Runekeeper

I finished the dragon block around 12.20 am on Monday morning which means one thing....

Runekeeper is finished :)

Started way back in 2005 and now it's finally finished I now have no PHD's from 2005 left to do (let's not mention the one's from 2004 and before tho, OK)

It's in need of a bath so please excuse the wrinkles but that's no excuse not to put your dancing shoes on and join me in a happy dance now is it :)

Beaded Tape Measure

I bought the current issue of Bead a couple of weeks ago on my way to one of the beading groups I go to because I wanted to try a different project that's in it but I got a little obsessed with making one of these.

As soon as I got home I hunted out the tape measure I knew I had and started thinking about what Delica's I had enough of for the main colour.

Following day I enlisted fella's help with picking colours cause I'm hopeless at it and this is the scheme  we came up with.

It got dubbed the project from hell at one point cause if I could make a mistake I did, mostly on the band but it wasn't helped by the instructions not making sense to me in some places and I'm convinced they are wrong in places!

But it won't stop me making more

TUSAL & 1000th post winner

It's TUSAL posting day so here's my jar.

I've added orts from Sunflower Sampler, Santa's House, Birds & Bees, Runekeeper, Winter exchange, The Zoo, Poinsettia Place and of course lots of KO, fireline etc from beading.

I made a list of all the folks that had commented on my 100th post and those that had left a comment the week before

Went off to Random.org and did the generator thing and got #2 which is Julie

Congratulations Julie you won the bookmark which given how much you read will come in useful :)

Runekeeper

The Unicorn block is finished and I only have the Dragon block to do which fingers crossed I'll do this weekend.   IF I'm close to being finished Sunday night I'll work on it on Monday so I can cross it off the list and have a happy dance.

If you haven't already entered and want to there's still time to enter my 1000th post giveaway

February progress & March Goals

Few days late this month but I didn't want this to be my 1000th post

For February I said

Finish Santa's House  Done

Start and finish Poinsettia house if it arrives early enough in the  month Haven't got it yet :(

Stitch an ornament  No

Stitch a SOLAK square  No

Get the rest of my stuff from Mum's and DBF's  I have my stuff from fella's house and there are just a few boxes of books left at Mum's

Get the Krenicks I need for Runekeeper  Done

For March I'd like to

Finish Runekeeper

Start and finish Poinsettia House

Make a start on North Pole PO

Stitch an ornament

Stitch a SOLAK square

I stitched for 62 hours 36 mins in Feb, had 3 new starts and 2 finishes and just one day of no stitching.

Current PHD total = 34 

1000

That's right folks this is my 1000th post and no is more surprised than me that I've made it this far.

I started this blog way back in December 2003 when blogging was just starting to get popular and I thought I should give it a go.  At the time I was a full time Mum working part time in retail and didn't really have much to say about anything and didn't have a camera to be able to post pics either so for several years nothing really happened with it.

For at least a couple of years I used MSN live as a place to waffle about my life and now it sadly no longer exists and those posts are lost (just thing had I copied them over then I'd of been writing this along time ago!) but I did transfer my favourite post ever over and I'm so glad I did.

I started getting fed up with MSN in 2006/2007 I really didn't like some of the changes they made and so I came back to blogger having forgotten I'd already set up an account here.

I made my first 'proper' post here on September 17 2007 and haven't been that quiet since.

To celebrate the milestone I decided to do a little giveaway and started looking round for something to make for it and this is what I came up with.

To enter just comment on this post and make sure you leave a way for me to get in touch with you, that's it no jumping through hoops or having to post on your blog to get more chances but those folks that have commented in the last week get entered anyway.

I'll leave it open for a week so you have until midnight GMT on March 9th to enter.

And on to the next 1000 posts

Runekeeper

Time for the weekend progress pic.

It looks a little odd but trust me it's a Unicorn :)

And what will probably be the last overall pic before I finish 

And this is the last one before you find out what I've been loosely been counting down to

Bitty bead necklace

This is the result of the Jan/Feb beadalong over at Seedbeadsters.

We had around 30 patterns to choose from and it was up to us what we did with the beads we made. 

 I pulled out lots of different reads but kept the same white, gold and pink, printed out the patterns I liked and sat down making bitty beads until I got fed up with them all the time wondering what I was going to do with them!

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out in the end.

More smocking

The rest of the smocking pics I took at event city a couple of weeks ago.

I just have the quilts to go

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