another finish

This is another one of Carla's lovely kaleidescope snowflakes, this is number 3 and like number 2 is just a beautiful one to stitch up.

This is stitched on self dyed pick evenweave with DMC 3810 and SSS thread Concords which looks just great together.

I have my contest piece to do for Carla's group which I will work on tomorrow then next week when I can buy the rest of the kaleidescope flakes I will start another one of those.

We have survived the first week of school, though not without incident lol. Jamie just can't help himself in injuring himself in some way or other. He fell last night about 18 inces and twisted his ankle yet again, it swelled so we got him to R.I.C.E it and gave some painkillers, by this morning he was back to normal. I swear that child doesn't want to go school with all the injury's he has had recently.

I'm off now to take Sheba for a walk then I can get back to stitching again, not sure on what right now I am thinking of another snowy start of a SanMan Originals chart I have.

I am so gutted

Today I fancied stitching on Royal Holiday so went to look her out and I can't find her. I have hunted high and low for her and she is no where to be seen, its put me right off stitching.

I did find my Celtic Winter out and tried to stitch on her but thats not working either. I do have an old chart kitted up of a San Man Originals that I might try and stitch instead.

The kids have gone back to school today and the house is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too empty. I thought i would love having the house back to ourselves but in actual fact I hate it right now hark at me blathering on feeling sorry for myself, I will pick myself up by my bootatraps and find something to occupy myself till the kids come home from school.

end of the summer holidays

Today sees the last day of the summer holidays for the kids, its been a lovely day with warm sun which is set to last for the next few days which is just typical now the kids are going back to school. The last 7 weeks have flown by, though at the begining the 7th September seemed so far away! The seasons are changing though, you can smell it in the night air as silly as it sounds.

I havent stitched properly in a couple of days I have put in a few stitches on a bookmark but thats about it. Hopefully I can get some done tomorrow once the kids are in school

another finish

Today I have finished my ornament that I have been stitching for Sue V on her group Every Stitch Counts. I can't show a photo yet as its not being sent till November 1st unless I send it earlier.

I am now going to start a snowflake design that Carla Rizzie has designed for her group Crazystitchers designs callked Kaleidescope Snowflake 2. I will add in a photo of that once it has been completed.

Pumpkin SAL

Starts tomorrow on sewcraftystitchers yahoo group. It will run for the whole of september. If anyone would like to join in please ask to join the group, the owner is pretty nice, she doesn't bite - honest LOL

finished a project

A few weeks ago I joined a new group and the owner had designed a beautiful design called addicted to snow.

I started this a few weeks ago and at 11.58pm last night I put in the final stitches and I must say that it turned out beautiful! Now on to finishing it and then onto the next project not that I know what it is going to be right now though

yiipppeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Its now the summer holidays for the kids. They have all broken up from school for 7 weeks today. Sadly though the weather doesn't really seem to be co-operating It is wet, windy, cloudy, cold with more rain forecast for us. I know we shouldn't complain about it but now the kids have finished they could do with some nice weather to go out and play.

Katie has been to a theme park called Drayton Manor and the poor kid has been travel sick on the way there and back. She has enjoyed the park but has come home wet, cold, shivering and a sore throat from shouting on the rides lol.

Gemma has left primary school today to go to middle school in september. She cried at school this morning but when she came out she was fine which was probably due to going home with her friend from around the corner from where we live. She was asked to stop the night which she is more than happy to do. I just can't believe how grown up she is becoming at 9 years old already.

So after all this the drama's of the day were Dave has accidentally broken my laptop today, the vacuum cleaner dropped on the screen which has upset him greatly, then I was finishing off the hoovering when I sucked up the power supply cable to Dave's external hard drive after backing up mine and ruined the plastic outer casing - thank fully it still works ok lol and thirdly stace has broken her mobile phone overnight. I think it must have been Friday 13th in disguise lmao.

So after all that has happened today I am back to stitching on Sarah's late birthday surprise that isn't so much of a surprise after seeing it yesterday which will hopefully get completed over the weekend ready to send on to its rightful home.

This weekend sees me staying home all weekend which will be a first in a while, I am looking forward to being on the laptop (dave's of course), stitching and chatting away to my friends, just my sort of weekend

Now I have waffled on enough its time to grab something to eat and try and put a few stitches in.