Today is my day off. its raining, and I'm tired.
Sooooo I am declaring that its gonna be a cross stitching day LOL
I am gonna spend a part of the day searching for some ideas
and some charts of blue butterflies
I want to use them  in some projects I will tell you about later
gonna spend a little time on my two favorite forums too
cross-stitching.com and crossstitchforum.com
theres some lovely people on these forums
who really brighten my day and help me along my stitching way

will check in later!
have a good day

My Matthew is Getting Married

My son Matthew and his Fiance of 10 years Michaela have set the date for their wedding and its all systems go in the planning stage, I am pleased to say they have booked the church for 15th of September 2013. I am so excited that they are involving me to help with pulling it all together, so now I have to wear the wedding planner hat again. 

Well being a lover of cross stitching and paper-crafting I have already volunteered myself for the invitations and everything else created from paper and I am starting to think of a design for the ring-bearers pillow too. at least I have plenty of time to get them done and oh I am going to enjoy myself ;o) 

nine eleven

10 years on and I still cannot imagine the trauma, the horror or the grief that people went through in the 9-11 terrorist attack. 

I watched on tv as the story broke, I cried as my jaw dropped in disbelief

...I had never heard of Bin Laden or Al Qaeda 

I didn't know anyone who died or even had been remotely connected to any of the victims 

but I felt overwhelmingly sorry and grief stricken

 for what folk were going through by the hands of such evil people. 

I bow my head once again today in respect not only for the people who died, 

but the families who fought back with dignity and faith that life could go on

God Bless you all

here's my latest update
I have filled in a lot of the details in the main picture

I started a bit of the backstitch on the face of the lady bear and her hat.
I find it amazing how backstitch really defines the areas
and adds depth to the whole picture.
I still have quite a bit to do but feel at least now I am getting near to finishing

Home is Where Your Honey is...

Last week is was having a sort out and came across a bag of 

cross stitch books and mags. As I searched through them I found a book by Joan Elliott "Cross Stitch Sentiments and Sayings" 

with a photocopied chart which had been coloured in a lot!!

Then the penny dropped LOL 

I remembered that back in 2007 (the year I married Kev) 

I started a cute cross stitch for him but I never finished it,

 and there it was safely wrapped up in tissue paper.

I can't believe I totally forgot about this work in progress

 it's well over half finished. Needless to say I have now decided that 

"I've started so I'll finish" so I am working on this one too .

To Be Blessed by Dimensions

thought I should show you my work in progress...

this chart is by Dimensions, it's title is "To be Blessed"

I'm looking forward to hanging this on my wall one day 

I started it around the end of July 2011

and here's my work in progress...

I have used 11 count white aida for this chart 

as my eyes are not as good as they used to be!

I would really like to get it finished for Christmas 

but I have other things I want to do too

so we will have to see what happens!

Hello and Welcome to my new blog

Here I am just me! I am hoping to update this blog twice per week, lets see if I can keep it up LOL

Here's a little about me....

FAMILY

I am wife to Kev, we have been happily married for 4 and a half years. I never thought I would marry again....  my first husband died after 20 years of marriage and I spent 5 years as a widow before I met my Kev, he just swept me off my feet and turned my mourning into dancing, we have both had our share of sadnes and now really enjoy being happily marriedLOL

I am mother to Matthew, he is 27 and I am so proud of him he is everything I could ever wish for in a son. Matthew and his partner Micheala gave me my grandson Ethan who will be 8 in October, he is his nanna's little treasure box.

Kev and I live in Lancashire on the Fylde Coast, we have a West highland terrier named Lulu, she is such a character, and brings us so much joy.

CREATIVITY

I have always loved to do creative stuff, it's the way I chill out and relax, I get such a buzz from making  stuff, it kinda makes my heart smile.

I have enjoyed most crafts, I particularly enjoy rubber stamping and scrapbooking but dont have the room to do it now I live in a small flat.

Not being able to do any papecrafting really bothered me, I felt like part of me was dormant, being creativity is such a part of who I am

Therefore,  I have taken up cross stitch again after quite a long break and I'm enjoying being creative again.

Years ago when my first husband was ill I did a lot of cross stitch it helped pass the hours away as I was his full time carer and couldnt work. Unfortunately I gave all of my work away. I regret the fact that I do not have any of my work hanging on my wall, but now I am going to be a bit more selfish and create pieces for myself.

I will be updating my work in progress here and chatting about other stuff that fills my day.

I hope you will pop back soon or even follow my blog

have a great day