A finish and a Finish hehehe

HI Every one :) oooo got some stitchy news  and photos for you :)

Competition piece in the final :)

first of all ... my competition piece for the Victoria sampler group has got into the final :) oooo happy dance  here:) thanks to all who voted for me :) we shall know on Friday who the winner is.... I am just soooo  happy I got into the final :)


secondly... I've finished another crazy piece necessaries sampler by LHN this was a lovely one to stitch and only took me a couple of days to finish from when I had started it earlier on in the year ... so that's 7 down , 8 to go and a few of these are almost there :):):)


and not only is it finished in the stitching sense but I've also finished it into my box lid :)  I spent the morning waxing the box and wadding the canvas then lacing the stitching to it .. and considering its the second time of trying lacing myself I am quite proud on how well its turned out :)

finished 12/04/11

made into the box lid :)

I have just got to put a thicker cord around the piece to make it more cosy :) I am lining the box at the bottom with a lovely brown spotty fabric :) then I've got another two smaller boxes to figure out which pieces to use on them soon .
I've done some more work on my Rose cottage today as well only another three sides and then that is finished .. I'm going to make it into a cushion , I've already got the backing fabric ready so am on a roll ...lol 

Rose Cottage CCN

Today we didn't have as nice as weather as we have been having but it did almost dry my washing and DH was able to start the Waterfall for our pond  so here is a peek so far :) and finally I shall leave you with a picture of the million bells that trails across ours and our lovely neighbours fence just by the side of the pond :)
Till next time happy stitching and I shall squeak to you all soon 
love mouse xxxxx

waterfall by D

Million bells just about to flower