Say hello to my friend Darth

I've got a day off tomorrow and I plan to spend it with Mr Vader. I love this time of year when you have to use up your annual leave and so end up with some wee sneaky day of.. kids are school, dh at work. Just me and some stitching and plenty of telly to catch up on.. lovely.   Here's where I'm at at so far.

The last couple of weeks I have been working on a belated Christmas Ornament to replace one that went missing on first posting.  Forgot to take a snap before I popped it in the post though.  Also have done a bit more on my HAED mini sea of roses - I am really loving this mini but will now put it away for a wee bit to concentrate on other things.



With it being such a gorgeous just a hint of spring day today had a bit of a clear out, got some cd's boxed up ready for music magpie, books off to the charity shop and also updated what stitching mags I still have.  If anyone is interested in these please see link below, got a few Cross Stitch Gold and Collection etc - only looking to cover postage costs.

view magazines here

For each magazine -  UK £3.00
                               Europe £4.50
                               USA & rest of the world  £7.00

Happy to combine any magazines and will readjust p&p accordingly.

Off now for dinner and then some ironing - oh the joys!!

Jan wip

Oops? have realised that january appears to have come and gone and I still haven't updated my blog. Great start to the year lol!
Well this month I have worked on haed twilight shimmer and my new start haed mini sea of roses as well as a bit on my Mirabilia and then this week I've started on another Christmas ornament to replace one I had sent and which unfortunately disappeared into the ether. No pics of that till its gone.

Had to have a little stash enhancement of course from Paine Free Crafts. A new company selling some fab designs. I had to give in and by this.

.So gorgeous! This week I am doing a bit of a mish mash of Haed, Christmas ornie, Darth Vader and hopefully start a wee baby gift..we'll see how it pans out.

WIPacolapyse 2012

Well it appears that the end of the world seems to have past us by without too much fuss so I hereby present my sum up of my 2012 wipocalpyse stitching . Note the use of the word stitching not finishing as to be truthful there wasn't much of that happening this year but there's always next year. Warning - lots of pics!

1.  Pinoy - Don't Make Me Kill You

 Finished yay!

2. Chatelaine - White Nights in St Petersburg   -  part 4 done, part 5 started

3. HAED - SK Rapunzel

  page 1 completed

4. Artecy - Solar System

 Another finish

5. Mirabilia - Maidens of the Season Spring

6. HAED - QS Twilight Shimmer

7. CCN Joy

Finished

8. Victoria Sampler - Jazz Tuffet

 Finished (no start picture)

9. Ink Circles - Bramble and Rose

10. HAED QS Siberian Forest

11. Bent Creek Snapper - June Zooms

Started and finished

12. West End Embroidery - Tile
Didn't get a look in

So overall not too bad - have really enjoyed taking part in this and already planning for 2013!

Cookies....

With Christmas come and gone I've now got back in to my rotation - last week I worked on Come to the Dark Side .. Darth Vader is slowly coming to life.  He'll be back in a few weeks.  

This week I'm working on my Chatelaine - picture of that will follow in Wipocalpyse sum up. Just sorting out what is going in to my rotation for 2013 - pretty much what was in it in 2012 lol!  Maybe a couple of new starts though just to shake it up a bit...

No work now till 3rd January and wet and windy weather means plenty of quality stitching time.  Excellent stuff.  

Wishing you all a happy new year.. to all who stopped by in 2012, thanks very much! 

Christmas

So this year I decided to take part in a couple of Christmas ornament exchanges. One with Kate from Momubocrea Island  and one with Ruth from Friendly Stitchers.  Both of these are now hanging proudly on my tree - thanks ladies!

 From Ruth to me

From Kate to me - love the little chocolate Santa in his stocking (I have to own up though that Santa is no longer with us but was very tasty .. )

Sent out from me

So now that Christmas stitching has been done normal service is resuming with getting back into my rotation and getting my new year SAL sorted for The Stash, Stitch and Honking Raketeers Group (facebook group).  Am going with HAED Mini Sea of Roses  



- can't wait to get started on it.

 Have also realised that we are nearly at the end of our WIPOCALYPSE for 2012 (that has shot by fast!) so will be back after Christmas with a round up of my stitching year..

October wipocalypse. . And a page finish yay. .

<p dir=ltr>A self explanatory title.&nbsp; All I have to show is a page finish. . So pleased as it makes me think that I will actually have a haed finish one day. Other than that started on a couple of Xmas ornies which I wont show at present..

Off to Harrogate this weekend to meet up with some stitchy friends .. so looking forward to this..I am I'm definite need of a weekend away.