H - Happy Howloween

9th April "H" Post

"Happy Howloween"

Welcome to 9th April and posting Day 8 of the "Blogging from A to Z April 2015 Challenge".   Goodness this is one way to make the month fly by!!

Today is "H" - "Happy Howloween"

Happy: feeling or showing pleasure or contentment

Howloween: a play on words.... Halloween as spoken by cats and dogs!!

I love this design - it so cute!  This is yet again another freebie from Brooke Nolan (Brooke's Books Publishing) - link to the freebies page is here

I last stitched on the cute puppy back in February and I left him looking like this.... sad little fellow with only 2 legs and no body....

Those cheeky fellows came out of hiding again last night and now they look like this:

At least now the puppy/cat has the beginnings of a body!  The fabric colour looks different again... the first photo is taken in daylight and is a lot closer to the real colour than the washed out colour in the second picture...

So that is "H" covered off .. (did you notice that my title had two "H"'s?)...

Tomorrow is "I" Day and this the first letter so far that I have really had to do some planning for as I have no WIP's starting with "I"....  I guess it will be a surprise for everyone including myself as to what turns up tomorrow :o)

Til next time.... Happy Stitching and Happy Blogging!
Hugs xx

G - Grumpy Kitty

8th April "G" Post

"Grumpy Kitty"

Welcome to 8th April and posting Day 7 of the "Blogging from A to Z April 2015 Challenge".  So far I have managed to keep up the pace....

Day 7 is "G" day....

"G" - "Grumpy Kitty"

Grumpy: bad-tempered and sulky

Kitty: a name we may call our cat; A Cat is the most adorable furry friend of the four legged variety that purrs and smooches and who makes us smile even when they look like this:

"Web image" of Grumpy Cat

Nowadays when we think of "Grumpy" most of us probably think of the internet sensation "Grumpy Cat", but when I was growing up the only "Grumpy" I knew was this one:

"Web image" - Disney's Grumpy

But I digress... I am very easily side tracked!!  You are here to see my "Grumpy Kitty"

"Merry Christmas Grumpy Kitty" is a Brooke Nolan (Brooke's Books) freebie design - link to the design on Brooke's freebie page is here.

I started stitching "Grumpy Kitty" during the Crazy January Challenge, but unfortunately since then he has been sitting in the stitching basket and not even been looked at since then - no wonder he is grumpy!!

As you can see I didn't get very far on the first outing.... but he does now look like this:

Yep, kitty now has eyes!! Which is saying something given that my poor lady from yesterday is still missing her eyes!  I am reasonably pleased with my progress from last night given I was watching the last two episodes of series 2 of Broadchurch and I kept getting distracted by the lovely David Tennant.... ♥

That's another post done and dusted!  Tomorrow is "H" Day and that means I will be showing you my tricky four legged "Howloween" cuties!

Til next time.... Happy Stitching and Happy Blogging!
Hugs xx

F - Faces of Joan Elliott Mystery SAL

7th April "F" Post

"Faces of Joan Elliott Mystery SAL"

Welcome to 7th April and posting Day 6 of the "Blogging from A to Z April 2015 Challenge".   I am back at work today after a wonderful 4 days off.... during the time off I managed to get quite a bit of stitching done so I am feeling pretty pleased with myself!

Day 6 is "F" day....

"F" - "Faces of Joan Elliott Mystery SAL"

Mystery: Anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown

SAL: Stitch A Long refers to a group of stitchers all stitching on the same design

I love SAL's - which you may have realised considering the number that I have listed on my side bar!!  Mystery SAL's are something that I don't join in with very often... even though I do love a good mystery.... I am not always sure that I will like the final design so I generally prefer to wait to see how things start to appear before joining.

But having said that... there are certain designers that I know I will love whatever they design no matter what, so I just jump right in.... this Mystery SAL is the perfect example of me doing just!

With this SAL each month or so a new face is released to fill in the boxes that we have already stitched.  Of course I am languishing way behind again... there is one final face to be released and I am still stitching on the first face!

This is what my first face looked like the last time you saw her in February:

During a "Battlestar Galactica" Series 2 marathon on Sunday afternoon I managed to get some stitching done on her right wing.  Monday saw me do a number of hours on her face as I was determined to finish this one before the long weekend was over.... but sadly I didn't quite make that final hurdle! Oh well... there will always be another stitching weekend somewhere in the near future!

So here she is today - almost ready for her bling to be added!

The next time I show you an update on this one, our lovely angel will be all blinged up and hopefully Block #2 will be almost done as well - but no promises as the "over 1" stitching that I foolishly decided to do for her skin is taking so loonngg.......

So that's it for today's "F" post...  tomorrow is "G" Day and there can only be one "G" - Grumpy Cat!

Til next time.... Happy Stitching and Happy Blogging!
Hugs xx

E - été

6th April "E" Post

"été" - Collection Tralala

Welcome to 6th April and posting Day 5 of the "Blogging from A to Z April 2015 Challenge".   

Day 5 is "E" day....


"E" - "Moutons de Saisons - été".....

été: French for Summer, which is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, falling between spring and autumn. At the summer solstice, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.

I first started stitching this sweet seasonal design in January as part of my Crazy January challenges. This design also goes towards my Gifted Gorgeousness (GG) SAL posts on 15th of every month.

The picture below is where I was at when I last posted about été for the GG SAL in February.

I stitched on this one again on Friday evening and Saturday and now it looks like this:

I am so loving these designs... they are ever so sweet and cute!  I am looking forward to getting back to this one again once the April challenge is over.

So that's it for today's "E" post...  Tomorrow's post will be about the letter "F" - can you guess which one of my WIP's will be the star of the "F" day?  I do have 4 "F" WIP's on the go at the moment!

Til next time.... Happy Stitching and Happy Blogging!
Hugs xx

We have a winner...

Today is a non-posting day for the A-Z Blogging April Challenge... which makes it the perfect day for me to draw my winner for the Meet and Greet Sttchers around the World Blog Hop.

The Blog Hop was held on 20th March, and my giveaway was open for followers who commented on that post.  The giveaway prize is a Shepherd's Bush Chart (Scatter Eggs) - very appropriate for this time of the year... and some threads.  There are 4 x Victorian Motto Sampler threads as well as 2 other threads included in the prize pack.

Now it is time to draw the winner.

I used the random number generator to pick the winner.  There were 17 comments on my post... and number 5 was the result.

The fifth follower to comment was Cucki.

Cucki, I will send you an email to confirm your snail mail address and get your package in the mail.

Thank you to everyone who commented on that post and all of my other posts.  It is lovely receiving your comments.... I do try to respond to every comment I received, but there does seem to be a lot of "no-reply" bloggers these days.

Til tomorrow, happy stitching!
and Happy Easter!