Being busy....eeeekkk

 Goodness where has the time gone ??? I have wrote many posts in my head but never actually got round to posting ...lol ... so better late than never, grab a cuppa and a piece of fruitcake and settle down ....

Life at the mouse house after Bentley passing has settled into a new routine ...thankyou for all your lovely comments... Cooper has now got used to being the only one and has become my shadow now , keeping me company in my craft room.

Stitching wise I have plodded on with my wips had a couple of finishes and then my mojo took a wee break for three weeks and has only just got back ...lol 

I have done a bit of sewing and made some more project bags using vinyl as well as a couple of proper bags as gifts too as well as some quilts...and I have just got some lovely material to make some curtains for family so looking forward to that.

My MIL celebrates her 90th birthday on the 19th September and we are throwing a afternoon tea for her and 50 + guests , this time she knows about it ...lol 

My munchkins are growing fast and we spend as much time as possible with them creating hopefully ,lovely fun memories. Grannie and Grandad are as Billy says " my best friends" and I hope we always are ... we are taking them out on Friday with Great Grandad and Grandma Derby to The Vintage weekend at Cosby so that should be fun :) 

Its 04.07 am here and I cannot sleep so hence why this post as I might as well do something productive 🤣🤣🤣 apart from drink my Earl Gray tea ....

Let me see if I can add some photos for you ...

Miss B counting fishees 

Making memories

Prim St Nick from JCS 2017 magazine 

Master Cooper

The Humming of the bees BBD

Maker and mender by Brenda Gervais

Keeper of the pins , gift for Barbara

Anniversaries of the Heart Farmhouse

Gift for Lynne C 

La d da freebee pattern for needlecase 

Keeper of the pins , gift for DJ 

Plumstreet samplers chart

Study in Blue Sue Hillis FFO

Coronation piece , chart by BBD my colourway

Spring is coming ,stitching through the years 

Grannie blankie in progress

Quilt for my dad 

for the birds loose feathers BBD 2017

Red bird sampler

One of two quilts for the munchkins

2 parts of 5 BBD patterns 

My scissor keep From the sewing club book BBD 

School house lessons , still plodding on with 

Remember me by scattered seed samplers

Gift for "T" 50th 

Start of another grannie blankie

Oh tanenbaun start ... sheep has been finished 

Goodness realised how much not shown i did a quilt for my stepmum too but picture disappeared when putting caption ..lol ...eee technology at its best .....

Right I had better finish now and hopefully it wont be as long ... take care one and all and happy stitching, till next time :) love mousexxxx 

Bentley

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 😭😭😭😭😭.... 30/10/ 2011 to 12/04/ 2023 ...

My beloved furbaby xx 

Easter Blog Hop

 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 

My letter she has given me is E 

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 

 

Christmas Blog Hop

Helloo it's that time of year again, the annual Christmas Blog Hop by the wonderful Jo of Serendipitious stitching , she has given me Christmas Eve to wow you with ...lol. Her theme this year is "Afters" what do you have after your Christmas dinner, for us it has to be Christmas Pudding with Custard, as well as a mince pie or two ... it's no wonder I get more rounder at this time of year hahahah. We also get to cut the Christmas Cake for tea too, and it has to be iced and mazipan'd and no cheese with it for me.

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 :) 

So, all that remains is to wish you one and all Merry Christmas and hope that you get lots of stitchy goodies and have a fabulous time over the festive period, however you celebrate it :) 

Take care one and all ... love mouse xxxxxx

A long over due catch up

 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.

Miss B admiring the Christmas grotto 

put some stitches in 
the Cottages of the month this week too 

Progress on What remains 

Stitch all things by Erica Michaels 

Munchkin sitting ... feeding the ducks

bought this for small munchkin at a steal ...

Small munchkin is learning to walk 

Box top of Study in Blue by Sue Hillis 

Band to go round box from Study in Blue 

Miss B's blankie finished 

elder munchkin on one of our walks looking for squirrels 

Sewing Bee strawberry FFO'd by Erica Michaels 

another one FFO's finally 

For the Birds Series progress

My exchange piece from my Partner 

Lainey's birthday gift

Stash Haul from small Harrogate show 

my exchange piece to my partner 

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 

Halloween Blog hop of 2022

 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 .....T

A 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

Stitching Friends Summer Blog Hop 2022

 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 

if you haven't guessed by now my partner is Roni from

https://lifeoutsidethewashingbasket.blogspot.com/

take care one and all, until next time .... love mouse xxxxx