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And the winner is.....................................

.........................Kathy Ellen.


Congratulations, and thank you to everyone of you who entered. I wish I could have a gift for everyone. I got my daughter to draw a name out, and she closed her eyes to do it. LOL

Another Souvenir

I decided to stitch another souvenir, this one is for me, but I've made a mistake. What do you think? Shall I leave it? I'm tempted to leave it? This one was stitched on 45 count linen, so is smaller than the previous one, and therefore not as easy to frog. I'm not going to tell you what the mistake is but I'm sure you can spot it if you look hard enough.

Royal Wedding Giveaway

A Royal Wedding Souvenir
by The Sampler Girl

I have decided to have a giveaway. The gift being this pin pillow which I have stitched and finished, together with a Union Jack Keyring, and a commemorative box of Clotted Cream Fudge.

To enter - all you need to do is a leave a comment on this post.

If you want an extra entry then you should advertise this giveaway on your blog or website and leave another comment with the link to the post.

This giveaway is open to anyone in the world, but if it is doubtful that your country will let the confectionery through, then I can just send you the commemorative card off the front of the box with the other items.

I need to give you a closing date/time, so this will be 8am (UK time) on Friday 6th May.

A special day

Morning all, well it's morning in the UK. I don't think there can be many people in the world who have escaped knowing about the Royal Wedding. So I have decide to have a giveaway. Come back later to see my Royal Wedding Giveaway and join in the fun.

Thank you

I just want to say a Big Thank You to everyone who took the time to leave me a comment. I have received lots of lovely comments from lots of people I have never 'met in blogland' before, and it's nice to visit blogs I've never seen before. If you left me a comment and it includes your email address, then I am getting around to thanking you personally, and if you don't receive an email from me, then I have deleted yours by mistake, but there are quite a few that I have no way of contacting, and I am truly grateful. I also wanted to say that I am still stitching, it's blogging I am having the problem with. However, something has happened this week to give me a little bit of a cheer up, I won't go into detail but this could finally be the end of something which started a long time ago.

And now I'm sure everyone here is thinking about Japan, it is on the news all of the time. My heart goes out to everyone there, I cannot comprehend what they are going through. Their emotions must be all over the place with what is going on. I only know of two stitching sisters from there - I know there will be lots more. It's nice to know that Yuko is safe, and today I have heard from Satomi (who was one of my first exchange partners), but how will their country recover from this.

This is THE END

I've been wanting to post this for the last two weeks. So here it is

THIS IS THE END.

I don't want it to be the end, but that's how I feel. I'm in a real slump at the moment, please send me some encouragement, and some PMA, I really need it.

What do you want to see here?

What do you want me to post about?

What do you like to see best on a blog post?

XX

PS - PMA = Positive Mental Attitude

Happy Valentines Day

Just popped in to say hope you all have a nice Valentines Day. I have lots of stitching to share, but I need to get it on the camera and then uploaded. My mother in law was rushed into hospital late Wednesday night, and with work and hospital visiting on an evening, and a couple of other things I had to do at the weekend I am way behind on HW and subsequently blog reading. I've just had a quick look at what photo's are uploaded and decided to let you seem some random ones.

The birds, there were 8 when I went for the camera,
but by the time I had the camera and got to take a pic,
most had flown away. LOL





The view from the front of my house, looking to the left.
Thankfully the snow has gone, and we don't want it back!

The view to the right from my front garden fence.

The fountain in the city centre is flood lit,
and looked very nice when it was frozen in the bad weather.

More Christmas stitching

Season of Love
by Country Cottage Needleworks

Gingerbread Tree
by Little House Needleworks

Elements taken from
French Country Star
by JBW Designs

Angels Sent
by Still Stitching with Susan

All stitched last year, and not one made up!

Another old finish

Tiny Things
by Victoria Sampler

Another finish from last year - still needs to be made up - no surprise there! LOL When I started Tiny Things, I did not realise that it was for a tiny Altoids tin as I had no idea that such things existed, so I added some extra borders to make it fit the bigger Altoid tin. I guess I must have finished this in February last year, as it was seen as WIP here.

A new project

This is my new project, a crocheted scarf. It's coming together really quick. I only started it today, and I've reached the half way point. The colour is not too good here, but hopefully will be better when I next take a pic.

S is for Spring
by Prairie Schooler

And another finish from last year. I was dyeing some 40 ct linen last year, when I had the urge to stitch something on white. I had a quick look through some freebies I have and found this one, it was perfect for the white background. It was to be finished as a pinkeep, and it's still waiting to be made into one.

Socks for me

I was going to post this last year, and took all the photo's then. So, I would like to present to you socks all made by my friend Carol (no blog).

Carol buys the fleece and spins and dyes (might be the other way around) the wool herself - I am so jealous. So with the exception of the top socks these are all knitted from wool that Carol has produced. For the top ones Carol used bought wool, and even knitted a little bag for them. I love them all. They have all been Christmas presents and this last Christmas Carol gave me wool so I can knit my own. :)

I have to confess that the purple ones somehow made their way into the washing machine over the Christmas period and have been felted :``( I'm so sorry Carol, but I'm going to turn them into a flower brooch at some point as I can't throw them away can I? At least I got the photo before that happened.

More ornament stitching

Stitcher's Joy
by Prairie Moon

This is another ornament I stitched last month, and never made up. It's from the 2010 JCS ornament magazine. Stitched on 28ct Vintage beige cashel with Carrie's Creations thread in Poppy. I intend making it into a circular ornament, using the fabric in the picture as the backing. I also will use this to finish Caroline too.

My finishing service! (Edited)

The title of this blog post makes me laugh - and I hope a few of you out there are laughing at it too. If only............................

I have an awful lot of 'making up/finishing into something' to do, I think I've seen it called FUFO (finishing up finished objects), but please tell me if I'm wrong or you know of another name for it. There'll be more on this subject in a future blog post!

Anyway, these two finishes were made up by me, but they are not mine, and I did not stitch them. They were both stitched by Irene (stand up and take a bow Irene, if you're reading this). Irene goes to my stitching club, and these are a couple of the things she stitched last year, and I offered to finish them up for her. I finished them up before Christmas, but I haven't yet seen Irene to give her them. And these two pieces will be going on my 2010 finishes list.

For everyone who loves the envelope design, it appeared in a set of 6 designs by Debra Page, in issue 158 of The World of Cross Stitching. I have trawled my magazines and found it, think I will have to stitch it now, and some of the others in the set, although I only have 5 patterns as I was given the magazine and some patterns have been cut out. Available as a back issue here, or Ebay.

Mini Christmas Stockings

More stitchings from 2010. I loved these little stockings, shame I didn't get them made up. Stitched on 32ct Antique White linen, with DMC.

It's Christmas again!

Caroline

by Miss Crescent's Crowne

Joy to the World
by LHN

I seem to still have the Christmas spirit.! I have stitched both of these this month. Now which Christmas ornament shall I stitch next?

I intend giving Joy to the World away once I've made it up, so will have to stitch it again for myself.

SB scissor keep

Shepherd's Scissor Fob
by Shepherds Bush

Stitched on 28 ct Flax cashel
with DMC threads

Another of last years finishes. I didn't have the charm so stitched a little sheep from another SB chart.

I am now selling this chart so let me know if you're interested in buying it. I am about to have a huge clear out of my charts/stash and will be putting up a list. However, if you've seen anything on my blog in the past and are interested in buying the chart let me know, and I'll check if I still have it.

A birthday gift for me

Birthday Gift from Sally

The beautiful inside

Friday was my birthday, and just look at what a wonderful gift I received from Sally. I bet you're all jealous. I am now using this stitcher's caddy for my current valentines piece that I am stitching.

Thank you Sally, I love it.

And wouldn't you know it, I plugged the camera in today and no problems, isn't that typical.

A little treat

Stitchmarkers

The new with the old

I came on here to show you some stitching, however the pc has decided not to recognise the camera? I'm sure I have no idea why, so hopefully tomorrow I can persuade my son to have a look, he's been messing around on here with my MP3 player and it recognised that. Coincidence that now it doesn't like dh's camera?

I did find these pics already on the pc. If you're a regular reader you will have seen that I have recently been knitting. Well I decided to treat myself to some new stitchmarkers. Those plastic yellow and green ones that I've had years are not anywhere near as exciting as what you can buy nowadays. So I had a little browse at Etsy, and fell in love with these. What do you think? And the new ones were packaged so much nicer too!