A week of sadness and happiness.

Hello dear friend's hope you are all having a lovely week and lots of stitching time with beautiful weather.
But I also know sometimes life is not always so sweet and at times we have to deal with sadness too.
On Friday was the funeral of my dear friends son, such a sad day , but also such love, I think everyone shows their feelings and so many hugs were given by all, you could feel the love in the air .
It was such a beautiful service .

We have had another very busy week I thought now my DH is home we would enjoy lazy days together in the garden . But we are still in the fast lane running here and there with just a few hours to put up our feet , how did we both cope when we were working I really don't know .

We did get to go to the Devon County Show it was a great show it took us an hour waiting in traffic when we got there but well worth it.
On the night I lost a rather big filling , so after the funeral on Friday I had to go to the dentist , that was not so easy my filling would not stay put so he had to file my tooth down flat to fill it, so now I have to see what my dentist is going to do with it , maybe another crown.
My printer died on me this week so need to get that fixed also. But apart from that life is good we had a visit from most of the family yesterday , another beautiful sunny day and today we will be working in the garden we have so many summer plants to get in before the rain starts next week.

Back to my stitching this is a little pillow I sent to Catherine for her Birthday.

PEACE LOVE 

by Danybrod.

Stitched on 28 ct white with dmc threads.

A beautiful simple design that say's it all. 

So happy you like it Catherine.

And now a few photos from the show, and the next few are for my sheep loving friends.

Don't you just want to cuddle them.

This was in the judging ring.

There were so many different kinds of sheep so will show you more in a few days time.

Look at this big boy.

Beautiful animals. 

 And in the flower tents.

So many displays of beautiful flowers.

 Just a little taste of the show it was that big we never did get to see it all and we were there all day!

  We also  had royalty at the show .

Look who came walking by the food stalls.

yes it really was Camila. 

After a quick hello and a shake of hands look at my DHs smug face in the lilac jumper.

He was upset I just missed the photo. 

Thank you Michelle for your birthday gift for next month and the beautiful  sun catcher will show it on my blog next time.

Have a lovely sunday all 

And again thank you for my many wonderful comments.

Also warm welcomes to my new followers have fun.

Now I know it's May.

Hello dear friends , hope you are all having a lovely Mother's Day in some countries and here at home a lovely weekend.
I have been working in the garden this morning an hour is more than enough for me today, I found lot's more flowers bursting with life and yes  and my Lily of the Vally is now in flower ,  it seems to be a shy flower that hides behind their leaves so I do tend to always cut a few for the house.
So yes we can now say it is MAY.
I want to apologise to two ladies who wanted my charts the first one is the rainbow angel chart , and the other chart is the one I am still working on.
I do tend to pack things away and forget about them with my busy old life. If you still want the charts let me know .
Here are two WIPS and one SAL I am working on again now.

A few more stitch's on this one.

This is going to make a wonderful garden chair pillow.  Was from a old magazine !

Slowly growing.

Au coeur du Jardin by Passion Bonheur.

Enjoying stitching this one . 

And my Christmas SAL with Sara is also starting to grow.

 I treated myself on Friday to this for my craft room.

It was a bargain just £ 2.00 from our open market , any idea's what to hang on there ? 

The first hiding away.

Well I had to cut a few.

It is now May.

Little Robin red breast looking for his biscuit.

Robins house.

Someone is watching .

My yellow poppies are coming out every where.

Tomatoes are flowering, won't be long .

My new dwarf iris.

 Have a wonderful day.

Thank you again for your lovely comments and kindness.

It's Friday.

Hello dear friends, It is Friday already where did this last week go !
We were in town this morning a little cooler today, we had some very nasty winds yesterday.

I brought a great ornament for my craft room , will show you in my next post.

I also brought a few cross stitch magazines , all great apart from one , so I am going to write to them this afternoon, part of my free gift was missing and because the magazine is sealed you can't look inside. Anyway the charts inside were terrible I think  maybe only two I would stitch , now this magazine use to be my favorite one it has gone too far to the modern trend ,  what about us ! the ladies who have been stitching with you for years don't we matter any more , it is not what we are looking for why don't they look on the cross stitch blogs and see what we are stitching they have so many lovely designs out there today,  beautiful French ones fantastic USA charts even some lovely English and Europe ones , where are they why not put them in the magazines . I will just wait and see what this one magazine has to say , then I will give them until the end of the year and stop buying it . Someone is not doing their homework ,  and the cost of these magazines are not cheap , I would be better off buying a chart.  This is not just me saying this even my girls at the club are so fed up with these way out designs.

Moving on thank you so much for your kind comments again in my last post I read them all so thank you so much.
Also a very warm welcome to new Followers.

It was sweet Michelle's Birthday last week and this is the little gift I stitched for her.

 Renouveau by Danybrod.

stitched on white 28cnt 

And my SAL with Maryse.

I am so pleased with how this is turning out It is going to make a great table topper.

Last week we were very busy sorting the garden out and enjoying the sunshine.

 How beautiful the garden , ever changing day by day.

Can you smell the fragrance.

Another Fragrant flower .

We brought this plant just last year and already it is growing up the decking

We have put a pink one the other side so we are looking forward to watching them grow and one day they will meet each other in the middle.

Mr Collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden, which was large and well laid out , and to the cultivation of which he attended himself. To work in his garden was one of his most respectable pleasures... Here , leading the way through every walk and cross walk, and scarcely allowing them an interval to utter the praises he asked for , every view was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty entirely behind. 

Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice.

This one is for Michelle.

Beautiful weekend , and sadness too.

Hello friends,
Wonderful sunny holiday weekend,   I also have some sad news.
But first ,  thank you for  so many lovely comments and warmness.
A warm hello to new followers, hope you enjoy my little bit of my stitching world.

First I want to show you the new Christmas SAL I started with Sara HERE .

Ok no I didn't finish the other one's I started but I will soon ,  this was part one now I am working on part two.

And here is my WIP  that I started last week by Passion Bonheur . Here.

When I stitch a large chart  I start by using just three  threads a day .

And boy it really grows.

I will show week by week.

I have also stitched a couple of birthday gifts an exchange this week but can't show you just yet.

I have been busy trying to tidy my craft room , it's getting there .

I found this cross stitch plate I showed you before and thought I would show it again , I love to buy anything with cross stitch on it .

I found this one at a market.

My Poppies are now coming out with the sunshine.

This little violet  I brought the other day it , it lasts each year.

 And we brought a box of the other type that only lasts the season.

Such pretty plants.

Harry is back with us . 

My DH has made him go outside I know he will come back inside he love's walking over my table.

The sweet forget me not.

Leads me to a phone call I had yesterday from one of my best friends.

She told me her son had died this weekend , I was heart broken he is only in his mid 30s his life in front of him . I have also known the pain of losing a child , so I know the pain she is feeling deep inside . 

The pain that never go's away  it is with you the rest of your life .

So may I ask you to say a small prayer for my friend and family .

Bless you all my friends .

Welcome May.

Today is the first day of May , I love May it is such a wonderful month , it is the start of all things new .
Such a pretty month in the garden and when the sun shines it's just perfect.

"May brings flocks of pretty lambs,
Skipping by their fleecy dams."

Hence my new header .

We have had a lovely week here and today looks like another shorts day ha .
We have been so busy in the garden we have  not been inside the house much this week.
So thought I would just put on an updated blog before the garden calls me out again.

Moving on here is my Christmas Ornament SAL with Lainey I posted yesterday for April.

It is a complimentary one from LHN.

I only used part of the chart because I wanted to use this button.

Stitched on 28ct var threads .

I thought he was cute.

 I went to the show with my friends on Saturday we always have fun here is the stash I brought .

Can you believe this time I found some charts , they are so hard to find at the shows we go to , it is only kits they sell and the price is so high , I so wish they would just sell charts.

Some card making bits and bobs and materials.

Materials ribbons and pins.

This one I am giving away on the RAK blog, you can always come over and join in , it is so much fun.

I still have to finish it yet hope to do it this weekend then I will show you another photo.

I had a lovely package from  the lovely Melissa for the Spring exchange.

Look at all the wonderful goodies thank you my friend love them all.

Sewing goodies can't wait to start using them.

And look at my lovely Peter Rabbit , oh he is so cute and I just love rabbits.

At the moment we have a carpet of bluebells and forget-me-not the smell takes me back in time when I was a little girl walking in the bluebell woods.

Can you see we have pink bells too and we have white bells somewhere.

Today I want to plant a few foxgloves at the back of the garden.

What a beautiful face.

Well my sweet friends it's been great spending time with you all.

Have a happy sunshine day , and thank you for all the wonderful comments, also a very warm welcome to my new friends and followers.