DMC bankrupt????

I hope not.

Check this link out for more info. http://tinyurl.com/3ffe8p

What will it mean for us crafters as alot of people rely on DMC to use their threads for hand dyeing threads for their businesses. What will it also mean for crafters in general?

I know alot of people already use Anchor (as i do sometimes myself) but DMC are the best make around.

Lets just hope its only a restructure and they do manage to continue with the needlecraft side of things.

RH update again

Here she is. the top photo wasnt as close as i would have liked her to be. the 2nd one is all of her.

weekend and monday

Well what a weekend. Its been a bad one for me depression wise. Things had got on top of me and all i did was cry for part of the weekend so hardly any stitching got done

Also my big pc has died over the last couple of weeks so we have bought new bits to partly build a new one and take out spares from the other one to make a good one out of the 2. The parts should be with us tomorrow which has made the kids day especially Richard as he has course work for his I.C.T course and business studies G.C.S.E's

Then today we were going to the Dr's like we had been doing last week also. So I went to get the car out of the garage, tried to start her and the battery is dead considering how its not been started for almost 4 weeks I'm not surprised its dead. So to top it all off we have had to buy a new battery charger as well to charge it up.

Anyway, back to the Dr's visit. We arrived at the Dr's to find the carpark full. Dave goes into the waiting room to find it very full. So we turned around and went to a garden center instead as a friend took us up there with my car being out of action.

As we went to the garden centre i picked up some decoupage sheets to make some birthday cards and Dave bought me a lovely silver dolphin ring as a treat

I have decided to try and go on a very low fat diet again after going on a fad of eat anything while i was pregnant. For those that know, i was told last year I have gall stones and i decided to manage it by diet instead of having surgery. So Princess sarah on SCS decided she is having a fat box to put in a pound for each pound of weight that she loses. I decided as I don't need to lose weight for the first time in my life that I will put 50p per day into a box to buy treasures/charms for my 2 protrait ladies. They are going to cost a staggering £86 without fabric and threads but they are going to be well worth it once I have them to start. It's going to take almost 6 months to save the money up BUT by then I am hoping to have RH done and work on another UFO as well. Not sure how well i will keep to that but we will see.

sorry for the long update. if you have gotten this far thank you for reading

Thank you

For all the comments that you all have been leaving on my blog over my WIP photos of Royal Holiday and what has been going on in my life recently. I do appreciate all the comments and people looking at my site you all keep encouraging me to keep on stitching on her hopefully till she is completed

Royal Holiday update

Here she is after working on her while the kids have been in school. It took me that long to get her face stitched. Just a shame my cell phone doesnt take a really good photo of her.

Now on to working on her hair

cold day

Its another cold day today here, I shall be glad when the warmer weather comes.

We have one of the kids home sick today so we are planning on sitting watching a couple of movies, bake some bread in my breadmaker, wash all the laundry and stitch on Royal Holiday as we have been out for the last few days and no stitching has been done on her at all.

Yesterday we went to Birmingham with a friend, we were quite close to Birmingham airport which I didn't realise till I saw an airplane coming in to land very very low which made me jump a little and shout out, all the others could do was laugh at me lol

I will update RH later on, I hope everyone stays warm and well

another update

here she is again. I know its only been a few days since i updated but her progress is coming along so well I can't help but keep on updating her

Other stitching, i received my first installment of the globetrotter we are doing on another group. I charted the alphabet using a free chart online and stitched it up in a couple of hours so now i can get back to RH

I had another hospital visit yesterday and had closure over the miscarriage. We have been advised though to be referred back to the hospital to see a consultant that specialises in recurring miscarriages to see if there could be something else wrong with me or my hubby, something to do with the medication we are both taking or it could just possibly be - one of those things - a phrase that i really hate to use but I can't think of another phrase to use.

I hope every one is having a nice relaxing weekend. Look out for another update in a few days time.

royal holiday updated photo

Here she is. She is looking stunning more so in real life

9 April 2008

The kids went back to school 2 days ago and its been quite nice having the house back ourselves and for it to actually stay tidy!

I have been stitching on Royal Holiday again and can't seem to put her down so while I have the bug to stitch on her i will carry on with her. I don't have an updated pic yet will do that later on.

We are slowly getting better from the miscarriage, a bit hard to believe it was a week ago and the hospital visit too - we never want to go through that again!!! I am still finiding myself getting very tired very easily but I am back taking my multi vitamins and iron tablets to help me out those coupled with lots of rest and stitching makes quite a good combination i think

We are going out for lunch today with a really good friend, she hasnt been well that last couple of days and has cabin fever. She asked if we wanted to go out for lunch and we jumped at the chance. I can also replace the threads needed for RH as some have been misclaced or used

Will add in a new photo later on

happy stitching

what a week!

Its been an awful week with me miscarrying on Tuesday evening and then wednesday evening having to go into hospital as i was so ill. Thankfully i came home on Thursday afternoon feeling tired and lightheaded but so glad to be back home with DH and kids I have been resting loads since I got home and have done some stitching.

I have with help from Carol finished my first mini biscornu into a scissor fob for carol and have been working on Royal Holiday. I have added in photos of them on here in 2008 album and Work In Progress album if anyone would like to take a look.

We have woke today to a covering of snow, the most we have had in a long time. The kids are out there now making the most of their last day at home before returning to school tomorrow.