The Zoo update

I'm quite pleased with the amount I got done this weekend and have now reached the point where all the stitching is mine from now on no more figuring out what colour the odd missed stitches are so it *should* go a bit quicker now

TUSAL time

Doesn't seem like 5 minutes have passed since last month's TUSAL post and yet here we are again all sharing our orts.

This month I've added to my 'collection' with Lupins, The Zoo, Esther Sleepe, Poinsettia Place, Curly Swirl, Garden Pincushion ball and of course lots of nymo, KO etc from beading.

Find out about the TUSAL here

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.

Bugle Kiss Bracelet

Another one of Mum's kit has been made up at last and it's one I'm glad to see the back of!

Every time I went to work on it there was a problem, first off Mum gave the beads and instructions but the bit she'd started then no Nymo of the right colour and lastly no clue how long I needed to make it!

So when I sat down to work on it a few days ago I fully expected something else to be wrong but it never happened and I got it done finally.

It was a bit boring and very repetitive to do but it's lovely now it's done but I won't be doing another

The beaded bead that's part of the clasp and better idea of what it looks like.

The kit came from With Love crafts

April progress & May Goals

For April I said

Finish Poinsettia House  Not quite I have the scroll bit at the bottom left

Start North Pole PO  No

Stitch a SOLAK square  Yes and posted it off as well

Stitch an ornament  No

Make good progress on The Zoo  Could of done more but at least it did progress

For May I'd like to

Finish Poinsettia House

Start North Pole PO

Pick a Birthday start

Stitch an ornament

Make good progress on The Zoo
Get Garden pinball started and at least half finished

I stitched for 47 hours 11 mins in April, had 2 new starts and finished both of them and I spent time with my needle every day

Current PHD Total = 32

Afternoon Tea Exchange

I went to the Needlecraft Haven meet up on Saturday and we had an Afternoon Tea Exchange.

This is my bag and it went to Diane (no blog that I know of)

In the tea cup is Curly Swirl from Glorious Cupcakes by The Cat's Whiskers I've wanted to stitch one of the designs from it since I got my hands on a copy and this was the perfect time

With the pins added

This is the one I received and it's from Racheal

Of course Rosie had to have an inspection of the contents!  There was a Battenburg in it as well but that didn't survive long enough to make it into the pic :)

Anyone for cake?

I bought a beading book a couple of weeks ago that I've been drooling over since it came out.

Sweet Treats by Katie Dean  

Out of all the projects in it the fondant fancies called to me the most and I was itching to start them so I did :) 

I've started work on a plate for them as well (instructions are in the book for those as well)

There will be more of the projects popping up on here in the future

Esther Sleepe progress

I spent last week with Esther and made good progress on her.  I was hoping to get all 4 bands finished but life happened and I didn't make it 

April's IHSW

I spent IHSW with the Zoo which shouldn't come as any surprise to you :)

Before

After

I had planned to get alot more done but the weekend turned out to be busier than I expected and I got a little carried away with a new beading project.

I also had to spend a chunk of time figuring out what the mistake is that the lady who's project it is made, I got there in the end and was left with undo all the giraffe, the dog and the grass or leave it as it was and work round it!  I left it as it was

Happy Birthday Rosie

Rosie turns 3 today and I thought I'd share a video of her with you.

Fella smokes and one brand in particular makes her act like she's had a dose of catnip!

I've never added a video before so fingers crossed it's worked