The ornament

This is the stunner I received this morning from Kate I was totally speechless once I'd opened the box!


Each side has a different snowflake on it, it's all stitched over 1 on purple fabric (Kate knows me well :) ) and came wrapped up in a piece of fabric to boot (I'm assuming it's a Sparklies piece)
I have no idea what I did to deserve being spoilt so much but I can say that it will have pride of place every Christmas

I showed it to Mel when she got home from college this evening and her reaction was WOW followed by that's way to nice to hang on the tree

Apologises for the bad pic at the end but I wanted to show it all off but couldn't get a decent one probably because my arms aren't long enough to hold it far enough away :)

The last 3 days

I've had so much fun with htis exchange and will be signing up for it again next year

Day 10

Day 11, in use already as a home for a beading WIP

And lastly today's reveal package was this gorgeous wallhanging

I've been spoilt so much by Kristin and it's been alot of fun .

Just in case you want to know what I sent out go visit Kell's blog to see the pics she posted.

This morning also brought me an ornament from an exchange I put together, pics of it will follow later tonight but right now I'm off to find something for dinner

12 Day's Catch up

I'm way behind with these and I did take pics a few days ago but never got change to post them and for the last couple of days I've been fighting a migraine and haven't felt human enough to do anything let alone post here.

Day 6

It was a dull day when I took these so had to use the flash the colours are the same as my new hat IRL

Day 7

Already up on the tree

Day 8

I'm going to have a stash dive to find something to go in this


Day 9
I love these Magnetic note pads they make doing the weekly list so much more interesting

Tomorrow is the last day and I'll do pics of the last 3 days then as well as trying to remember to update the Advent calendar from ExH.

I have been stitching but I can't share just yet, most of my time has gone on yet another ornament for an exchange that just needs putting together which head allowing will get done tomorrow

Gifts Galore

First up is yesterday's 12 Days gift, a gorgeous hand knit hat! I needed a new hat anyway and one made just for me can't be beaten

Today's package had these two little bowls in. I've got no idea what I'll use them for yet but they are fantastic

And lastly some flowers. On Sunday there was an accident right outside my house and after dialling 999 I went out to see if I could do anything to help and there was a woman holding a baby that had come out of one of the cars. It was early evening and going cold so I asked her if she wanted to come in and wait for the Police & Ambulance to arrive which she did and she stayed in here while she was checked over as well as the baby. They went off to hospital to get a complete check up (she was complaining of neck pain) the mess was cleaned up and life went back to normal for us.
Fast forward to this evening and I'm sat stitching (no surprise there) heard the shop next door pulling the shutters down and the next thing I know there's a knock on the door. At some point today a lady has been with flowers for me to say Thank You for what I did on Sunday and because I wasn't in she left them next door.
To say I'm touched is an understatement, no thanks was needed for what I did (and it wasn't much!) my only thought was that it was cold and there was a baby that would be better off in the warm than the cold.

No-one was seriously injured as far as I know and the Ambulance was routine because of the baby

Award and tagging catch up

Way, way back at the start of September Ann awarded me this and I have been extremely lax in posting it and thanking her for it for which I'm truely sorry

The rules

1. The winner can display this award on their blog.

2. Display a link to the person you have got the award from

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs that you like.

4. Set the links to the blogs on your blog.

5. Leave a comment on the blogs you have chosen.

I've done 1 & 2 above but given that this award is now 3 months old and those that I would of given it have already been awarded it I won't be doing 3, 4 & 5

And I got tagged by Claire a couple of weeks ago

Here are the tag rules:
Rule #1 ~ Link to the person that tagged you.
Rule #2 ~ Post the rules on your Blog.
Rule #3 ~ Write 6 random things about yourself.
Rule #4 ~ Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
Rule #5 ~ Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their Blog.
Rule #6 ~ Let the tagger know your entry is up.

So my random facts are

1, I'm terriffied of lightning.
2, I can wiggle my ears
3, I've never flown
4, I've never had a broken bone
5, I have a brother but we aren't close and I've not seen or spoken to him since my Gran's funeral in Oct 07
6, I had Heather at the age of 16

I'll come back later and add the one's I've picked to tag

Advent catch up

I apologise for the first couple of pics being dark, they looked fine on the camera!

Day 2 and 3

Day 4 and 5, the bottom one is a 15th Anniversary medallion for Pocket Dragons

Day 6, a Dragon fabric covered photo album


Day 7

On the first 3 days of Christmas...

My Secret Santa gave to me

A pile of DMC

3 pieces of yummy fabric

And a how to for Gingerbread men

I had fun opening days 2 & 3 this afternoon when I got home from the GTG at Joy's I laughed so much yesterday my sides hurt!

Ornaments and Babies

I spent a little while yesterday afternoon putting Heather's ornament together after I made a stupid mistak eon Monday and put the hanger in the wrong way round and had to unpick I had to leave it a day or so before I tackled it again.


After breakfast yesterday morning Caleb was given the treat of a Bourbon Cream biscuit, I'm not sure he got much of it he actully ate!


And yesterday evening he spent a very happy 10 minutes drowning my kitchen as he had a bath in the sink

Visitors

Heather came up with Caleb yesterday for a few days, I've not said anything about it as she wanted to keep it a secret from my Mum and Mum sometime's reads my blog.
Be prepared for more pics over the next couple of days
Back end of last week I finished Mum & Dad's ornament for this year, as ever the fabric behind is the backing

And lastly ExH has once again done the advent calendar for Mel and I, my first pouch had a card to open #1 and it turned out to be this little guy called I think I forgot

#2 will be opened later when Mel gets home from college at the same time she opens her's.

Speaking of Mel, she's in the war's again :( Last night she managed to trap her finger in the front door and has taken all 7 layers of skin off the top of her finger but refused to let me take her to A&E so I'm keeping a close eye on it and if it shows any sigh of anything wrong she get's no choice and we're going.

November Progress & December Goals

For November I said

Make good progress on Fantasy Sampler (need to really if I'm going to finish by the end of the year) I barely touched it
Stitch at least one ornament I did 3
UFO RR No
Finish something No unless I count the 3 ornaments

For December I'd like to

Finish Fantasy Sampler
Finish Bigger Stash
Finish My Needleswork
Finish the payed Birth Sampler
Finish something else
Stitch at least 2 ornaments
Stitch an ornament for Mel
UFO RR
Finish beaded Angel Box (WIP pic to follow later)

I stitched for a total of 75 hours 22 minutes last month, November is always a bad month stitching wise for me with the Celtic Fair taking up a week of the month although I did think I'd done more with not having a puter for a week at the start of the month.
I had 4 new starts and 3 finishes all of which were new starts.