in the back of the car so that dh doesn't see it but I cannot wait to give it to him, i wonder if I can hold out till Christmas .

also got the background done for the advent calender so should have that all finished up this week as well. After that i think my stitching time will be slightly diminished as we are getting the new kitchen starting week after next and the electrics rewired so chaos will ensue for the next couple of weeks - bring it on ....

Advent

Okay. All my little advent pillows are stitched and sewn up. Now just to get the background made and should be good to go for 1st Dec.

Took lee's present in to get framed.£80 effing quid! Nearly fell over, as i know it'll look great and it will be in the house I can just about cope with it but reckon I will have to just frame stuff myself from now on.

Only two weeks to go
till meet up with the girls from friendly stitchers in harrogate-cannae wait!

And then getting my new kitchen fitted in December , its going to be a busy few weeks coming up.f

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the perils of wearing socks

It would appear that wearing socks while walking down the stairs is not the most sensible thing to do. One tiny slip and off we go, one leg going one way and the other going in the completely wrong direction lol! Hobbled about on it on Sunday but decided by Monday that i should maybe get it looked at, so went up to my local accident & emergeny department (my old work - where they all had a good laugh at me) and came out wearing this ridiculous big stookie! apparentely i have a subtle fracture of the lateral mallelous but this requires a completely unsubtle plaster.

The most annoying bit was that we were due to go away for a few days over this week as it is the school holidays but me being the only driver this has had to be cancelled - we shall just rearrange for the spring instead.

The good part is though that i am getting lots of stitching time yay! Working away on my advent calender which is making up 25 little pillows - only got another 5 to do and then the fun begins of sewing them all up...

take care all and remember don't wear socks going down stairs!

yay! a finish...

Finished up pressie for dh. now just to put it away and remember to get it framed before Christmas. I have so loved working on this sparklies fabric, defo getting some more in the future.

now going to do a few more squares for an advent calender, mind I'll be pushing it to have it ready for this year but I can try.

at least I'm off work tomorrow as it's a local holiday, taking the kids to xcape in Glasgow for a bit of sledging - might even have a go myself for a laugh.

right off to watch corrie. night night.

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