project SAL week 3

Well after last weeks fiasco of Ouroborus I picked up my Butternut road project, put in about a dozen stitches and put it back down again I just coudn't get on with it. So while i found out Butternut Road i came across my CeWeC mother and baby project that i started quite a while ago. She is half finished and i decided to work on her for a little bit. I will post a picture of her tomorrow.

I also stitched a bookmark from Artecy which i really enjoyed stitching, it was for the finish weekend sal with fatema. All i have to do now is back it with some card to cover the back and laminate it for my friend Sarah for a belated birthday present which i can give to her in person next Thursday as she is coming to visit me again

new technique finish and SAL week 2

this weekend is to be a new tenchnique finish for Fatema and myself. I started to stitch a bookmark from the Artcey website called lady sillhoutte. All the stitching is done i just need to actually finish it off as a bookmark.

Now my 3 daughters have seen the stitching they both want a bookmark too, luckily 2 of them have birthdays coming up so I will stitch them for then.

My SAL week last week wasn't too good as I was nearing finishing the first page when i found a big mistake on the border. Now to work out whether to frog the whole border OR to doctor the border so that it fits so I put Ouroborus away after 3 days of working on him but at least i made some progress which I am pleased about.

Starting from today I should be working on the next weeks SAL which is going to have to be split between the number 5 project that my eldest daughter picked out for me and the beading SAL on StitchersHeaven yahoo group and somewhere along the way i have the Summer SAL to do on my yahoo group.

Home life for the week started off quite exciting but sadly went downhill rapidly on Friday, but thats ok i can pick myself up, dust myself off and start again with it all.

The kids have had quite a nice week at home, we have actually had some sun and hot sticky weather. They have been able to have the pool up outside for a few days and have also managed to sleep outside in the tent though I think tonight will be the last night they do that as i think the weather is on the change again.

I am going now to sort out the Summer SAL i think as one member on the group has already finished hers and it looks really nice so i want one too now lol.

Happy stitching everyone

new photos

I have just added new photos to my albums, especially the progress on my SAL's. I haven't managed to get alot done on Royal Holiday but Blue Moon Faery got quite a bit done I just didn't reach my goal but that is ok i can handle that.

I also got 2 small finishes done yesterday in my 2008 album for those that want to see them.

Now i am going to work on my big purple dragon Ouroborus. I will post up a new photo of him at the end of the week.

Happy stitching

school summer holidays

Well yesterday afternoon the kids finished school for just over 6 weeks.

The day started off good, we took our eldest daughter out of town for some shopping and lunch got back home in time for getting the 2 youngest who finished school at 2pm instead of 3.30pm.

From there on things went a little downhill. I had promised Gem she could have her ears pierced as a belated birthday present. So we took her down into town for that. Well considering the person who was doing the piercing was qualified she made a right hash of piercing the first one. it only went in half way so they had to re-pierce it which made gem not want to have the 2nd one done. Eventually she got it done but she didn't like us very much. Chris also wanted his done, he sat down and all he said was 'ow' LOL he then came out and said that hurts now can i take the ear-ring out lol. We got a 15% off voucher for our next purchase in that shop, not sure if that was to keep the peace for what happened to gem or what but with an 18th birthday coming up i might just use it in there!

When we got back from taking my eldest to work I came home to a phone call from the Drs surgery asking me to have a blood test repeated as the blood count came back showing I am anaemic so we will see what happens after the repeated test.

Today has been a quiet slow day. I am having a pj day. Have done a tiny little bit of stitching on RH and I mean a tiny little bit, finished reading a book and finally caught up on my emails. I think i will now go and print out the summer chart for the SAL on my group. I also need to do some more on RH for my UFO SAL weekend with Fatema. Have a good weekend everyone

SAL update - no pic ..........

As yet though, that will come later on.

My goal for this week was to try and get page 1 finished of Mystic Stitch Blue Moon Faery. I have 2029 stitches to get the first page completed. There is now a bit of shape coming on it, i can see where the wing is on the fairy.

Will upload a pic later on

What a morning!!!

All start off ok, my friends 2 boys were dropped off fo rme to look after till their mum got home from working the night shift. My lot started playing up - which is fine i can handle that but all went pear shaped when we left to take sheba (dog) to the vets.

We arrived after sheba howled, cried and barked all the way to the vets. There was another dog just coing out of the vets so dave decided to go on the road side to take her in. Well Sheba thought better of it and tripped dave over. He has made an awful mess of his right eye and cheek bone. The vets helped clean him up and calm him down as he was very shocked.

I phoned the Drs to let them know we were going up and we might be late for the surgery. They said not to worry they would let the Dr know. Anyway he has been checked out, he has a HUGE black eye on his upper eyelid a laceration just above his eyebrow, a graze and a cut down his cheek. Poor guy is a right mess and sheba feels so sorry for herself for tripping him up!

Oh and sheba is back on anti-biotics for the cyst she has on the back of her neck, still not sure if she will be operated on to remove it.

I also saw the Dr while i was there. just for a review on my medications I am on and to get my finger checked out. My index finger on my left hand has been hurting for the last 2 weeks, its stiff and swollen. The Dr has ordered blood tests to be done to see if i have arthritis she doesnt think its too bad but we will know more next week.

Update on Dave's E.E.G also. His first one is on Thursday at 1.15 so I won't be able to go with him because I have to pick up the kids from school. Hope he gets on well and comes home in one piece.

I will update my stitching later on or tomorrow as I started the SAL with Fatema yesterday, i worked on my mystic stitch for the first time in a long time

Mine and Fatema's sal plan

We will rotate these and do 1 project for 5 days and then work on something different for the weekends. Hopefully we will get some things stitched on that havent been stitched on in a while.
Karen
1 mystic stitch blue moon faery
2 mirabilia royal holiday
3. dimensions wizard
4. dmc birth sampler
5 butternut road
6 ourubourus - dragon
7 ornament weekend only










Fatema
1 ms floral stil
2 fractal
3 haed little angel
4 non xs
5 artecy
6 boink
7 ems - weekends only

my UFO/WIP/Pending list of projects

While talking to Fatema today she asked me how many UFO's/WIP's pending projects I have so here is my list.

UFO's

L&L celtic Winter

Winter Rose

Mirabilia Fairy Moon

Mirabilia Royal Holiday

Dimensions Mystical Wizard (i think thats what he is called)

DMC girl birth sampler

Dracolair Dragon - ourorborus

Fairy Flora

Winnie the Pooh afghan

and last but not least a Butternut Road

WIP's

2 globe trotters

TIAG free christmas angel 1997

Pending

Nora Corbett Portrait of Lauren in Blue

Nora Corbett Portrait of Caroline in Pink

Nora Corbett Ivy

and 3 free ornaments that I don't know how to post the links on here LOL just watch out for pictures of them over the coming weeks

And that is my list - for now

scary news!

Yesterday saw us going to the Neurology department for DH's routine check up at the hospital. We were to see a new Dr as his original one is/was retiring.

The Dr greeted us in a lovely manner and started to ask questions about DH's epilepsy history starting from when he was 6 weeks old.

We went through that, he asked me lots of questions on how DH reacts while having aura's and seizures which I answered each and every one.

He checked all of Daves reflexes in his knees, elbows etc which were as far as i know of normal.

Then the Dr starts mentioning more tests being done, more E.E.G.s a normal one, a sleep deprived one and then a long one where DH will have to be admited to hospital, taken off his medication to see if they can induce a seizure in a controlled manner to see exactly what part of the brain has the seizure activity in it. THEN he mentions having surgery to remove the damaged part of his brain that might stop the seizures. Talk about knocking the wind out of our sails! Once the news sunk in I cried, Dh comfotrted me which made me feel quite guilty as he is the person that will be going through with it. Once I had cried we got to thinking that it will be a positive thing, he may be seizure free, go back to work, drive a car and lead a completly normal life which is great news. All we have to do now is wait for the tests and the results and then I will update about those then.

Sorry its such a long post this time, and if you managed to make it to the end thank you!

got a finish at long last!!

I have finally got around to stitching a project. I was asked to join a SAL on Fatema and Jean's group for mystical/ythical and I had started PR Fairy Celebration I freebie on the 2th. Well i got her finished 2 days ago which i was very pleased to get done.

On the home front, things are still looking downwards. Chris rammed the brush handle into the rabbit hutch and put 2 holes into it, lucky for us Dave is pretty good with his hands and can just about repair the hutch.

Then today our Alsatian - sheba - has had to be taken to the vets to get a sore spot checked out as it is weeping. She had an injection and is on antibiotics for a week. She has to go back next week for a re-check and it it hasn't got any better then the vet will operate on her and take off whatever it is. We are a little concerned though as either her Dad or brother has had or got skin cancer. The Vet is aware of this and will probably do a biopsy of it just to check to make sure it isn't cancer.

I have also had my blood test results back from the recurring miscarriage clinic and all is ok. I just need to go on aspirin when/if i find out I am pregnant again. So i guess that is good news amongst the bad. On the other good news is that i was told by my MIL that I am now a great aunty and Dave a great Uncle to a nephew and his g/f. All the details I know is that it's a little boy and he was born on June 16th.

Ok now I'm going to try and get a little bit of stitching done on my angel.