Hodgepodge

Found some frames for a couple of my finished stitches - at the moment I just have them sitting in the frames - when I stop buying stash I will buy some acid free mounting board and mount them properly - lol!

 

 

Next up is called Artic Cuties from Cross Stitch Crazy magazine - I thought I had a finish on this one however my son found out his sister will be getting more artic cuties because her name is longer - so after his fit of crying at the unfairness of it all, I'm trying to squeeze in one more on the end for him - sometimes children can be so hard to please.



I am back working on my Blessings and Kind Wishes by Blackbird Designs, and by the way, I did iron!  I really love R&R Reproductions fabric but boy they sure do come with a lot of wrinkles!

 

I feel a real bad case of startitis coming on - I hope I can resist!

 

I really should go and clean the house now - sigh - I really wish I was one of those people that can ignore the mess and blissfully stitch - oh well I better go and do what I gotta do so I can get back to what's really important - Stitching!

 

Hugs & Stitches,

Amanda

Happy as a Lark

I have just finished this little cutie - Happy as a Lark by Birds of a Feather



This chart was generously loaned to me by Beth from Garden grumbles and cross stitch fumbles - thankyou Beth I really enjoyed stitching this one up.  Now I am on the hunt for the others in the series, which is proving rather difficult as these are OOP,  if anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it.

Thanks for stopping by,
Amanda

Town of Halloween Finished!

Well I did it!  The  Town of Halloween is finished!  I am so happy - now I can start another project that has been waiting patiently for my attention.  I was a bit worried about the staining I did on the linen as it looked a bit blotchy, but with all the stitches in place it looks pretty good - just a second while I pat myself on my back ..

 



.. onto some non stitch news - Oh my gosh you would never guess what has happened!  Drama! I tell you - one of my um.. er .. how do I put this?  Oh heck who cares!  One of my Boobys has deflated - well I can't say that can I?   it's not a balloon .. okay one of my boobys has sprung a leak and is rapidly shrivelling down to .. well you get the picture.  So one big one  - one little one, not going to work so well for me.  I've ordered myself some more - some nice big wobbly jelly like ones this time, had enough of those saline filled plastic baggies - I mean really those things never look good, and I would know I already have in my second pair - useless sloshy little things, so this time I'm going to make Dolly Parton proud and buying myself some big guns!  Hope they pass through customs - I wonder what gets written on the declaration form?  Anyways I am booked to go in for surgery in 2 weeks so wish me luck!

Amanda

Giveaway winners are...

Okay it's time to announce my Giveaway winners - first I would like to thank everyone that entered, this has been fun.
First up is the result for my La-d-da Giveaway ... (hosted by my lovely daughter Rebecca)

 

 Congratulations Stitchinrose!

 

 Next up is the drawing for the Keyring Giveaway ...

 

 Congratulations Lynda!



Lynda if you could please contact me with your mailing address as I can't seem to reach you through your email - thankyou.
Stitchinrose - I cannot find any contact details for you, so I will wait for you to contact me.

Take care everybody and enjoy what is left of the weekend.
Amanda

Town of Halloween

I have seen this around on a couple of Blogs and couldn't resist my very own "Town of Halloween" by The Primitive Hare ...

... and to celebrate my start, I would like to give away a key ring I made myself using a freebie pattern from The Primitive Hare - I made one for myself and one to give away - what can I say?  I have Halloween Fever!

 

If you think this is to your taste and would like to have it, then I will make it very easy for you to have it - all you have to do is say you want it!  Easy peasy, right?

 I will pick a winner this weekend - Good Luck!

 

Now back to stitching ..

Amanda

Here are my buys from HAED

Heaven and Earth Designs appreciation week - I already have more than enough of their charts but I don't want them to go out of business so here are my buys ..

 

 

 

... makes me want to start them straight away!  Who knows, maybe I will?

 

Amanda

Travelling Pattern Winner is ...

Here is the very official drawing of the Travelling Pattern "Jolly Jack"

 



 

 

wait for it...

 

 .... excuse the dirty face, just been eating a cracker and the blurry thing in the hand is ...

Congratulations Denise!
If you could please email me your address details, I will send Jolly Jack to you.  Hope you find him a fun stitch just as I did.

On another note, here is a progress photo of my Alphabet Ryhme by Little House of Needleworks.
As usual photo dosn't do it justice - the camera is not picking up the colours correctly - imagine it lighter and brighter - I will try to get a better picture next time.

 



 

Smiling while I'm Stitching - how can I not?

Amanda