Wednesday, 7 November 2012

#44 Only 23 days...

...until December 1st! Which means I can put my Christmas decorations up with the other half complaining!

I have a finish and a half to share tonight.

First up was the skiing Polar Bear I finished a while ago,I finally got round to adding some backing fabric and turned it in to a little ornament for the tree. I wasn't sure if it would be too large or not, but luckily it turned out a perfect size.

The finish is less than perfect, finishing has never been my strong point. But I'm happy enough. Forgive the bad lighting, Winter time means I don't see daylight during the week!


Secondly I finished my gingerbread man...and about 20 minutes later accidently butchered him with my scissors...nooo! Much more and he would have lost his head! So, I had to improvise. I decided to back him on the some "crazy patchwork" as I call it, using all my festive looking fabric and felt scraps.


Now I am stuck, I don't really know what to do with him. I fear he may go in to the cupboard until further notice until I get a bright idea.

Oh well.

Now to decide what to work on next...

Have a great week everyone - hopefully I will have more progress on one of my projects to share at the weekend.


Emma xo

Friday, 2 November 2012

#43 November?!

Seriously, where has this year gone? But on the bright side I can now start to get excited over Christmas!

I hope anyone who was affected by the Storm on the East Coast has made it through ok, I saw some live pictures and it looked terrible - all it takes here is a couple CM of snow for all hell to break loose!

Also, I hoped everyone enjoyed Halloween - its not really a big deal for me, I guess its because by the time I get home from work all the kids have been and I miss them all. Ah well.

Stitching wise I worked some more on the Sweet Treats SAL - I managed to get both legs and his body done. hopefully by the end of the weekend he won't be headless!


The postman was very kind to me this week. At the start of the week my chart arrived which I won at dear Thea's Blog. Over the past months she has been doing reviews on a Saturday then holding some giveaways for the items involved. I was lucky enough to win this and the other half has already decided it will fit perfectly in our "Geek Room".


Then later in the week another package arrived for me. I was confused at first as I knew I wasn't expecting anything so I opened it and sweet sweet Nia had sent me this!


No reason why, other than to make me smile - which is certainly did! I commented a while back how cute these were and she must of remembered. It even got a smile out of the other half who normally just rolls his eyes at anything crafty!

So I just want to say Thea and Nia - Thank you!!

I also sent off my mystery Giveaway to McKenna but silly me forgot to take a photo of it...only realising once I had sealed the envelope...ha! Once I know the gift has been received then I will enlighten the rest of you (and hopefully McKenna will take a photo!)

I will update again at the end of the weekend. I hope you all have a great one :)

Emma xo