WIP

This is my progress on my Lizzie Kate design, it is stitching up quite quickly. No matter how my stitching tastes have changed over the years Lizzie Kate will always been one of my favourites. There cute, modern and don;t take a slow stitcher like me forever to stitch.

Happy Stitching!

Monday, Monday

Well I am sorry to say I am still not feeling too great today. My doctor has given me painkillers and is referring me to hospital. Fingers crossed I won't have to wait too long for an appointment. Thankfully the pain doesn;t stop me from stitching and it does help to take my mind off it. I finished stitching my freebie design and I am now working on another Lizzie Kate ornament design from a tiny tidings chart. My plan is to stitch the rest of the week and then spend the week-end making up some more of my finished pieces into ornaments, pillows etc.






These pictures that are on my blog today, including my home page one were all taken by my husband Ian. He is a keen amateur photographer and we were delighted when recently he got permission to display his photographs in a new local garden centre tea-room. He took me there for lunch today and we were thrilled to be told he had sold his first photograph. If anyone would like to see more photographs you can view them and also purchase framed or mounted images on his website at http://www.ianmainphotography.com/ . A nice christmas or birthday gift for that person who already has everything and we all know one of those people...lol.
I also want to say thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read, leave comments or is now following my blog. Hugs!

Few Finishes

When I came back to my stitching recently I decided that I really had to try and do something with all those stitched pieces that were finished but just piled up in a box in the back of the cupboard. I raided my stash and found this cute little tuck pillow and snowman button so one down just a few hundred to go...lol.

This little ornie is the first piece I have stitched for a year and thankfully it has got my stitching mojo back. The design is from the uk Cross-stitcher magazine. I am now working on a really cute freebie design using vikki clayton silks. It is stitching up really quickly but I can't tell you what it is or show any pictures as its a gift for another stitchy blogger.

I haven;t had a great start to this week as I have been in a lot of pain the past few days with my gallstones. I was diagnosed a few years ago but its only in the past three months that I have started having really bad attacks again. I managed to get an appointment with my GP next Monday so hopefully he will contact my consultant and get me moving on the waiting list to get them removed. My two year olds Mum has also given me notice to leave next Friday. I am really going to miss her, it is so difficult when you take a child into your heart and home and then they have to leave. Saying good-bye is the hardest part of my job.

Elaine

Isn;t he gorgeous!

I got a lovely surprise today when the postman brought me this gorgeous chart from Linda at Lavender Wings. I entered the door-prize competition at the online needlework show and I was over the moon to get a chance to choose a chart of my choice from Lavender Wings. Please check out Lindas great designs at www.lavenderwings.com , you will be spoilt for choice. I don't have any stichy cash right now so I am gonna have to stitch my Santa with what I have in my stash. I'm sure he will turn out to be just as cute though.
My week hasn;t got off to a great start as my little two year old mindee got sick on Monday and I had to get Mum come pick her up early. Mum also gave me notice as she has got a new job with shift works so she doesn't need me anymore. My four year old isn;t returning until Friday after being off for five weeks and my eight year old only attends eight hours a week now. Like everyone else out there the credit crunch is really hitting home now. I have had no enquiries in the past six weeks and I;m trying not to get myself into a tizzy about where I am gonna find the cash to pay next months bills. Having no kids to take care of though gives me free stitching time , I am nearly finished Just Add Snow a lizzie kate design and even though I want to stitch more ornaments I might just have to start on my long-legged Santa. Happy Stitching!

If there is anyone out there, I'm back!

Well here I am back once again to blogging. I have been away from my stitching and my pc for over a year now. My hubby bought me a new laptop in September and I have gradually being getting back online, chatting to old friends, browsing the message boards and checking out who is still out there in blogging land. I thought that my desire to stitch was gone forever but in the last few months I have been reading lots of stitchy blogs, browsing some of my old favourite stitching sites and looking through my boxes and boxes of stash. Rather than kick off with a new piece to stitch I decided to do some christmas ornaments that were in my ufo box. It wasn;t much fun to start with as I felt as though it was taking me forever to stitch a few rows but after a couple of weeks I am right back in the swing of it. I have completed four ufo's and completed two new ornaments and started on a third. Sadly my digi camera is out of action just now so I don;t have any recent pictures to post but I hate blogging without pictures on my page so I decided to post some of my pillows that I have completed since I started stitching in 2000.

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!