tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78752882169787443512024-03-13T11:25:44.874-07:00Laineys HooseWelcome to my wee Scottish hoose, sit down make yourself at home.The kettle is on!Laineyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222356908375379509noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875288216978744351.post-88677432536299869682016-03-27T07:44:00.001-07:002016-04-07T03:06:37.290-07:00Easter Bunny Stitches...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well here we are Easter Sunday and the month of March is nearly over. It has been a very quiet Easter week-end here in the Main household. I have been stitching, reading, listening to music and watching tv. The houseworks on hold...lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cupar sends sloppy kisses to everyone for the get well wishes. He has had a real rough time. We are finally seeing signs that he is on the mend. His energy levels are moving in the right direction. He is eating his own food again and is starting to play with his toys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now to my stitches I'm afraid I'm not a very happy bunny as I noticed midweek when I took this photograph of the progress on my Summer Garden I had miss-counted. To the right of the bunny in the middle all the way along those pretty flowers and the other bunny are stitched one hole up from the bottom. I thought at first it was just my fabric that was making the line uneven then I saw my mistake...ggggrrrrrhhh!!! It has gone back in the box until I can bring myself to look at it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On a brighter note I have finished my March Ornament. I'm very pleased with how he has turned out. I decided not to stitch the words and I will wait until I make it up to see if I am going to add buttons to his shoes. Looking forward to stash raking this week to see what I choose for April.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I didn't manage many stitches on my Wicked Witch on Wednesday. Hope I will have more time to work on it this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was missing some DMC threads for my Summer Garden and the fabric, needles and silk thread was for a new start that I started yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You've got this I am going to be stitching for an old work colleague of my husbands who has just had an masectomy. Cancer really sucks!!! There is rarely a day goes by that I don't hear of family, friends or neighbours being struck by this awful disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Before I kitted up my new start I decided to stitch the Hop Squared design by Lizzie Kate that I had just bought. As I was looking through my stash for a backing fabric I came across this pretty green one and I thought maybe I could have a go at stitching the design on this. I had a piece of waste canvas that I bought about 15 year ago and had never used. I was rather anxious and worried that it would be all wonky when I took the pins off but I'm (blushing) really rather pleased with myself. I spent Friday night making it up into this little pillow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Continuing the Bunny theme this is my new start. It is taken from Mill Hills Hearts and Flowers booklet. The flowers are supposed to be all done with beads and there are a lot of Mill Hill treasures on the design but I need to go with what I have in my stash. Sorry about the poor photo the fabric is actually lime green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Well I'm off to get my headphones on listen to my music and do some more stitching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Happy Stitches and Bunny Hugs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well here we are March already. It has been dry but cold in my wee part of Scotland for the first half of the month. I'm hoping for some warmer, sunny days soon. The garden needs tidied and I long to be able to get my clothes outside to dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My heart is heavy today as our dear boy is very ill. He has been very sick, spent a lot of time at the Vets in the past few days on a drip for dehydration, antibiotics and other medicine. We had to wait for blood test results on Monday afternoon and we could hear him crying for nearly an hour as we waited it just broke my heart. We had to leave him and when we went to collect him he wouldn't speak to us. My daughter Heather and myself stayed up all night with him. He was totally spaced out but thankfully slept most of the night. Tuesday the Vet kept him for the whole day. As I stay at home all day the house was so empty. I couldn't even bring myself to relax and stitch. He is still very lethargic today and just not himself. I know some people will be reading this thinking its a dog for goodness sake but believe me you love them and care for them as much as your human son or daughter. Cupar is only two and has never been ill like this. I hope he picks up soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Okay now some stitches. This is my progress on my March Ornament for my SAL BeAnAngel from HeartInHand. I changed the colours to start with I did the tunic in a hand-dyed blue colour but it just didn't work for me so I changed it to red. I love how it looks now! I'm going to leave out the words so I just have the head and boots and it will be complete.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have made good progress on my Summer Garden by Country Cottage Needleworks. Hopefully I will get it finished for my Mums Birthday in April. There is a cat on the original design but my Mums not a cat person so I added another bunny instead. The picture doesn't do it justice as the colours are so pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've also made a start on Wicked Witch by LA-D-DA. The fabric is actually lime green. I am working on this on Wednesdays. A few people on Instagram have joined me. If anyone would like to join in you can stitch any Halloween design you wish we just post updates on a Wednesday with #WickedWednesday. Christina I will send you the chart when I'm finished. Hopefully that will be well before Halloween.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As these quilt squares are done and have arrived at their destination I can now share them with you. My dear friend Mouse celebrated a special Birthday in January. She had asked if friends would stitch her squares as she wanted to make herself a quilt. The bottom one is a Carnation Janaurys Birthday Flower. This was a free design by Ellen Maurer-Stroh. The top one which gave me nightmares..lol is Fur Friends by Country Cottage Needleworks. I had this great idea that wouldn't it be nice if Mouse's darling boy Bentley was on her quilt. The dog in the original chart was Brown and off course Bentley is mainly white. White on white is no fun and trying to change the head to look more like Bentley drove me crazy. At one point he looked like Batmans dog with a mask..lol. I'm glad to say that Mouse was delighted with my attempt. I can't wait to see her finished quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A few weeks ago we decided to go away at the last minute for a few days. Hubby,myself and Cupar went off to a lovely cottage in Whithorn in Dumfries&Galloway. As you can see from the pictures Cupar had a better time than us. It is a beautiful part of the country. Lovely beaches, walks for the dog, cafes and pubs that welcome our four legged friends. The cottage was beautiful. I can highly recommend it to my friends in Scotland and south of the border. www.midbishoptoncottage </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh dear I'm not keeping up with this blogging as good as I thought but at least I'm still here. It's hard to believe February is nearly over. As you can see from poor Cupars photo the weather is not improving. It's been very windy, wet and icy this week. I can't wait for some spring sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My February Christmas ornament is also stitched up. I have no idea how I am going to finish him. I've had a number of people sign up to the blog to join me stitching an ornament each month but so far most of them seem to be a little shy. I hope they come share soon. I was also delighted to hear from Jo and Kaye that after I left blogging they continued to run the Christmas and Halloween SAL blogs. It was so nice to see they are still going as so many blogs have shut down while I was away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been quite a while since I bought any new stash but I had some vouchers in SewandSo so I bought Summer Garden and Furry Friends by Country Cottage Needleworks some lovely Ivory and lime green fabric. I also had to get Ding Dong the Witch is Dead by La-Di-Da. I just have to stitch this one as I my family affectionately have been known to refer to me as that old Witch...lol!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Someone also posted on Instagram about a 50% off sale at Willow Fabrics. I couldn't resist going to look and ended up with a nice bundle of fabric in my basket. The response they had was crazy so I didn't get two pieces of fabric and two crochet charts that I had ordered. What I did receive though was a bargain three half metre pieces of 27 count Linda a 20 count cream fat quarter, 2 packs of bobbins and a pair of small scissors all for just under £25. My fabric box is now a little fuller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I kitted up these two charts to hopefully start on this week. If I get it finished on time the Summer Garden will be for my Mum on Mothers Day or her Birthday in April. Ding Dong I imagine will take me a while as I will be stitching this over 1. I can't wait to see how these purple threads look on the lime green fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My choice for Februarys Ornament SAL will be Lizzie Kate's cute No Peeking. I had already started this in December last year so I should hopefully have it finished on time. June, Lynda and Colleen I hope to see your Ornament finishes soon. I am going to re-open the Ornament SAL blog that I used to have maybe it will entice a few others to join us. All you need to do is stitch a Christmas themed Ornament each month. The design will be of your own choosing. Then on the last day of the month post your Ornament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much to everyone for the welcome back to the blogging community. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will take me a little time but I am looking forward to catching up with you all. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was very touched by all those lovely comments I received but I was also rather shocked when I discovered a lot of my favourite bloggers have taken a break too. I hope they decide to return soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm so happy to finally have this framed. My dear friend Sally who shares my love of Sheep gifted me this chart for my Birthday a few years ago. The design is by Little House Needleworks. I changed the words and added some buttons on the bottom. I so enjoyed watching this one grow, Thank you Sally, it is one I will treasure.</span></div>
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Laineyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222356908375379509noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875288216978744351.post-43346704994325839552016-01-15T10:58:00.000-08:002016-01-15T11:02:04.568-08:00Is there anyone there?<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello! It's been over two years since I've been part of the blogging world. I had to step away from my stitching, blogging and internet friends as due to some major changes in our life I know longer had a lot of free time to continue my own interests. My stitching mojo vanished and my needle and thread were set aside for a very long time.I wasn't able to keep up with blogs, groups, emails so I lost contact with a lot of people. I'm opening up my blog again hoping that I will be able to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At the beginning of last year I couldn't keep up with everything going on around me and I knew even if it was just for a short time each week </span><span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">I had to make some time just for me. I started by reading more books then I tried to learn more about crochet.</span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Not an easy task as I only knew the basics from school which was more than 40 years ago!!! I have to say I'm better sticking to my needle than a hook. I will show you some of my attempts at a later date..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following month our neighbours off 22 years were moving house. They were a lovely quiet couple who didn't have many interests apart from their family. I was struggling to find a goodbye gift then I remembered I had this sweet little chart in my stash. They were delighted with it and my appetite to stitch was starting to pick up.</span></div>
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Laineyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222356908375379509noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875288216978744351.post-59310976207393790262013-10-11T01:32:00.001-07:002013-10-11T01:32:52.840-07:00A Sad Day....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Such a sad day. Dear Cathey the struggle is over, may you rest in peace. You were such an amazing brave, inspirational woman who even though you never met us in person you touched all our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though it hasn't been the greatest year to celebrate my Birthday I am thankful to have such a wonderful husband, children, parents and great friends who shall hopefully keep me around for another 50 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I am hoping my Birthday will be full of surprises the give-away gifts will be a suprise too. All you need to do to enter is come by on TUESDAY and leave me a comment that will make us all smile. It may be a story, an event, a quote anything that that has brought a little piece of happiness, a giggle, some joy to your world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The biggest smiles that I have seen this year has been on the faces of my DH,son, daughter and everyone who has visited our home in the past week to meet our newest family member. He has settled in really well. From day one he sleeps all night and is eating well but being a puppy he does have a few daily moments of madness where he runs round the room like a sprinter and hasn't caught on yet that humans are not to be chewed. We all love him to bits and can't imagine our life without him now. Here are a few photos of Cupars first week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For anyone interested I am still here. Thanks to those of you who hung around for my last up-date way back in July. I appreciate you taking the time to read my blog and leave me a comment. Close family health issues and other life problems are still a major concern. Sadly I have very little time for my online friends, groups and stitching. I apologise for not keeping up with everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With life in a mess I sadly took the decision to close StitchedWithLoveExchanges. I am very thankful to all those who took part and helped to keep the group going for so long. I'm proud to say there were 530 packages exchanged all around the World and many new friendships made throughout the term of the group. I was very touched by those who personally took the time to email me. Though it will take me a while to get round to it I will answer each and everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago our DD Heather celebrated her 21st Birthday. She didn't have a party but celebrated with her friends at a nightclub in Glasgow a few days before her Birthday. On her birthday we went out to lunch at the Inn on the Loch <a href="http://www.lanark.co.uk/attractions/lanark-loch">http://www.lanark.co.uk/attractions/lanark-loch</a> and in the evening family and friends visited for a little Birthday tea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has been a very long nine weeks but on Saturday we travel to Fife to collect our darling puppy Cupar. Brenda at Lomondhills has kept in touch regularly, shared photos with us and when he was 5 weeks old myself, Ian and Craig got to visit him. As you can see he is just adorable, I dare you not to fall in love with him...lol! I will try not to overload you all with pictures in the days and weeks to come but here are a few to get started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My dear friend Rosemary surprised me with this beautiful bunch of flowers yesterday. I think they are "Sweet Williams". I was so touched by her kindness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just want to finish by saying thank you so much to everyone who took the time to comment on my last post. Not having been around very much lately it was so nice to see there are still people out there interested in reading my blog. I hope everyone is having a lovely Summer. Happy Stitches!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the beginning of May I gave myself a talking to and got down to some finishing. All three designs were freebie charts. The blue-bird pillow was given to my dear friend <a href="http://butterfly-butterflywings.blogspot.co.uk/">June</a> as a Birthday gift. The other two will be mailed out soon as RAK's to some other lovely friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My DD & DS bought me Little House Needleworks Summer Joy chart and threads for Mothers Day way back in March. I started it in May but as you can see I didn't get very far and haven't picked it up since. I really must make an effort as the colours are so pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well if your still with me here is what else has been going on around here. Our DD Heather completed her third year at University and now has a BA degree in 3D Computer Animation. She had majors exams when her Dad was having his Operation and awaiting his results so it was extra pressure. We are so proud and we know she will do well in her Honours year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you have enjoyed catching up. I will try harder not to make it so long until my next post. All being well I should have some puppy pictures to share next time as our new little family member may be born next week. We are all so excited!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well here I am life is gradually getting back to normality. My DH Ian had a tumour removed from his face at the beginning of March and after three long weeks we got told it was benign. The operation went well but there has been some damage to his eye. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">We have been told it could take up to 18 months for complete recovery. He is doing well and we are just taking each day as it comes. Our next hurdle is for our DS Craig to get a clean bill of health too. He is awaiting an appointment to see a neuro-surgeon. He has been unwell for about six months now so we are hoping to finally get some answers. Our DD Heather has just fnished university for summer and as she is going to be working full-time until September we decided to grab a much needed family holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My favourite fabric shop that I try and visit at least once a year was only 100 yards from our cottage door. I was very good and managed not to visit until the end of our week. All the finishing fabrics came from there and the scissors, ribbon and buttons I found in a wonderful wool shop <a href="http://www.thewoollybrew.co.uk/">The Wooly Brew</a> in the village of Pittenweem. I spent a wonderful hour chatting to the lady on the left of the photo. The wool stock is gorgeous and they are more than happy to mail to anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though I haven;t stitched much at all in the last two weeks I have completed a number of pieces since I last posted. Most of them are for gifts and raks and I need to find time to make them into something decent. So many of my stitching friends have held me together through these difficult months. Once again I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their love and support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally I have some happy news to share. My DD Heather and myself are going to be celebrating some milestone birthdays this year. Our perfect present that we have both longed for since we were very young is to have a dog. My DH Ian and DS Craig were not so eager but about a month ago I finally persuaded Ian and we went along and visited a breeder off Australian Labradoodles. By the time we left DH was hooked. We went back for another visit with Craig and Heather last week. They got to meet lots of the dogs and we were lucky enough to view and hold some puppys. Craig fell in love with them too and told us we had to have one. After lots of discussion we went back and have booked ourselves a puppy. Ideally we would like to have one the same size and colouring as Bouncer. Everyone is so excited though we may have to wait at least six months or longer. I know that no matter what other challenges life is going to through us a little puppy will bring love , laughter and joy to my dear family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you have enjoyed catching up and maybe I will return with another post before May has come and gone. Happy Stitches everyone, hugs! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My dear friend <a href="http://stitchinchicken.blogspot.co.uk/">Cath</a> recently won a wonderful voucher give-away. She very generously treated me too these gorgeous purple scissors and a huge piece of evenweave. Knowing my love of sheep she also brightened my day with this sweet little fob.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even though it looks a completely different colour I did use the cream evenweave that came from Cath to stitch this lovely freebie design by Victorian Motto Sampler. I will probably finish it into a pillow for a future RAK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Any regular readers and friends know how much I love trying to make something of my stitched piece. I was determined to finish this for Valentines Day so let's just say today my swear tin made a lot of money! This is my version of "My love for You" by The Sampler Girl. If you want to see how the original looks it's on my "Remember Me" post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My dear friend <a href="http://bramblewoodstitches.blogspot.co.uk/">Catherine</a> knows what a Snowman addict I am and very kindly gifted me this cute chart last year. As usual I worked with what fabric and threads I had in my stash and created my own tree. I've no idea what happened but I think it got caught in a snow storm..lol. Hopefully by my next visit it will resemble a small pillow of sorts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As well as these finishes I've also had a few stitchy mishaps this week. I was finishing off a small gift for a friend when I noticed a mark on the fabric. I gave it a quick wash and left it inbetween a piece of kitchen roll to dry. The next day I had it sitting on top of my stitching basket ready to pick up and stuff. A few hours later I stood up to answer the phone and knocked my cuppa right over the side of my chair and into the basket. Thankfully most of it was soaked up by the kitchen roll but once again the poor piece had to be washed. I will share when it finally reaches it's destination.</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have also somehow managed to lose my threads for my February Reindeer ornament that I showed in my last post. I've searched everywhere and actually think I may have put them in the bin by mistake. I will finish it if they turn up but for the moment I started on this Reindeer by Nancy at Victorian Motto Samplers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This teeny tiny pumpkin finish was my January Halloween Ornament. Februarys theme was a Black Cat. I took this little guy from part of a freebie design at the Silvercuteddwarf blogspot. </span><br />
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Laineyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222356908375379509noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875288216978744351.post-90223755417031374922013-01-26T11:58:00.001-08:002013-01-26T11:58:51.728-08:00REMEMBER ME!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello everyone! It;s nice to be back. I've missed reading your blogs, viewing those beautiful stitched pieces, and the many other crafts that people do. While taking a break I've been trying to relax with my stitching and some reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first Exchange of 2013 has started on my Stitched With Love Exchange group <a href="http://stitchedwithloveexchanges.blogspot.co.uk/">http://stitchedwithloveexchanges.blogspot.co.uk/</a> and sign-ups for the Hop into Springtime exchange are open until Sunday 3 February. We;re also having a fun Spring bonnet competition. Go check it out and join in the fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The response to this years Christmas SAL has been amazing and sadly at the moment I've had to close the membership but please do visit and leave a comment on all those gorgeous ornaments that are being created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are still places left on the Halloween one. Details are on the blog if you would like to join us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lastly I;m delighted to announce this is my first finish off 2013. I started this design by Primrose Needleworks last year. Don;t you want to just grab that apple..lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Also in October we had some lovely visitors from the US. Close friends off my dear friend <a href="http://bramblewoodstitches.blogspot.co.uk/">Catherine</a> came to Scotland for a holiday. On their last day they came to our home for a visit and then we went out for a meal. We had a great evening with such a lovely family. I made this little pillow as a reminder of their visit to Scotland and Catherine;s friend who stitches brought me the "October Word Play" chart by With Thy Needle and Thread. I love the chart and started stitching on it the very next day. This is my progress so far.</span></div>
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I took part in the Animal Antics exchange at Stitchedwithlove. Butterflies were my partner Marcy;s favourite. This is the stitched piece and goodies I sent.</div>
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I received this wonderful package from Beth. I was truly spoiled and how darling is my sheepy pillow that she designed just for me. </div>
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Finally before I leave I thought I would have a proud Mummy moment and share these photographs taken recently of my DD Heather. One of her projects at University was for her to match up with a friend and take some shots for a magazine cover. These are some of the ones her friend took off Heather. My favourite is the head shot looking through the leaves.</div>
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Nancy is having the most fantastic give-away. There will be wonderful prizes every day from the 1st to the 25th of December. Don;t miss out on this fabulous give-away from such a generous, kind hearted lady. Details can be found <a href="http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/25-days-of-christmas-and-25-give-aways.html?showComment=1351963688681#c472975320736958372">here</a> Good luck to everyone!</div>
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To all my dear friends in the U.S. you and your familys are in my thought and prayers. Stay safe in this nasty storm. Hugs!Laineyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222356908375379509noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875288216978744351.post-72058487234019704622012-10-10T15:20:00.000-07:002012-10-10T15:20:16.064-07:00CHART SALE!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Half way through our holiday I celebrated my birthday. Ian had brought some of my cards with him so I could open them while away. Family and friends gave me money as they knew I needed a new camera. After a lot of deliberating I finally settle on the Lumix TZ27. I also got a nasty surprise on my birthday. Stupidly I didn;t switch the light on before going down the steps from the bedroom to the living-room. I missed one and fell right to the floor. We both got a nasty fright but thankfully I didn;t break anything. My back and hips were very sore for a number of days and I;ve got some lovely bruises but I;m okay now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally if your still with me. My stitching mojo has been waining a bit again but during the Olympic games I did finish my "Delivering Posies". I;m quite pleased with the colours but it wasn;t until I was taking a photograph I noticed my bird has a row missing from the top of his head. Guess I;ll need to fix that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope that you have enjoyed my ramblings. To my dear friends I;m so lucky to have you in my life thank you again for making the past two weeks so special. Thank you also to everyone who takes the time to come visit me here. Even though I have many followers I don;t seem to have as many visitors as I used too so I really appreciate those that take the time to come by and say Hi. </span></div>
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<br />Laineyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18222356908375379509noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875288216978744351.post-67470306844543982502012-09-30T09:02:00.003-07:002012-09-30T09:18:47.152-07:00Our Silver Wedding!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello everyone! It's so nice to have a post about something nice for a change. The last few weeks have been great and Ian and myself would like to thank everyone for the cards, gifts and kind thoughts on the occassion of our Silver Wedding. Our wonderful son and daughter organised a lovely day for us both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We started our day with lunch at our favourite restaurant in the Cornhill House Hotel. Tablet ice-cream with caramel sauce my day was complete already..lol. When we returned home Craig had decorated the house with a few banners, balloons and this "small" one he had been hiding in his bedroom for two days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Family and friends joined us in the evening for a small buffet with champagne and two beautiful cakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Craig and Heather had a local cake maker do this one. Purple is our favourite colour. Isn;t it beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My dear 75 year old Mum made this gorgeous cake for us too. Though it looks black in the photograph it;s glitter that's on the cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We received so many beautiful cards and gifts. A number of people also gave us money and we bought the glass vase and poppy pottery jug while on holiday. We;re hoping to use the rest of the money to buy new doors for our newly decorated living-room. Ian and I were also both so touched when we received this beautiful stitched pillow from <a href="http://butterfly-butterflywings.blogspot.co.uk/">June</a> and Ron. The stitched piece at the top of the post, I did start weeks ago but sadly with my limited stitching time these days I didn;t get it finished on time. Thank you again to everyone who made this day so special for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be back in a few days time with another post on our holiday, my birthday treats and maybe even a little stitching. Hugs!</span></div>
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