Totally heartbroken , on Wednesday night we had to put our beloved boy Bentley to sleep ... he had a stroke very late Tuesday night and after going to the vets on Wednesday morning and having tests done , we found out he had lung cancer and AF. So we did the kindest thing for him and sent him over the Rainbow Bridge ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜.... 30/10/ 2011 to 12/04/ 2023 ...
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| My beloved furbaby xx |
Welcome to the annual Easter Blog Hop... again done by the brilliant Jo from serendipitious stitching.... (her blog is below to see all who are participating) ...http://www.serendipitousstitching.blogspot.co.uk/
She asked this year to show either a Spring or Easter themed stitched piece ... soooo I have scrolled through my photos and found this needle book I made for my friend Barb for her birthday the other year , which was the springiest photo I could find at dawn o'clock this morning whilst writing this and sipping an earl gray tea ..lol
And the next blog to hop to is ....
http://shelly-anarizonastitcher.blogspot.com/
Hope everyone has lovely time blog hopping
Take care one and all and happy stitching too :)
Love mouse xxx
Boxing day for "Afters" has to be trifle but with Dream Topping for the top or Emlea Cream and a flake with Raspberry Jelly, Sponge fingers and Angel Delight in it as well which makes it lighter to eat and Dear Husband does not do cold custard ...lol sooo angel delight it is .. and there you have it.
My Christmas Design is a freebee from The Primitive Hare called Christmas Bells and I did the finishing for it myself and it hangs proudly on my stitchy goodies tree which I have managed to put up this year finally :)
Helooooo everyone ...it's me mouse, in case you had forgotten me ...lol .. I am under house arrest atm, as I have tested positive for Covid last night and this is after my 5th booster last Sunday ... not got a scooby do where I have got it from, so I am not allowed to go to work until I have had two negative tests 24 hours apart from Wednesday ...
I am quite poorly with it too sooo I thought that I would do a long overdue blog post to take my mind of it all and catch you up with the stitching and life of this wee mouse ... so pull up a chair, grab you brew and cookies as this could be a long post..lol
I have been busy stitching on quite a few things, Study in Blue by Sue Hillis, What remains is love by Blackbird designs, FFO'd A Sewing Bee strawberry by Erica Michaels and stitched the companion piece and started on her Stitch all things too. I have made oodles of project bags for Lainey and a birthday gift too for her and more project bags for my friend Lynn and for my 2nd mum Elaine (technically my step mum but we have never called her that). Finished some Christmas/ Birthday gifts that should have gone into the post today, but life has a way of saying nope .... finished off Miss B's blankie and worked on the one for me that I started about 4 years ago ..lol ... done an exchange Fall piece as well and then to top it all I have changed jobs and only work Tuesday to Thursday so then on Monday's and Friday's most weeks I munchkin sit, taking them out on walks and to town etc ... I managed to drop on a child's old-fashioned pram for Miss B so just need to make some new covers etc for it and she can then play with it when she is at the mouse house :), she is almost walking on her own fully .. she just needs that bit more confidence, then she will be off ...
Looking back through my book of day's I have finished 26 items up to press and most of these have not been small projects either ... I think next year I am going to concentrate on some smaller pieces as got loads I want to stitch. I am hoping that What remains gets finished in the next few weeks .... I have almost finished all my Christmas / birthday gifts for around this time of year so feeling glad I have after coming down with the dreaded covid now .....
DD2's wedding is getting ever closer, and I have now got my outfit having lost almost 3.5 stone and counting and will have a fitting early Jan 2023 ... going the full hog of posh frock and hat hahahahah ... bit of a change from tracky bottoms and tee-shirts I tell you ...mind you with two munchkins and two dogs I am never going to be clean, think chocolate, biscuits and mud ...lol, we are definitely hands on grandparents.
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| Miss B admiring the Christmas grotto |
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| put some stitches in the Cottages of the month this week too |
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| Progress on What remains |
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| Stitch all things by Erica Michaels |
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| Munchkin sitting ... feeding the ducks |
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| bought this for small munchkin at a steal ... |
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| Small munchkin is learning to walk |
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| Box top of Study in Blue by Sue Hillis |
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| Band to go round box from Study in Blue |
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| Miss B's blankie finished |
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| elder munchkin on one of our walks looking for squirrels |
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| Sewing Bee strawberry FFO'd by Erica Michaels |
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| another one FFO's finally |
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| For the Birds Series progress |
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| My exchange piece from my Partner |
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| Lainey's birthday gift |
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| Stash Haul from small Harrogate show |
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| my exchange piece to my partner |
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| Oh Joyous Day finished .. just needs to be framed |
Ok don't think there is much more to add this time apart from thank you for getting this far ... wishing you all lots of stitching time, take care one and all :) love mouse xxxxx
Spoooky greetings one and all .... its the annual Halloween Blog hop hosted by Jo of Serendipitousstitching.blogspot,com
it is the usual thing of hopping from one blog to another to get all the letters to form the spooky Halloween word that she has chosen ....
the letter she has given me is .....TA piece I stitched in 2015....
the next blog to hop over to is ....
http://theflashingscissors.blogspot.com/
enjoy your hopping like a toad ...lol
take care and happpy stitching everyone :) love mouse xxxxx
Helloooo everyone , as you can see from the title it has come round to the Summer Blog hop ... we have been allocated a partner to introduce to you all and to write a wee blurb about them .
My partner is a new blogger to me and she lives in the UK ( I hope ..lol as she mentions a wee kit from Aldi) and she does SALs with her BBF , she has just completed one of a lovely Tree of Life.
She is also on a software development journey too via Open University , and seems to be doing really well with it too ...
I learnt many moons ago how to do it with 1 and 0 ..lol showing my age here.
From reading her posts and her BFF's blog she quilts as well , so we have that in common too :) she also does the gifted gorgeousness that Jo organised too.
She does black work as well as cross stitch and has a washing line of smalls , which I think is really cute way of displaying your stitching . She also isn't afraid to try new skills and as a family watches "Forged in Fire" so they have had a go at blacksmithing and made some beautiful blades with twists in them and she would like to learn more too :)
I have chosen The Inn at Fox River Mill as a piece that I hope she will like as thinking it would be the ideal place to have a forge there for her ..lol
https://lifeoutsidethewashingbasket.blogspot.com/
take care one and all, until next time .... love mouse xxxxx
On a stitchy front I have done more on Winter Rose Manor and loving it even more now the big house has been built, finished off the stitching of my first Christmas ornie for this month, just need to find some beads before I fully finish it and started Summer Flock by BBD last night and almost finished it , its from the Sewing Club book.... , I have also been making dice trays for my DH for his wargaming pals as they had a big game last Saturday and while I was in the sewing mood have made some project bags for my friend and going to make a few more for gifts too ....
coooo a few days later I have had a fully finishing spree and got my pile down to zero ...lol, pictures below for your perusal , as well as getting my sampler wall up too with help from my best friend A .. she did a cracking job :)
so I shall leave you now and catch up with you all again soon
take care one and all , love mouse xxxx
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| not often you see an elephant on the high street ..lol |
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| Jubilee piece |
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| more have been added but no photo |
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| done more on this since |
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| Master B and Miss B |
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| new cushions for DH man cave |
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| ripe pear and summer flock from Sewing club by BBD |
