Catching Up!

Thanks to everyone for their kind get well wishes. I am feeling much better this week but not just 100% quite yet. I;ve been doing more reading than stitching. I have completed only one small snowman ornament in the past month and at present I am working on a small school themed design for one of my little mindees Jacob who is going to be starting school on Monday. I am a very proud stitching Mum though as I am delighted to say the Tatty Teddy piece at the top was stitched by my 15 year old daughter Heather as a gift for her friends birthday. She doesn;t stitch very often and I was quite anxious when she choose Tatty Teddy with all that grey and back-stitching but she has done a fabulous job. Two off her friends have also started stitching as well so I am hoping that they have caught the stitching bug and won;t be cured off it too soon...lol!

It seems like forever since we were on holiday but we had a lovely time in North Wales. The weather was the usual uk mixture of sunshine and showers. It was never really cold though and we visited some lovely places along the coast and lots of National Trust houses and gardens. It is back to work for me this week and the kids will be starting school on Monday so it will be back into the old routine from then. Heather will be entering her fifth year of High School and we were delighted when she gained five 1's and three 2's in her Standard Grade exams. She sat these exams in May and it was a very tense day last Tuesday as she waited for her results. Her next two years will be concentrating on her Higher Grades and then hopefully it will be off to University. Craig also passed all his first year exams at University but he won;t enter his second year of Architecture until the end of September. I'm just hoping that now he has his first year over the second won;t be quite as stressful.

I;m off to catch up on more blogs. Be back soon. Hugs!

Still here!

Sorry I haven;t been around but I have been sick with a really nasty chest and throat infection for more than two weeks now. Thankfully I have no kids this week so I am hoping to catch up on all my blog reading and attempt to get back into my stitching. Hope to catch up with everyone soon. Hugs!

Holiday time!

I won;t be around for the next week as we are off on holiday to Wales. We are staying in a lovely recently renovated house right on the harbour. I am looking forward to relaxing with either my stitching or a good book. I don;t care if it rains..lol!

I haven;t had any time to stitch this week but I did look through all my Just Cross-stitch Ornament magazines and chose a great big bundle of ornaments to get started on.

Hope everyone has a good week and I look forward to catching up on all those blogs and stitching.

Hugs!

Three finishes!

Well my eye didn;t get any better until yesterday so most of my week has been spent making up some pieces that were in my finishing pile. They are all Lizzie Kate designs. Follow your heart was stitched on aida band with some perle cotton threads. The baby sampler was also stitched using the perle cotton threads and the cute buttons I purchased a few weeks ago turned out just perfect for the finish. Dear Santa I stitched many years ago but had just never got round to doing anything with it. Hope you like them. Hugs!

A bit cheeky!

I woke up yesterday morning with a lovely swollen eye so I found it rather difficult to do my stitching. Not wanting to waste any of the free time I had I decided to go through my finished box and see what I could find to put together. I came up with this little cutie that I stitched a long time ago and my spring row that I stitched earlier this year.

I have so many pieces that I have stitched that are stashed away in a box. I really need to spend more time finishing them off. Happy Stitching everyone. Hugs!

It's Holiday Time!

Yaaayyy come happy dance with me. School has finished for summer break until mid August so I will only have to work three days a week. I am so looking forward to all that extra stitching and reading time. I;ve been busy stitching some Lizzie Kates but now need some motivation to finish them off into pillows. I recently bought some lovely fabric and cute buttons from http://www.creativefabrics.com/ so I guess I have no excuse about getting started.
I also have at long last managed to track down some off the 32 count jobelan I was desperately seeking. Tandem cottage have got some lovely pale green, blue and pink which I will be ordering soon but sadly they don;t have the elusive yellow that I so wanted to stitch my Happy Mooed on. I reckon I might just stitch it on the pale green, I;m sure it will be just as nice. Hope everyone is having a good week-end. Hugs!

Dance show

Well the dance show is over for another year and it was really good. Heather and her friends had great fun. These are a couple of pictures the photographer at the show took. They performed to Barry Manilows American Bandstand in the blue outfit and did hip hop to Missy Elliots Lose Control in the pink outfits. Heather is on the left hand side of the first picture and centre stage in the pink. I can;t believe my baby is nearly sixteen, the years are just flying by.

The rest of my week has been pretty crazy. My mindees have been a real handful, the six year old has been very mouthy, the four year old forgot what the bathroom was for then I had a real scare when the two year old developed some nasty spots that we thought could be meningitis. Thankfully it turned out be either a an allergy or something viral. My hubby and Heather were both unwell so it has been a pretty long stressful week. I just hope as the song says "things can only get better" . Hugs!