Hot Cocoa Cafe

The last stitches have gone in on the Hot Cocoa Cafe of Santa’s village 🙂 which of course means the village is now complete

I started the village when the charts where released back in 2012.  I had them on auto ship along with the weeks and gentle art threads but I chose not to add the buttons.

Elves workshop

I decided it was about time I finished Santa’s village off so I pulled it out earlier in the week and made a start on the Elves workshop.

Apart from the French knots and a little bit of the red in the top border I finished it yesterday.

I’d made a start on Hot Cocoa cafe before I thought about taking a pic!

So fingers crossed by the end of this week at the latest I will have the entire village complete inc. all the French knots

Last weeks stitching

With my bid to get Santa's Village completed this year I thought I'd better get my backside into gear and get another house done this month.

Monday I made start on Candy Cane Cottage and finished it off after bowls on Friday night

I'm now at 2/3 complete and will need to stitch a house a month to finish this year which once bowling season ends shouldn't be a problem

Last week's stitching efforts

The Christmas Tree Farm in Santa's Village went from this

to this and makes finish number 15 for the year

And my sunflower went from this

to this

Last stitching of 2014

I noticed when I did my goals post that my last post of 2014 was my 1300 post, just a useless bit of info for you

On Dec 30 I finished Reindeer Stables from Santa's Village, it only took me a year and a bit to do!

All I had done when I last worked on it was the bottom vine and a little of the top.

And then for the last day and a bit of the year I worked on Charmed Hearts which last made a visit to the world way back in July 2008!!!!! so you can see I worked on the last border but had to frog the bit of it I did in 2008 which is why it became unloved again

I'm thinking I might just work on it this weekend to finish it because once the green is done there isn't much left and I have no plans this weekend.

Santa's Village progress

This last week was Santa's village week and here's how far I got.

At the start of the week I'd hoped to get the Stocking Store finished but I've had a couple of days of not being able to settle to anything so I didn't quite make it.

The chest infection has gone (yay) but it's triggered asthma that hasn't been a issue for 20 years (boo) so I've got new meds to deal with that and get it under control and hopefully when I go back in a few weeks time we can start getting me off them.

Santa's Village progress

This last week was Santa's village week and I finished Mrs Claus' Cookie Shop apart from the french knots

And made a start on Santa's Stocking Store

Updates

Last week was my Santa's Village week and between being busy and being sick I didn't quite get it finished but I'm happy with my progress and it'll get finished next week.

And of course my weekend progress on Legends of the Dragons.

Between still being sick and it being a Bank Holiday weekend so having an extra I made quite a lot of progress on it.

I've not been fully well for 2 1/2 weeks now, Friday I went to the Doc's who confirmed that I do indeed have a chest infection and she gave me antibiotics.  They have helped but I'm still not right and in fact I think I'm starting to get a little worse again so I'll be back there this Friday asking for a stronger dose.

North Pole Post Office

Is finished :)

Well apart from a bit of the top border but I'll do that next time round and I can live with it till then.

I'm really going to have to pull my socks up with this if I'm going to get caught up and finished this year and not take 2 weeks to stitch each house!

Some updates

Thank you everyone for your comments about Millie they mean a lot to me

Last week I worked on North Pole Post Office, didn't get as much done as I would of liked but never mind I'll be back on it soon enough

Weekend progress on The Zoo.

I had another busy weekend so didn't get much time to work on it which helped keep my mind busy occupied on the plus side.

After lunch this Saturday I don't have any plans so hopefully I'll get the bottom half finished and make a dent in what's left on the top

I'm back on Again this week and I realised I hadn't posted a pic of it when I put it down so here it is with just a few stitches added.

I should get him finished this week which will mean it's time to start Firefly Fairies which I'm not looking forward to as it's so not my taste but it'll help pay for Christmas this year

There's not going to be much variety stitching wise here over the next few months assuming I stick to my plan of alternating weeks on projects that is, it's the only way I can think of getting the payed projects done without working on them full time and boring myself to tears or just not stitching.

Santa's village and The Zoo

I finally finished Poinsettia Place on Friday evening, it took me almost 2 months to do and I don't know why.   I'm keeping my fingers crossed the rest of the village doesn't take me so long

And my weekend progress on The Zoo, I'm almost at the point of it being my stitching which means it should go quicker as I won't be spending ages figuring out what has and hasn't been done.

Santa's Village

It's been a few weeks since I last shared my progress on Santa's Village although I have been in the parlour on a Wednesday night.

I've finished Santa's house and yes I know I've not done the french knots and that's because I'm planning on doing them all at the end so they don't get squashed but I might use beads instead.

And I've made a decent start on Poinsettia place

Santa's House

I forgot to post last week's progress on Santa's House after my evening in the parlour over at Needlecraft Haven

So I have 3 pics for you of it.

This first one is the before from last week

Second is last week's after pic which is also this week'd before pic

And completely unsurprisingly the last one is this week's after pic

And now's there's just 3 to go