New Stash & Stitching

Oh am I loving my post-man. In the past few weeks he has brought me the most wonderful packages of goodies. Let me start with this beautiful pillow that I won from a give-away that Carol was hosting. Her stitching and finishing are just beautiful, go check out her blog and see for yourself.

My second package was from my new exchange that I am doing with Cath and what wonderful new goodies I have to play with.  Cath couldn;t have chosen more perfect for me. How adorable is my stitched sheep and needlebook. I have never had a needlebook before it's just gorgeous and stitched so perfectly in my favourite colours. DD Heather thought my cow bag was sooo cute and tried to acquire it for herself but she was told paws off thats mine. Thank you so much Cath, I just love everything. 

My final package and oh wow what a bundle of joy was from my dear friend Erna. I knew she was sending me the Just Cross-stitch Ornament issue 2009 and I had told her knowing my luck it will probably arrive while I am preparing for Craigs birthday and I won;t have any time to look at it. Well the day before Craigs party I was run of my feet preparing stuff. I hadn't heard the post-man at the door and I was running through the living-room rushing to the loo Craig said oh Mum theres a parcel here for you.  I looked down and there is this lovely big package and I;m like oh my I really don;t have time to open this but it was just sitting there going Open me, open me please...By this time I'm about (don;t mean to offend anyone ) peeing my pants with excitment and off course I was on the way to the loo..lol. Decision made I grabbed it and run up-stairs. Now not a pretty site but there was me on the throne trying with all my might to open this parcel. I pulled, I tugged, tried biting the cellotape but OMG I could not get it open.  I;m talking to it, having a few choice words for Erna, it just wouldn;t budge. I had no option but to give up. Erna blamed the lady in the post office but I reckon she;s got a secret fetish for cellotape...lol.  After all the buzz of the week-end I finally got the chance with a big pair of scissors to open my package. I was so overwhelmed with all these beautiful goodies. I;ve never seen any Dutch or French magazines before and even though I don;t understand a word I really enjoy drooling over all the beautiful stuff inside them. I;ve now got some wonderful new fabric, beautiful threads and some cute buttons for my christmas stitching. Thank you so much Erna, your such a sweetie.

This was an extra cake that I had in the freezer from baking I did beginning of July. I iced it up last night and when I looked in the fridge this afternoon there were only two slices left. People were moaning the icing wasn;t as good as usual , don;t think it stopped them eating it though..lol.

This is my little snowman I have been working on. The freebie design has some love-hearts and stitched snowflakes but I think I might just use snowflake buttons on mine as I am eager to start another ornie. Happy stitching..Hugs!