Living With Charm HD

I finally got my butt into gear this evening and took a pic of Living with Charm

Lizzie Kate

PTP Carnival

DMC and WDW

I've been having a look at the camera card this evening and have found a couple of things that I haven't shared so tomorrow before I go to the GTG I'll try and get at least one of them up.

I've also joined the Mary Wigham SAL and put the first stitches in this evening but so far I'm not liking the way it's stitching up on the fabric I've picked so I'm thinking I may just have a quick run out to Willow Fabrics first thing to find something else. The one I picked is a linen and I'm not a huge fan of linen anyway but it was the only piece of fabric I had in my stash that would work and even then it was a case of having to do it over 1

Keep my Dad in your thoughts please, he goes in for his Arthroscopy tomorrow, he has to be there by 7am and is as far as we know first on the list

May Progress & June Goals

For May I said

Finish Living with Charm Yes
UFORR Yes
Finish Poppy box Yes
Make good progress on Mary Busby Yes
Pick my birthday start Yes, LK's ABC Lessons
Start one of the ornaments I owe Mel No
Start Mel's birthday present No

For June I'd like to
Finish the Sunflowers
Work on my WIPs
Finish something other than the Sunflowers
Start Mel's Birthday present if I get the sunflowers done quickly enough

The Sunflowers are a project I have been asked to finish for someone so I pretty much need to work on them all the time till I'm done (anyone want to bet how long it takes me to get sick of them?)

I stitched for a toatal of 94 hours 54 mins last month, had 3 starts and 4 finishes and stitched every day.

And lastly for my fellow Twilight fans just in case you've missed it so far here's the new trailer for New Moon

Current WIP total = 46

Mary Busby time

Between being in Chester all day and watching the last episode of ER last night I didn't get much done but I did get the blue motif finished and the little brown one done (click on the pic to get the full thing)

I'm away next weekend with a bunch of other UK stitchers for our annual weekend long GTG so no update on this until Monday at least (that's assuming I get some done on it)

Thursday evening I finished Living With Charm but haven't had chance to take a pic yet, fingers crossed I'll get it done tomorrow

Chester (pic heavy)

We headed into Chester to walk the walls and so that Mel could spend the day with her BF.

After lunch in the Cathedral grounds off we went.

Our starting point was the Eastgate Clock we had planned to walk clockwise around the walls but the section just after the clock has collapsed so is currently closed

Looking towards Morgan's Mount

The Water Tower




Caleb refused to go back in his buggy after posing for pics so he was helped along by Auntie Mel and yours truely (that's Mel's BF btw and not some random guy in the pic)

The Castle

We ended up at the River Dee which was the plan all along
At times the weir flows backwards when the conditions are right, one of these days I'll be there to see it (they do let you know when it's going to happen)

The suspension bridge over the river

We headed back to the city centre and the bus through the Roman Gardens

This Hypercoust is reconstructed from pieces found during a dig at the Bath Building

Find more info about the walls here

Yum Strawberries

We did the weekly shop today and right before we left to the house Caleb fell asleep on the sofa on top of a favourite toy

While we out I bought a punnet of Strawberries just for him (no one else eats them) and once we got back home he had a few

Some of them were quite big and they still went in whole and got pushed back in when they dared to sneek out a little as he chewed, LOL

Bank Holiday Monday

We woke up this morning to a beautiful sunny morning and made plans to go to a local Mere for a walk round and so the Caleb could feed the ducks

In the end we didn't see that many ducks but we did see this guy

And this was the largest family of geese we saw

At the opposite end of the mere from where we parked and started our walk round there is a bench carved from a single tree trunk

Caleb & Auntie Mel posed for a pic

And just because there is such skill in the carving a few pics

Mary Busby update time

Not much progress this week as I had a busy day yesterday but still I got the blue motif half done. Next week will probably be the same as Lucy and Caleb will be here so I doubt much stitching will get done

To answer a couple of comments from yesterdays post...

Sharon, yes it's a owl

Kristin, we were talked through making him at craft club so I have no idea where the orginal idea came from

I've got a new friend

So far he/she is nameless

This little guy was the project at WI craft last night, very easy to make and uses up scraps of fabric to boot

Crackers!

Yes I am but that's not what this post is about :)

I thought I'd share one of my beading WIPs with you for a change and since this one is the most interesting to look at right now that's the one you get. Last November I did a class at The Bead Trail on how to make crackers and this is as far as I've gotten with mine! The bottom one (minus the edging) and the left hand one were either done or started in class so I could get the pattern nailed. The right hand one is the main body and there's still quite a way to go yet and then I have to come back and do the decreases so it pulls in as well as do the other end.


It was either 10 days or so before or after this class that I did the Angel Box which is why they never got finished, now I'll be working on them when I want a break from my new project which is mostly dark colours (and only has 4 1/2 rows of black beads so far hence no pic of that, it's just too boring right now)

Finished the Poppy box

One of my goals for this month was to finish this box and I did it a few days ago.

The lid isn't as charted, there should be little picots on the corners but I didn't like the way mine sat so undid them and left them off and the body is done in 2 drop peyote.