Hello friends ,

First of all sorry I could not get back to you all , after  my last post on my blog , It would not let me write back , now it is sorted. 

So thank you all who left me a comment .

I have started to clear up my outside craft room that hubby was filling up with his things ! and Christmas things . So I am having a good sort out at last . I think it will take most of the Summer Ha . If it is raining I will be sorting the inside one . 

Why do they get so messy ?.

 I try really hard to keep them tidy , but if I start a new stitch I start looking for everything and this  is when the mess starts again . Its like a mad rush to get started . 

I need to get my growing pile of finishing done to. But when the sun is out I am outside ! but  then I have made allot of  stitched cards for Christmas, so I am trying .

First up is the beautiful hand made cards sent to me . Thank you to all my friends I love them all.

               Martina                 and                 Pauline 

                                                                  Erna .

Thank you friends For all the lovely cards.

  Look our tomatoes are coming  ripe fast now and we eat about three of them every day so yummy.

                                                     WIP.

Why am I stitching a phone on top of these little birds !

Well here is why.   This is the chart, I think this is the a real challenge so many colours and allot of back stitch to do .

                                So now you know ha,

               Named after Princess Dianna .

                   Just beautiful.

                     Building work going on above , decking gone .

              And now Hubby can play with this space , lets see what it looks like later in the year.

Sweet peas are out and smell wonderful .

Have a wonderful week .

JUNE

 Oh here we are already well into the month of June !  and very HOT The year is really passing  by so fast . hopping it slows down a little , I say this most years but this year I seem to be playing catch up yet again. 

So far a very busy month . It was also my birthday, lots of beautiful cards from friends , thank you all so kind of you  . 

This will be part 1 of  2 so I can show you all the lovely cards .

There are Cross stitch ones and lovely hand made ones .

First up I finished the book mark , and started some more new stitching , my WIP will have to wait until I can get back to it.

Found this chart in a very old book , and stitched it on perforated paper , which I love stitching on , It's made a lovely book mark for a friend . I backed it with felt .

I have loads of old cross stitch books , which  need to go so I have , been going through them and found some  charts I will keep .

Then the rest have to go , down at one of our  clubs , they just take up to much room .

Next up a Jigsaw called Sunset cottage , just had to have this one .

So some thing goes now before I buy any thing else , that won't last long Ha .

It's a photo of a thatched cottage , we still have a few of these where we live , so pretty .

Now some beautiful hand stitched cards from my sweet friends .

   Stitched by   Andrea              and         Manuela.

 

 By   Gabi                       and                               Carol

                                                          and Jutta .

There will be more soon.

Thank you to all who send me cards your friendship means the world to me .

I love to see all your stitching , photos , and your friendship over the last few years ,

I WILL BE BACK very soon to show you more 

Cut roses from the garden.

Always something new in the garden,

 

 

Hello all. 

What beautiful weather we have been having .

We are enjoying the sunshine , a few jobs need to be done we will get rid of the summer house and give it to our Grandson. All the decking needs to come up parts are now breaking away with the rain we had last year , so we need to slab it all to make it better. I am also busy trying to get my outside craft room sorted out , I noticed my husband is slowly taking things in there like the Christmas lights and the tree. I don't mind if it's tidy but it is just pushed in there . I need to get it sorted and moved into the end , of the room. And now the pillows from the garden furniture  also in there .I don't mind , if I can get chance to sort it out first , so now  I can't move in there. I will have to sort a box at a time , I give most of my older bits to our knitting group who raise money . on their sales table. 

We had a little rain but the sun is back out , it's so warm .

Back to stitching I am working on Birthday cards and will start on Christmas cards in June  , My WIP has many colour changes and is slowly growing , but my book mark is growing so I can post it off soon. 

I find today we are so busy with life , not so much me time .

I also seem to think nothing is easy today , there is always a problem. 

So over to a few photos ,  and have a lovely week.

 My WIP , and my gift are growing slowly .

 

                                   Loads of colour changing in this one ,

                        The pansies are so real looking .

I have been working on a few cards to , but can't show you yet .

And I will leave you with some of my beautiful garden flowers.       

My roses are the best ever this year , they smell wonderful.

 

                           Tomatoes are almost ready .

Enjoy your week .

 

MAY

May.

Don't you just love this month , not to warm and the start of new life everywhere in the garden , new leaves on trees new baby birds , butterfly's flying around . The black bird singing his beautiful songs , birds washing  in our water features . Also getting warmer . The sun is warm and you can sit outside again. I have also had  roses out and now I can see them all opening up .

I am late with my post again , life is so busy here. But at last starting to slow down , my husband and I have had some days off and days out for lunches . One night we went out with friends to a lovely fish supper and walked along the sea harbour , looking at the beautiful boats down there , I should have taken my camera but forgot . 

Not to much time for stitching , but now I am ready to pick up my needle again, I find it gives me inner peace , and I do miss it when I am busy .

I am trying to get all my stock used up and found a big box of stitching paper , so I am making a few gifts for friends , I love working on perforated paper . a few more stitches in my large stitch I can see this will take many months to stitch so many changes of colour thread . 

 My hubby has been so busy , and I took over the back garden and he said what a wonderful job I have done !  so he treated me to some nice meals out.

The weather has been wonderful. lovely sunny days.

Ok not much stitched with this beautiful weather , You have to make the most of it.

I stitched a card for our friend Jutta.

I found this chart in a old stitching mag.

 

      Start of a book mark for a friend I love stitching on paper .

I found this in a very old book . 

 A few more stitches in my large  stitching.

                                     Also my blanket is growing .            

           A few photos of the garden all the roses are out now .

                           So early this year.

 

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                             Have a great week all.

SPRING

Spring is now here ,

 I love this time of the year  , New life every where ,  new leaves on the trees , new baby birds will be here soon , bumble bees , and pretty butterflies , I have already spotted two on my flowers. I work in the garden every day if it is dry , I just love nature , every day a new plant starts to push up out of the soil , such a peaceful place, away from all the negative news on TV.

We took our daughter out for lunch the other day  , only she had to work all of the Easter . 

The lighter nights are here so more cross stitch can be done , but I really need to do some finishing soon . 

 We had our 2nd Covid jab , It's still out there  lots of people are still going down with it , so we were offered to have it again , to protect us this summer . 

Another busy week . But I did get a little stitching time.

The stitching below I stitched before so I have stitched another. For myself, but not sure how to finish it yet , I have to think about it.

Happy Easter by Jarvin Prive .

                                                     

Not many stitches yet. but it is growing slowly , You can see the birds coming together.

              A  few more spring flowers to lift our sprits .

                       

I will  leave you with the California  poppy . already out very early.

Have a lovely week .

EASTER.

Happy Easter all.

I love Easter the best time of the year  with Spring coming in and flowers popping up all over the garden , I love to go into the garden every day to see  what  new flowers have come out to bloom , some flowers are old friends of mine . The blue bells were from my granddads garden .

We have had some lovely sunny days , but today rain, but we need it the garden is very dry .

I have been sorting out all my photos , my Grand daughter asked me for some photos of our pass family and more of all the family so she can now show her own family. It's sad that not many take photos today and take them just on phones , but it's not the same . So that's why I am going through them . Her children are now asking to see family members , she lives in another part of the country. My daughter only keeps up to date ones on her phone . And that's the problem today .

Ok lets see my Easter stitch I just finished last night , but I don't seem to get any final finishing done , so I must have a finishing year this year. all I need is some me time and that at the moment only at night . So I must take more time out of my busy day. lets see what I can do.   

            I brought the design from crocette a gogo shop  I thought it was so pretty , I used a soft  pink 28cnt . 

It's a little deeper pink than the photo. 

                             Innamorati a Pasqua

                 A few more stitches in my big stitch , the nest is growing.

Lovely Easter cards from friends  Andrea , Gabi and Ena . 

Thank you all for all the beautiful cards .

Now into the garden Spring is here , what a beautiful time.

                                  Flowers open each new day.  

 

Inside a Tulip

                             Have a lovely week all.

I have an hour free so I think some stitching is coming out of it's bag.