may

so what have i been up to for the past wee while :

stitching:

- stitched and finished Bent Creek "May Blooms" which is now hanging up at my work

- Solar System now has uranus, pluto, venus and saturn, think i am heading over to jupiter next

- HAED qs twilight shimmer has been having a wee bit of work on her, about half way through page 3

- Ink Circles bramble and rose has made it on to page 4

i've been very disciplined and sticking to my rotation days so with the bent creek finish i now have a thurs and friday free - so tonight i am going to make a start on bent creek "i do" sampler for my niece's wedding. This isn't till end of July but this gives me plenty of time to get it done and then framed.

work

same old same old. ended up with loads of time off in April between annual leave, easter public holidays and of course the good ole royal wedding (could really do with one of those every year) so it feels like april just disappeared from us. have actually had to work a full five days this week, i'm exhausted lol!

home

the plastering is now finished in the living room and got the painter coming on 1 june to paint walls and varnish doors, now just have to pick a colour - thinking of going for a pale blue grey but this could change, this and picking tiles for the kitchen have been the hardest decisions to make..
now officially ran out of money so the rest of the house will be on hold for the forseeable. Especially as my car needs a pile of work done on it and it looks like it's going to be going to the big car heaven instead and a new (well new to me) car bought instead - oh the joys!

plan for the weekend

lee working next three nights so telly and stitching is the order of the day. Am loving the new series of Doctor Who, the kids have been pretty freaked out by it - oh the hours of entertainment i can have scaring the pants off them by sneaking up with masks on, great fun ha ha!

right off to catch up on the soaps and have dinner - have a good weekend all

corrie corrie

Well that's a finish for me - dd Neve's coronation st bookmark - a nice wee stitch though being a total numpty i had slightly misjudged the placement of it on the fabric and had to kind of squash it up a bit at the end but hey ho - that's the way these things go!

Starting a new small start this weekend with Bent Creek Snapper May - eventually one year i will actually have all twelve finished.

been working away on Ink Circles Bramble & Rose - will get page 3 finished this month - i only get this out every few weeks, and i forget everytime how much i like it, using Carries Creations threads is a delight.

the kids are off on holiday for the next two weeks so am taking a few days off work to be at home with them - oh i am so looking forward to just getting stuff sorted in the house and garden and just relaxing, nothing too exciting in the plan.

Planning to meet up with a couple of friends this week so we can have our inaugural stitching night - one has been stitching for a few months and one is new to it, so we will see how we get on - planning to start Miracles Happen as that is definitely how i feel at the mo -15lbs down, 35 to go!

right off to see how the tiler is getting in the kitchen - looking good so far..

hope you all have a good weekend.

a mini finish

Well it has taken a while but finally got part II of Chatelaine White Nights in St Petersburg finished.. i am not normally a fan of speciality stitches but have loved doing all of these
plus lots of metallics used - loving ma bling!

Headed up to the creative stitches show at Glasgow last weekend as a couple of friends were looking to get started stitching so i joined them as an advisory role, we're going to get together soon to have our own little stitching night - converting the world one stitcher at a time... picked up these two charts as well, both Heritage Crafts. The shows now though are so disappointing when it comes to cross stitch now, only a couple of exhibitors and I was so surprised to actually get these as just charts. It's all just kits and aida - c'mon folks this is not 1985..

well dd is now demanding computer time so i will be off to cook dinner, before settling down for a bit of well earned stitching time and two hours of The Killing - I am so so loving this programme, cannot wait to find out who it was but on the other hand don't want it to finish..

ABC's of me

Came across this a few weeks back and thought it quite informative. I like my information simple.

A - Age: 40
B - Bed size: Double
C - Chore you hate: Cleaning bathroom
D - Dog's name: no dog
E - Essential start of the day item: diet coke
F - Favorite color: i'm quite partial to pink
G - Gold or Silver: silver
H - Height: 5'3"
I - Instruments you play: None
J - Job: medical secretary for psychiatry
K - Kids: neve 11, joe 7
L - Living arrangements: mid terraced house with dh and aforementioned children, and Poppy the cat
M - Music you love: today - David Guetta, Adele, QOTSA, Chase&Status
N - Nicknames: none
O - Overnight hospital stay at hospital: Yes
P - Pet Peeve: eejit drivers
Q - Quote from a movie: no favourites
R - Right handed or left: Left
S - Siblings: 1 older brother and 1 older sister
T - Time you wake up: 7am
U - Underwear: definitely
V - Vegetable you dislike: haven't found one yet
W - Workout Style: the lying on the sofa, raising an arm periodically to use the remote, style
X - X-rays you've had: teeth, toe, ankle
Y - Yummy food you make: culinarly challenged, that's what supermarkets are for
Z - The best place to visit: anywhere with a pool, sunlounger, bar and kid's club will do

feel free to join in.

Spring has sprung

Okay maybe a bit optimistic there but i do have snowdrops and my daffs are popping through as well now so that just about counts as spring.

Stitching

Solar system - finishing off Saturn this week and then i think on to Neptune as my next planet to visit.
HAED - am slowly reaching the end of page 2
Corrie bookmark - about halfway through now

Have been very good as not spending money on stash but i did come across this sampler - jenny bean halloween -and just had to have it. It is not normally my style but just love the rather macabre feel to it.. this may just get started this year but no guaranteeing that..

House

Finally got my bedroom Sky+ box fixed on the third attempt when they actually sent someone from Sky and not some contractor who i reckon didn't know one end of a sky box from another - the end result being i got a new sky box, cabling and dish and no more signal problems -

Now just have to get the leaky roof, the wardrobe door and electric meter sorted lol! After that the plasterer is coming in to plaster and skim the hall and living room and then if we have any money left it'll get decorated (but that is kind of looking like a next year thing...) - this year is proving to be a bit pricey with trips away here and there (Southerness in May, Turkey in June and a wedding in Bath in July) so the house will have to take a bit of a back seat for a wee while.

On a half day today from work so just finishing up and getting home to grab a couple of childfree hours stitching .. back soon

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..