Grow Your Blog

Hello!

Welcome to my little corner of the internet taking part in the Grow Your Blog event hosted by Vicki at Two Bags Full 

My name is Emma, I am 27 years old and I live in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. I live with my ever suffering partner David, and our fur baby Sheldon. We also have another another fur baby who goes by the name of Charlie, however he is quite the adventurer and so his visits home are dictated only by his stomach!

This blog was created a little under two years ago, when I decided I was fed up on an evening and weekend of just sitting in front of the TV or computer and I wanted to do something more productive with my time. So, I revisited the glorious world of craft, cross stitch in particular with a little bit of (basic!) knitting thrown in for good measure!

I think I get my crafty side from my Nana, however she is a far better knitter than I will ever be, however she does try her best with me!

Here are a few of my favourite completed pieces, however you can find them all under the tab at the top of the page "completed stitches"

I am a firm believer in "varitety is the spice of life!" so I would say I don't have a style or favourite designer, I do what feels right at the time, which may explain my ever expanding W.I.P pile!!

My dear readers also have a suffer with some ramblings from me sometimes, anything from holiday photos, weight loss, my adventure in to starting running with a few giveaways thrown in for good measure too! Oh and cat photos. Everyone needs a random cat photo from time to time!

I am due a giveaway soon, to celebrate me reaching 200 followers, so look out for that soon too!

I also have a second blog, which is for my reading. This is a new project I am working on which you can find here.

I hope you enjoyed your visit to my blog and I would love to hear from you in the comments below! Thank you for taking the time to visit!

Emma xo

Stitch From Stash 2014 - January

Hello!

Well, as today is pay day it seems to make sense that I should now do a round up of my spending and stitching over the last month, all on aid of Stitch From Stitch hosted by Mel at Epic Stitching!

So, down to the important stuff did I stick to the $25 budget this month? YES!

This month I spent a total of £10 which, according to Googles trusty conversion table, equals around $16.50 give or take a few cents, yay!

So, what did I spend it on? Well, first was a small purchase of a needle minder from Lisa's No More Lost Needles, which you can find on Facebook. You can see it in use in the picture below :) I actually bought 3 but the other two will be for my giveaway coming soon!

Next was a Tilton Craft chart. I had agreed to take part in an appreciation event, so I remained restrained and only purchased one chart, which considering there is a sale on I think is pretty damn good of me!

As I am visting Rome later this year how could I not buy this one!?

As for stitching well, if you are a regular follower you will know that the first 15 days I had a new start everyday, all of which were from my pile of free kits which come with magazines, and I managed to finish three of them too!

The lovely Jo from Serendipitous Stitching was also so sweet to send me a second bunting kit she had in her stash, thanks Jo! It had the buzz of new stash just without the guilt lol!

So lets do the math...

• January budget = $25.00
• Total spent       = $16.50
• Remainder       =  $8.50

A pretty good month I would say! I'll squirrel that $8.50 away for another month, and I'm going to add a running total of yearly total spent and saved to my tracker on my sidebar to the right.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all managed to stick to it too!

Emma xo