Moonlit Waters Page 3 complete (ish)

Well, apart from the very small bit of a wing which I am leaving until I get to the page beneath it, I've completed page 3 of Moonlit Waters and it's starting to come together a bit more.  I am utterly sick of moon colours!

Here's a little progress picture:

Stitched on 25 Count DMC Magic Guide, 2 over 1.

Yet again, so far behind on everyone's posts, will be playing catchup next week!

Pink Swings and Foam Snow

Sometimes you just have to be a bit silly.  Canary Wharf, London is full of drabness.  It's where a lot of suits work in Banks and similar establishments.  If you look around the station, you will see lots of people looking miserable at the prospect of going to their office.  They wear dark coloured suits and coats.

Today on the way out of the station, there was a set of pink swings as part of a promotion.  Very hard to resist.  So I just jumped right on.

Happy New Year!

Hello my friends and a Happy New Year to you all :-)

The hubby and I spent a nice long break with my family over Christmas.  It was nice to be out of the hustle and bustle of London for a little while, although our week was packed with visits to various places, walks in the village where my family live and a little trip to the seaside as well.

Although it was nice to be away, it was also nice to get home again, and we had a day to do a quick flat tidy-up before hosting our close friends for New Years Eve... As is usual, we played some cards, drank some champagne when the clock struck midnight and then settled down on the sofa to watch the remainder of Jools Holland, finally heading to bed after 2am.  It was fun at 7am the next morning when their baby girl woke up wanting attention and the whole house was shattered or hungover!

So now we are into 2013, yay! Hubby had a buffer day before heading back to work today, and we both did absolutely nothing except laze around watching TV, and in the evening we watched the last two Harry Potter films to make it feel a bit like it was still Xmas.

So, a happy 2013 to my followers, wishing you all Health, Wealth and Happiness.  I hope it's a good one.

It's coming...

Hooray, it's almost here!!!

The cards are up, the decorations are out, the lights are twinkling.

My stitching has been almost non-existent for the last few weeks as I've been shopping and wrapping and we've been away in Bristol for a couple of days where there was so so much rain that I ended up throwing away my boots as they got caked in mud and didn't seem to prevent my feet getting soaking wet.  It's a real shame about the weather, as it was all we could do to dash from shop to shop and coffee shop to coffee shop.

We are just having a bit of a tidy up now before Christmas arrives properly and I'm extremely glad that my hubby has now finished work and can relax - it's been 6 months since our holiday and I know he's feeling pretty burnt out.  Let's hope Xmas and New Year doesn't make us more frazzled!

So I just wanted to pop by before I snuggle up with my hubby for Xmas and wish you all a lovely time, I hope it's peaceful, relaxing and fun!  Thank you so much for reading my little blog, I've loved having all your comments.

Seeya next year!
Jo
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Tusal - December 2012

Ho, Ho, Ho!

I made it to the end of the year of Tusals.  I looked at my little pot... and I thought... 'Is that all? For a whole year? Pathetic.'  But I think that is the nature of working on a big HAED and parking the stitches, you don't find yourself fastening off and cutting so much, you just keep going until the thread has run out.

This year I did something I have never done in my life.  I was in the mood to stitch a Pooh Bear design and I knew that I had started one a very long time ago.  I pulled it out.  I looked at it.  Then the pattern.  Then back at it.  I had gone wrong in more than one spot.  Then I looked at the fabric.  Quite grubby.  Then I looked at the back and saw the horror of threads going all over the place.  After that, I rifled through my fabric selection and pulled out a roughly the same size piece of cream Aida.

I started on this one all over again.  It feels cleaner, and neater and although the frog did come and visit me, I have fixed that now and it looks fine again.

So the colourful bits in the top of my jar this month are from the Tigger's Log.

My friend Jill...

... has started her very first blog.  Every year we get a wonderful handpainted christmas card and I get a beautiful birthday card.  I swear Jill seems to be good at everything she does!

Please go and pay her blog a visit here:
http://jillkeeley.blogspot.co.uk/

And you'll hear about the inspiration and stories behind her artwork... she can tell a good tale :)

TUSAL - November 2012

Hello there!

I'm a few days late with the blog post, but my TUSAL pictures actually were taken on the correct day.  (If you don't know what the TUSAL is, the link is down there, yes on the right).

Here are my threads from my stitching so far.  Finally some lighter colours as I have been working on the moon part of my Moonlit Waters HAED.  It's going much faster than the other pages and I am enjoying this page a great deal when I have time to stitch on it.  I'm hoping to have page 3 finished by the end of November, so wish me luck... it'll be a challenge, but I'm going for it.