Birthday weekend and stitchy stuff :)

hello once again :) hope everyone has had a good weekend and got lots of stitchy time in ????


It was my birthday on Friday (28th jan ) and I was the grand old age of ..... not telling heheheheh 
It was an eventful day to say the least ......
It dawned very early as DD2 needed to get into the Drs as her glands were up and you have to phone at 8.oo am to get any chance of an appointment ... so I was sat opening my cards and pressies with a cuppa.... very early for me ..lol  and ended being in A& E with DD1 as she has developed tendonitis very bad :( and is now sporting a rather fetching beige wrist strap for a week !!!


But I did get some rather nice prezzies from my fellow mods on Friendly Stitchers
with some more on the way too :)

from ally , gillie and Val 

I got North winds and Winter Band sampler from Ally , Pumpkin Cottage and Ladybugs and Bumblebees from Val also with a Gloriana thread to do the winter box by the Victoria sampler and Gillie got me the crescent colours and the  sampler threads to do the charts from Val .... some good co ordination there girls ..lol 

from DD1

 from DD 1 I got two pieces of permin linen , lambswool and old  lace and 19 dragon floss threads !!! 
I also got a help the hero's sweatshirt and some Turkish delight from DH and DD2 and some pennies to spend on some more stash goodies once I've decided what to get ..lol


I got lots of lovely cards some stitched and some hand crafted ones too ....and I love them all:) but I must make a special mention of this one as it is really quite nice and was stitched by Yvonne from friendly stitcher's for me..... I am going to get it framed and put on my craft room wall along with all the others that she has stitched for me ..... :)

birthday card stitched by Yvonne :)

And finally onto the stitching bit of the weekend .... I managed to sneak bits in each day as the house was full of visitors who heard I'd got two cakes heheheh and as the kettle is always on decided to pop round ......
So I managed to get both parts done on the Romantique Sampler so am up to date now for next month hurray :)

Romantique sampler parts one and two done

then I also managed to work on " and the rain fell " LHN so here is as far as I got  before I put my needle down :)

and the rain fell LHN 

I started putting a few more stitches into the Natures Beauty By LHN today a bit earlier on but haven't done enough to record for you ..lol as I got distracted by the kettle and reading other peeps blogs and catching up with all the news on my groups hehehe ........


so I shall bid you farewell my friends for tonight and catch back up with you soon ..... hope you all have had a lovely weekend and got lots done :)
happy stitching love mouse xxxxx