Thrift shop buy...

Don't you love what my mum found me at a thrift shop for $2? Aint' it cute?  I'll put my HAED threads in it.

Speaking of HAED threads I am wondering how to store them within it. I want to keep my project threads together. I am thinking of keeping them in zip-lock bags in bundles of 3x or 4x. This way I thought it would be easy to keep left over threads in with them also. Has anyone tried this? Any other ideas on thread storage? 

I am thrilled to welcome new followers to my blog!!!  50 followers is a milestone for me.

If I don't get back to my blog over the next few days, I wish you all a Christmas that is...

merry and bright *

PS. I have added a page to my blog with my WIPocalypse list. If you haven't heard about WIPocalypse check it out!

Silly Season...

It really is the sillyseason. The last week at our house has been crazy!!!  Four concerts featuring my two eldest children all happened to be in the one week. It sent not only toddler Tom crazy but moi a little frazzled too. But that's what happens in the southern hemisphere at Christmas time - everything including the school year comes to an end.

Well now that I have those events out of the way I'm getting into the spirit of Christmas. I couldn't resist making these sewn cross stitch ornaments from the Christmas 2011 edition of Cross Stitcher magazine. I only bought it yesterday as a hospital read while my daughter had minor surgery. I came home later in the day and stitched all three in the one evening which is good going for me! Today I have completely neglected the housework and sewn them up. I l.o.v.e. the look.

I have also done a few lines on page 1 of my HAED ("Love" by Marta Dahlig). As you can see Bob too is enjoying my HAED. Apparently cross stitches in frames are really comfortable!

I have also been working on my MB English garden sampler but not enough to post a photo of significant progress.

Happy Silly Season to you all!

Silly Season...

It really is the sillyseason. The last week at our house has been crazy!!!  Four concerts featuring my two eldest children all happened to be in the one week. It sent not only toddler Tom crazy but moi a little frazzled too. But that's what happens in the southern hemisphere at Christmas time - everything including the school year comes to an end.

Well now that I have those events out of the way I'm getting into the spirit of Christmas. I couldn't resist making these sewn cross stitch ornaments from the Christmas 2011 edition of Cross Stitcher magazine. I only bought it yesterday as a hospital read while my daughter had minor surgery. I came home later in the day and stitched all three in the one evening which is good going for me! Today I have completely neglected the housework and sewn them up. I l.o.v.e. the look.

I have also done a few lines on page 1 of my HAED ("Love" by Marta Dahlig). As you can see Bob too is enjoying my HAED. Apparently cross stitches in frames are really comfortable!

I have also been working on my MB English garden sampler but not enough to post a photo of significant progress.

Happy Silly Season to you all!

Advent Calendar

Welcome to Day 4 of the Christmas Stitching Advent Calendar kindly hosted by Serendipitous Stitching .

I finished another two Shepherd's Bush Christmas stockings this year (one for toddler Tom and one for myself) so now I have a collection.  Just one more left to stitch for my husband.  I have found the perfect place to hang them this year too in my new home!

I had fun, summery Christmases as a child in Australia. My Grandma was Mrs. Christmas. Along with thousands of Christmas decorations, streamers, lights and mechanical toys decorating her living rooms at her house she adored dressing up.  My favourite memory is Grandma dressing up to play Mrs.Claus as a surprise for her grandchildren.  She surprised us in a Christmas card dress that she had paintakingly sewn together complete with bright red stockings. We laughed and laughed with her. The best thing about it was she had bought us all an extra present for us.Just when we thought we had opened our last present there was one more.

Another favourite memory is a Christmas decoration (see the above photo)  that my DD made when she was 6.  She spent hours cutting cardboard, painting and gluing it together at school keeping it a surprise for us until Christmas.  It was her own design.  It is always pride of place in our house. We love how each reindeer have a unique personality.

Merry Christmas to all!