Advent Blog Hop - Day 11!

Seasons Greeting!

Welcome to day 11 of the Advent Blog Hop hosted by the lovely Jo at Serendipitous Stitching!

Here is my stitched piece I am sharing with you this year - I finished this last year but didn't take part in the blog hop so thought I would share now as it's a piece I am rather proud of :)

Holly and Hearts by Lizzie Kate

Jo asked what are our Christmas Eve traditions?

Well, if it is a week day then me and my Fiancé will be working! Thankfully we usually get let out early on Christmas Eve so will be home about 4 or 5pm. Once home all the Christmas lights are switched on, candles are lit and a Snowball is made - Christmas Eve is not Christmas eve without a snowball!

Christmas Eve Snowball!

Then, we usually treat ourselves to a takeaway - I will be doing enough cooking on the day so the less I can do on the 24th the better!

After that we will watch a Christmas Movie - usually Miracle on 34th Street - I love that movie!

Then it is usually early to bed - I may be 28 going on 29 but I still always struggle to sleep on Christmas Eve!

Thank you for visiting my page as part of the Advent hop - make sure you check out everyone else and their Christmas Eve traditions too! 

Emma xo

Stitches and Stash!

Good evening!

I hope you are all well and had a pleasant weekend, and all the Christmas planning is starting to come together :)

Last weekend rather last minute I decided to Join the iStitch Designs advent stitch along - meaning I get sent a section of the chart each day from December 1st to December 24th.

Here is day one...

Yes...I have fallen behind already, but it's totally ok - I plan on stitching away this coming week and hopefully at the weekend. Some people are doing great at keeping up and the piece is looking lovely already - I can't wait to crack on with it!

Other than that just some new stash in the post this past week - my first two Soda Stitch Patterns.

I picked up The Little Kingdom...

and Petite Palace...

I thought they were so cute!

The Little Kingdom is actually 50% off at the moment on Sew and So as it's apparently a discontinued pattern.

Other than that not much to tell this week - we pick our wedding invites up this coming weekend - eek! :D

Make sure you come back on Friday when it will be my turn to host day 11 of Jo's Advent Blog Hop!

Until then!

Emma xo