Hubble bubble, toil and trouble....

I think Ghosties and Ghoulies is complete - what do you think? Can you think of anything I forgot to add if you can see a place for it?

I have had such a good time with this piece. For the most part I have followed the pattern, but I have added a few things here and there..... the pumpkin and ghost under the tree and a few extra bats........ now I just have to get it framed before October!

A day off

We had lots of snow yesterday and so I decided to book today off from work in case the roads were bad again today. Needless to say the roads are fine this morning, but I now have the pleasure of a whole day to please myself! I intend to take full advantage and catch up with my blogging and do plenty of stitching! Here are some photos of my Christmas present from Carol - isn't it just gorgeous? It hangs in pride of place in my kitchen now. Details of the pattern can be found here. The pattern is called 'Peace and Plenty' and is by Leannes House. I hope to be back again shortly with some more photos. Have a good day!

Ghosties and Ghoulies

Here are the photos as promised. I am really enjoying stitching this piece, the house is such fun. The colours are pretty accurate as I took the photos using my daylight lamp to illuminate the stitching. Hope you like it too....... all photos are clickable if you want to get up close and personal with them.... :-)

A snowy evening

Good evening one and all from a very snowy England - we even have snow where I live today! I still haven't managed to get any sort of list of ongoing projects worked out, never mind a rotation to get some of those projects finished. Instead I decided to start yet another project last week. I am stitching 'Ghosties and Ghoulies' by Brightneedle. This was offered as an over one class some time back. I have decided to stitch it over two and frame the piece because it will sit forever untouched if I have to stitch it over one! :-)
Sorry to say that due to the poor light here I haven't taken any photos as yet, but I will try and remedy that before too long........... In the absence of a photo of my own here is a photo taken in London today. The story that accompanies it is here

A trip to the framers

I am feeling much poorer this weekend after Carol collected my framing for me. I really must not leave it so long between visits next time! I cleared a few pieces out from the drawer in the bedroom, took them to be framed and you can see the results for yourself............ I am really pleased with all of them!

The first finish of 2009

Well, Here it is - my first finish of 2009. My dad was here for Christmas and we sat up to watch the New Year fireworks in London. Dad went to bed shortly afterwards and I stayed up until I finished this piece. It was officially finished at 1.30am on Ist January 2009 - my first ever New Years Day finish. It is the top of a bigger sampler from Little House Needleworks, called 'Winter Whites'.

Playing catch-up

I always start the new year with lots of plans for getting better organised and achieving more stitching and this year was no different. I went through the entire process in my head and then, sadly, failed to follow through so far..... In an effort to start to tie up some of the loose (stitching) ends from 2008, here is a photo of the completed mail art which I stitched for Carol's birthday back in September 2008.

I have plans to list my finishes for 2008, current UFOs and plans for stitching during this upcoming year shortly, but we shouldn't get too excited as most of this years UFO's were also last years UFO's. Still I finished a few other pieces over the year, so all is not lost! :-)

Happy New Year!

Here is a photo of the birthday exchange which I sent to my friend Ebeth, back in September 2008. The pattern is a freebie from Indigo Rose and the strawberry uses the same design as the pin keep.

Happy New Year one and all. I hope to be back again over the next few days and one of my new years resolutions will be to blog more regularly............ I hope that you are all having fun celebrating as we are waiting on the verge of 2009. See you soon!

love Jackie x