Giveaways Galore!

Hello again... Who's for a giveaway?

Sadly I'm not having one just yet... At some point I really need to get organised and have a giveaway, but today I am here to tell you about some great giveaways that I have come across over the last week or so.

Giveaway #1

Kim (Wisdom with Needle and Thread) is having a lovely giveaway for reaching 25 + followers. The first part of her giveaway was this lovely box above, and since then she has added a stitched pillow and scissor fob. Giveaway will be drawn on 1 July 2013.

Giveaway #2

Nia (Caixinha de Pirlimpimpin) is having a great giveaway of 2 x Lizzie Kate "Fat Men" charts. They are just the cutest snowmen! The giveaway ends at the end of June 2013.

Giveaway #3

Meggie (Cross Stitch Cottage) is having a giveaway after reaching 100 followers. Meggie's giveaway includes threads, charts and a cute bunny. You have until 30th June to visit Meggie and enter her giveaway.

Good luck with all the giveaways above. I know that there are sure to be more giveaways out there somewhere... As I find them I will add them to my sidebar.

See you all again real soon!

Hugs

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Finally a stitching update!

Back again... this time with some photos of my latest stitching exploits.

As I have mentioned in an earlier post, I have actually managed to finish the little Mandala that I was working over the last couple of months... but I had neglected to show you the finished photo once all the beading was finished.

And here it is - all beaded up and waiting for the other two to be stitched so that they can sit side by side in a frame.

"Mini Mandala II - A" Chatelaine
Started April 2013 - Finished May 2013

The other piece of stitching that I have been concentrating on is the "Puppy Love" SAL with the girls over on the MS Lovers Blog.

The last time I showed you a pic was way back in March... and I had nearly finished the centre puppy.  Now that one is finished, as is puppy number 2 and puppy number 3 is well on it's way to being finished!

MS Lovers Blog SAL #4 - Puppy Love
June 2013 update

I must admit that this little puppy has been hard going... but I think I am starting to fall in love with him again. Just needed to get on and start stitching him again!

Well that's it for this little stitching update.  I do have a couple of pixie gifts to show you but I will leave them for another post.

Til next time, happy stitching
Hugs

Testing, testing.... TUSAL June 2013

Now this is a first... I am using Blogsy to type and upload a post instead of using the laptop and Blogger. Can't guarantee that doing posts this way will mean that I post more often... But I am hoping that will be the case :)

Anyway, the main reason of today's post is of course it's TUSAL time which means I have to show you my ORT's... As meagre as they are this month.

TUSAL June 2013

So here we are, my little ORT's with their cute teddy friend sitting in my new stitching chair in the craft room.

Most of the ORT's this month came from "Puppy Love" and the gift that I gave to Kaye. But not a lot else... Stitching mojo appears to have gone on a little holiday!

Well dear readers, that's it for another ORT report. If you are interested in keeping in touch with what is going on with the 2013 TUSAL pop on over to Daffycat's blog and join in the fun. The next new moon is on 8 July so let's see how many more ORT's drop into the jar between now and then.

Well, that's about it for this little update.... Have a wonderful week everyone, see you again soon!

New Moons - 2013

8 July
6 August
5 September
5 October
3 November
3 December

 

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Ladies who lunch!

Hello again!

Oh my goodness.. I just noticed how long ago it is since my last post... I have been a very bad blogger so far this year, haven't I??

I have lots of little things to tell you this time around... where to start?

How about I start with what I did on Wednesday - that's as good a place as any to start especially as it was such an exciting day!

So what was so exciting about Wednesday do I hear you ask?  Well, I met up with a fellow Aussie Stitching Blogger!!  Kaye from Kitten Stitching!

Kaye sent me an email a couple of weeks ago to say that she was coming over to Perth for work and was wondering if there was a chance that we could meet up.  As it happened I was taking some time off work this week for some much needed rest and relaxation... and stitching... so the timing was perfect.  We agreed to meet up on Wednesday for lunch after Kaye arrived in Perth, and before her colleagues arrived and they had to start work.

We had a lovely couple of hours together chatting about also sorts of things... and amazingly we found out that we had quite a bit in common - not just stitching and blogging!

Once I knew that Kaye was coming for a visit I wanted to make a couple of little gifts to give her when we met.  I wasn't sure what to stitch so I went through some of my stash and came up with a little Stitcher's Journal which was a nice quick stitch.  I also decided to give Kaye a card that I had stitched previously and was just waiting for the right person to give it too.

Stitcher's Notebook - World of Cross Stitching
Country Diary Card - World of Cross Stitching

On Tuesday I wanted to try my hand at something completely different and I thought I'd have a go at making a sun-catcher and a scissor fob out of beads and crystals.

Sun catcher & beaded scissor fob

Kaye with the gifts I made for her

How's this for thinking alike... Kaye wrapped her gift to me in orange tissue and I had put a bit orange ribbon bow on the box I gave to Kaye!!

And look at what gorgeous pretties were in the orange wrapping....

Gifts from Kaye

Aren't they all so gorgeous?  The charts are delightful and I think I might just have to look at stitching one of them very soon....  I love the scissors and the cute little bunny with his butterfly....

Thank you Kaye, your gifts are lovely.  I had a lovely time meeting you for lunch and catching up in person.  I hope that we can get the opportunity to meet up again.

I am going to leave my other updates for tomorrow... that way you will have to come back and visit again!!

Until then, happy stitching
Hugs

Mitzi's Big Day Out... and a stitching update

Hello again!  Well, as the title suggests this post is about Mitzi's big day out... or rather her big morning out this morning!  I also have to give you an update for this month's TUSAL which I am a week late for... and I even have some stitching to show you.

So settle in, grab a cuppa and away we go!

Mitzi's Big Day Out

Today in Australia it is the RSPCA's Million Paw Walk.  This is the first time we have actually been... I know.. we are so bad....  but we decided that this year we would make an extra big effort and go and take Mitzi.  We always planned to go with Daisy but just never seemed to do it!

As you can imagine there were dogs everywhere!  All sorts of sizes, colours, breeds... friendly and some not so friendly.  Mitzi was so excited... I think also a little overwhelmed by everything at first... but she soon got that hang of it all and she had the happiest puppy tail wagging time!  And we didn't even do the official walk... we just walked around and looked at everything and "talked" to lots of lovely doggies.

Mitzi at the Million Paws Walk... and modelling her special Million Paws Walk Jacket

Such fun!  We had a lovely time and I got to indulge a wee bit by having a cuddle with a couple of Great Danes and hubby had a cuddle with some miniature dachshunds..  Mitzi had the best time by talking to all sorts of puppies!

I think that Mitzi has decided she has to go again next year... and maybe we will actually get to do the official walk!!

TUSAL 2013 - May ORT Report

May 2013 TUSAL

Bit of a boring photo this month.... think this is what I call a photo on the run!!  I couldn't think of anything to use for my photo so I decided that my cute little chicken would just have to do today!!

The ORT's this month are mostly from my mini Chatelaine and Puppy Love.  There is also a few from a couple of new pixie gifts that I stitched - an update on them in a later post.... sorry.... got to wait til they arrive in the various places they are going to.

Stitching Update

Ok... so what have I got to show you today!  My Chatelaine is finished... and Puppy Love has had a bit of kick and started moving on again... but I am not going to show them to you today... next post!

What I want to show you today is the Easter Exchange that I sent a couple of months ago to Russia as it has now finally arrived!  And I also have a pixie gift to show you which I sent at the same time.

MS Lover Blog - Easter Exchange

This year the first Exchange on the MS Lovers Blog was an Easter Exchange.  I posted in early April what I received from Judith... you can check out that post and see the lovely gift I received.

My Exchange gift needed to go all the way to Russia... and boy did it take a long time to get there - nearly 2 months!  But get there it did - in perfect time for Lentochka to celebrate Easter in Russia.  They celebrate a month later - can't say I planned the timing... but, wasn't it perfect in the end?!

So let me reveal what I stitched and sent.

MS Lovers Blog Easter Exchange sent to Lentochka
Design: "Easter Egg-stravaganza" - Margaret Sherry
Cross Stitcher, April 2011

The little bunny I stitched came from the Cross Stitcher magazine but it is also in the Margaret Sherry book as well.  I added some extra Easter Eggs to the design when I stitched it as I wanted to give it a Easter feel.  I backed the ornament with some really lovely Easter bunny fabric and also included some of the fabric in the package.

I also sent a pixie gift at the same time to one of the girls that missed out on a previous exchange.  That package went all the way to San Salvador.

Pixie Gift - MS Lover Blog
Design: "All Aboard the Walnut Shells" - Margaret Sherry
Cross Stitcher, July 2007

The cute little mouse is actually part of a larger design which one day I hope to stitch... but for this pixie gift one little mouse was perfect to make a hanging ornament.

This weekend is the IHSW... but I forgot to sign up!  Which is probably just as well as I haven't really had time to do much stitching so far this weekend!  Never mind... there is always next month!

I will pop back again in the next few days or so to give you an update on "Puppy Love" which I am stitching for the MS Lovers Blog SAL, and also to show you my finished Mini Chatelaine.

Til then, happy stitching