A Finish

I've finished one of my projects, my stitching diary.  I am so happy with the out come, it's better than I expected apart from I wish I hadn't of used Copydex to stick it to the diary.  Does anyone use anything better to attach aida to things?

Anyway this is the finished item ....

xxxx

Craft Bubble

At the weekend I joined a crafting community website.  It's not just about cross stitch but all crafts, where you can chat and exchange ideas.  I have spoken to loads of really nice people form all around the world on there.  You should all go and check it out....

http://www.craftbubble.com/

Update of WIPs

I had a great weekend stitching, I stitched for a total of 7 1/2 hours over Saturday and Sunday.  I have put updated photos of all my WIPs on my projects page.

Last night I decided to start a new project, it is only small so shouldn't take very long.  I thought my stitching diary looked very plain and boring...

So I looked though my magazine for a design I could stitch to put on the front cover.  After lots of mind changes I decided to go for a deign that I found in Cross Stitch Crazy issue161. Its a twist on the popular Keep Calm and Carry On posters, they have 4 different designs in the magazine....

I decided to go for the Keep Calm and Start Stitching design but I have changed it slightly.  Instead of filling in with stitches, I found a scrap of coloured Aida so that will save me time too.  I went with the red Aida as this is what colour the original posters are in....

Hopefully I will get this finished in the next day or 2 and I will keep you updated.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, take care xxx

I love Saturdays

Yesterday I made great progress with my 3 WIPs.  In the afternoon I spent an hour each on the needlebook and the Fizzy Moon card.  Then in the evening when the kids had gone to bed I spent 2 and half hours on the tiger.  I love the weekends when I get to spend lots of time sewing, my DH is at home so he takes a bit of the housework off me so I have more free time.  Today I have got to go to my local sewing shop to see if they have DMC 310 in stock, I've been in there every weekend for the past month now and they haven't had any in but I'm in desperate need for it to carry on with the tiger.

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekends and I will get some updated pictures up soon. xx

A Black Cloud

A black cloud has appeared over us in more than one way.  Today it looks like we are loosing the unseasonably warm weather, it's cloudy and it is set to get cooler over the weekend and next week, just in time for the kids half term holidays.

The other black cloud is my daughter was bitten by a dog on Wednesday evening.  We live in a small village in the Cotswolds and she went to the park with her friends after school for an hour and on her way back home she was passing a house that has a Great Dane as it's guard dog and the dog jumped over the wall and grabbed her hand in his mouth.  She managed to pull away and run home but she was covered in blood and we had to take her to A&E.  I went round to speak to the owners and they promised that they would keep the dog away from that part of their property so it can't get over the wall but they haven't.  The police spoke to them last night and I just walked past there and it's still there.  The house is opposite the primary school and I am worried that someone is going to come off a lot worse than Lily did.

I am so angry with them for not keeping this dog in their property, fair enough that they need a guard dog but it should not be allowed to get at the public.  They are rich and think that they are above everyone else but if it was the other way around and my dog had bitten one of their children I am sure I would have been banged up by now!

Sorry that this is such a gloomy blog but I just needed to get it out there.

Take care everyone xxx

Cherry Blossom

What a beautiful couple of days it has been.  The blossom is out on the Cherry Tree and it feels good to get some sunshine on my skin.  I am writing this sat outside whilst doing my work.  I don't think in the whole time that I have been self employed that I|have managed to sit outside whilst working and it's only March!  I made a massive progress with my tiger picture last night (I will post an updated photo on my projects).  I have also got 2 small things on the go at the moment, which I hate doing because I feel guilty that I'm not stitching them.  My local sewing shop has run out of DMC 310 which is what I need the most so I need to order some online, does anyone know of any good reliable and fast online companies?

Anyway hope you are all enjoying the weather and managing to get some stitching done. xxx

What a lovely weekend

What a brilliant weekend.  Lots of lovely sunshine so I got the garden tidied up, the kids run a mile each on Friday for Sports relief, Morgan (the middle one) played football for his team on Saturday they drew so they are now joint top of the league and then he ran another mile for sports relief on Sunday with his football team.  I am so very proud of them all and considering they are only 11, 8 and 5 that was an amazing achievement.  To top it all off I made some progress with my tiger picture.  Brilliant xx