Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Across the rainbow bridge...





... floss to chase...

... and lots and lots of love...
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Monday, September 7, 2009
New Kid In Town
Thank you so much for your words of kindness and comfort for our furry feline Kisse and ourselves!! She bounced back from her 'episode' more quickly than we did, she's a tough one, and we're still trying to catch up! Sadly her medication is for symptom relief only and we are determined to enjoy her for as long as we can! And we now includes this rather large chap!!
Meet 5 year old Guus who found us at the local animal shelter! He is a strapping lad who definitely needs a bigger cat bed than I have tried to knit for him... It's still in it's pre-felted stage, can you imagine how small it's going to be! Plus he likes to stretch out, so perhaps I need to make his a rectangular Kitty Pi... ;o) He has already shown a penchant for wool and he is displaying a natural talent for modeling my crafty things, I guess you'll be seeing more of him in the future!
Until next time!
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
All in a Heart
Our sweet feline, or cardiac Kisse as I call her, gave us quite the scare yesterday. Although her heart holds more love than one can imagine, the muscle itself is failing miserably... More than we already knew...
Not one for self-pity, here she is this morning -- pretending nothing is wrong with her -- modeling All in a Heart (Miss Crescent's Crowne).
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
A few small finishes
Every now and then I have a few small projects all stitched up, and it takes me forever to finish them...
Sometimes with good reason... I didn't know the baby's name yet... ;o)
Sometimes because I can't figure out the right finish...
I finally stuck my head deep enough in the cupboard to discover I had this frame all along!
(watch the sleeping feline definitely being true to herself...)
And sometimes stitching and finishing go hand in hand and all of a sudden...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
The Wanderer Returns
...bearing prizes and gifts from the North
...and tales of adventure
Still life with "Jane Austen Love Letter" (by The Sampler Girl),smelly boots (no offence, Tanya)
somewhere along The Kungsleden, Sweden
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Ten swans are swimming...
Quite a while ago sweet, sweet Lavender Rose Deb sent me two beautifully stitched swans! She added a piece of gorgeous backing fabric and a skein of matching floss, suggesting I finish it into a fob/ornament myself. After completely ruining the floss and having to order another skein I managed to do just that!
I then went in search of the perfect photo opp and remembered the large family of swans I had seen in the area. Naturally the day I brought my camera they were gone... Today I finally managed to capture all these beauties together!
Thank you, Deb!!
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
3 grams of love
The lovely Erik has gone walkabout once again - in the very north of Sweden this time, roughing it without any mod cons, carrying only the bare essentials in one large backpack weighing a shoulder crushing 18 kilograms (for metrics and non-metrics alike: that basically means a ton!!).

Not wanting to add to the shoulder crushing, my surprise had to be small and lightweight...
... 3 grams as it turned out...
... 2 grams less than his emergency whistle...
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Monday, July 27, 2009
A Weary World Rejoices
stitched on a 28ct Staci-Dyed
Yonder glorious morn is getting closer, like I can almost touch it... :o)
Lots of floss changes, but I'm very happy with the way it looks, in part because Staci's fabric is so gorgeous! All it needs now is a frame.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Although I am really more of a cat person...

... here are two dogs named Poemba. The one on the left is a French Country Dog by JBW Designs and the one on the right is a 12 week old Bernese Mountain Dog! The maternal power one cannot say no to kindly asked me to stitch this for her friend and neighbour who recently adopted this little cutie, soon to grow up into a massive lovable beast of a dog!!!
And honestly, it was a fun stitch!
And this is a piccie of Vonna's birthday gift. I was late in sending and I am late in showing, guess there's a theme going on there...LOL!!

by
Blackbird Designs
Until next time!!
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