Happy New Year 2025

 Good morning everyone from a snowy mouse house ... its 5.50am and all is quiet .. hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and got lots of stitchy goodies ... I was very lucky with my gifts and everyone loved what I did for them too ...phew ..lol .. kettle has just boiled , grab a brew and a cookie ... yes I know its early but ...lol 

All my model stitching is done and last lot is going in the post Monday ... even bigger phew ...so after taking all the decorations down and put away I treated myself to sitting and stitching on Oh Baby its Cold outside ... which is rather apt seeing as we got snow ...lol 

My thoughts this year on stitching is instead of working on a piece for a few hours each week ish ... is to just work on them till done , sneaking gifts in between for birthdays etc to see if that works out better .. we shall see .

Our plans this year at the mouse house is to upgrade the storage and re decorate the spare bedroom to make it more visitor friendly , paint the bathroom and hallway too ... and that is the whole house having a spruce up :) 

I have one retreat booked for the weekend after my last birthday in the 50's (28th January) eeekkkk so I must think of something special to celebrate in 2026 .. but other than that no other plans at the moment ...soooo kettle has just boiled again, whilst I make another cuppa have a persue at the photos :) x 

From lynne

From my secret santa 

From Chris and Wendy 

From Chris and Wendy 

From Lainey

From Butterfly

From my boss Lisa 

From Barb 

From lorraine 

For Sarah Elizabeth Stitches 

For Barb

For Sally 

For Lainey

My one and only ornie I made for me ..lol.

Birthday exchange for Chris 

Made for Wendy 

Made for my Secret Sanda who is a spinner 

For some reason I have not taken an update photo of my stitching DOH ... next time ...lol ..

Well thats all for now folks , take care one and all happy stitching till next time :) love mouse xxxx 

December 2024 catch up

 Good very early morning folks :) its 04.51 am at the mouse house , not had a good night and hubby is on call and he got a call at 04.00am sooo here I am sat wide awake with a cuppa and thought better update my blog ...lol , anyone want one ??? 

On to news about me ... I have had MRI scans and found got 2 bulging discs at my neck area and still got 2 bulging discs in my lower back but non are touching my spinal cord so I have had a nerve conduction test .. last thursday 5th December and awaiting the results ... 

Stitching wise I have been busy merrily making gifts for Christmas, quite a few have gone to their new homes , some still swaiting delivery so I will show all once arrived safely ... I made one for Sarah Elizabeth Stitches as a just because and I am pleased to say she loves it :) ...

I am back model stitching again , so cannot show those until released early next year ... I have also fully finished some smalls for one of my stitchyfriends and I pleased to say she loves them ... and sending more 🤣🤣🤣🤣

We took the munchkins to The Great Central Railway along with the Great Grandparents to the Santa Special and had a lovely day..

We have also been helping look after the horses due to family emergancy ... the horses are gorgeous and were quite happy to be pampered by my food making skills ..lol 

Hubby and I celebrated our 36th Wedding Anniversary with a takeaway Chinese...(after looking after horses) and Master Cooper enjoyed a few prawn crackers too ...lol 

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas , how ever you celebrate the festive season , we are all decending on the youngest daughters but doing a buffet style dinner as it will be sooo much easier ...Great Grandma is coming along too ..

Lucy 

Manni with hubby

After seeing Santa on the train 

For Sarah Elizabeth

Fully finished for stitchy friend LB 

Littlest munchkin after ballet class

I almost forgot I went to the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching show with Sami and Katie , it was a fab day meeting up with other fellow stitchers too ... got some nice goodies and saw Stuart Hillard and got his new book signed of course ...lol

My haul from Harrogate 

My one and only ornie
I made for me this year ...

Well I think this is all for now ...off to make another brew ... happy stitching one and all ...love mouse xxxx

Long time no squeak

Helloo everyone , long time no squeak ... goodness didn't realise how long it was since I last posted , lots has been going on so I hope I can remember it all ....

I went on my jolly hols to Wales again in May with Chris, Roz, Tina , Lisa, Hillary and Pat , we had gorgeous weather , got to visit The Nimble Thimble as well as Creative Nostalgia and Haddon gardens too ... I managed to finish two smalls whilst there  "sip stitch repeat" and Bobbin , still need to fully finish off ...lol ... I did a christmas in July exchange and got that finished early and sent before I did a model stitch for The Old Barn Stitching .Co for The Big Stitch Retreat at the end of July called Isabella Hutton Hill , boy was she a biggie with lots of beautiful eyelets for one of the alphabets ...done on 40 count fabric with NPI silks ... lush :) 

Then my stitching bug went on holiday so I sorted my craft room out and it looks a lot better than it did 🤣🤣🤣🤣... 

Meanwhile during all of this I hit my 6.5 stone award ( Slimming world) awaiting a neurology appt as since got back from my holiday in May been experiencing pins n needles / numbness in my right leg constantly  ( and started in other places too) ,ended up with Covid again alongside Haemophilis Influenzea ... don't do anything by halves ...

Been looking after the munchkins on and off and they are a joy to have but definitely wear me out ... and finally this last week we went to The Victory Show at Cosby , which was great and then went to the Quilt Show at Doncaster Racecourse with my Dad and Stepmum Elaine ( both events)   and finally met up with one of my stitchy friends which was good too ... oooo whilst looking through my photos found I have other finished Gathering Honey by Luminous arts,The Embroideress and Remember me  and I have made some gifts too along the way ...

Right I had better pop up some photos for you to look at :) 

Smallest munchkin almost 3 now 

Gathering Honey by Luminous Arts

Mystery sampler in 5 parts altogether 

Both munchkins together

My model stitch 

Big stitch event 

More of the munchkins 

Playing at Great Grandmas with Grandad 

At the farm 

Another munchkin day 

Christmas in July exchange piece 

Birthday gift 

Afternoon tea at llangollen 

Bobbin by Stacy Nash 

Finally finished The Embroideress , my version 

Another FFO Remember me 

Right I had better finish now ... take care one and all and happy stitching :) love mouse xxxxx