Craft room clear up

I lost my craft room recently, i had been busy making stock for wood-n-stitches and as i hadnt realy been spending much time in there it became a dumping ground for stock, bags of fabric, rolls of wadding etc etc, along with my hall way, it had come to the point i couldnt even open the front door some will say this has been going on for some time, which it has but no way to that extent, but now as we have rented space i am able to sort it all out and reclaim my hallway and my craftroom, hurrah i cry, although i was not looking forward to the actual doing of the deed, i realy rather enjoyed it, i found things i had no idea i had and things i hadnt seen in some time
i found a front door lol
and i found stitching i had no idea where they had gone to, one of them was this LK i started a few years ago, i had forgotten all about it, but after finding it i have started to stitch on it again, jan and feb were already done so yesterday i started on march, i realy have the stitching bug at the moment and am enjoying stitching on this

pity i didnt find my brambles and roses though, wonder if that will ever turn up!!so i have my craft room back although i will be sharing it with my grandson when he stops at the weekend so i have invested in some boxes to keep everything out of little fingers way,
AND
i have got the urge to scrapbook again and have just been out buying stash!!

Day out

Jo and i went to see our mate Polly yesterday, we had a lovely day, went for a wonder round a garden centre then out to lunch and then sat in polly's garden for the afternoon, it was just lovelythe sun was out and where we went for lunch was right by the water, it was gorgeousand while we were in the garden centre i just couldnt resist these two, buttons bunny if for our new grandbaby when she arrives and the little bird is for me lol, i just couldnt resist either of them !!

Easter egg hunt

We have just a had a lovely time in the garden with jake having an easter egg hunt, he was realy good and with a few "oh look over here" going on he found all of the eggs

they were in the trees and bushes, on the slide, in jakes bike, all over the place lol

and mixed in with little chicks and chicks filled with little chocolate eggs and sweatsoh and then we had to eat all the chocolate, well some of it, we are now trying to convince jake he realy doesnt want to eat it all but to save some for tomorrow, not convinced that is going to work lol

Latest finishes

We had the "crafty weekend" from Wood-n-stitches this weekend, which was fantastic, the ladies asked for a bag workshop, so thinking cap on and i came up with this bag,which was the inspiration for the cushion i made for the exchange, which i loved and wanted to keep for myself, but didnt have time to make anything else so had to part with it, sooo during the weekend i came up with these too cushions, all for me, i very rarely manage to get anything to keep for myself so these are mine all mine lol, i'm rather pleased with them too lol

Crafty Weekend exchange

We are in the middle of the "Crafty weekend" in the scout hut, day 1 done, (and was fantastic fun) day 2 to go, this is the exchange piece i did which was received by the wendy lady, i realy enjoyed making this and very nearly kept it for myself lol, but decided to make myself some more instead!and this is what i received from jo, arent they fantastic, (thanks sandra, who made them) and jo !
back for another day today where i will hopefuly finish my cushions and everyone will finish their bags that they are making in the workshop, they are all doing fab, i will bring photos later lol

Mothers day

I have been spoilt again for mothers day,lots of lovely things from the kids, a tea towell and lovely heart from cara, and she is taking me out for a meal on tuesday, a mug and picture frame(complete with pic) and flowers from ameeNiall bought me this gorgeous flower basket, which arrived in Daisy's rucksack on the motorbike, amazing what you can carry on a motorbike loland from Jakey poo this gorgeous little keyring, isnt it cute lol

and some gorgeous cards with hand written notes i cant repeat in them ,cause they make me cry, soppy sod lol
and not a chocolate in sight WOOHOO

Lorna Simons is fundraising for Cancer Research UK

i am doing the 10k race for life on 26th june in loughborough,
i would love your support for this fantastic cause,
any donations however small, would be fantastic.
Lorna Simons is fundraising for Cancer Research UK

many thanks
lorna

Slowly slowly....

See my sunday evening stitching went out of the window again,
must try harder lol
but it is coming on slowly slowly, sat down to stitch on sunday and managed a whole 20 minutes most of which i spend unpicking the same 15 stitching twice lol then had to put it away anyway so didnt get any further sigh !!
next sunday for defo lol

Back on the planet....

Ok so i dont know where the time has gone it is almost the end of january already,
my head has been somewhere else with being ill for almost 7 weeks, got that sorted out with the help of the docs and had a few days of feeling better and WHAM another cold.....please go away and find somewhere else to live!

was just uploading some pics and realised i hadnt put any of caras birthday , we all went out for a meal which is the custom but she wouldnt let the whole cake and candles thing happen so that was done in private at home after lol
but i love this photo, the sparklers/candles are actualy in the shape of "21"
my babies aren't babies any more!!

21 today....

This is Cara my middle child and she is 21 today
Happy birthday Cara, hope you have a wonderful day
love you
x x x x x

The Family Sampler-progress

So i have started and here is my progress so far, not a lot to see, and a long way to go lol
i am using a frame for the first time in forever not something i usualy do i normaly just stitch in hand rolling it up but i have been having trouble with pains in my hands so have decided to try the frame and see how i get on that way,
so far so good

i have also be thinking about doing a stitchalong,
a christmas ornie one, something along the lines of ..
we make an ornie every other month say feb/april/june/aug/oct, we get to keep all our ornies to go on our own trees next christmas apart from octobers which we swap with someone else who has also been stitching them,
something along those lines,
trying to get my stitching bug going again
anyone care to join me in this, if there is enough interest i will make a Fb group or something similiar, maybe through
"exchange heaven"
any thoughts on this would be very welcome.

Sheltering tree- Giveaway

Here it is finished,
well i actualy finished it before christmas but havnt been on pc much with visitors etc
so here it is not the best picture as it is scanned cause Cara ran off with my memory card for the camera!
if anyone would like this chart please leave a message below and i will pull a name out of the hat, thats if anyone reads my blog lol, dont mind where it goes, here or overseas.

i am now working on "The Family Sampler" by Littlehouse Needleworks,
i will take some progress piccies along the way.

With "Wood-n-Stitches" keeping me very busy i have been neglecting my stitching and missing it! recently I have been trying to keep sunday evenings to my stitching which has almost worked and i am going to carry that on if i can
i am also in need of some new christmas ornies and would like to try and make some over the coming year and join in some exchanges again for them, i am at present not in any cross stitch forums (cannot enter CN) does anyone have any recomendations for good friendly forums to keep me inspired.....
looking forward to hearing from you all and getting excited about my stitching again
please visitors stop and say Hi

Santas Been !!

and this is what he did......lol
Turkeys in the oven, no santa didnt do that i did lol
now just got to wait for everyone to arrive at 9.30
going to be a lovely noisy day, cant wait for Jake and his "oh brilliant" (thats his new saying)
8 for dinner possibly 10
ooh and the mess when all that wrapping paper is off!
have a fantstic day and holiday everyone.

Scout hut crafters.......

We had our scout hut christmas party on sunday, which did include some crafting too,
i managed to make a quilt i needed to get done but i forgot my camera and then when i fetched the camera it didnt have a memory card in doh!! so no piccies of anyone this time but here are some gifts i received
firstly from colly at the hardanger group, i am hoping to have a go at these over the holidays! thank you Colly x

and then from wendy lady this gorgeous stocking, notepad and pen, thank you wendy x

and here is my exchange gifts from Polly, cant wait for my taste buds to come back for the mulled wine yum yum, thank you polly x

after a lovely day we ended it by going to the "The Sample Cellar" for a lovely roast dinner which was fantasatic food as always.
we will be back in the scout hut in february.

Stitchy sundays!!

Ok so i said i was going to have sundays as my day for stitching,
i'm trying, not quite succeeding every week but i am getting there,
here is my progress so far, i am enjoying this one and it is great for getting me back into my stitching,
no colour changes nothing to much to think about just stitching lol
need to do a chritmassy design next me thinks to get me into the christmas spirit, and then choose my christmas stitching as in the something i stitch over the christmas holidays, no sewing machines just me and my stitching!!
ahhh cant wait!