Stay safe in the Storm!

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!

CHART SALE!

I;ve had a major clear out of my charts this week. For anyone interested their is a link on the right hand side of my blog. I;ve got a busy few days so don;t panic if you don;t here from me until the week-end. Thanks for looking.

CHRISTMAS EXCHANGE SIGN-UP!!!

Yes ladies Santa is busy checking his list so it;s time for the Christmas Stitches Exchange over at

 http://stitchedwithloveexchanges.blogspot.co.uk/
Come along and join in the fun. As well as the joy of stitching for someone and putting together a little package of extras you also get to make some wonderful new friends. This Christmas we will be sharing recipes, our christmas traditions, favourite stitches and some other fun stuff. Sign-up is open until this Sunday the 14th October. Go on, give it a try, you know you want too..lol. Hope to see there, hugs!

Celebrations & Holidays Part 2!

Loch Leven  & Loch Leven Castle

The day after our Anniversary celebrations we headed off for a much needed weeks break. We returned to the lovely apartment near to Loch Leven in Perthshire that we had previously stayed in July. It was very relaxing week with some lovely trips to Aberfeldy, Dundee, Perth,Pitlochry and Dunkeld.

This is the beautiful town of Dunkeld We had a delicious sample of home baking and coffee in the Cafe and I purchased my Poppy Jug (photo in previous post) in "Going Pottie".

Another day we visited the city of Dundee In many towns in Scotland you will find buskers singing in the street. As you can see one of the shoppers was really enjoying the music. A young man was also doing this sand art outside one of the stores. The detail was amazing.

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.

When I came home I was overwhelmed with these gorgeous gift from my dear stitching friends. They all know me so well. The stitched pieces are just gorgeous!!! Sally made me this adorable little Lamb, Lesleyanne a beautiful Noel Snowman, June my gorgeous purply trimmed Snowman and Cath made me not one but two more beautiful Snowmen and another darling sheep for my flock. Thank you so much to you all for spoiling me so, the stitched pieces and wonderful treats will be treasured.

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.

I really don;t know who to blame for this but it wasn;t my fault..lol. I was so sure that I would stick to stitching but I was out shopping one day and saw some wool and I thought of all those lovely knitted and crocheted pieces that I keep seeing on your blogs I gave in and bought some. I was going to knit but I came across my old crochet hook first and yes its very old hasn;t seen light of day since I was a teenager. I prowled the Net until I found some instructions and a free chart and oh dear I;m hooked..lol. I did some squares to remind me of the stitches and then made this skinny scarf. I also bought some more wool and a book while on holiday. Well I couldn;t go into a craft shop and come out with nothing.

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. 

Hugs!

Our Silver Wedding!

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.

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.

Family and friends joined us in the evening for a small buffet with champagne and two beautiful cakes.

Craig and Heather had a local cake maker do this one. Purple is our favourite colour. Isn;t it beautiful.

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.

                    

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 June 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.

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!

Silver Wedding!

IAN & ELAINE

I met my DH Ian on a blind date at a super-bowl party. He is my best friend, my rock and I love him more than ever. Our journey has been full off love, laughter and some tears along the way. We have two beautiful children and today we will celebrate our Silver Wedding.
I'm off to the hairdressers and then we are going to lunch at my favourite restaurant. Family and friends will visit tonight for a little celebration. Looking forward to a great day.

My September Song - Me Time!

Life is still full on in the Main household and as well as our continuing every day stresses we have some happy events to look forward to this month. In a few weeks time my DH Ian and myself will be celebrating our Silver Wedding and a few days later I have my birthday. I;m looking forward to these events and a short holiday we will be having but once again I;m struggling to cope with everything that is going on here. I;m going to try and take as much time as possible for myself in the next month to re-charge my batteries. I will miss  you all especially my dear friends who keep in touch and give me so much love and support. I'm looking forward to stitching, reading and spending some time with my DH. Don't panic if your reading this and you have just signed up for the Fall into Halloween exchange. I'm going to have that up and running in the next week and then I will be able to have a break from the exchanges too.

Miss you already, will be back soon, hugs!