the sun has got his hat on

It's been a glorious week her in my little bit of Scotland and it looks like it is going to last all weekend, best make the most of it - this may actually be our summer lol!

Following IHSW last weekend I had a little finish 

Before                                                                            After

Will try my best to actually get this finished up in time so I can hang it up at my work ready for next week.

My dd and I also completed our Midnight Walk for The Ayrshire Hospice and I raised a good wee bit so feeling quite pleased-my legs weren't feeling quite so pleased though come Sunday morning...

For the rest of the month of the month going to concentrate on my HAED QS Siberian Forest. This is where I am starting off from - my plan for this year was to have page 1 of this finished - need to get a bit of a shift on me thinks...

Hope you all have a good weekend! I'm planning a bit of soaking up the sun and it's Eurovision on Sat night - always fun to watch..

Solar system revisited

It's the third Friday of the month so that means it is IHSW again - I'm joining in this month as I have a nice relaxing weekend ahead of me with plenty of potential stitching time just interrupted by a 9 mile walk round Ayr in the middle of Sat night.. definitely having a lie-in on Sunday after that.  I'm planning to work on Bent Creek June Zooms - here's my start

 Now the exciting bit of last week for me was receiving my Solar System piece back in the post .. I had commissioned the delightful Mouse to finish it up into a pillow for my ds Joe and she duly obliged and here is the end result and I couldn't be happier - it looks fab

 and here is Joe testing it out

Thanks for stopping by, always appreciate it. 

May day

Okay catch up time

Stitching 

Been very good and keeping pretty much to my rotation - have worked a bit more on my Mirabilia Maiden - she now has a head but no eyes - like to leave bringing her to life until it is all complete. 

I've had a finish with my CCN Joy - this was a nice quick finish, don't know whey i hadn't stuck with it at the time - why does that happen, it was literally a couple of days work to do on it but it had been cast aside - I'm sure i had a good reason at the time, just can't remember why lol...

Now working on my HAED Rapunzel - maybe next month I'll get started on her hair - yay.. after all that is what Rapunzel is all about.  I picked up another HAED recently - Mini Sister Moon - it was while there was a 30% sale and just couldn't resist.  

I also had a nice surprise in the post this week in the form of a portable Daylight lamp,won from a Crossstitching.com competition. It's well smart!

Non-stitchy stuff

Myself and my dd Neve (and her friend) are taking part in our local Midnight Walk in May - we're doing the 9 mile walk as i reckon that is enough for all of us.  This is to raise money for The Ayrshire Hospice which provides hospice care here in Ayr. I have set up a fundraising page via Just Giving and any support given for this would me much appreciated. 

www.justgiving.com/maureenq

I now need to get off my backside and do a bit of walking before hand - with this in mind I have added a weight loss page on here to try and keep me motivated - I plan to check in each Sunday to plot my progress and how that week has gone - good or bad! I'm hoping that putting it out here will help it be good every week.. here goes

If anyone wants to join me in this please feel free. The more the merrier. 

April Wipocalypse

No finishes this month - just a bit of routine work on my rotation pieces :

Mirabilia Maidens of the Season Spring & Ink Circle Bramble and the Rose as seen here and
a couple of HAEDs, QS Siberian Forest & QS Twilight Shimmer

Also did a little on my Chatelaine but not enough to warrant a piccie - it's very slow going  - dh asked me if I had nearly finished, i politely explained that as I started it about three years ago and was only on part 4 out of 12 don't be holding your breath for a finish any time soon lol!  I am aiming to get parts 4 & 5 done this year, so how that pans out...

Hope everyone who has the easter weekend off is enjoying the break - no work for me till tuesday - yay!!

spring has sprung

Well it's been a gorgeous few days here in Ayrshire - hopefully going to last a few more days, off for a walk this afternoon along the beach - my dd and I are planning to take part in a midnight walk for a local charity in a few weeks so need to start getting in some training and today looks like the perfect day for that

Stitching
Now that Solar System is done I've managed to get another couple of pieces back  into the rotation, managed a bit more on Ink Circles "Bramble and the Rose" and then got out an old Mirabilia "Maidens of the Season -Spring", it's been ages since I stitched on a Mirabilia it was so good to get her back out again, I'm really looking forward to spending more time with her .  For the rest of the month I'll be back to working on a couple of my HAED wips.

Off now to catch up with the Malaysian GP - come on Jenson

Great big happy dance! March Wipocalypse 2012

Well for the  last month I have been trying my best to have a finish and finally succeeded

Oh my so excited - finally got Solar System finished - now just to decide how to finish finish it.

Now back to the rotation for the rest of March 

Saturday stuff

Okay quick catch up of last couple of weeks

Stitching

Nothing new to show at present, ran out of threads for Solar System so put it to the side and worked a bit on HAED Twilight Shimmer. Back into rotation for this month, so working on Chatelaine White Nights from now till 6th, then back to Solar System (hopefully for a finish..)

Did make a couple of purchases though, some routine threads and fabric from Sew and So along with CCN February Cottage and then as I had had a wee win on the online bingo treated myself to a chart I had seen a wee while ago but felt was a bit overpriced - still do feel it is overpriced but as it was free money as such decided just to get it..

                                               
  winter sparkle by Madart on Gecko Rouge. They have some fab stuff, it was hard just sticking to one . 

Non-stitching

A couple of weekends back we went with some friends and the kids and took a day trip up to The Trossachs - it's only a couple of hours drive from us, so we have decided to make more of an effort and get out and about the country a bit more. We stopped up at Dobbies Garden Centre for a hearty breakfast to set us up and headed up to Aberfoyle. There are lots of walks of varying lengths around the forest and loch so we chose a 4 mile one up by Loch Ard. Nothing too strenous but enough to make you feel you had done something.  DS Joe was a bit puffed out but one hot chocolate later and he was feeling a lot perkier.Loch Ard

The Q's.                            Hiding in the woods

Monday last there my friend and me headed up to Glasgow to take the kids to their first gig.  We went to see The Wanted (honest it was for the kids ...!!!) and I have to say they weren't too bad at all - the music is actually quite good and let's face it, they aren't too hard on the eyes ...  Warning eye candy!

That's all folks - have a good week.