More Birthday Celebrations

Today it's our cutie pie niece Sally's first birthday and I was able to finish the stitching and making up of Sally's birth sampler last Friday night.  I'm really happy with how it turned out, and of course, I just had to use some of my favourite polka dot fabrics for the finishing. 

Ballade aux Fraises by Anne Reginier of Tournicoton

Gift of Stitching Issue 32 September 2008

stitched on 32c light mocha belfast and mostly recommended threads.

Many thanks for the birthday wishes for Hannah! She had a truly wonderful day and we all thoroughly enjoyed our dinner out last night - no cooking and dishes to do, hee hee!  

See you soon xx

Starry Night Ornament

Hello everyone

can I just say how lovely it was to read your comments on my last post - they sure do brighten my day, and I appreciate them so much :)

This little pattern has been in my "to stitch one day soon" ornaments folder for absolutely ages, and I'm so pleased with how it turned out.

Starry Night Ornament

by Helga Mandl

from the Gift of Stitching Issue 47, December 2009

This is my lovely snowball tree, covered in its autumn leaves, so pretty :)

Have a wonderful day :)

Forget Me Not

Hello friends, 

here's little pillow finish to share today. This was a birthday gift for my dear friend Petra, who lives all the way over in Sweden.

Forget Me Not

by Beth Twist - Heartstring Samplery

Issue 71 March/April Gift of Stitching 

stitched on 32ct linen with recommended threads

Have a wonderful day x

A Few More

Angels Sent

Still Stitching with Susan

JSC 2010

Here's a few more ornies that I recently made up. These were stitched earlier in the year. The top one is for my wonderful Mum - each year I ask her to pick an ornament from the JCS mag she likes and then set about making it for her.  This was actually last year's pick, hee hee. 

Several of these felt angels were made for Hannah to give her little friends at daycare -

This ornament I stitched for a friend of mine:

Christmas Eve Deer

by Prairie Schooler

2009 November Gift of Stitching

As of a few hours ago, I'm now holiday for three and a half weeks! Wahoo! I was meant to start my break yesterday afternoon but poor Hannah came down with a nasty tummy bug overnight Sunday, which meant I had to take the day off from work and return today for a few hours, just to get the last minute things cleared off my desk until 2012. Glenn starts his holidays a bit later in the week, and Hannah has a few more days left at daycare so I'm looking forward to spending a few days on my own. They'll be busy though, Christmas baking, grocery shopping, last minute shopping and present wrapping, you know how it goes!

I'm also so looking forward to spending some time with Glenn and Hannah at home over the next few weeks. This year we''ll be mostly at our house Christmas Day, with our family coming for our main meal later in the day. We're hoping that the day turns out lovely and fine so the children can go swimming -its actually been a mixed bag of weather here lately, and we've been having many thunderstorms. Over the past few days, because its been so cool we've even had our heat pump going, isn't it supposed to be summer, lol.

Thanks for stopping by xx