SQUEAKING with excitement :)

Hi every one :) I am soooo happy I am just squeaking with excitement .. today has started off really good ... I have "won" the travelling chart off Jo at http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/ ...... I have followed this from the beginning and now have finally got the chance to stitch it . YIPPPEEEEEE :) soooo watch this space for when it is stitched so that I can pass it on :0


secondly I had my stash arrive from America today too I was worried it had got lost but it is here safe and sound in my paws :) also got lots of goodies from the bay of evil as DH calls it .. can't think why hehehehe  and finally .......


I am off on my Jolly hols to Glasgow tomorrow to stay with the wee Scottish woman other wise know as Ally ......I have got the necessaries eg Tea bags , milk and sugar along with a few goodies packed already ... just need to go and pack the stitching stash and my clothes   and I shall be off in the morning for a week of lots of tea drinking , stitching and sight seeing, all being well :) I am taking my over locker to over sew some fabric for her and also I shall be sorting out her sewing machine and giving her a lesson or two on how to use it :) I am packing the camera for the photo shoots heheheheh :)


On the Stitching front I do have something to show you heheheh..... Finally I hear you all say ..lol  I had the stitching group at my house on Thursday last week and Bev was a wee bit jealous of my stash heheheh  but I actually managed to stitch a bit while they were all there in between the cuppas and chocolate cake bars .. yummm and slurpppp ;)


I have also done a few finishes for Kath and she has given me permission to show them  but I know who they are for, reads my blog soooo I shall only show the one that's not for them atm :) I have finished and finished off my personal exchange for Angela  and it went in the post today and also have done Ally's PIF and will be giving that to her tomorrow ... letter has been sent to DJ too *waving paw helloo and also a few other surprises have gone out too soooo hopefully I will make some ones day soon :) 


The girls Barbara and Margaret have settled in beautifully and want to let all their fans know that they are having a fabulous time at their new home :) Their new parents were telling us all their antics when we went out for a meal with them and another couple of friends on Saturday night :)


So with out further ado  I shall leave you for the next week still doing a happy dance  and about to put the kettle on before tackling the packing with the update photos etc :0
take care every one and I shall see you all next week with lots of stitching updates hopefully :0 

Kaths stitching .. my finishing :)

LHN Fa la la stitching me ,, DJ is next ..lol

stash goodies and bay of evil wins ):

Poinsettia House LHN update :)

love mouse xxxxxx

Smoking needles and flying fur!!!!

HI Every one :) hope you are all well and managing to get lots of lovely stitching done :0
Well as you know things have been very busy here at the mouse house recently and hopefully now have calmed down so that some semblance of normality resumes .... ok I am not that normal with a name like mouse hahahahah ;)
soooo grab that cuppa and off we go .....
I have to report to the chickens loyal fan club that the girls (Barbara and Margaret) have gone to their posh new home last Sunday (photos later)..... I spent a lot of time trying to convince them to smile for you all .... I had them sat on my knees and at the side of me and I hope you like what I managed to take ..lol ... just wish I had a cushion as the derrière went numb hahahaha .
Mr Postie was good to me this week as well, as I received a chart from a fellow blogger  Jenny from http://onestitchcloser.blogspot.com/  sent me Autumn Pumpkins Welcome from the Sweetheart Tree  complete with special little  nibbles from her  parrot :) a lovely long letter from DJ too and I  also received my secret pen pal note *waving small paw at you .. thanks for the tea and the kind offer too ... may just take you up on that ..lol ;)  mine was sent off as well and I hope she may have got it by now ..... Parsley organised this and has done a lovely job :) I just love getting proper mail :0
 Niina my lovely friend has been very naughty and enabled me into buying some more stash hhahahh ... she sent me a link...http://www.wasatchneedlecraft.com/ to a lovely shop with a sale on and also another 20% off on top .... sooo DD1 saw a chart she would like me to stitch and it went from there ..lol ... when i converted the dollars to pounds I found I was extremely good .. darn it hahahaha ....
 sooo I shall be stalking the postie yet again as I know there is my summer biscornu on its way too *VBG


The flying fur of the title is a chocolate Labrador called  Fudge and he is on loan for two weeks while his owners go off on hols ... he has settled in sooo well and I don't think he will want to leave ..lol ... he has these mad 5 mins running up and down the rooms flying round and at 13 months old he can fly ..lol  photos below too ...... we got took out for Sunday tea with some friends of ours to the next but one village to ours called Wentworth .. they have a wonderful garden centre and also one or two lovely pubs .. on of which we got treated to a lovely meal at ...... they have a lovely westie called Wellington and he grew up with my boys (who are now both at the rainbow bridge ) and he decided to pose for me at the table .... the photos turned out lovely and his owners are well pleased with them (also below ...) Have also put some photos of the village on too ... :)


well on the stitching front and on to my second cuppa .... I have finished both twin samplers  and just need to make up into cushions ... I went to the Quilt shop and got some lovely fabric for them and also a few other bits (that I still can't show you yet either ) and all I have to do is make up a wee hangy thing to celebrate their christenings too .... that shouldn't take too long hopefully (fingers crossed ..lol) 
I also have finished the stitching on my private exchange piece for Angela and just need to make up then it can be on its way to her .... I have started the PIF for Ally too  and also kitted up the one for DJ and for Linda and will get started on them asap :)
My competition piece for the stitch bitch blogs challenge is almost finished and ready to make up with fabbie from the above stash haul ..lol and I've got emails back from my follower winners and shall be searching suitable projects to make for each of them soon too :)
Deep Breath here hahahah and a slurp of the cuppa ....... I am going to drive up to Glasgow at the end of the month to go and stay with Ally ... and taking up a few essential supplies ... over locker, fabric , threads as well as lots of tea bags and milk of course hahahah ooo and not forgetting her PIF and some stitching to do while there ....  and I am going to meet up with some fellow stitcher's up there too sooo there shall be lots to tell once I get back and hopefully lots of photos too :)


well I had better up load the photos for you to have a nosy at and enjoy  ...

Barbara and Margarets new home

view from pub

Wellie :)

High street Wentworth

Paradise Square at Wentworth

Samplers finished

Fudge on a walk

Barbara 

Margaret

Silkie cross cockerel

Buff Cockerel 

found these and couldn't resist

Fudge after walk :)

So there you have it folks for this weeks update ...... I shall squeak to you all soon and hope that you all have a fab week of stitching and crafting too :0
ooo mustn't forget LynnB is having a fab giveaway for her followers at http://happinessiscrossstitching.blogspot.com/

and Buttons and stitches blog put me onto the http://pumpkinpatchandcobreastfund.blogspot.com ......where you stitch something for breast cancer and send to the Attic Needlework shop and they are auctioned off to raise funds for this wonderful cause :) ... needless to say I have put my name down and the stitched item has to be there before the 1st November :)


and that is defo it tonight folks ..... t.t.f.n love mouse xxxxxx

Anniversary winners :0

HI everyone :)
hope you are all ok ????.... flying by post tonight as late and I'm reallllyy snooozy  but I didn't want any one to wait any longer for the results of my anniversary stitchy give away soooooo here are the winners ......


please girls can you email me back channel with your addresses etc :) as well as your favourite colours and designers etc as a wee guide for me to stitch you something you will like ..lol 


stitching Kath 
Jo who can't think of a nickname
Niina 
Tricia 
and finally Sally :)


looking forward to hearing from you all asap :)


off to go and make a last cuppa before I'm of to bed :0
night night .. take care and happy stitching :)
love mouse xxxxx

Normal service has resumed for a few days ..lol

Hi Every one :) oooo I am sat here in the peace and quiet and I don't have to go any where do anything or get something YEAHHHHH ..... the mouse house is back to normal service at least for a few days .. more on that later ...lol
sooooo sit back , grab you cuppa this is going to be a longgggg post .. its that bad I've had to make a list of what I need to put in hahahah
I didn't need to stalk the postie this week but I did receive three lovely surprises:) 1)a lovely long chatty letter from DJ (just love getting those ) have joined parsley's secret pen pal  and have sent mine off already to my partner :)
2) a lovely stuffed mouse ornament from Ally photo later :)
3) the barbecue sauce that Peggy sent me for the other part of my blog win :) and DH said it is" de..lish" also photo later as it came in a fab bottle with a label you just have to read ..lol 


Finally got DD and BF into their new house on Friday and boy was I ever glad we made it ... you ought to have seen DD and I at Ikea  trying to get two sofa bed settees into the mouse mobeel !!!... it was soo funny as they were deeper than I thought and the car was 1/2 inch too small to get the both in , in the boxes ... I am sure they had a camera on us laughing ..lol  but in they went .. we took one out of the box got all the pieces in and around the other box and collapsed the box up and popped that in as well and drove home !!! were there is a will there is a way hahahaha 
I have been given a stylish blogger award by Rhona of http://tangledthreadsstitching.blogspot.com/ fame :) the rules are simple, thank the person that has awarded it to you "THANKS Rhona" ..lol  say seven things about yourself .. now that could be the hard part and give the award to 15 other stylish bloggers 
soooo I have sat and thought and come up with the blogging list ... and please go and visit them and say hi  from me :)
Ally ....http://allysstitchinglife.blogspot.com/....... coz she keeps me company most nights on FB ..lol
Vonna ... http://thetwistedstitcher.blogspot.com/ Vonna does amazing tutorials 
Lynn B ....http://happinessiscrossstitching.blogspot.com/ and the same goes for Lynn
 Edgar    http://blacksheepsite.blogspot.com/ as he is a fantastic stitcher and food and thrift a holic ..lol 
Margret ...http://daysofasamplerlover.blogspot.com/.... she stitches amazing samplers and has a cute cat called mia :)


and the rest of my awards go to all the rest on my blog list as I think you are all fantastic and I love going to see you all each day and catch up with all your goings on too :) ( I know a bit of a cop out but I really couldn't choooooseee sorry ..lol) 
and sooo on to the seven things about me !!
1) born at home in sunny Blackpool
2) I am still the Rose Queen for my church nearly 30 years later ..lol 
3) passed my driving test at the grand old age of 40 first time yipppee after riding a bike for quite a few years 
4) love all kinds of stitching and crafting (ok you already knew that bit ..lol)
5) am slightly colour blind (blues/greens and browns/orange) 
6) used to develop photos for a well known, at the time photographic shop
7) classically trained singer  but a wee bit rusty now :)
so there you have it  a small insight to me :)


here is another cuppa for you if you have made it this far well done .. it gets better hahahah 
I have managed to finish one of the twin samplers and started on the other .. found some buttons that match and got the details confirmed what is required on them and was also asked to do two little hangy ornaments for the christening details on too ... my needles are sure going to be smoking heheh
We had our stitching group last Thursday and I actually managed to get some more stitched on my Poinsettia House whoop ..lol they are coming here again this week so don't expect too much stitched then will you ..lol
I've kitted up two of my PIF's and also my private exchange with Angela  and I know how I am going to finish them too :) but for obvious reasons can't say atm ..lol
I mustn't forget we are dog sitting a chocolate lab for two weeks from Friday eeekkk .. he is only 13mths old and hasn't been trained very much till he got his new owners who have only had him 3 weeks prior to us getting him ... wish me luck ..lol 
and finally the best bit .....I have got over 200 followers now:)....so thank you all for putting up with my ramblings and I must make the best cuppa in town ... hahahah so I have had a little thunk and have decided to stitch a couple of things for  a couple of my followers (won't be done right quick though ..lol) .... soooo if you wish something stitched by me please leave a comment , say you are a follower and with a way to contact you too (email or blog addy ) and I shall draw  the winners next Monday the 8th of August :)

finished but no buttons

 and that's it finally sooo onto the photos and have included ones of the chicks having a great time out in the back garden :) sorry some are the wrong way round haven't had time to sort them ..lol
till next time take care and happy stitching 
love mouse xxxxxxx

showing the buttons

Barbecue sauce and cute card 

poinsettia house LHN

sooo cute  settled well into my stitching chair :)

Stalking the postie and other tall stories :)

My blog win goodies :)

HI Everyone :) question of the week ... can a stitcher get done for stalking the postie ?????  seriously I got confirmation that my order from 123stitch .com was shipped out a week last Tuesday to the mouse house and I figured that a week and a bit would get it to me ... Tuesday came and went , Wednesday too... Thursday I was getting really worried and moaned to my stitcher friends who came over (more on that later ) and Friday  .. well lets say Friday was a BRILLLLLL day as my goodies arrived YEAHHHHH :)
still drooling over them and deciding which to put on my must do first pile :) thank you very much Peggy :) ... 
my postie is relieved too hahahahah ... good job I've know him for 12 + years heheheh 
so what have I been up to this week I hear you ask .... well grab your cuppa and a biscuit or two as here goes :)

Mary Wigham update 

As you may well remember  DD2 and BF had been looking for a new place to live and thankfully we have found a lovely two up two down house with a small garden in town so they can easily get to their respective jobs etc ..... so my days have been spent sorting stuff out .. going shopping with DD for all new house stuff as the house before had everything in it ... and trying to clean and sort new house out as well as waiting in for plumbers and joiners who have yet to materialise with the said stuff for the jobs to be done !!! enough said on that *sigh .. I did think on and took some stitching with me and managed to do a wee bit on Mary Wigham while I had the chance ..lol 

I finally managed to post my summer biscornu to kate  on Wednesday and she has received it and loves it phew ..lol so I can now show you piccies of it :) It is a freebie from http://sablaise.over-blog.com/  and it was really quick to stitch up too :0.... Kate is in the process of doing mine so I will show you as soon as it turns up .. her mum is unwell at the moment and she is rather busy with everything soo I am happy to wait honest ..lol :)
Thursday and Friday this week passed with lots in to do with the house but I have to announce that DD1 is now the proud owner of a red rover 25 with the apt name of wait for it.... "Dracula" ....  my car is now the mouse mobile ..lol .... the new car is being driven at every opportunity and DH has been out and about in it with her,giving motorway lessons and general take me here for this and that ..lol ... It is really nice for her to be out and about under her own steam and now we have a taxi for those nights out heheheheh.

see how much i got stitched !!!

Thursday night I had the stitcher's group at the mouse house and we had such a laugh and talked till the cows came home , drank lots of tea and they got to see the mouse 's stitch room and I warned them I would have to frisk them before they left ahahahahah  .. I did  manage to get a wee bit of stitching done ... Fa on the fa la la ornament ..lol  ooooo and we got to see two hedgehogs that night as we were saying goodbye .. Chris was sooo impressed to see them:)


Saturday was spent at the new house delivering the furniture and other bits and bobs from the mouse house and sorting  stuff out  and we had a rare night with all of us eating a well deserved Indian ....checking out the new local takeaways ..lol and it was very yummy toooo 

you really didn't think I would show you ..lol

Soooo that finally brings us to today :) and do you know what I did ??????  apart from putting the kettle on of course heheheh .. yup you guessed it stitched .. and I worked all day on the Stitch bitch challenge competition piece sooooo do you want to see what I've been stitching then ???? heheheh .. those are my initials  ..lol

think this is the cockerel first born

After my tea I did a wee bit on the first of the twin samplers and that's what I am going to concentrate on this week.... I have decided what I am going to stitch for my private exchange with Angela  and will be bobbing into town tomorrow to get a few threads I haven't got to get it started :)
are you still with me ????  not much more to show and tell now ..lol .... 

little silkie and best friend

the wee birdies are just over a month and exactly a month old today  and are doing fine .. they love being outside just not the going ..lol you ought to hear their cries when we take one of them out of the cage till they are all together  so here are some photos from today :)
well that's my week in a nut shell .... Thea from the Victoria Sampler group fame was asking if I was anywhere near finishing to start something new from her charts and I am pleased to say YESSS ..lol I was thinking of starting the winter box as soon as I have got the fabric and threads together ... just need to find them amongst the stash I've got :) and I was thinking of may be starting the Heirloom Christmas sampler but that will depend on whether I have a piece of fabric big enough as that may have to wait until November when I got to Harrogate :)
ok I think that is all my news for now .... if I think of anything else will add to it next week ... the kettle has gone on again as it is time for my bedtime cuppa :) so I shall say good night one and all :0 take care and happy stitching :) love mouse xxxxx

Magical week :0

Hi Every one .... grab a cuppa this could be a long one ..lol 
Cooo where to start ...  well we got over on Sunday to see my dad and we had a fab time .. the sun shone and although a wee bit windy in places it was mostly warm thank goodness ... 
we went to Lytham first of all for  a walk round the shops and then we moved on to the South Pier at Blackpool as DD2 wanted to go on the amusement slot machines ... we always saved our 2p's when they were younger to go on the one armed bandits ..  we watched some mad fools go up on a trapezium thing to be swung over the pier and also some more mad fools go on a seat that catapulted you up into the air ..... that was really scary to watch (photos to follow)  considering it was almost the hight of the season the beach was actually empty .. I remember days when you couldn't move for folks being on there ... boy that is showing my age hehehehehe  .....
We went on into South Shore to the wonderful ice cream parlour there  .. can't remember how to spell the name as its Italian ... but suffice to say get a tissue ready for the photo of my" Norries mess "...... I know I am not supposed to have ice cream and cream etc but sometimes the pain has to be worth it !!!!!! 
The drive home was uneventful and we arrived safely back at the mouse house around 10ish at night ....
My test piece arrived safely at its destination and Lady P loves it PHEWWWW ..lol so here's to a long and lovely stitching time together :)
I finished the Needlework shop on Wednesday so 12 down and 3 to go yipppeeee ....  my order from 123 stitch should be here any day soon too  ... I am stalking the postie every day ..lol
brb just going to re pop the kettle on ......
AHHHHH that's better  a lovely cuppa .. any one want a biscuit to dunk ????
Thursday DD 1 and I went to the midnight showing of HARRY POTTER in 3D and wow we weren't disappointed... we set off early as we thought there was going to be a huge queue and got there in record time ..lol ... and because we were seeing it in 3D we got let into the cinema early so had time to pick our seats and watch every one come in .. some were dressed up and it was a really nice house to sit and watch the film in .... I won't spoil any ones surprise if they haven't seen it yet but take some tissues ..lol ... its the last film ever heheheh
Had my acupuncture on Friday which was a good thing as this week end was the ISHW or international stitch and hermit weekend hosted by ....http://joysze.blogspot.com/....... and boy did I manage to actually hermit and stitch heheheh
Saturday I finished parts 9 and 14 of the Romantique SAL by magicaspuntadas.blogspot.com and have posted my photo off to her already so I can sit back and get one with the thousand and one other stitching bits I need to do hehehehe    (there is a charting error in part 9 the second rose up .. leaf on the right hand side is wrong) ... please note I didn't find out till it was too late and I wasn't going to frog so nerrrr ..lol....... that night I did a wee bit more on the Poinsettia house by LHN :)
Are you still with me ??? 
Sunday I started and finished all the stitching on the summer biscornu exchange  piece for Kate..... who is my partner on Friendly Stitchers for this exchange soooo I can't show you a picture of this one sorryyyyyy .... hoping today I get it sewn together and on its merry way :)

Poinsetta house LHN

I've also started on my challenge piece over on the  http://stitchbitch.blogspot.com    so I can't show you that either ...... and you will be pleased to know that I have actually started afternoon tea (HAED) and doing it over one on 25 count  too .... suffice to say I shall be stitching on this one for a lonnnnnggg time ..lol 
soooo I think this is it ... was that a collective sigh of relief I heard hahahahah  ... on to the photos yeahhhhhhhh :)
 I shall leave you to drool till next time :) take care and happy stitching :)
love mouse xxxxx

Flower windmill at Lytham 

My Norries mess YUMMMMM

Hubbies banoffie split

looking towards Blackpool from the south pier

mad fools

that was the seat that went up !!!

close up  of thewindow

NO 12 of the crazies finished 

little silkie cross

all four chicks 

Romantique SAL parts 9/14

close up view

Just squeaked in ..lol :)

Hi every one :) hope your week as been less hectic than mine ... honestly you would think that things would have calmed down by now but nope  ..... as the week wore on it got worse heheheh
Soooo may be you'd better put the kettle on now all ready and waiting ..lol
I was stitching furiously at the beginning of the week and also at the finish hehehe
and in between well I was playing taxi to both DD's and taking the wee DD out around lots of houses / flats to rent to find somewhere new to live .....
If anybody has ever been through this before or going to be in the future ..... I couldn't believe some of the sights that greeted my eyes !!!!


I have got my model stitching finished :) and off in the post today on its merry way and I just squeaked in ... in getting it sent today as our Post Office closes  early doors on a Saturday ....

From this this am 

And I just squeaked in with the Romantique Sal ...... you have to send your updates to the designer before you get the next ones ..... I think its a really good way of making sure you start and finish the piece but  some months there has been a lot of stitching in the sections and this month with stitching so many other things on a deadline it was a close shave .... as the new parts come out tomorrow !!!! 
But as you can see I did it :)
On Thursday I met up again with my fellow stitcher's but at a different house and we discovered that her brother works with my DH .... this world is getting smaller ..lol

to finish this pm :0

I sat and stitched on my needlework shop by LHN and I also did a wee bit after tea tonight on it sooooo i shall show you the progress on this too ... not much more to stitch on it now Yipppee :)

as of tonight :)

I sat down tonight and made a very BIG effort to finally decide and choose what I wanted for my wonderful gift certificate that I won from Peggy at 

http://kentuckysampler.blogspot.com/........ and my final choice was .... mmm should I tell or should I wait and show once its arrived .. ... you want to know now ??? well I shall just pop the kettle on then I shall spill the beans heheheheh
Ok I'm back with tea , coffee and hot chocolate specially for Sandra if she's reading this ..lol.. also got some biccies to dunk too ... a drink is toooo wet with out one hehehe...
sooo with out further ado I chose ....


Melicent Turner Sampler
Pink Hill Manor - Anniversaries of the Heart Pattern 4
Happy Birthday (Anniversaries of the Heart)
Wild Lilies BBD
The Bookstore,LHN
Moon and Stars, LHN
Paper Whites, LHN
28 Ct. Sand Quaker Linen (18x27)


There was a wee bit of Baskititis in there as I really couldn't whittle it down and I can't wait now for the postie to visit the mouse house  .....*VBG 

the Silkie type one

well I can't leave you till I have put up an update on the wee chickens .... they have been enjoying a tootle around the garden in a bigger cage .. we just used the top to keep them contained and to stop any beasties getting at them (we have one or two cats in the area ) The are doing really well and have started to get their proper feathers so look a wee bit punkified at the moment  bless their cotton paws ..lol....

rest of the gang Buff Orphingtons

Tomorrow we are off to Blackpool to see my Dad and hopefully the weather will at least be kind to us and not rain ... sooo I shall leave you for now and catch up with you all again soon :0.... take care and happy stitching :) love mouse xxxxxx