Good news , Travelling pattern and some stitching :)

Hi everyone :) see I was back a wee bit quicker this time ...lol ... pull up a chair and get comfy with your favourite brew ... I have chocolate brownies :) 
Well the good news is tomorrow the 16th of June we will finally own the new house after much problems with the mortgage company not communicating with its staff !!! we finally got the monies at the Solicitors Friday afternoon soooo a wee bit later than we expected we pick the keys up but WAHHHH HOOOOO ... I can start to get ideas for my new craft room in place for when we begin to make it to our tastes :)
I put all the names into a tub who wanted the Travelling Pattern and got my DD1 to pick one out and she chose Dani :) can you email me your snail mail address so that I can get it into the post for you by the weekend ... I can only get to the post office now once a week with me working full time ... 
This last weekend I have been tres busy with the sweetie shop as DH and future SIL have been down on the Isle of Wight doing the fire cover for the stars helicopters so there has only been a wee bit of stitching managed ....Chris came to help us out and she did manage to get a bit more done on her piece than I did ...lol 
Any hooo .... I have almost finished the May  Country Cottage Samplings chart and I have got the February one to Kit up ... so pleased with my progress , I have also been working on a tapestry for one of my service users who can't stitch on it any more sooo I have got over half of it done for her just doing an hour here and an hour there ... it is soooo different from the normal stitching but at the same time quite relaxing too :)
Last week it was MiiStitch's birthday and I stitched her a wee pincushion from La d da its better to give than receive and she loved it PHEW .... I was also going to do the same piece for Butterfly  but decided to send her some lovely coordinating trims for her birthday and had to giggle as Sally  had stitched her the same one .... great minds and all that ...lol
We have been having some horrendous down pour this last week and there has been lots of local flooding in the space of five mins ....  it has been warm with it as well we could have had a shower outside ...lol ... I have managed to get some flower photos and you can see the drizzle drops on them if you look closely :)
I will bob the kettle on again for a quick drink before bed .... while I get the photos on for you :)

Tapestry for one of my service users

have done more today to this since this was taken this morning 

View into my neighbours garden 

love in the mist 

Miistitch's pincushion

backing fabric

Sweet cart from the wedding we did last weekend 

hellooo I have missed you all ....

Hope you have enjoyed your cuppas and the nibbles ... hopefully next time I will be able to show you photos of inside the new house too .... have a great stitchy week and take care one and all from a very tired wee mouse xxxxxx zzzzzzzzzzz 

Friends :)

Hi every one :) good grief I was just looking earlier and nearly forgot to put the kettle on in my cooooo do you know its almost a month since I last posted .... have you missed me ??? ..lol 
And its my 201th post.... I have had 102,699 page views and 5,819 comments  cooo that's a lot of viewings and nattering 's ..lol and an awful lot of cuppa's hehehehhe ..... 
Sooo what have I been up to you ask .... well ermmmm not much to be honest apart from some stitching .... I've not been any where exciting or done anything extraordinary just been working or snoozing ....more of the first than the last ...lol 
Master Bentley has had a trimble and is enjoying having shorter hair , now he has been having fun, playing in the woods with his friends ...lol .
I have been taking pictures of the flowers in my garden and my next door neighbors ones too ... also had a play with the sepia setting on my camera ....
I have finished my Aprils Daisy by Country Cottage Samplings and started May's .... February's is hopefully on its way to the mouse house  as we squeak :) 
I have done some more on Rosey by LHN , spent three hours on the April Cottage by LHN last Thursday night at Bev's and had to reverse stitch what I had put in and re doo .... and I can't believe it took me that long ...lol I blame all the excess fabric I have to contend with ...that's my excuse and I am sticking to it ...lol
I've started a RAK for some one ... can't say much more as she pops on to here and she might guess soo won't show you either until next week hopefully it will be done and there by then paws crossed ....
The friends bit ..... cast your mind back to January .... yup that's right I have finally finished "Friends are like" by Lizzie * Kate .... I stitched it on 28 count white evenweave with threads I had that were almost near to the colours with a few changes .....  soooo now it is ready to travel on to its next stitcher ... please make sure you mention that you would like to stitch it and you are a good standing member in the blogging world and promise to stitch it a wee bit quicker than moi ( i did put it some where sooo safe it took me ages to find it again ..lol) and I shall draw the name next week and get it on its way :)
then still on friends ....on Face Book on the group the Prim Stitchers  there was a conversation about Tim Holtz pocket watches that some peeps had stitched a wee piece for ... there are some lovely patterns that fit them btw .... I mentioned that I was going to try and get one over here when Nancy *waves a wee paw helloo   ...said keep an eye out for the postie after she asked for my snail mail addy .... she very kindly went and got me not one but two of them .... :) Soooo this week I have been stitching away merrily on 40 count over one and chose some bits from With Thy Needle Valentine pattern  that I got for my birthday and it fitted  ..lol and I made it up  and it hangs in my craft room whooo hooooo ... Thank you once again Nancy :) all I need to do is decide on the other pattern to stitch :)
As I was on a roll with the over one stitching I got all the verse done on the Blue Ribbons Design  "Friendship Blooms" PHEW .... now I can get on with the rest of it now ....
Unfortunately my Hussif  that I made for the Primitive Hare competition didn't get any where as the names were randomly drawn  for the prizes .... there were some gorgeous pieces done and 85 entrants altogether and they were all different interpretations too :) I think she has put the winners on her blog, if not I know they are on her Face Book page :)
okkkk so I will go and put the kettle on again while I gather the photos for you to be nosy at ...lol 

My wee pocket watch :)

hellooo how are you all ??

Start on May by CCS

see that purple line ... that took me the three hours !!!

from here 

to here all done whooo hoooo :)

watching the world go by :)

Friends are like by Lizze*Kate Travelling Pattern finished :)

more done Rosey by LHN

peonies in colour

and now in sepia

watching the birdies 

next doors garden

and again 

next doors 

and again .... gorgeous blue on this one :)

my lovely RAK from Nancy :) 

and we have had some rain ...lol

and finished :)

my wee visitor :)

soooo there you go folks ... a few photos to make up for not seeing you all for awhile  hope you have enjoyed your cuppas and I promise not to be too long till next time :) hope you have a wonderful stitchy week and don't forget about the travelling pattern .... take care one and all :) love mouse xxxxxx

♫Congratulations and Celebrations♫

Hi every one :) the kettle is on and there is cool drinks as well for you all .. as well as the odd cookie or two ...:)

In case you didn't know it ..lol  the Royal baby arrived safe and sound on Monday the 22nd July  at something past 4.00 weighing
8lbs and 6 oz ... mother and son are doing well and was  in hospital over
night and  the father  stayed too ...:)

they didn't announce it until about 4 hours ish after the nappy event which I
thought was lovely for them just to have time to themselves ...

there is now speculation as to what to call the wee fella .... so that is the "congratulations" to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ... the wee little man looks a cutie too from the photos I have seen :)

On to  the celebrations ... well there are one or two of those soooo you had better make yourself comfy and I shall begin ...lolOk two years ago Peggy  sent her ABC sampler by La D Da on an organised travelling spree well.... some where between last year and this it got way laid and took a scenic route to Cucki's house before it arrived safely at the mouse house on Saturday much to mine and Cucki's  relief and Peggy's too ...lol..... and now I need some help as to what to stitch it with ..  .. I have narrowed it down to two fabbies and a four threads ???  photo will be below as always .... lol 
then .... I have finally finished Yellow bird by La d da  too , I stitched it on some space dyed fabbie from Jane Greenoffs and an unknown thread name (coz it was a sample ..lol) from Nancy's Victorian Motto Shop ...I have almost made it up too and hoping to use some matching chenille trim from Nancy's too.
more stitching news in a bit ....
the next celebrations is the winner of the wee meecies name  ♫♫ drum roll♫♫  it is Peggy  ... the wee meecies  liked the names "tea and crumpets" and they asked to be called that sooo there you go.... a wee prize will be winging its way to Peggy all being well by next weekend ...:)
Here at the mouse house we have been having a heat wave, its been that hot we sat outside to stitch the other night !!! it was still 26c at 11.00pm  ... but today we have been having thunder storms ... Master Bentley and I had a tootle round the park tonight ... it was very warm and wet ...lol and it felt like I could have danced in the rain ... but I had walking boots on ...lol I took some photos of the sun set when I got back as well . The temperatures here have been reaching 32c + in some places and in my car when I got in after work 37c !!!!!! just as you get used to the warmth  it drops 10 degrees ...lol
another cuppa ????  
well what else have I been stitching on ... ohhh yes ... I have done some more on the Friendship Blooms by Blue Ribbon Designs working on the over one ... I shall be soooo pleased to see that section done as its done in red .... say no more ...lol  I have pulled out my Scissors by Cherrywood Designs and done a wee bit more on there .... also did some more on The Needleworker by LHN and also as it was hermitting this last weekend I got out Pumpkin Cottage by CCN and worked on that ... I even remembered to take a before photo ...lol hmmmmm thunks a bit more ... will check the photos to see what else I have done ...lol 
DH and I took a wee stroll down the canal the other night and armed and dangerous with my camera I managed to get some gorgeous shots of the swans and a thistle too ... even one of Master Bentley .. DH got him to sit on a hand command a way away from us ... bless him .... he looks ever sooo cute ...

red sky at night 

just love the contrasts here 

start of Hermitting Pumpkin Cottage CCN

Its arrived the travelling pattern :)

hellppppp which fabbie and which thread 

verbena in pot on the pation

after hermitting

done a bit more to this 

getting there slowly

closer view of the over one 

yeahhhh finally finished :)

crumpets admires the Needleworker progress 

posing for the camera 

atmospheric shot

blooming thistle

this is how it came out cool eh ???

love this shot :)

Stitching night refreshments 

playing peek a boo

grinning for me :)

soooo there you have it for this week ... I am sure I have missed stuff off but you would still be reading it by the time I do the next installment or should I say chapter ...lol  so on that cheery note I shall say goodnight  and happy stitching until next time , take care one and all :) love mouse xxxxxxx