Cosy night by the fire.

Hello friends , well what a busy old time I have not stopped for weeks , hoping soon things will slow down a bit , looking forward to a nice cosy night by the fire tonight .

How are you all doing with all your Christmas shopping and cooking ?

Thank you again for your lovely comments , and welcome to my new followers.

We have a water leak so we have work men coming on Sunday! not to early I hope , we had such a large bill and found out we had a leak .
I was going to Exeter to see the Christmas market and lights so we will be going another time now.

I have started to put up a few decorations , but I have a feeling this month will fly , before long I will be repacking them again ha.

I have done a bit of stitching but can't show you every thing just yet.
But l can show you another one of my little ones pillows.

How sweet a sleeping rabbit.

 SOMEBODY'S SLEEPING 

 BY 

CROSS-EYED CRICKET.

I did change some of those colours  and stitched on a cream 28ct.

Just have to sew this one up now then I will show you again.

Another Square.

I looked at this stitching and now I can see how the weeks have passed by, since I started it.

And now I have a few Christmas pictures of some of my decorations.

                                            Notice the cross stitch on his sack and coat.

Santa's Friends.

My old fire place will be going in the New Year  l will be sad but it's time for a change.

And another little ornament .

Can you spot your cross stitch , many are gifts from friends.

Well my dear friends , I will show you more next time  .

Have a wonderful weekend hope you have no stress with your shopping and cooking.

I still have a little more shopping to do loads of wrapping and a big stack of cards to write out , but I am getting there , and l  will look forward to Christmas Eve  when the shop's are shut .

Have fun, until next time.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello all , and a Happy Thanksgiving for all of you every where.
We don't celebrate this holiday , but hope you all have a wonderful day.

I am still very busy so I love to relax at night with my stitching .
It seems I have been wrapping up gifts for ever getting to the end soon . I love Christmas Eve when every thing is done and we can relax and enjoy .

Almost December !  it only seems like yesterday we had Summer I do wish the clock would slow down a little .

We have been very cold here but today is so mild you really don't know what to wear each day.
Mr Jack Frost made a visit a few times this last week.

I have just sent an exchange off and just finished a couple of gifts , can't show you yet but will soon.

I have been stitching on my little ones pillows hoping to have them ready for Christmas.
 Here is one of them and I will show the other one next time.

This one is called "Gathering flowers "by DMC 

l used a very pale lemon evenweave 28ct .

I still have another butterfly to stitch more flowers and fill in Pooh's body and face details , next time l show you l am hoping it will be a pillow.

And  two more rows to go on my little pillow.

And one more lovely word HOPE .

We should always have hope .

And what do you think the next square will be I wonder.

And a  a gift came from my wonderful friend Norma how sweet is this .

How sweet , you press her chest and she says

 I LOVE YOU 

I must say it made me cry a little.

Thank you my dear friend I love you too.

Now look what I found in the garden last week a yellow poppy.

Even after all the frost.

 My DH planted these in my hanging box out side the craft room for some winter colour.

Just the odd flower left now most of them have frost damage .

Welcome to my new follower's , and thanks to everyone of my friends for my lovely comments.

Wishing you all a very happy weekend , take care and keep warm.

SO BUSY AND SO COLD

Hello dear friends , hope you are keeping warm those of you who are going into Winter.
It is a lovely time of the year very magical but can also be so busy , I have been going none stop the last couple of weeks engagement's dinners  party's also Christmas fairs and Christmas buying , coffee with friends and wrapping loads of gifts . We had our party last Tuesday night at the cross stitch club always a laugh . We still have a few dinners to go too yet . I like being busy but I also love being in front of a cosy fire with my stitching , I have found a little time to stitch  I need it because it's my form of relaxation.
It is bitter cold here but dry today, my friend said she had her first snow flurry on Tuesday when we met up at the Vine yard for coffee, there was a sale of loads of goodies for Christmas and some of my girls from the club had a table selling things to so we sat in for them so they could go for coffee also.

I see l have a few more followers coming to join me , it's wonderful for you to come over and have a chat with me and hoping you enjoy looking into my world of stitching.

I need to catch up this week with my blog reading sorry I have not had time yet but I will make time in the next few days.

I have just finished a exchange but really can't show you just yet but will in December.
I have had a few Christmas gifts arrive  already but I am going to save them  until Christmas . So we had better get the tree up in a couple of weeks so I can put them under the tree. I am a little child at heart I get so excited with Christmas I love to give and make people happy .

I don't have little Poppy with me this year we lost her in January last year , this little dog was just like a child to would get so excited she would be under the tree all the time smelling the gifts to see if hers was there , she would nibble the paper on some if she thought it was hers very gentle with out damage but when I did put hers under the tree Christmas eve she would race around with it in her mouth showing me what she had got. She always took her own paper off the gift that was the fun part.
Oh how I miss my little friend maybe one day I will have another one.

 OK I have stitched my next bit on my Jardin Prive SAL.

 I still want to sew a few buttons on here When I have finished so I have left room here and there. 

I also used a blend of colours for the sheep so that they would stand out a little bit more.

 And my square pillow .

         
                            " Happy Hearts " by Gail Bussi .

Now  l know allot of you want to know where to get this chart from I found it in a old  WOCS mag .
I really don't know if you can find it in chart.
I have promised the chart to one of my followers so if I ask her to also pass it on when she and I have stitched it . So watch this space.

 Look at my lovely gift one of my girls gave me at club a  lovely scissor holder she made one for all the girls , such kindness . Thank you Mo.

We went outlast week for lunch and my DH needed a hair cut and I needed more gifts for the club so here is where we went it's a big shopping store that just about sells any thing.

It is like a big castle.

There is a train that you can get on that takes you around.

We were trying to get a good picture of the peacocks that wonder around , I didn't know we had people watching us ha.

More people watching but it is a painting  .

You could even get a donkey ride 

Santa is already here in his plane.

More animals inside this one comes to life every few min's. 

You can walk around here for miles .

Well my friends its time for some lunch my tummy is talking to me now , have a wonderful week .

Keep warm and hope you find lots and lots of stitching time. 

Another busy week.

Hello my dear friends , is everyone ready for Christmas it is not to far away now . I have so much to do and so little time . We are so busy here with one thing and another , I am now making a  do it list each day. I put at the top of the list what has to be done today and follow with things that could make things better for tomorrow . I don't have a job any  more but time is still running by I know what it is now I have got slower !

We had our first frost this week , and they are saying things are going to get colder next week.
Today it is sunshine and showers.

Had a good night on Tuesday out with the girls from the club at our Christmas time meal still can't get into my head that Christmas is almost here. Next week it is our Christmas party at the club ! It only seems like yesterday that we had the last one.

I see I have a few more new followers a warm welcome to you and I do hope I can tempt you to keep coming back.
Thank you all for such wonderful comments you know it warms my heart.

My PC stopped for the day this week why I will never know , I almost got DH to rush out and buy another one , ( I know it's sad but I can't live with out it now ,  thanks to you my friends you always brighten my day )

Well now to my sewing  , another square and a old UFO finished.

Christmas Cheer by Just Nan.

I stitched it onto pale blue evenweave 28ct 

and my lovely dmc threads.

This is the same frame they have on the chart  picture and the funny thing is  I brought this frame about 5 yrs ago I thought I may use it one day.

Hows that for luck.

So I am going to keep this one for my self this time.

Hold on its coffee time I will be back in a moment.

That's better thanks for waiting , I had a chocolate biscuit too.

I have to be careful now with my teeth I went to the dentist last week and they want to do a implant Only about  £2,500.00 could be more !  this is just a back tooth , no way are they talking me into this , 

so in the future you may see a photo of me toothless ha. I would end up caring around a fortune in my mouth !

 Here is my next square .

Looking at this made me want a drink.

I am loving this little pillow more each day .

Mr postman made a few nice visits this week it makes a change from bills .

From my lovely new sister Lynda.

Wow how sweet she sent me these charts and more.

So pretty.

And this wonderful little bag for holding threads and inside a pin cushion.

Can you see the built in pin cushion 

and there was more .

This is so lovely a tea shirt and you run outside in to the sun and look what happens.

The sun is not out now but you can see the colours change thank you my friend for your kindness.

And from the lovely Michelle I received  a Christmas gift but you will have to wait like me until Christmas.

And from her trip to Scotland these lovely gifts.

Thank you dear friend, you all are such warm and wonderful friends I still can't get over how kind everyone is in blog land.

 Looking out side my window this morning it is very colourful.

And just before I go I don't know if any of our blogging friends got caught up in the tornadoes last week I have been so heart broken with the story's coming out in the news and would like to say hold in there food water and help is on it's way .

We are all thinking of you in our daily prayers . I send you a rose and if you look at my blog please stop and say a prayer , while looking at the rose of love.

The gift of prayer is very powerful in large numbers.